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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Blue Jeans Network, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Alagu Periyannan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raghavan Anand, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Grupenhoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ravi Kiran Kalluri, San Jose, CA (US);
Emmanuel Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Villait, Mumbai, IN;
Blue Jeans Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support the operation of a Virtual Media Room or Virtual Meeting Room (VMR), wherein each VMR can accept from a plurality of participants at different geographic locations a variety of video conferencing feeds of audio and video streams from video conference endpoints. A globally distributed infrastructure that supports operations of the VMR through a plurality of MCUs (Multipoint Control Unit) built from off-the-shelf components instead of custom hardware as media processing nodes, each configured to process the plurality of audio and video streams from the plurality of video conference endpoints in real time. Each single VMR can be implemented and supported across the infrastructure of globally distributed set of servers/media processing nodes co-located in Points of Presence (POPs) for Internet access, wherein such massively distributed architecture can support thousands of simultaneously active VMRs and yet is transparent to the users of the VMRs.