Control of a video conference system using personal devices
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsAlexander Friedrich Kuscher, Zelidrag Hornung
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Abstract
A system and machine-implemented method for automatically linking a mobile device to a video conference control unit of a video conference site, providing control of the video conference control unit by the mobile device. A proximity detector and a wireless controller provide automatic linking with the mobile device. The linked mobile device adds the participant using the mobile device to a video conference and also controls video conference settings or functions without the need for a central user interface.
Claims18
A video conference system comprising:
- a proximity detector configured to detect the presence of a plurality of mobile devices within a predetermined proximity of the proximity detector;
- a wireless controller configured to establish a wireless link with each mobile device in response to the proximity detector detecting the presence of the mobile device;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- automatically add a plurality of users associated with the plurality of mobile devices as participants to a scheduled video conference;
- designate one of the plurality of mobile devices as a control mobile device having control of one or more video conference settings;
- receive a command from the control mobile device via the wireless link;
- and
- control a video conference setting based on the received command.
A computer-implemented method of providing control of a video conference system by a mobile device, the method comprising:
- detecting, by a proximity detector, the presence of a plurality of mobile devices within a predetermined proximity of the proximity detector;
- establishing a wireless link between each mobile device and a wireless controller based on the detected proximity of the mobile device, each wireless link providing a communication path for a command from the linked mobile device to be received by a control unit;
- automatically adding a plurality of users associated with the detected plurality of mobile devices as participants to a scheduled video conference;
- designating, by the control unit, one of the plurality of mobile devices as a control mobile device having control of one or more video conference settings;
- receiving, from the control mobile device, a command over the wireless link;
- and
- changing, by the control unit, one or more video conference settings based on the received command.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising machine readable instructions for causing a processor to execute a method for providing control of a video conference system by a mobile device, the method comprising:
- detecting, by a proximity detector, the presence of a plurality of mobile devices within a predetermined proximity of the proximity detector;
- providing pairing credentials from the proximity detector to each mobile device based on the detected presence of the mobile device;
- establishing a wireless link between each mobile device and a wireless controller based on the pairing credentials;
- automatically adding a plurality of users associated with the detected plurality of mobile devices as participants to a scheduled video conference;
- designating, by the control unit, two or more of the plurality of mobile devices as control mobile devices having control of one or more video conference settings;
- receiving mobile device based commands over the wireless links;
- resolving, by the control unit, conflicts between competing commands from the two or more control mobile devices;
- and
- changing a video conference setting of the video conference system based on the resolved command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.