International Business Machines Corporation

Lukas Heusler

Hong Linh Truong

Claudio Fleiner

Marcel Graf

Gabriel Dermler

A telephone session between a calling person and a called person uses a call-related information segment which has been prepared by the calling person to inform the called person of the calling person and the subject of the session. The call-related information is transmitted to the called person and outputted there by use of an output unit, alerting the called person of the nature of the telephone session without the called person entering into the telephone session.

Method, apparatus, and communication system for setting up a communication session

A distributed multipoint conferencing system ( ) comprises a plurality of participating terminals ( ) for sending and receiving media streams in a conferencing interchange; the system further includes at least one multipoint distributor ( ) (MD) connected to one terminal ( ) for receiving at least one or all media streams from that terminal ( ) but not from any other of the participating ( ); the multipoint distributor ( ) is connected to the other participating terminals ( ) for sending the media stream or streams received from the MD-associated terminal ( ) to the other participating terminals ( ).

Growing community of inventors

Zurich, Switzerland

Lukas Heusler