Patent ID: 11863336
Assignee: SCOOT, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
establishing data communications with each of a plurality of client devices, each client device comprising audio-recording hardware, video-recording hardware, audio-output hardware, and video-output hardware;
designating i) a first subset of the client devices as presenting-clients having presentation privileges, and ii) the remaining client devices as audience-clients not having presentation privileges;
receiving, from a presenting-client, i) audio-stream data created from presentation-audio spoken by a user of the presenting-client into the presenting-client's audio-recording hardware, and ii) video-stream data created from presentation-visuals with the client's video-recording hardware;
generating, from the received audio-stream data and the received video-stream data, presentation-audio data and presentation-video data, respectively;
transmitting, to the audience-clients, the presentation-audio data and the presentation-video data for output by the audience-clients' audio-output hardware and video-output hardware;
receiving an audio-segment request from an audience-client to play an audio-segment;
responsive to receiving the audio-segment request:
accessing, from a computer readable memory, a pre-recorded file corresponding to the requested audio-segment; and
adding the pre-recorded file to the presentation-audio data such that, when the presentation-audio data is output by the audience-clients' audio-output hardware, users of the audience-clients hear both the presentation audio and the audio-segment;

wherein:
the pre-recorded file is a recording of a particular user of a an audience-client made in advance of i) the designating of the first subset of the client devices as presenting-clients having presentation privileges and ii) the remaining client devices as audience-clients not having presentation privileges;
the pre-recorded file is an audio file corresponding to the requested audio-segment;
the pre-recorded file corresponding to the requested audio-segment; and
adding the pre-recorded file to the presentation-audio data is configured such that, when the presentation-audio data is output by the audience-clients' audio-output hardware, users of the audience-clients hear the presentation-audio at a first volume and the audio-segment at a second volume different than the first volume.