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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Aseem Asthana, San Jose, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Aseem Asthana, San Jose, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing captioning in a conference. In an illustrative embodiment, the method includes establishing a conference between a first participant and a second participant. The conference exhibits an exchange of a first type of media between the participants. A user option is provided to augment the conference with a second type of media corresponding to the first type of media. The second type of media is then generated based on one or more conference parameters in response to the signal. In a more specific embodiment, the second type of media is automatically generated. The first type of media is provided approximately concurrently with the second type of media. The second type of media, which may represent text captions, is then selectively provided to one or more participants in the conference based on predetermined preferences.