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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2007
Duanpei Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Nermin M. Ismail, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Walter R. Friedrich, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Duanpei Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Nermin M. Ismail, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Walter R. Friedrich, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, an apparatus and a medium encoded with instructions for providing layout selection, participant selection, and/or participant-to-participant far end camera control of the selected participant for use in a continuous presence multipoint videoconference. The method includes receiving one or more far end camera control messages over a packet network from a first participant of a multipoint videoconference; maintaining an indication of a far end camera control mode for the first participant, the mode being one of a set of modes; and depending on the far end camera control mode and on controls possible, carrying out a control according to one ore more the camera control messages.