Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Skype Limited

Dmytro Izotov

Christopher James Clare

Torsten Rehberg

Antonio Pedro Pernambuco Rezende

Lyndsay Watt

Lyra Xharra Loxha

Simon Tickner

Manrique Brenes

David Dinka

Duncan Lamb

Derek MacDonald

Umberto Abate

Priidu Zilmer

Henrique Penha

Hando Tint

Daniel Winston

Mikael Suvi

Ole Mahrt

Mike Bartlett

James Edward Palmer

Vishnu Vardhan Vemulapalli

Bettina Sutter

Risto Reinpold

Johnny Bigert

David Benedeki

Michael John Winston Bartlett

Priidu Zilmber

There is provided a packet-based communication system for conducting voice or video calls over a packet-based network. A client application on a first terminal is configured to determine an availability of one or more other, second user terminals installed with other instances of the client application, and to present a near-end user with an option to select one of said second user terminals for use by the near-end user in conjunction with the first user terminal when conducting a voice or video call with a far-end user via the client instances and packet-based communication system; thereby enabling the voice or video call to be conducted using the second terminal to consume or generate at least one stream of the call whilst the first user terminal concurrently generates or consumes at least another stream of the call or controls the call.

Communication system and method

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

A method of transferring image data from a first terminal to a second terminal connected via a communication network, the method comprising: displaying on a screen of the first terminal a screen image generated by a processor executed application; a processor executing a communication client to: establish a communication event between the first and second terminals and display at the first terminal an interactive selection component; a user at the first terminal actuating the selection component to select at least one object displayed on the screen to be shared with the second terminal, wherein the communication client accesses data defining displayed object dimensions and adjusts the selection component based on those dimensions to cause the at least one object selected by the window selection component to be displayed on a screen of the second terminal by transferring image data over the communication network in the established communication event.

Screen sharing

The present invention provides a method of processing video data in a video communication system, and a corresponding program and apparatus. The method comprises: receiving first video data at a first terminal from a second terminal; generating second video data at the first terminal for transmission to the second terminal; selecting the size of a first video area for displaying the first data within a display area; and scaling the first video data to the selected size of the first area and displaying it therein. The method further comprises: determining a second video area for displaying the second data within the display area, the determination of the second area comprising at least determining a location of the second area relative to the first area in dependence on the size of the first area; and scaling the second video data to the second video area and displaying it therein.

Processing video communication data

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