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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2016
Audio-technica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Audio-Technica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A stable conference system, which is reduced in the processing load placed on the system and receives a speech request from a discussion unit reliably, is be provided. A conference system S includes a control unitand a discussion unit, a running packet is repeatedly transmitted and received between both units, the discussion unit includes a DU control portion, and a DU communication portion, the control unit includes a CU communication portion, and an audio slot, the DU control portion adds a request flag to the running packet, the audio slot receives audio information from the discussion unit, and when the running packet, with the request flag added, is received from the discussion unit, the CU communication portion transmits a content acquisition packet, carrying an acquisition command to acquire a content, to the discussion unit, which added the request flag, if the audio slot is vacant.