Audiovisual norms from shared communities

• US 10,129,302 B1
• Filed: 04/24/2017
• Issued: 11/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bastide, Paul R., Dunne, Jonathan, Harpur, Liam, Silva, Asima
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Creighton
• Application Number:
  US15/494,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20180309803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1076 Screening of IP real time communications, e.g. spam over Internet telephony [SPIT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/5081 Inform conference party of participants, e.g. of change of participants conducting a computer conference, e.g. admission detection, H04L12/1822
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

A processor-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for managing a plurality of audio-visual teleconference distractions, including the detection of a new participant to a teleconference call; the monitoring of a stream of the detected new participant for a plurality of distraction markers; calculation of a level of distraction based on the plurality of distraction markers; and alterations performed on the monitored stream based on the calculated level of distraction satisfying a threshold.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method for managing a plurality of audio-visual teleconference distractions, the method comprising:

detecting a new participant to a teleconference call;

monitoring a stream of the detected new participant for a plurality of distraction markers;

calculating a level of distraction based on the plurality of distraction markers;

altering the monitored stream based on the calculated level of distraction satisfying a threshold; and

monitoring a plurality of communities of the detected new participant for a plurality of additional distraction marker parameters, wherein the plurality of monitored communities are a plurality of groups of which the detected new participant is a member.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

notifying one or more participants prior to altering the stream of the detected new participant.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

assessing the plurality of distraction markers prior to the new participant joining the teleconference call; and

preventing the participant from joining the teleconference call.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the new participant is detected based on an utterance from the new participant, a visual gesture from the new participant, a haptic gesture from the new participant, or a low level audio from the new participant.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the alteration is selected from the group consisting of muting an audio stream, dropping a call stream, degrading a video quality, selectively blurring or occluding one or more regions of a video associated with the new participant, and resizing the video.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising

in response to the calculated level of distraction not satisfying the threshold, monitoring the teleconference call for a subsequent new participant.

7. A computer system for managing a plurality of audio-visual teleconference distractions, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising;

detecting a new participant to a teleconference call;

monitoring a stream of the detected new participant for a plurality of distraction markers;

calculating a level of distraction based on the plurality of distraction markers;

altering the monitored stream based on the calculated level of distraction satisfying a threshold; and

monitoring a plurality of communities of the detected new participant for a plurality of additional distraction marker parameters, wherein the plurality of monitored communities are a plurality of groups of which the detected new participant is a member.

8. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising:

notifying one or more participants prior to altering the stream of the detected new participant.

9. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising:

assessing the plurality of distraction markers prior to the new participant joining the teleconference call; and

preventing the participant from joining the teleconference call.

10. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the new participant is detected based on an utterance from the new participant, a visual gesture from the new participant, a haptic gesture from the new participant, or a low level audio from the new participant.

11. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the alteration is selected from the group consisting of muting an audio stream, dropping a call stream, degrading a video quality, selectively blurring or occluding one or more regions of a video associated with the new participant, and resizing the video.

12. The computer system of claim 9, further comprising

in response to the calculated level of distraction not satisfying the threshold, monitoring the teleconference call for a subsequent new participant.

13. A computer program product for managing a plurality of audio-visual teleconference distractions, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to detect a new participant to a teleconference call;

program instructions to monitor a stream of the detected new participant for a plurality of distraction markers;

program instructions to calculate a level of distraction based on the plurality of distraction markers;

program instructions to alter the monitored stream based on the calculated level of distraction satisfying a threshold; and

program instructions to monitor a plurality of communities of the detected new participant for a plurality of additional distraction marker parameters, wherein the plurality of monitored communities are a plurality of groups of which the detected new participant is a member.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

Program instructions to notify one or more participants prior to altering the stream of the detected new participant.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

program instructions to assess the plurality of distraction markers prior to the new participant joining the teleconference call; and

preventing the participant from joining the teleconference call.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the new participant is detected based on an utterance from the new participant, a visual gesture from the new participant, a haptic gesture from the new participant, or a low level audio from the new participant.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the alteration is selected from the group consisting of muting an audio stream, dropping a call stream, degrading a video quality, selectively blurring or occluding one or more regions of a video associated with the new participant, and resizing the video.