Patent ID: 9432621
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G11B,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of interfacing a user to an online meeting, the method comprising: performing, by processing circuitry, an evaluation operation on a set of input/output (I/O) devices available for use by the user during the online meeting, each I/O device of the set being constructed and arranged to perform a same I/O function, the evaluation operation assessing online meeting performance of each I/O device of the set; selecting, by the processing circuitry, an I/O device of the set based on a result of the evaluation operation; after the I/O device is selected, performing, by the processing circuitry, a user interface operation to interface the user to the online meeting, the user interface operation one of: after a predefined amount of time has passed since the selected I/O device was selected, automatically re-evaluating the set of I/O devices during the online meeting, and automatically selecting a different I/O device in place of the selected I/O device in response to re-evaluation of the set of I/O devices.