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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1983
John R Colton, Freehold, NJ (US);
Dominick Scordo, Middletown, NJ (US);
David M Simmons, Howell, NJ (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a multilocation video conference system, conference locations are dynamically added to or deleted from an ongoing conference without disrupting it. This is realized by controllably enabling or disabling communications ports assigned to the conference locations in a Multilocation Conference Terminal (MLCT). Both audio information and control channel information transmitted from a conference location assigned to a port are monitored to determine if the audio information is satisfactory and if the control channel communication is 'good'. If the audio information is unsatisfactory, it is muted and selection of the video from that location as a one-and-only-one talker is inhibited. If the control channel communication is not good the video signal from the conference location is excluded from the conference.