Patent ID: 8516476

Claim:
A method, comprising: attending a collaboration session by a first participant device associated with a first user and a second participant device associated with a second user, wherein either the first participant device or the second participant device operates as a presenter device and presents at least one of audio, video, graphical, and textual content to another device during the collaboration session; detecting, during the collaboration session attended by the first participant device and the second participant device, a request from the first user of the first participant device for installation of an application to be used in the collaboration session; detecting, during the collaboration session attended by the first participant device and the second participant device, a profile associated with the first user of the first participant device; granting, during the collaboration session attended by the first participant device and the second participant device, permission to install the application to be used in the collaboration session, based on an installation permission in the profile associated with the first user of the first participant device; installing, during the collaboration session attended by the first participant device and the second participant device, the application to be used in the collaboration session on the first participant device associated with the first user; and updating, during the collaboration session attended by the first participant device and the second participant device, the profile associated with the first user of the first participant device based on installing the application to be used in the collaboration session on the first participant device associated with the first user.