Patent ID: 11956317
Assignee: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
an overlay network, the overlay network comprising a video delivery infrastructure having network edge-based deployments comprising edge machines and a set of media servers; and
an apparatus to facilitate a multi-peer collaboration session wherein an end user peer accesses media streams of other peers through the overlay network rather than directly from another peer, the apparatus comprising:
a hardware processor;
computer memory associated with the hardware processor and holding computer program code configured as: (i) a signaling component that maintains state information about each peer participating in a collaboration, (ii) a connectivity component that manages connections routed through the overlay network and that support the collaboration, (iii) a multiplexing component that manages the multi-peer collaboration session, and (iv) a session manager that publishes one or more pages and receives control information entered by at least one user associated with a peer, thereby executing one or more management operations associated with the collaboration session;
wherein the one or more management operations include one of: creating or deleting a room, joining a room, viewing participants in a room, whitelisting or blacklisting participants for a room, adjusting a relevancy value of a media stream, muting or unmuting an audio stream, adjusting a quality of a media stream, providing feedback, adjusting equipment in a room, creating a presentation for a room, creating a vanity room, creating an anonymous access room, adjusting a look and feel of a room, enabling room-specific collaboration activities, and providing room deep-linking;

the overlay network configured to auto-scale the set of media servers of the video delivery infrastructure as needed to support the multi-peer collaboration.