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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2005
Sravan Vadlakonda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish Chotai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aseem Asthana, San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn Inn, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sravan Vadlakonda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish Chotai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aseem Asthana, San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn Inn, San Mateo, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are conferencing systems, devices, architectures, and methods for managing a conference spanning system to facilitate participation in a plurality of conferences at the same time. An exemplary system having devices and/or structures in accordance with embodiments can include: (i) a plurality of conferences, each conference being configured to support a plurality of media modes; (ii) a presentation mechanism configured to support the plurality of media modes from the plurality of conferences; and (iii) a selector for selecting a conference from the plurality of conferences and designating the selected conference as an active conference and designating non-selected conferences as background conferences, wherein the active conference is assigned at least one enhanced media mode in the presentation mechanism.