Patent ID: 11907506
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
associating, by a virtual meeting management system, a user device of a participant of a virtual meeting with a physical location from which the participant and one or more additional participants participate in the virtual meeting;
determining, by the virtual meeting management system, that the participant provides a user input via the user device during the virtual meeting, the user input indicating that the participant will speak and comprising at least one of hand gesture input or a touch input;
implementing, by the virtual meeting management system and based on the participant providing the user input indicating that the participant will speak, a voice detection component to begin listening for an utterance from the participant; and
providing, by the virtual meeting management system based on the user input and the associating and while the voice detection component listens for the utterance, an active speaker indicator for presentation in a virtual meeting interface provided to one or more participants of the virtual meeting, the active speaker indicator specifying a participant identifier representative of the participant and a place identifier representative of the physical location from which the participant participates in the virtual meeting,
wherein the providing of the active speaker indicator includes:
generating, based on the participant providing the user input indicating that the participant will speak, a graphical element including the participant identifier of the participant and a video-only stream of the participant captured by the user device; and
providing the graphical element for presentation in the virtual meeting interface, the graphical element provided for presentation together with a video-and-audio stream of the physical location captured by an on-site conference system of the physical location, the video- and-audio stream including the participant and the one or more additional participants.