Microsoft patents meeting view that keeps live text visible when video shrinks

1. A method, executed by a data processing system, for controlling a user interface of a communication session comprising a display of the real-time text communicated to meeting participants, the method comprising: during the communication session, invoking a real-time text mode for generating the real-time text, the generation of the real-time text comprising: communicating individual text characters from a first computing device to a plurality of computing devices of individual meeting participants on a character-by-character basis, wherein each of the individual text characters are separately transmitted from the first computing device to the plurality of computing devices in response to individual character input entries received at the first computing device, and causing a display of the individual text characters at the plurality of computing devices of individual meeting participants, wherein the individual text characters are each displayed as they are received at each of the plurality of computing devices from the first computing device; while in the real-time text mode: causing a display of a first user interface arrangement on the first computing device, wherein the first user interface arrangement comprising a first display region reserved for displaying the real-time text and a second display region reserved for displaying at least one of a video stream or an image shared between computing devices participating in the communication session; receiving an input to reduce a size of the first user interface arrangement concurrently displaying the real-time text and the at least one of the video stream or the image; in response to the input to reduce the size of the first user interface arrangement, maintaining the display of the real-time text while, reducing the size of the first user interface arrangement, wherein the reduction of the size of the first user interface arrangement reduces a size of the at least one of the video stream or the image or a number of displayed video streams or images.