Patent ID: 9082106
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a virtual conference in a conference interface, the method comprising: a conferencing system establishing an audio conference between a plurality of participants; the conferencing system presenting a conference interface to each of the participants in the audio conference via a graphical user interface and a corresponding client device in communication with the conferencing system via a communication network; the conference interface displaying during the audio conference a unique participant object for each of the plurality of participants in the audio conference, each unique participant object comprising a first display state for displaying a graphical representation specified by the corresponding participant and having a user interface control that, when selected by the participants, changes the selected unique participant object from the first display state to a second display state for displaying corresponding participant profile information; during the audio conference, the conferencing system displaying a survey panel comprising a plurality of predefined survey responses in the conference interface to each of the participants, each of the plurality of predefined survey responses having a matching stored image in a survey store database; receiving a participant selection of one of the plurality of predefined survey responses from one or more of the participants; in response to receiving the participant selection of one of the plurality of predefined survey responses from the one or more of the participants, the conferencing system accessing the survey store database to determine the matching stored image for each of the received participant selections; and the conferencing system reporting the participant selections to the participants in the conference interface by: