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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2016
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ram Mohan Ravindranath, Bangalore, IN;

Faisal Siyavudeen, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/2589 (2013.01); H04L 61/255 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method is provided and includes receiving a relay address allocation request from an endpoint, the relay address allocation request comprises a unique session identifier that identifies a conference session joined by the endpoint for media streaming; determining a relay candidate comprising a relay transport address for allocating to each endpoint of the conference session having the unique session identifier. Further, the method includes mapping the relay candidate with the unique session identifier and sending a relay address allocation response that comprises at least the relay candidate mapped with the unique session identifier. The method further includes receiving a single copy of one or more media stream packets from the conference controller and relaying the one or more media stream packets via the relay transport address identified by the unique session identifier to each of the one or more endpoints in the session having the unique session identifier.


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