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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 02, 2008
Applicants:

Zeeshan Khan, Fremont, CA (US);

Keith Edmund O'brien, Metuchen, NJ (US);

Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zeeshan Khan, Fremont, CA (US);

Keith Edmund O'Brien, Metuchen, NJ (US);

Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 27/28 (2006.01); H04L 27/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04K 1/10 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04N 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method is provided in one example implementation and the method includes interacting, via a first communication resource manager located in a first domain, with a second communication resource manager located in a second domain. The method further includes determining whether to establish a link for multicasting between users in the first domain and users in the second domain, and the link between the domains is established based on presence data of at least one user in the first domain and at least one user in the second domain.


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