Cisco Technology, Inc.

Tandberg Telecom As

Cisco Systems International S.a.r.l.

Vegard Hammer

Ivan Marius Kristiansen

Thies Schrader

Geir Bjune

Geir Bjun

A device, computer program product, and method control the operation of one or more cameras associated with a video conference endpoint in a video conference call. A camera control unit (remote control) includes a touch enabled end user component that presents to the user graphical objects representing video conference endpoints currently connected in a conference call, and/or one or more live video feeds currently captured by the video conference endpoint's cameras, and allows the user to manipulate a camera's pan, tilt and zoom using a touch screen display embedded in said camera control unit.

Touch control of a camera at a remote video device

Device, computer program product and method for providing touch control of a video conference

The present invention discloses a method for connecting one or more systems to a user for automatic determination of which system the user may use to participate in a call. A predefined list of video conferencing systems and/or locations for each user is predefined and arranged in a prioritized order. When scheduling a meeting and/or a video conference, the predefined user lists are taken into account when selecting end-points and other resources involved in the meeting/conference. The selection process may be controlled by predefined rules also taking various system availability, network resources and the routes required for connecting the other systems in the conference into account The present invention also introduces presence applications to facilitate scheduling and set up of ad hoc meetings/conferences.

Method for adhoc buffer

The present invention discloses a method for an intuitive and easy-to-use multi-site ad hoc conference initiation by involving some or all features of a conference managing system. The main concept is to automatically reserve the resources needed to connect selected participants in a conference once the ad hoc conference is requested by the calling party.

System and method for including participants in a conference call

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