Enhancing conferencing user experience via components

摘要

An enhanced user experience during a telecommunications conference may be achieved by using components of devices associated with users as ephemeral adjuncts to a conferencing system. These components may be associated with equipment in a conference room or location such that other participants in the conference may not recognize the use of the device. The quality of a user's experience may thus be improved by using a device and associated components in close proximity to the user. Other participants in a conference may also perceive a benefit from improved intelligibility.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, in a memory of a server, a first signal from a first telecommunications device indicating a request to connect to a communication session, wherein the first signal is associated with an identification of one or more multimedia components of the first telecommunications device; associating, using a processor of the server and coupled to the memory, the one or more multimedia components with a location, to produce an association; disabling one or more multimedia components of the first telecommunication device while the first telecommunication device is in association; receiving, in the memory, a second signal from the first telecommunications device, wherein the second signal comprises an indication to communicate using at least one of the one or more multimedia components of the first telecommunications device; receiving multimedia content from the first telecommunications device, wherein the multimedia content is generated using the at least one multimedia components indicated by the second signal; mixing, by the server, the multimedia content from the first telecommunications device with a second multimedia content, to produce a mixed multimedia content; and selectively sending, using the processor, the mixed multimedia content to at least one multimedia component capable of outputting the mixed multimedia content.