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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2009
Rajat Gopal, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
John Nicol, Framingham, MA (US);
Rajat Gopal, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
John Nicol, Framingham, MA (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A multimedia conferencing system is presented that can modify the composite multimedia stream into separate multimedia streams. Two or more video conference participants send multimedia streams, capturing and encoding the conference at the participant's location, to a multimedia server. The multimedia server includes a multipoint control unit that creates a composite multimedia display, which includes video regions corresponding to at least two of the multimedia streams from the participants. A composite multimedia stream describes the composite multimedia display. The ancillary server receives the composite multimedia stream from the multipoint control unit together with static and dynamic control information, which describes the format and layout of the composite multimedia display and the composite multimedia stream. Using the dynamic and static control information, the ancillary server decomposes the composite multimedia stream into two or more constituent streams. The two or more constituent streams may then be separately processed.