Patent ID: 11943071
Assignee: ZELLER DIGITAL INNOVATIONS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A videoconferencing system comprising:
a server including a processor and memory;
a videoconferencing codec;
a system controller in communication with the videoconferencing codec via at least one of a wired communication network and a wireless communication network to control the videoconferencing codec, the system controller in communication with the server via at least one of said communication networks; and
a mobile computing device adapted to communicate with the server via at least one of said communication networks, the mobile computing device including a user interface, the mobile computing device configured to parse information stored on the mobile computing device according to a parsing protocol to obtain information regarding a scheduled conference call, and to transmit at least a portion of the information regarding the scheduled conference call to the server through at least one of said communication networks using a secure encrypted transport layer security (TLS) channel in response to user input, where personal data of the mobile computing device is not stored on the system controller and local room data of the system controller is not stored on the mobile computing device, and the obtained information includes a conference phone number of the scheduled conference call and at least one of a personal identification number (PIN), a passcode and a meeting number of the scheduled conference call,
the server configured to transmit the information regarding the scheduled conference call to the system controller,
the system controller configured to initiate the scheduled conference call by controlling the videoconferencing codec to dial the conference phone number and enter the at least one of the PIN, the passcode and the meeting number,
the mobile computing device configured to transmit the at least a portion of the information regarding the scheduled conference call to the server only after detecting that the mobile computing device is within a specified proximity distance threshold of the system controller, and
the mobile computing device configured to determine whether the mobile computing device is within the specified proximity distance threshold of the system controller by identifying signal strengths of multiple beacons each having an identifier associated with a unique one of multiple system controllers including said system controller.