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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2012
James Deyerle, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alan Savage, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xiaohui Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Lane, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Antonio Petruzziello, Brooklyn, NY (US);
William Shields, New York, NY (US);
James Deyerle, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alan Savage, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xiaohui Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Lane, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Antonio Petruzziello, Brooklyn, NY (US);
William Shields, New York, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A videoconferencing system in which multiple browsers are utilized to present content and control functions for a server based videoconference. The content of the videoconference (e.g., video and audio streams) is presented on a display device driven by a local computer running a browser. The local computer also runs a separate browser that presents control functions on a different display device (e.g., a touch screen). The system can be scaled to include additional monitors and browsers running on the local computer. A local server is provided on the local computer for facilitating communications among the locally running browsers. In this manner, the browsers can communicate with each other via the local server executing on the local computer. The need to send traffic to a remote server to effectuate the browser-to-browser communication is eliminated. This provides for reduced latency and lowers the demands on the remote server.