200 results about "Web conferencing" patented technology

Individual adjustment of audio volume and video properties in a computer network conference environment is provided. For audio adjustment, a buffer collects incoming streams; a stream decoder decodes the buffered audio streams, a gain adjustment applies a gain increase or decrease to the individual audio stream, and a mixer combines each of the individual signals together. The gain adjustment module receives input from a user interface control associated with each participant, and adjusts the volume of that participant's stream accordingly. If a requested increase in gain would cause an overflow of the signal, only a gain increase that will avoid such overflow is applied. Video properties such as brightness, contrast and saturation are also adjustable. Properties of the user's transmitted audio and video streams are also adjustable.

Various electronic equipments used in a network conferencing system are integrally managed and presentation is made in a simple manner. When each attendant electronic equipment becomes a chairman terminal having an equipment management function, it inquires the availability of an electronic equipment used for a conference, then obtains information related to an available equipment from a client control section of a conference management server, and determines whether the electronic equipment used for the conference is an output electronic equipment such as a projector or a generating electronic equipment such as a scanner. Thus, an icon display of the generating electronic equipment and an icon display of the output electronic equipment are provided while separating an area for the icon display of the generating electronic equipment and an area for the icon display of the output electronic equipment, by the display function of each attendant electronic equipment.

A networking conferencing and collaboration tool utilizing an enhanced T.128 application sharing protocol. This enhanced protocol is based on a per-host model command, control, and communication structure. This per-host model reduces network traffic, allows greater scalability through dynamic system resource allocation, allows a single host to establish and maintain a share session with no other members present. The per-host model allows private communication between the host and a remote with periodic broadcasts of updates by the host to the entire share group. This per-host model also allows the host to allow, revoke, pause, and invite control of the shared applications. Subsequent passing of control is provided, also with the hosts acceptance. The model contains no fixed limit on the number of participants, and dynamically allocates resources when needed to share or control a shared application. These resources are then freed when no longer needed.

The present invention is a network conference system and method based on three-dimensional technology, which belongs to the field of virtual reality technology, the field of three-dimensional technology, and also belongs to the field of electronic commerce. This system conducts meetings in a virtual space, which solves the problem that the video network meeting lacks the sense of meeting scene and interaction, and easily leaks the image privacy of the participants. At the same time, it does not rely on video data, and avoids the problem that the meeting effect is easily affected by the network. The feature of the system is that the participants control the virtual characters to enter the 3D virtual meeting room to participate in the meeting through the Web browser, and complete the real meeting through the control of the 3D characters and items and UI (User Interface) operations, including construction, switching dynamic The meeting room environment, the nature of construction meetings, dynamic sharing of files, synchronous operation of 3D objects with complex structures, etc. The system is easy to use and highly secure, providing an instant and three-dimensional conference platform for participants distributed all over the world.

The present invention is a system, method and apparatus for converting a slide show presentation for use within a non-presentation application such as a Web conferencing or virtual classroom application. In accordance with the present invention, a slide show presentation in its native format can be processed to extract slide title information for each slide in the slide show presentation. Additionally, important text within slide further can be extracted. Each slide in the slide-show can be converted to a raster image and disposed within markup. The markup can be annotated with the important text and both the markup and the slide title can be provided to the non-presentation application for use in concert with the non-presentation application. In this way, the context of each slide can be preserved for use within the non-presentation application as can an image of each slide itself.

An apparatus and mechanism to manage multi-modal real-time or quasi real-time sessions such as voice, video, instant messaging, or web-conferencing across multiple devices through a simple subscription to a session management service. A user can subscribe to the service from many devices (e.g. mobile device, desk phone, personal computer, internet appliance, internet TV, communication terminal, etc.) and through the service seamlessly move sessions back and forth between subscribed devices. In a preferred embodiment, a user utilizes a “virtual slider” in a simple “two touch” procedure to effectuate the movement of a communication session from one device to another device via the service.

In an approach to determine a pre-recorded video for use in place of a video feed of a user in a video conference, a computer receives one or more pre-recorded videos of a user in which the pre-recorded videos include at least one visual representation of an emotional state. The computer determines a meeting tone of at least one meeting discussion in the video conference and determines a first video of the one or more pre-recorded videos of the user that corresponds to the meeting tone. The computer substitutes the first video into the video conference in place of a video feed in the video conference.

A computer automatically changes a web page that would otherwise be normally generated by a first application program (such as a web-conferencing tool for example) in a first language (e.g. English), by adding metadata to one or more translatable text strings in the web page. The changed web page is displayed to a human translator by a second application program (e.g. the browser is equipped with a plug-in) to receive translation(s) of the translatable text string(s) into a second language (e.g. French). The translations are used as replacements for the translatable text strings, to create a translated version of the first application program, in the second language.

In a server-client network conference system having a conference server 100 and a plurality of conference terminals 140a to 140n through a network 130, a conference data storage section 120 creates a real-time conference data file 123 and an index file 122 containing time-of-day information and heading information while a conference proceeds. After the conference is over, edit such as voice stream merge processing, image thinning-out processing, etc., in the real-time conference data file 123 is performed to create a minute file 124 and the minute file 124 is managed with an index file 122.

A methodology may be provided that automatically annotates web conference application sharing (e.g., sharing scenes and/or slides) based on voice and/or web conference data. In one specific example, a methodology may be provided that threads the annotations and assigns authorship to the correct resources.

A method, system and apparatus for the policy driven provisioning of a Web conference. A Web conference provisioning system can include a policy manager coupled to at least two different Web conferencing platforms over a computer communications network. The policy manager can have a configuration for processing a request for a Web conferencing from a communicatively linked end user to select one of the Web conferencing platforms to host the Web conference. Preferably, two of the different Web conferencing platforms can include a CPE based platform and a hosted platform.

A communication system and method for optimizing a network (or web) conference. A communication system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a network conference server, at least one mail server, a moderator's client device, a plurality of participants' client devices, a network interconnecting the servers and client devices, a network conference application executed by the network conference server, and an email application distributed amongst the mail server and the client devices. The network conference application receives from the moderator's client device a first communication comprising a conference schedule, participant details and conference material and transmits to the email application a second communication comprising a network address, the conference schedule, the participant details and the conference material.

A method and apparatus is disclosed for facilitating collaborative learning in an educational community via a web based educational system. In one embodiment, the method allows one or more of the educational participants to generate educational content, upload it to a document depository and teach it to other participants with the help of web based tools like web-conferencing, audio and video streaming, and web logging (blogging). The method also safeguards the quality of the generated educational content, by defining the role of the educational moderator and the access privileges that each class of participants has in using the web system's resources.

In some embodiments, two or more packets of a first protocol including data of a real time protocol (RTP) which is associated with audio and/or video conferencing information may be received at a first interface. Two or more data channels may couple the first interface to a second interface via various networks, and each of the two or more data channels may include network sockets of a second protocol. Any number of N data channels may be used based on various configurations. The two or more packets of the first protocol may be sent from the first interface to the second interface via the two or more data channels. In various embodiments, a first RTP may be received and transcoded into a second RTP, and data from a first codec associated with the first RTP to data of a second codec associated with the second RTP.

A professional networking system and method that facilitates a meeting between two or more users of the system for the purpose of expanding the users' professional networks. Users are matched by the system based on one or more available meeting dates of each user, and one or more sought characteristics corresponding to one or more characteristics of the second user that the first user profile seeks in another user. The system does not directly reveal the characteristics of one matched user to any other user except certain basic contact information may be disclosed to another matched user to facilitate a meeting.