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Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2005
Applicants:

Prasad Miriyala, Union City, CA (US);

Fred Tada, Milpitas, CA (US);

Praveen Konda, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Prasad Miriyala, Union City, CA (US);

Fred Tada, Milpitas, CA (US);

Praveen Konda, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/16 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and systems for secure conferencing in a network have been provided. Relevant endpoints from the provided endpoints are selected on the basis of the endpoint selection parameters received in an SRTP extension. Data streams generated from the selected endpoints are decrypted and mixed, to obtain all the possible data stream mixes. A source identifier is inserted in all the possible data stream mixes. On the basis of source identifiers, endpoints can selectively receive any of the generated data streams.


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