Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

Sound View Innovations, LLC

Bilgehan Erman

Vanita K Katkar

Elissa P Matthews

Adriaan J De Lind Van Wijngaarden

Ronald L Sharp

Chen Xie

Zhengxue Zhao

David P Mongeau

Mengqi Wu

Elijah W Bass, Sr

A peer-to-peer forwarding node supports the operation of a teleconference across a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network comprises a plurality of nodes including one or more source locations and one or more remote locations. The teleconference includes teleconference participants at each of the source and remote locations. The peer-to-peer forwarding node is located at a given one of the plurality of nodes. The peer-to-peer forwarding node comprises a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request from a telecommunications controller to provide peer-to-peer forwarding of a media signal to be received from a first one of the source locations to a first one of the remote locations and which further receives the media signal from the first one of said source locations. The transmitter forwards the media signal from the first one of the source locations to the first one of the remote locations.

Apparatus for the efficient transmission of multimedia streams for teleconferencing

In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a processor, subscriber usage data for a plurality of subscribers and performance metrics data for a plurality of cells of a wireless network. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, a set of subscribers that have one or more peak usage time intervals that are periodic. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, one or more peak usage time intervals of the plurality of cells in the wireless network. The method further includes classifying, by the processor, a first subset of the set of subscribers based on a correlation of the one or more peak usage time intervals of respective ones of the set of subscribers to the peak usage time intervals of the cell.

Method and apparatus for classifying mobile network usage patterns

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to cordless video conferencing camera adaptors and video conferencing systems including the camera adaptors. Embodiments of the present invention overcome some of the inherent problems of known video conferencing products by being a part of a portable and configurable video conferencing system, which can be used in various meeting rooms, laboratories, training rooms, and conference halls. For example, embodiments of the invention allow use of low cost (e.g., under $100) cameras to provide any angle of video coverage in any conference room setting.

System to freely configure video conferencing camera placement

A teleconferencing system in which a teleconference controller advantageously uses information relating to the network topology layout of remote nodes which are to participate in a teleconference, and then advantageously directs the transmission of video and/or audio streams from a source node to an identified subset of the remote nodes based on the capabilities of the nodes and the network links. These nodes which initially receive the video and/or audio streams then advantageously forward the streams in turn to other nodes in their vicinity using peer-to-peer network connectivity techniques. The identification of the subset of nodes which serve as peer-to-peer forwarding nodes may be based on node activity, node service capacity, the impact on network links between the node and the requester, the distance and/or latency between the node and the requester, and the ability of the node to meet requests including video transcoding requests.

Method and apparatus for the efficient transmission of multimedia streams for teleconferencing

A recursive method based on three rules by which tree structures representing data, e.g., XML, is transformed into a table-based format so as to be more easily read and understood by a human being without requiring customization based on the particular application and/or the nature of the data contained within the XML representation.

Method for transforming a tree structure into a more human-comprehensible document

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to compact portable video conferencing systems, which eliminate the need for other meeting room appliances for a video conference. The systems provide the freedom to hold video conferences with a few participants in any setting, e.g., a manager's office, a conference room, multiple locations, etc. Embodiments provide portable video conferencing systems, which allow all the meeting participants, including local and remote users, to maintain constant eye contact throughout the meeting. An embodiment of the invention provides a portable video conferencing system including a base, a dual-sided display and a camera unit.

Portable video conferencing system with universal focal point

A method and system for using key performance indicators of a transport channel to determine key quality indicators associated with information transported there through.

Method and apparatus for measuring subjective assessment of digital video impairment

A scripting engine for network communication software is described. The scripting engine includes a sequencer table and plurality of secondary tables. The sequencer table and plurality of secondary tables provide a table-based command-processing engine to control the functionality of the network communication software. The sequencer table includes commands that are read in a sequential order. The commands are grouped into command types that each defines a specific set of related functionality. Each of the plurality of secondary tables is mapped to a particular one of the command types. Each of the secondary tables includes one or more records containing one or more specific instructions to enable the network communication software application to perform a particular operation indicated by the command, when the network communication software application instructs the scripting engine to process the sequencer table.

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