NEGOTIATING CONTENT CONTROLS

• US 20100124322A1
• Filed: 01/26/2010
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AOL Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bill, David S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,600,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/203.10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Access to an electronic conference may be administered by receiving an electronic instruction configured to establish the electronic conference, enabling more than one user to generate content restrictions that limit content rendered during the electronic conference, analyzing one or more participant devices to ensure compliance with the content restrictions, establishing the electronic conference in accordance with the content restrictions, and enabling user access to the electronic conference consistent with the content restrictions.

Claims

1. A method of administering access to an electronic conference, the method comprising:

establishing an initial configuration for an electronic conference on a host;

sending an invitation to multiple client devices to participate in the electronic conference, wherein the invitation includes an initial configuration for a client device and enables the user to modify the initial configuration;

receiving a first response to the invitation from a first client device in the multiple devices, the first response including a first revised configuration that differs from the initial configuration and the first revised configuration also specifying that content provided by the first client device should be used in a first mode;

receiving a second response to the invitation from a second client device in the multiple devices, the second response including a second revised configuration that differs from the initial configuration and the first revised configuration in at least one parameter and the second revised configuration also specifying that content provided by the second client device should be used in a second mode that is different than the first mode;

generating a revised configuration from the initial configuration to reflect the first revised configuration and the second revised configuration; and

establishing the electronic conference using the revised configuration for the multiple client devices, wherein the the electronic conference distributes content provided by the first client device in the first mode and content provided by the second client device in the second mode.