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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2002
Bich Nguyen, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ramanathan Jagadeesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Rakendu Devdhar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew Chung, Fremont, CA (US);
Dana Blair, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Ilya Slain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bich Nguyen, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ramanathan Jagadeesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Rakendu Devdhar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew Chung, Fremont, CA (US);
Dana Blair, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Ilya Slain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A push-to-talk conference call is conducted over a packet switched network. Participants send a request and receive approval before being allowed to talk during the conference call. In one implementation, only one of the participants is enabled to transmit audio packets while other participants are only allowed to receive audio packets.