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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1997
Daniel F Ozone, Norwood, MA (US);
Christopher L Dischino, Somerville, MA (US);
Nelson Shen, Nashua, NH (US);
Vilas V Bhade, Natick, MA (US);
Tak Szeto, Brighton, MA (US);
Brittain S McKinley, Newton, MA (US);
Peter J Donovan, Billerica, MA (US);
Daniel E Zeck, Acton, MA (US);
Charles F Sharkey, Hudson, NH (US);
VideoServer, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
In a multipoint control unit for conferencing audiovisual terminals, conference participants are greeted with audio and video welcome messages and then placed in an automated queue. The automated queue is a holding queue from which a conference operator can select the next available conference participant in the queue and conduct a subconference. Apparatus in the multipoint control unit includes a memory for storing video data and a processor coupled to the memory for controlling playback of the video data to a connected terminal during conference setup.
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