Patents by Inventor Lee Pethers

Lee Pethers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170149854
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: allocating each user participating in a multi-user call to a first group, a second group, or a third group in dependence on a respective first priority associated with each user; causing a display to render image data representative of respective users in the first group in a primary area of the display and to render image data representative of respective users in the second group in a secondary area of the display, wherein users in a third group do not have image data rendered in either of the primary and secondary areas; and re-allocating each user participating in the multi-user call to the first group, the second group, or the third group in dependence on a respective second priority associated with each user, such that users immediately previously allocated to the third group are not re-allocated to the first group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Dove, Mohammed Ladha, Lee Pethers, Hando Tint, Alex Usbergo