# US 2024/0205035 A1 · Managing Participants In Video Conferences > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2024/0205035 A1 - Document ID: US20240205035A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/908,156 - Filed: 2021-09-12 - Published: 2024-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2021-09-12 - Assignees: Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - Applicants: Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - Inventors: John Andrew Alexander Beckmann; Ailian Gan; Nitasha Walia; Xiaoqin Xue; Kathy Zhou - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20240205035A1 ## CPC - H04L 12/1818: {Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties} - H04N 7/155: {involving storage of or access to video conference sessions (tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831)} - H04L 12/1822: {Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission} - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract One example method for managing participants in video conferences includes generating, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee, transmitting the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device, receiving, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference, initiating, by the video conference server, the video conference, generating, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference, and transmitting, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: generating, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee; transmitting the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device; receiving, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference; initiating, by the video conference server, the video conference; generating, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference; and transmitting, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the request causes the client device to generate a request to a calendar application for the response status. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the calendar application comprises a plurality of calendar applications. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the client device is configured to display a graphical representation of the video conference, including the list of each video conference attendee, the response status, and a current attendance status of each video conference attendee. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the current attendance status of each video conference attendee comprises one of present or not yet joined. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation of the video conference comprises for each of the plurality of invitations a control for initiating communication with the conference attendee. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the plurality of groups is associated with an Internet domain. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device comprises determining the video conference start time of the video conference and transmitting the request prior to the video conference start time. ### Claim 9 A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to: generate, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee; transmit the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device; receive, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference; initiate, by the video conference server, the video conference; generate, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference; and transmit, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the processor-executable instructions comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to transmit the request causes the client device to generate a request to a calendar application for the response status. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the calendar application comprises a plurality of calendar applications. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the client device is configured to display a graphical representation of the video conference, including the list of each video conference attendee, the response status, and a current attendance status of each video conference attendee. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the graphical representation of the video conference comprises for each of the plurality of invitations a control for initiating communication with the conference attendee. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to transmit the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device comprises processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to determine the video conference start time of the video conference and transmit the request prior to the video conference start time. ### Claim 15 A device comprising: a communications interface; a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and one or more processors configured to execute processor-executable instructions stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium to: generate, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee; transmit the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device; receive, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference; initiate, by the video conference server, the video conference; generate, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference; and transmit, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The device of claim 15, wherein the processor-executable instructions comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to transmit the request causes the client device to generate a request to a calendar application for the response status. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The device of claim 16, wherein the calendar application comprises a plurality of calendar applications. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The device of claim 15, wherein the client device is configured to display a graphical representation of the video conference, including the list of each video conference attendee, the response status, and a current attendance status of each video conference attendee. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The device of claim 18, wherein the graphical representation of the video conference comprises for each of the plurality of invitations a control for initiating communication with the conference attendee. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The device of claim 18, wherein the processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to transmit the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device comprises processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to determine the video conference start time of the video conference and transmit the request prior to the video conference start time.