US 12,081,603 B1
Controlling presentations in video conferences
John Andrew Alexander Beckmann, San Francisco, CA (US); Ailian Gan, San Francisco, CA (US); Michelle Koike, Saulsalito, CA (US); and Hailei Sheng, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/459,571.
Application 18/459,571 is a continuation of application No. 17/472,246, filed on Sep. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,757,957.
Int. Cl. H04L 65/4038 (2022.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 65/4038 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1454 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
15. A device comprising:
a communications interface;
a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and
one or more processors configured to execute processor-executable instructions stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium to:
display, by a video conference application executing on a first client device, a first slide of a plurality of slides in a slide presentation as part of a visual display of a video conference on the first client device;
receive, by the video conference application executing on the first client device from the video conference application executing on a second client device, a command to display a second slide, wherein the command is issued by a first user of a plurality of users of the video conferencing application authorized to control the slide presentation; and
display, by the video conference application executing on the first client, the second slide in response to receiving the command
receive, by the video conference application executing on the first client device, a first indication from a host of the video conference that the first user of the plurality of users of the video conference application executing on a second client device is authorized to issue the command to display the second slide; and
send a first notification to the second client device in response to the first indication
receive, by the video conference application executing on the first client device, a second indication from the host of the video conference that a second user of the plurality of users of the video conference application executing on a third client device is authorized to issue the command to display the second slide; and
send a second notification to the third client device in response to the second indication.