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Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2015
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Timothy Stevens, London, GB;

Ian Kegel, London, GB;

Andrew Wills, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 45/3065 (2013.01); H04L 65/105 (2013.01); H04L 65/605 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 65/608 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing streamed communication (such as video, audio, or audio-visual communication) between client devices and remote devices via a digital data communication network in situations where the data communication network comprises one or more routers operable to receive streamed data from one or more client devices and/or from one or more other routers, and to forward such streamed data to one or more remote devices and/or to one or more other routers such as to enable the client device and potentially-varying subsets of the one or more remote devices to participate in a communication session.


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