What the invention does
Warten manages the waiting interval before a live conference. A server establishes a handshake, selects content from event information, obtains the conferencing platform’s authorization, delivers that content through its waiting-room interface, and records engagement. The claim requires delivery within the existing session’s transport and encryption context, without a parallel media session or renegotiated security or transport parameters. Allowed claim 8 adds synchronized captions automatically generated from metadata associated with the prerecorded media asset.
A concrete example
Someone waiting for a call receives relevant content through the platform’s existing authorized session. Content delivery does not require a second media session.
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Approved explanatory abstract
A system and method for displaying pre-recorded video content in the waiting room of a video call. The invention replaces the blank screen or static image typically shown to users while waiting for the call to be answered with pre-recorded video messages or advertisements chosen by the video call provider. The system comprises a video calling platform, a database for storing pre-recorded content, and a content management system for selecting and displaying the appropriate video based on predefined criteria. When a user enters the waiting room, the selected video content is seamlessly displayed until the call is answered, providing an engaging and informative waiting experience while offering providers an opportunity to communicate with or promote to their audience.
Warten-Janus continuation
Warten-Janus, U.S. App. No. 19/718,652, was filed June 24, 2026 and remains pending. It continues the Warten branch for session-bound auxiliary media delivery through the pre-primary state and transition into the primary live communication phase.
Filed abstract
A computing system manages delivery of auxiliary media during a pre-primary communication state of a communication session. A session controller establishes or accesses a session identifier and associated session context, determines that an endpoint is in a pre-primary communication state, obtains authorization information from a communication platform authorizing auxiliary media delivery within an interface associated with the communication session, processes rule data and endpoint state, retrieves a selected auxiliary media asset, routes and renders the selected auxiliary media asset within the established session context, detects transition of the endpoint into a primary live communication phase, and modifies, terminates, preserves, or records auxiliary media state based on the transition. The auxiliary media operations occur within the established session context without creating a new session context, a parallel media session, or a renegotiated security or transport context.
Filing and status
US 2026/0075164 A1
Filed November 20, 2025
Patent pending · allowed · issue fee paid · awaiting issuance
Post-allowance record: the June 24, 2026 specification correction was entered; allowed claims 1–19 were unchanged.