Security technology for reconnecting to a meeting session using a computing device

Abstract

A computer-implemented technique may include joining, by a computing device having one or more processors, a conferencing session hosted by a server via a wireless computing network. In response to joining the conferencing session, the computing device may receive a dial-in telephone number from the server via the wireless computing network for reconnecting to the conferencing session. The computing device may detect a trigger condition indicating a need to reconnect to the conferencing session via a cellular telephone network. In response to detecting the trigger condition, the computing device may initiate a telephone call to the dial-in telephone number via the cellular telephone network. In response to the server obtaining authentication of the computing device's caller identification, the computing device may rejoin the conference session via the cellular telephone network.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims priority to US Invention Patent Application No. 14 / 596,314, filed January 14, 2015. The entire disclosure of the above application is incorporated herein by reference. technical field [0003] The present disclosure relates generally to conferencing sessions, and more particularly to security techniques for reconnecting to a conferencing session using a computing device. Background technique [0004] The background description provided herein is for the purpose of generally presenting the context of the disclosure. To the extent described in this Background section, no admission is made either expressly or implicitly to the work of the presently mentioned inventors and to other aspects of the specification which do not constitute prior art at the time of filing. The content is prior art to the present disclosure. [0005] Conference sessions may include video conference sessions (with audio) ...

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Problems solved by technology

However, when a computing device experiences signal loss at the computing network, its connection to the server may be interrupted or terminated, thereby dropping the user from the conferencing session.

Re-establishing the connection between the computing device and the server to allow the user to rejoin the meeting session can be difficult and prone to security issues, such as impersonators using their computing device to join the meeting session and assume the identity of the disconnected user

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