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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2004
Applicants:

Donald G Kimber, Foster City, CA (US);

Kazumasa Murai, Hadano, JP;

Jonathan T Foote, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Qiong Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);

John Doherty, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Donald G Kimber, Foster City, CA (US);

Kazumasa Murai, Hadano, JP;

Jonathan T Foote, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Qiong Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);

John Doherty, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04M 11/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a status of a teleconference by determining an approximate delay time and providing a status signal in view of the determined approximate delay time are provided. An approximate delay time is approximately the amount of time that will elapse before an occurrence occurring at a first time, which is captured into an occurrence signal by a source unit, will be experienced at a second time after the occurrence signal is received by at least one receiving unit.


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