Patent ID: 9419810
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a virtual conference, the method comprising: a conferencing system obtaining participant location information associated with a plurality of participant identifiers; the conferencing system establishing an audio conference with participants associated with the plurality of participant identifiers; the conferencing system presenting a conference user interface to the plurality of participants, the conference user interface displaying each of the participants as a unique participant object in a simulated location view, the simulated location view comprising a licensed background image having one or more displayed objects; and the conferencing system executing logic that selects a stored representation of a product, a service, or a licensed image associated with one or more conference sponsors from a license/ad store, the selected stored representation associated with one or more conference sponsors and automatically selected without user input based on the participant location information and to be added to the licensed background image with the one or more displayed objects and the unique participant objects, and the conferencing system further executing logic that adds the selected stored representation of the product, the service, or the licensed image to the licensed background image in the simulated location view, wherein the conference user interface simultaneously displays during the audio conference the unique participant objects in the simulated location view with the selected stored representation added to the licensed background image with the one or more displayed objects; wherein the simulated location view and the selected stored representation added to the licensed background image with the one or more displayed objects are customized in different conference user interfaces presented to two or more of the participants based on their corresponding participant location information and one or more participant profile parameters stored in a participant database.