Conference Multiplexing
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorMichael Hudson
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Abstract
Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may provide at least multiplexed audio for a plurality of conferences. A conference attendee may simultaneously listen to the plurality of conferences via the multiplexed audio. Audio corresponding only to a respective conference of the plurality of conferences may be provided to another conference attendee having access to the respective conference. The multiplexed audio may be blocked from one or more other attendees. In addition, a conference operation may be implemented at any time to add a conference, delete a conference, select a subset of conferences, and/or rejoin conferences.
Claims20
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium;
- and
- computer usable code stored on the computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to:
- provide audio of a first conference in response to authentication data corresponding to the first conference from a requesting attendee;
- hold the first conference and prompt for a conference operation in response to a hold key code;
- add audio of a second conference in response to authentication data corresponding to the second conference when the conference operation is to involve adding a conference;
- provide multiplexed audio for a plurality of conferences including the first conference and the second conference in response to a release key code, wherein the multiplexed audio is to be provided to the requesting attendee having access to each of the plurality of conferences to cause the requesting attendee to simultaneously listen to the plurality of conferences via the multiplexed audio, and wherein audio corresponding only to a respective conference of the plurality of conferences is to be provided to another conference attendee having access to the respective conference.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium;
- and
- computer usable code stored on the computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to:
- provide multiplexed audio for a plurality of conferences to a requesting attendee having access to each of the plurality of conferences to cause the requesting attendee to simultaneously listen to the plurality of conferences via the multiplexed audio, wherein audio corresponding only to a respective conference of the plurality of conferences is to be provided to another conference attendee having access to the respective conferences;
- provide audio of a first conference in response to authentication data corresponding to the first conference from the requesting attendee;
- and
- hold the first conference and prompt for a conference operation in response to a hold key code.
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A method comprising:
- providing, via a conference controller, audio of a first conference in response to authentication data corresponding to the first conference from a requesting attendee;
- holding, via the conference controller, the first conference and prompting for a conference operation in response to a hold key code;
- adding, via the conference controller, audio of a second conference in response to authentication data corresponding to the second conference when the conference operation involves adding a conference;
- providing, via the conference controller, multiplexed audio for a plurality of conferences including the first conference and the second conference in response to a release key code, wherein the multiplexed audio is provided to the requesting attendee having access to each of the plurality of conferences causing the requesting attendee to simultaneously listen to the plurality of conferences via the multiplexed audio, and wherein audio corresponding only to a respective conference of the plurality of conferences is provided to another conference attendee having access to the respective conference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.