US 2015/0317123 A1 · Techniques to Handle Multimedia Questions from Attendees in an Online Meeting

Abstract

An attendee device in an online meeting displays content from a presenter device in a shared area of an attendee device display. The attendee device detects that the shared area is pressed continuously at a press point therein for a predetermined time and, in response, records a location of the press point in the shared area, records an image snapshot of the shared area, and records audio sensed by a local microphone. The attendee device also detects when the press point is released and, in response, ends the audio recording. The attendee device displays a dialog box that presents user selectable options to store locally, upload to the meeting server, and not retain any of the recorded snapshot and the recorded audio.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

at an attendee device configured to communicate with a presenter device in an online meeting in which the presenter device is configured to share content with the attendee device:
displaying the content in a shared area;
detecting that the shared area is pressed continuously at a press point therein for a predetermined time and, in response:
recording a location of the press point in the shared area;
recording an image snapshot of the shared area;
and
recording audio sensed by a local microphone while the press point continues to be pressed after the predetermined time;
and
detecting when the press point is released and, in response:
ending the audio recording;
and
uploading to the presenter device at least one of (i) the recorded audio, and (ii) the recorded snapshot and the recorded press point location.

9 more elements

An apparatus comprising:

a network interface unit configured to enable communications over a network to exchange content with a presenter device in an online meeting;
and
a processor coupled to the network interface unit, and configured to:
generate display data to display the content in a shared area;
detect that the shared area is pressed continuously at a press point therein for a predetermined time and, in response:
record a location of the press point in the shared area;
record an image snapshot of the shared area;
and record audio sensed by a local microphone while the press point continues to be pressed after the predetermined time;
and
detect when the press point is released and, in response:
end the audio recording;
and upload to the presenter device at least one of (i) the recorded audio, and (ii) the recorded snapshot and the recorded press point location.

9 more elements

An apparatus comprising:

a network interface unit configured to enable communications over a network to exchange content with attendee devices in an online meeting in which the attendee devices send online meeting questions as replay packets;
a processor coupled to the network interface unit, and configured to:
obtain received messages that identify each question sent by each attendee device and the corresponding attendee;
generate for display a list of attendees each annotated with user selectable question identifiers for all questions identified in the received messages as corresponding to that attendee;
receive a selection of a question identifier for a listed attendee;
retrieve the multimedia replay packet for the question corresponding to the selected question identifier;
and
cause the retrieved replay packet to be played while sharing with the attendee devices.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Techniques to Handle Multimedia Questions from Attendees in an Online Meeting

Life of this patent

Techniques to Handle Multimedia Questions from Attendees in an Online Meeting

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims25