Patent ID: 9565219
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A system comprising a plurality of client devices associated with a plurality of participants, each of the plurality of client devices store endpoint address information, the system: associates a plurality of endpoint addresses associated with a participant of the plurality of participants with a network and with a media type; selects an appropriate endpoint address of the plurality of endpoint addresses assigned to the participant from the participant's client device in response to a request to join a multimedia collaboration session, the network and the media type; and automatically attempts to connect to at least one client device and an associated endpoint at the selected end point address based on a priority assigned to the end point, wherein the endpoint address information is automatically obtained at a same time that the multimedia collaboration system automatically attempts to connect to the at least one client device and the associated endpoint; and wherein a live document of a set of elements presented during said multimedia collaboration session is dynamically formed from a listing of presented materials for at least one of said plurality of participants.