US 12,009,937 B2
Queue management for visual interruption symbols in a virtual meeting
Amer Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US); Mahendra Sekaran, Sammamish, WA (US); and Scott Edward Van Vliet, Sammamish, WA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Jan. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/145,104.
Prior Publication US 2022/0224554 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); H04L 49/90 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 12/1818 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A system for adapting meeting interfaces of an application providing a virtual meeting in response to receiving interruption signals, the system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, coupled to the processor, configured to store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive a plurality of interruption signals, from meeting interfaces of the application providing the virtual meeting, wherein the meeting interfaces are among a set of meeting interfaces associated with the application providing the virtual meeting on a respective set of client devices for a respective set of participants of the virtual meeting;
based on a criterion associated with the virtual meeting:
determine an order for surfacing the interruption signals on the meeting interfaces to identify a next speaker among the respective set of participants to be surfaced in the virtual meeting and an order of participants to follow as subsequent speakers after the next speaker among the respective set of participants to be surfaced in the virtual meeting; and
identify, from the determined order for surfacing the interruption signals, a first subset of interruption signals associated with a first subset of participants, wherein the first subset of interruption signals includes one or more of the received interruption signals but less than a total number of the received interruption signals so that the first subset of interruption signals will include at least the identified next speaker and will not include all of the identified subsequent speakers;
responsive to identifying the first subset of interruption signals, send a first interruption symbol raising signal over a communication network to each meeting interface of the set of meeting interfaces, the first interruption symbol raising signal being configured to turn on a first subset of visual interruption symbols associated with the first subset of participants for displaying on each meeting interface, wherein the displayed first subset of visual interruption symbols includes one or more visual interruption symbols but less than a total number of the received interruption signals to display one of the visual interruption symbols for at least the next speaker but to suppress display of at least one of the visual interruption symbols for at least one of the subsequent speakers for which no interruption symbol lowering signal initiated by one of the respective set of participants has been received.