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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1993
Sudhir Raman Ahuja, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
Murali Aravamudan, Berkley Heights, NJ (US);
James Robert Ensor, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Ashok K Kuthyar, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Ram S Ramamurthy, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Peter H Stuntebeck, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Roy Philip Weber, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., Middletown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A multimedia telecommunications network provides telephone service which may involve one or more of audio, video, and data communications. In one example of the invention, the multimedia telecommunications network contains a virtual meeting services complex which provides multimedia telecommunications service to subscribers of the network. Multimedia telephone calls can be completed automatically by the virtual meeting services complex in a manner similar to that now used to complete conventional audio telephone calls. The multimedia telecommunications network containing this virtual meeting services complex is able to connect together users having diverse equipment and is able to handle integrated and nonintegrated network access mechanisms.