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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2018
Polycom, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Adams, Lafayette, CO (US);
Eric Nylander, Westminster, CO (US);
Damian Diaz, Westminster, CO (US);
Chad Alexander, Westminster, CO (US);
Joanne Kubischta, Westminster, CO (US);
George David, Westminster, CO (US);
Matt Parker, Westminster, CO (US);
Jozef Saniga, Bratislava, SK;
Ryan Hermanson, Westminster, CO (US);
Polycom, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A non-Skype multipoint control unit (MCU) is configured to operate differently for handling incoming streams from endpoints and outgoing streams from a Skype multipoint control unit. When passing incoming streams from non-Skype endpoints to a Skype conference, the non-Skype MCU acts as a gateway, passing the streams to Skype MCU as if they were coming from Skype endpoints. When receiving outgoing streams from Skype MCU, the non-Skype MCU acts as an MCU, transcoding, compositing, and scaling streams into continuous presence layouts for delivery to the non-Skype endpoints. Thus, non-Skype endpoints can participate in Skype conferences as if they were Skype endpoints, allowing a better user experience for both Skype endpoints and non-Skype endpoints.