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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yanghua Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Don D. Brown, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving a request to participate in a web-based conferencing session using an IP phone, wherein the web-based conferencing session is hosted by a server; establishing an encrypted connection to the server; requesting network routing information for the IP phone from a call manager; receiving from the call manager the requested routing information; and establishing a connection with the IP phone using the received routing information. The method may further include embodiments in which the request to participate in the web-based conferencing session is initiated by a user via a client application executing on a computer device and in which the encrypted connection is established over an Internet.