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

Claim 6:
7. A media control method comprising:
detecting, with a computing device, a video conferencing application being executed by the computing device;
in response to detecting the video conferencing application, determining, with the computing device, an input configuration of the video conferencing application from a plurality of input configurations associated with a plurality of different video conferencing applications;
receiving, with the computing device, at least one signal from a media control device separate from the computing device via a communication interface of the media control device, the at least one signal representing a user input on the media control device of a plurality of possible user inputs, wherein the user input comprises selection of at least one button of a plurality of buttons arranged on a housing of the media control device;
mapping the at least one signal to at least one video conferencing application input signal based on the input configuration; and
controlling the video conferencing application based on the at least one video conferencing application input signal.