Patent ID: 8681203

Claim:
A method comprising: executing, by a first computing device, one or more video communication processes that receive audio streams and video streams from a plurality of computing devices participating in a video communication session associated with the one or more video communication processes; evaluating, by the first computing device, one or more properties of the audio streams from the plurality of computing devices, the one or more properties comprising a volume of an audio signal among the audio streams; receiving, by the first computing device, document data for a document application from a second computing device included in the plurality of computing devices; selecting, by the first computing device, a first group of the audio streams from the plurality of computing devices to mute in the video communication session, based at least in part on the one or more properties of the audio streams; outputting, by the first computing device, a second group of the audio streams from the plurality of computing devices for distribution in the video communication session, while muting the first group of audio streams from the plurality of computing devices in the video communication session; and outputting, by the first computing device, the document data for distribution among the plurality of computing devices to enable the document data to be displayed on at least one of the computing devices; wherein selecting the first group of the audio streams is based at least in part on selecting one or more of the audio streams other than an audio stream received from the second computing device, and wherein outputting the second group of the audio streams comprises outputting the audio stream received from the second computing device.