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Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2007
Applicants:

Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Labhesh Patel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mukul Jain, San Jose, CA (US);

Sanjeev Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Labhesh Patel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mukul Jain, San Jose, CA (US);

Sanjeev Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, a conference bridge receives a call initiated by a first caller endpoint. The conference bridge identifies a conference to which the call requests entry and determines whether the conference bridge has available resources to process the call. The conference bridge enables the call to join the conference via a second conference bridge associated with a second caller endpoint participating in the conference according to whether the conference bridge has available resources to process the call.


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