Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to pairing a computer device, via a client application running on the computer device, with a meeting room application of a communication platform. The meeting room application is associated with an identified physical meeting space that has a designated meeting controller device. The meeting controller device has one or more virtual meeting controls that generate control input. The client application running on the paired computer device receives a selection to launch a meeting controller application at the paired computer device. The launched controller application running at the paired computer device send control input for an instance of a virtual meeting presented by the meeting room application for the identified physical meeting space.

A system includes a plurality of remote units; a centralized unit communicatively coupled to the plurality of remote units via a fronthaul network; and an entity that performs deep packet inspection. The centralized unit transmits sets of data to the plurality of remote units across the fronthaul network in packets, each of the sets of data mapped to at least one of the plurality of remote units and each of the packets including a respective indicator indicating each remote unit the associated packet is intended for, wherein each indicator comprises a plurality of bit positions where each bit position is mapped to a different one of the plurality of remote units. The entity performs the deep packet inspection on the packets to determine each remote unit the packets are intended for and communicate each packet to each remote unit the packet is intended for over the fronthaul network.

A data collection apparatus can communicates with a plurality of terminal devices located in a predetermined target area and respectively held by individuals, and collects data from the terminal devices. The data collection apparatus includes a transmission control unit for controlling transmission of data from the terminal devices; and a calculation unit for calculating the number of the terminal devices located in the target area. The transmission control unit controls transmission of data from the terminal devices so that when the number of the terminal devices located in the target area is relatively large, the transmission speed of data from the terminal devices is slower or the number of the terminal devices stopping transmission of data among the terminal devices located in the target area is larger than when the number of the terminal devices located in the target area is relatively small.

A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.

A boundary specifying a bounded geographic area for which travel information is to be reported is generated. Flow section information associated with flow sections located within the boundary is obtained. The flow sections represent portions of one or more roadways assigned relevant functional road classes (FRCs). The flow section information includes information about traffic flow associated with the flow sections. FRC current traffic messages, which include non-predictive traffic information associated with roadway portions that are in the bounded geographic area and are assigned relevant FRCs, are combined with the flow section information to generate a first data group. The first data group is streamed to a first traffic message service.

A method includes the steps of electronically generating a pass for a user within a facility; electronically tracking the location of the user within the facility; electronically generating a notification of an event; electronically receiving a message from the user whether the user is inside or outside of the facility; and electronically generating a list of people inside the facility.

A method and system for communication between devices includes connecting a plurality of communication devices through a communication system. At least one communication device acts as a source entity sending a plurality of data packets to an access point. A plurality of communication devices act as destination entities receiving the data packets. The data packets are distributed, by the access point, to the destination entities in such a way that the data packets are queued for receipt by each destination entity in a separate non-interdependent queue.

Techniques to provide an online audience to an event with a live audience experience. The live audience refers to users who are physically present at a live event and the online audience refers to users who are viewing the event through those users' computing devices. These techniques connect these audiences by communicating content that reflects the live audience's emotional state to the online audience's computing devices. In some embodiments, these techniques enhance the online audience's live viewing of the event by augmenting the event's broadcast with a visual indicator that expresses the live audience's response to a specific moment that occurred during the event. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A comprehensive system for capturing multicast messaging traffic volume and performance metrics across a global inventory of hosts. A single instance of the data capturing and extraction tool may be configured to be implemented across an enterprise's entire inventory of multicast messaging-configured hosts. The data capturing and extraction tool dynamically extracts multicast group addresses and corresponding metrics during the scanning of the captured traffic volume and performance data, thus eliminating the need for manual input of specified multicast group addresses. As a result, presentation of metrics on a per multicast group address basis is made possible for all multicast group addresses extracted during the scanning process. In addition, an efficient means for polling the hosts for traffic volume and performance data is realized by only polling those non-primary and workstation hosts that are currently transmitting or receiving multicast messages.

Approaches presented herein enable visualization of audio announcements using augmented reality (AR). Specifically, an audio system captures a set of broadcast audio announcements or messages at an originating location associated with a user as a set of audio files, which a speech-to-text transcriber transcribes to text. A natural language processing tool analyzes the transcribed text to determine, for each announcement, whether the announcement is relevant to the user. Relevant announcements are forwarded to a mobile device of the user. The user may access, in an AR environment, the set of announcements via a set of icons to display text of an announcement or to play audio of an announcement.