Patent ID: 11929842
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. The method of claim 11, wherein delivering the content stream associated with the online conference session to each of the devices comprises:
receiving, from the plurality of devices, a request to receive the content stream at the second signal quality;
aggregating the received requests into a single aggregated request;
forwarding the single aggregated request to one of the plurality of devices to receive the content stream at the second signal quality;
receiving the content stream at the second signal quality in response to the single aggregated request;
determining which of the plurality of devices are capable of receiving the content stream at the second signal quality;
forwarding the received content stream at the second signal quality to each of the devices determined to be capable of receiving the received content stream; and
forwarding the content stream at the first signal quality or third signal quality to one or more remaining devices determined not to be capable of receiving the received content stream at the second signal quality.