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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Blue Jeans Network, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alagu Periyannan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prasad R. Mohire, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Grupenhoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Swaroop Kulkarni, San Jose, CA (US);
Akshay Kumar Sridharan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nithin A. Prakash, Bangalore, IN;
Emmanuel Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Anand Raghavan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kelly Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Blue Jeans Network, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are methods and systems for interfacing heterogeneous endpoints and web-based media sources in a video conference. Interfacing heterogeneous endpoints can be challenging due to audio/video (A/V) streams being encoded in a format that is proprietary to a media provider of the A/V stream (e.g., format that is proprietary to Skype). To address such a challenge, a client application from the media provider may be installed at a virtual machine, and may be used to decode A/V streams that are encoded in a format proprietary to the media provider. Further, to display content from a web-based media source (e.g., YouTube) in a video conference, a browser may be installed at a virtual machine, and may be used to virtually render a media signal from the web-based media source, such virtually rendered media signal subsequently being captured and presented in a video conference.