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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2009
Patrick Stephen, South Elgin, IL (US);
Greg Dykes, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Richard Joyner, Palatine, IL (US);
Yi-cheng Liu, Barrington, IL (US);
Edgardo Promenzio, Round Lake, IL (US);
Patrick Stephen, South Elgin, IL (US);
Greg Dykes, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Richard Joyner, Palatine, IL (US);
Yi-Cheng Liu, Barrington, IL (US);
Edgardo Promenzio, Round Lake, IL (US);
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
Devices that are enabled to communicate with each other via an ad hoc conference mode and an infrastructure supported conference mode, are provided with processing capabilities that can allow them to evaluate one or more resources required to support an ad hoc conference communication session and/or one or more quality metrics associated with the ad hoc conference communication session, and determine whether one or more resources or metrics are outside optimal operating parameters. If so, the processing logic can initiate a transition from the ad hoc conference communication session to an infrastructure supported conference communication session hosted at a conference server. This way, the devices can drop the ad hoc conference communication session when one or more of the resources or metrics are outside optimal operating parameters, so that one of the devices does not need to mix communication information streams (CISs) from the devices, generate a plurality of conferenced communication information streams (CCISs), and transmit a unique one of the conferenced communication information streams (CCISs) to the other devices.