Patent ID: 11915201
Assignee: ZOOM VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a conferencing server, during a video conference implemented using conferencing software and prior to selection of a conference room for the video conference, that two or more users are presently accessing the conferencing software from separate user devices located in separate areas within an audible distance of one another within an office premises by detecting, within an audio signal obtained from a first user device of the separate user devices by the conferencing server and output to ones of the separate user devices during the video conference, audio content captured, using a microphone of the first user device, from a speaker of a second user device of the separate user devices;
determining, by accessing stored conference room scheduling data of the office premises using the conferencing server that communicates with the conferencing software and stores conference room scheduling data, that the conference room within the office premises is available for use by the two or more users;
selecting, in response to determining that the two or more users are presently accessing the conferencing software from the separate user devices located in the separate areas within the audible distance of one another within the office premises, an available conference room based on stored conference configuration data associated with a user preference or a content of the video conference; and
transmitting, to each of the separate user devices for display at each of the separate user devices within a part of a display unit associated with the video conference, a prompt recommending that the two or more users further participate in the video conference using a shared device configured to access the conferencing software within the conference room.