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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:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
May. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrew J Kuzma, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709204 ; 370260 ; 379202 ;
Abstract
A system, method, apparatus, and storage medium for establishing a data conference with an end point of a communications network. According to one embodiment, a node requests from the end point a reserved bandwidth for a data conference having a specified start time. The originating end point receives confirmation of the reserved bandwidth from the end point. The originating end point establishes the data conference with the end point within a predetermined time window around the start time.