US 2023/0164273 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY JOIN CONFERENCE

Abstract

Systems and methods are described to enable a device of a user to automatically join an ongoing conference, where the device is not currently joined to the conference. A first audio signature is generated based on voices of users already in the conference, and a second audio signature is generated based on an audio signal captured by a microphone of the device associated with the first user when the device associated with the first user was not joined to the conference. The first audio signature and the second audio signature are compared, and in response to determining that first audio signature matches the second audio signature, the device associated with the first user is joined to the conference.

Claims21

Dependent claims

-30. (canceled)

A system comprising:

input-output (I/O) circuitry configured to:
receive an audio sample associated with on-going conference comprising plurality of users;
and
receive an ambient sound sample captured by a microphone of a first device associated with a first user and not currently joined to the on-going conference;
control circuitry is further configured to:
determine that the first device, associated with a first user and not currently joined to the on-going conference, should be joined to the on-going conference by:
determining that the first user associated with the first device has been invited to join the on-going conference and that the first device is within a threshold distance of a second device associated with at least one user of the plurality of users in the on-going conference;
and
in response to determining that the audio sample matches the ambient sound sample, determining that the first device associated with the first user should be joined to the on-going conference;
and
join the first device associated with the first user to the on-going conference.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/974,712Filed 27 Oct 2022

Priority

30 Jun 2020

Published

25 May 2023

Term ends

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Classification14 codes

H04M 3/568
Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities: audio processing specific to telephonic…
H04L 12/1818
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to…
H04L 12/1822
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants,…
H04L 12/1827
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation

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Claims21