Patent ID: 11910130
Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. A media control device comprising:
a housing;
a user interface configured to receive user input arranged on the housing, the user interface comprising a plurality of buttons, each button of the plurality of buttons associated with a different video conferencing function;
a communication interface configured to establish communication with a separate computing device, the separate computing device separate from the housing; and
a controller arranged in the housing and in communication with the user interface and the communication interface, the controller configured to: generate signals based on the user input and control a plurality of different video conferencing applications executing on the separate computing device with the signals, the plurality of different video conferencing applications each associated with different input configurations, such that the signals are mapped to an input configuration of the different input configurations based on a video conferencing application of the plurality of different video conferencing applications.