RESOLVING ROOM CONTENTION FOR A MULTI-ENDPOINT MEETING

• US 20190026700A1
• Filed: 07/20/2017
• Published: 01/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2017
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnston, Jay Kemper, Mortensen, Magnus, White, JR., David C.
• Application Number:
  US15/654,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20190026700A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06314 Calendaring for a resource
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

The present technology is a videoconference system for addressing room contention for a multi-endpoint meeting. The videoconference system includes a videoconference server that hosts a multi-endpoint meeting amongst local endpoints and remote endpoints, and a wallplate located outside of a physical room that includes a local endpoint. The wallplate receives input and transmits a room contention state indicator. The local endpoint receives the room contention state indicator and sends a room contention signal to the videoconference server, where the videoconference server transmits a room contention message to the remote endpoint.

Claims

1. A videoconference system for addressing room contention for a multi-endpoint meeting comprising:

a videoconference server configured to host a multi-endpoint meeting amongst a local endpoint and one or more remote endpoints, the videoconference server to;

receive, from a wallplate located outside of a physical room that includes the local endpoint, a room contention indicator indicating a room contention state, wherein the wallplate is configured to display an in-room alert trigger, a current meeting extender, and a room contention state; and

transmit the room contention indicator to one or more remote endpoints for display by the one or more remote endpoints.

2. The videoconference system of claim 1, wherein the notification of the room contention state is a graphic notification that displays information that the videoconference server has received the in-room alert trigger.

3. The videoconference system of claim 1, wherein notification of the room contention state further indicates whether the meeting has extended into a subsequent meeting.

4. The videoconference system of claim 1, wherein the videoconference server is further configured to:

after receiving the in-room alert trigger, receive, from the wallplate, an extension request initiated by the local endpoint; and

receive, from the wallplate, input from the current meeting extender that grants the extension request.

5. The videoconference system of claim 4, wherein the videoconference server extends the multi-endpoint meeting based on receiving the grant of the extension request from the wallplate.

6. The videoconference system of claim 5, wherein granting the extension request enables the videoconference server to transmit a command that enables the local endpoint and the remote endpoints to display an extended time remaining.

7. A method of presenting a graphical user interface for a video conference having a scheduled duration, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a videoconference server, a video feed to a first endpoint in a first conference room and a second endpoint in a second conference room ;

transmitting, by the videoconference server, room status information to the first endpoint and the second endpoint to be displayed with the video feed, the room status information including room schedule information for at least one of the first conference room or the second conference room, the room schedule information indicating that a subsequent conference is scheduled to occur in at least one of the first conference room or the second conference room, the room status information further comprising;

a first message to the first endpoint that the first endpoint has participants of a subsequent meeting waiting for the first conference room; and

a second message to the second endpoint that the first conference room has participants of the subsequent meeting waiting for the first conference room.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first message is a graphic notification that displays information that a wallplate communicatively coupled to the first endpoint and located outside of a physical room that includes the first endpoint has received an in-room alert trigger.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the first message further indicates that the meeting has extended into the subsequent meeting.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first message is a notification that displays information that the wallplate communicatively coupled to the first endpoint has received input that grants an extension request.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first message is a notification that the multi-endpoint video conference has been extended based on the granted extension request.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first message and the second message display an extended time remaining after being granted the extension request.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:

transmit, by a videoconference server, a video feed to a first endpoint in a first conference room and a second endpoint in a second conference room ;

transmit, by the videoconference server, room status information to the first endpoint and the second endpoint to be displayed with the video feed, the room status information including room schedule information for at least one of the first conference room or the second conference room, the room schedule information indicating that a subsequent conference is scheduled to occur in at least one of the first conference room or the second conference room, the room status information further comprising;

a first message to the first endpoint that the first endpoint has participants of a subsequent meeting waiting for the first conference room; and

a second message to the second endpoint that the first conference room has participants of the subsequent meeting waiting for the first conference room.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the first message is a graphic notification that displays information that a wallplate communicatively coupled to the first endpoint and located outside of a physical room that includes the first endpoint has received an in-room alert trigger.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the first message further indicates that the meeting has extended into the subsequent meeting.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the first message is a notification that displays information that the wallplate communicatively coupled to the first endpoint has received input that grants an extension request.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first message is a notification that the multi-endpoint video conference has been extended based on the granted extension request.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the first message and the second message display an extended time remaining after being granted the extension request.