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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. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1999
Vineet Kumar, Beaverton, OR (US);
Narjala Bhasker, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer program product and system for providing a back-channel for a receiver terminal in a conference is described. In one embodiment, the computer program product includes a computer usable medium having computer program code embodied therein to receive media streams of one or more terminals in a panel on a multicast address. The computer program product further includes computer readable program code to connect to a multipoint controller in the panel by using a multipoint address, and computer readable program code to join the panel to transmit and receive media streams on the multicast address and for establishing bi-directional communication with the one or more terminals.