Patent ID: 9088629
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing an electronic conference session, the method comprising: on a processing system, hosting the electronic conference session for a plurality of users to participate in the conference session via a plurality of client devices; monitoring, via a processor, performance of the processing system; responsive to identifying a first indication that the performance of the processing system immanently will degrade below specified criteria, querying at least one of the plurality of client devices to determine whether a plugin configured to receive transfer of at least one process for hosting the electronic conference session is installed on the at least one client device; and responsive to determining that the plugin is installed on the at least one of the plurality of client devices, offloading the at least one process for hosting the electronic conference session from the processing system to the at least one of the plurality of client devices.