US 8,275,843 B2Granted

Collaborative conference experience improvement

AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation

InventorsSundar Anantharaman, Rajesh Ramanathan

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Abstract

An example computing device creates a resource module that acquires resource information relating to resources of the computing device and acquire quality of experience information corresponding to a quality of audio, and creates a roster module that displays a participant list including resource information relating to resources of a plurality of other computing devices connected to the teleconference and display quality of experience information corresponding to a quality of audio a user of each of the plurality of other computing devices experiences when connected to the teleconference. The device also creates a policy module configured to evaluate the resource information and quality of experience information acquired by the client resource module against rules of a teleconference policy and implement actions based on a determination that the computing device is non-compliant with one or more of the rules of the teleconference policy to control quality of audio during the teleconference.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computing device, comprising:

a processing unit;
a system memory connected to the processing unit, the system memory including instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to:
create a resource module configured to acquire resource information relating to resources of the computing device and configured to acquire quality of experience information corresponding to parameters including one or more of echo, jitter, and mean opinion score that are related to a quality of audio a user of the computing device experiences when the computing device is connected to a conference;
create a roster module configured to display a participant list including resource information relating to resources of a plurality of other computing devices connected to the conference and display quality of experience information corresponding to parameters including one or more of echo, jitter, and mean opinion score that are related to a quality of audio a user of each of the plurality of other computing devices experiences when connected to the conference;
and
create a policy module configured to evaluate the resource information and quality of experience information acquired by the client resource module against rules of a conference policy and implement actions based on a determination that the computing device is non-compliant with one or more of the rules of the conference policy to control quality of audio during the conference.

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A method for controlling quality of audio of a teleconference in a computing system environment, the method comprising:

receiving a self-configuration message from one or more of a plurality of remote computing devices connected to the teleconference, wherein each self-configuration message includes resource information related to hardware resources, software resources, and network resources of a corresponding remote computing device and quality of experience information corresponding to parameters including one or more of echo, jitter, and mean opinion score that are related to a quality of audio a user of the corresponding computing device experiences during the teleconference;
evaluating each self-configuration message to determine if the plurality of resource information and quality of experience information is compliant with one or more rules of a teleconference policy;
generating an aggregate roster message including at least a portion of the plurality resource information and quality of experience information of each remote computing device evaluated as including resource information and quality of experience information compliant with the one or more rules of the teleconference policy;
and
sending the aggregate roster message to one or more of the remote computing devices connected to the teleconference.

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A computer readable storage medium memory having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform steps comprising:

receiving a self-configuration message via an extensible teleconference communication protocol from each of a plurality of remote computing devices connected to a teleconference, wherein each self-configuration message includes a plurality of resource information relating to hardware resources, software resources, and network resources of a corresponding remote computing device and quality of experience information including parameters including echo, jitter, and mean opinion score that are related to a quality of audio and quality of experience information including parameters related to a quality of video a user of the corresponding computing device experiences during the teleconference;
evaluating each self-configuration message to determine if the plurality of resource information and quality of experience information is compliant with one or more rules of a teleconference policy;
implementing an action to preserve the quality of audio during the teleconference to each remote computing device evaluated as including resource information and quality of experience information non-compliant with the one or more rules of the teleconference policy, the action selected from a group including:
muting a remote computing device;
disconnecting a remote computing device from the teleconference;
and sending suggestions to a remote computing device including optimization suggestions;
generating an aggregate roster message including at least a portion of the plurality resource information and quality of experience information of each remote computing device evaluated as including resource information and quality of experience information compliant with the one or more rules of the teleconference policy;
inserting the aggregated roster message into one or more rich media data packets;
and
sending the aggregate roster message to one or more of the remote computing devices connected to the teleconference.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/722,592Filed 12 Mar 2010
Published: US 2011/0225247 A115 Sep 2011
Granted: 25 Sep 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04L 41/0816
Characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings: the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
H04L 65/756
Media network packet handling: adapting media to device capabilities
H04L 65/403
Support for services or applications: arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences
H04L 65/752
Media network packet handling: adapting media to network capabilities