Unify Gmbh Co. Kg

Ringcentral, Inc.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Enterprise Communications Gmbh & Co. Kg

Unify Patente Gmbh & Co. Kg

Karl Klug

Patrick Kleiner

Jurgen Totzke

Martha Unterstaller

Luzia Stephan

Apostolos Papageorgiou

Phuoc Tran-Gia

Viktor Ransmayr

Adam Wolisz

Martina Zitterbart

Erwin Rathgeb

Paul Mueller

Tino Fleuren

Joachim Goetze

Ralf Steinmetz

Ulrich Lampe

Thomas Lederer

Stephan Schaade

Jürgen Totzke

Harald Müller

Juergen Totzke

Jürgen Brieskorn

Edmund Ernst

Frank Heineck

Michal Skubacz

Christian Correll

Annette Roder

Peter Suda

Cai-Nicolas Ziegler

Mike Thoms

Karl-Heinz Hass

Thomas Bacher

Hans-Dietrich Von Lindeiner

Bernhard Dombrowski

A communication system and a method can be configured to facilitate the performance of a conference. The system can include a conference organizer terminal and at least two participants' terminals each assigned to respective conference participants who each log in to start a conference on the communication system. The communication system can be configured to calculate a decision situation at a particular point in time of the ongoing conference by analyzing the views expressed by the conference participants during the conference and send data relating to the decision situation for that point in time to the conference organizer's terminal and/or other conference participant terminals for use in facilitating the conference. IN some embodiments, such data can be used to assist the conference participants' in recognizing when there is a consensus made on at least one decision to be made during the conference.

Conferencing system and method for controlling the conferencing system

The controlling of accessible browser functions of a physical side of a remote or virtual desktop environment can include:

Method, server and software product for controlling physical-side browser functions of remote desktop or virtual desktop environments

In a procedure for handling security settings of a mobile end device the operating conditions of the end device are determined. Then minimum security requirements are established according to the operating conditions by evaluating contextual data regarding the operating conditions of the end device. Next it is determined whether the security settings on the end device comply with at a least with the minimum security requirements. Access to applications is allowed or denied according to the security settings on the mobile end device. Should the end device not meet minimum security requirements the user may be prompted to change the security settings on the end device. The method may involve locating the end device and issuing of a warning in the end device does not meet minimum security settings.

Method for handling security settings in a mobile end device

Method and software product for transferring data, plus equipment for controlling data transfer in a multimedia system that includes a group of participants' terminals, with which multimedia data generated by participants' terminals contained in the group are sent to one or more participants' terminals contained in the group and played back there. A central synchronization unit generates synchronization labels containing time information and sends them to the participants' terminals contained in the group, and the synchronization labels are used to play back information in modified time.

Method for transmitting data in a multimedia system, and software product and device for controlling the transmission of data in a multimedia system

A method and communication system are disclosed for conducting a conference among conference participants connected by a communication system. This system has at least one conference server and at least one image reproduction unit at each conference environment. The method involves collecting context data concerning at least one of the conference participants at multiple timed intervals; calculating a relationship value from the context data at the timed intervals; determining a relationship status, wherein the relationship status is expressed using one of several categories defined by a threshold value, depending on the calculated relationship value; and displaying the relationship status on at least one image reproduction unit during the conference. The method may be performed at the beginning of the conference and/or when a new participant joins the conference.

Method and device for managing a conference

A method for the transmission and adaption of data can include the steps of generating generic requirement documents, identifying a plurality of suitable communication patterns on the basis of the generic requirement documents, determining currently available transport options and their service quality across at least one communication network, and selecting a communication pattern from a plurality of suitable communication patterns based on the network transmission qualities of the at least one communication network. The method can utilize a first functional layer and a second functional layer that are integrated between a software application layer and a network access layer that each receive input documents that are independent of each other. The input documents of the second functional layer can contain transport-related information while the input documents of the first functional layer can contain application-related information. Systems and devices can be configured to facilitate use of embodiments of the method.

Method, system and apparatus for the transmission and adaption of data

A first aspect of the present invention concerns a method for controlling a multimedia application on a terminal, in particular a mobile terminal, wherein multimedia data are received from a remote source and are processed for being presented on a display of the terminal, comprising the steps of: a) detecting an operating state of at least one service component of the terminal concerning the presentation of the data of the multimedia application; b) generating an item of state information characterizing the operating state of the at least one service component; c) generating a message, comprising: the state information, and/or an item of information characterizing the state information, which characterizes the data density that can be processed as a maximum prescribed by the operating state of the service component for presenting the multimedia data, and/or an instruction to the remote source with respect to the adaptation of the data and/or transmission of the data to the terminal, in order to adapt the data and/or the transmission of the data to the data density that can be processed as a maximum prescribed by the operating state of the service component for presenting the multimedia data; d) transmitting the message to the remote source; e) receiving the multimedia data; and f) processing the multimedia data for presentation on the display of the terminal. The invention also concerns a method for the adaptation and transmission of multimedia data, a software product and a device.

Method for controlling a multimedia application, software product and device

This patent application discloses to a method of controlling accessible browser functions of a physical side of a remote or virtual desktop environment, said method comprising steps of: The disclosure also covers a corresponding server and software product.

Method, server and software product for controlling physical-side-browser functions of remote desktop or virtual desktop environments

A method can include the steps of logging in of mobile devices of participants when they are located in the same physical conference environment and managing the resources of these devices such that the resources of the logged-in devices are combined into an audio system to output audio conference information using a sound output process in the conference environment. The conference environment may be a conference room. The audio conference information may be audio to be output to the participants at the conference environment. The formed audio system can include speakers of the user devices for outputting such audio. The microphones of the user devices may also be used to form an audio input system for the conference for allowing audio of the participants to be received and transmitted during the conference. A communication system can be configured to implement embodiments of the method.

Method, device, and system for managing a conference

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