US 11,792,244 B1
Control of permissions associated with annotations in online-conference
James R. Milne, Ramona, CA (US); Charles McCoy, San Diego, CA (US); and True Xiong, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, San Mateo, CA (US)
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, San Mateo, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/591,932.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 65/4038 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/4038 (2013.01) [H04L 67/306 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A first electronic device, comprising:
circuitry configured to:
receive profile information associated with each of a plurality of participants who are associated with an online conference to be hosted by a host of the first electronic device, wherein the host is different from the plurality of participants;
control, a first display device associated with the first electronic device, to display the received profile information associated with each of the plurality of participants;
receive a first user input indicative of a selection of a first set of participants from the plurality of participants, based on the displayed profile information associated with each of the plurality of participants;
grant, to the first set of participants of the plurality of participants, a permission to annotate media content to be shared during the online conference, wherein the permission is granted to each of the first set of participants based on the received first user input;
receive, from a set of electronic devices associated with the first set of participants, at least one annotation related to the shared media content, based on the granted permission; and
control a display of the received at least one annotation and the shared media content on each of the first display device and on a second display device associated with each of the set of electronic devices.