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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2006
Sig Badt, Jr., Richardson, TX (US);
Jessy V. Rouyer, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Timucin Ozugur, Fairview, TX (US);
Ljubisa Tancevski, Dallas, TX (US);
Sig Badt, Jr., Richardson, TX (US);
Jessy V. Rouyer, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Timucin Ozugur, Fairview, TX (US);
Ljubisa Tancevski, Dallas, TX (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method and an Ethernet local area network are described herein in which the Ethernet local area network is configured to enable a talking device (e.g., microphone) to send a media stream to one or more listening devices (e.g., speakers). In one embodiment, the method for configuring the Ethernet local area network includes the following steps: (1) providing a user of a talking device with a 'relevant' catalog which contains information including positional information about one or more listening devices; (2) allowing the user to interface with the 'relevant' catalog so they can select at least one of the listening device(s); (3) enabling the talking device to send a subscribe-request message to the selected listening device(s) requesting that the selected listening device(s) subscribe to the talking device; (4) and sending a media stream from the talking device to the selected listening device(s).