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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2000
Gabriel Dermler, Adliswil, CH;
Claudio Fleiner, San Jose, CA (US);
Marcel Graf, Kilchberg, CH;
Lukas S. Heusler, Zurich, CH;
Hong Linh Truong, Richterswil, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A distributed multipoint conferencing system ( ) comprises a plurality of participating terminals ( ) for sending and receiving media streams in a conferencing interchange; the system further includes at least one multipoint distributor ( ) (MD) connected to one terminal ( ) for receiving at least one or all media streams from that terminal ( ) but not from any other of the participating ( ); the multipoint distributor ( ) is connected to the other participating terminals ( ) for sending the media stream or streams received from the MD-associated terminal ( ) to the other participating terminals ( ).