Patent ID: 11870943
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing enhanced teleconferencing, the method comprising:
generating a teleconference interface with a plurality of user-controlled participant interface elements representing participants of the teleconference;
identifying a first conversation based on positions, in the teleconference interface, of a first subset of the participant interface elements;
identifying a second conversation based on the positions, in the teleconference interface, of a second subset of the participant interface elements;
accessing supplemental data, from at least one of a networking or social media database, for a first participant in the first conversation and a second participant in the second conversation, the supplemental data indicating a degree of connection in the networking or social media database from a user of the teleconference interface to the first participant and a degree of connection from the user of the teleconference interface to the second participant; and
presenting, within the participant interface elements, the supplemental data.