Patent ID: 8850522
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for authenticating and authorizing a user to join a conference event via a conference event environment system (“CEES”), the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: receiving, at a CEES computer, a request from the user to join the conference event; determining, at the CEES computer, if the user is an invited participant of the conference event; and in response to determining that the user is an invited participant of the conference event, determining if the user has permissions to admit the CEES computer into the conference event; in response to determining that the user has permissions to admit the CEES computer into the conference event, joining the CEES computer into the conference event on behalf of the user; and in response to determining that the user does not have permissions to admit the CEES computer into the conference event, waiting for a second user that has permissions to admit the CEES computer into the conference event to admit the CEES computer into the conference event, and then joining the CEES computer to the conference event on behalf of the user, wherein the CEES computer inherits the permissions of the user in response to the CEES computer joining the conference event on behalf of the user.