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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2003
Applicants:
William O'malley, Georgetown, MA (US);
Arthur P. Leondires, Atkinson, NH (US);
Inventors:
William O'Malley, Georgetown, MA (US);
Arthur P. Leondires, Atkinson, NH (US);
Assignee:
Polycom, Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A conferencing method that conducts an audio conference over the Internet. The method includes receiving digitized audio signals, summing a plurality of received audio signals that contain speech, providing a summed conference signal from the summed plurality of audio signals with an audio conference mixer, transcoding the summed conference signal, and streaming the transcoded summed signal onto the Internet.