Prioritizing digital streams during digital conferencing

摘要

Using switching technologies to duplicate packets of a digital stream (e.g., digital video stream) sent from one workstation to multiple recipient workstations, where the switching technologies enable the multiple streams sent from the switch to the recipient workstations to be generated from a single digital stream sent from the sending workstation to the switch. Data units, such as video data units, may be transmitted by using a switch to enable receipt of a stream of data units including a payload portion and an attribute portion from at least two conferencing participants. The switch is used to duplicate at least a subportion of the payload portion of a data unit within the stream of data units, and to enable access to the duplicated subportion of the data unit by two or more conferencing participants.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
concurrently receiving data streams from a plurality of conferencing participants; determining, by at least one processor, that a first participant of the plurality of conferencing participants is associated with a first priority; based on determining the first participant is associated with a first priority, providing a first data stream corresponding to the first participant for display in a first position of a user interface; determining, by the at least one processor, that a second participant of the plurality of conferencing participants is associated with a second priority that is higher than the first priority; based on determining the second participant is associated with the second priority that is higher than the first priority, switching to providing a second data stream corresponding to the second participant for display in the first position of the user interface; and ceasing to provide the first data stream in the first position of the user interface.