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Capturing and controlling access to muted content from a conference session

US8553067B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Shmuel Shaffer · Palo Alto, US
Jochen Weppner · Belmont, US
Shantanu Sarkar · San Jose, US
Mukul Jain · Sayla, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 1, 2010
Grant date	Oct 8, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 19, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N7/155
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques are provided for receiving multimedia from a plurality of endpoints participating in a conference session, including multimedia from an endpoint that was muted during the conference session. A muting state is detected at a particular endpoint during the conference session and the multimedia from the particular endpoint is recorded even though it is not forwarded and rendered to the other endpoints during the conference session. Information associated with the multimedia data for the conference session is stored to indicate the time period during which the muting state was detected at the particular endpoint. Techniques are also provided for granting access at a later time to the stored multimedia data for conference session, including access controls to the muted multimedia.

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