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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2013
Applicant:

Polycom, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Carin Lockhart, Littleton, CO (US);

Kuldeep Pandey, Longmont, CO (US);

Piotr Drozdzewicz, Broomfield, CO (US);

Jeff Adams, Lafayette, CO (US);

Assignee:

Polycom, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/152 (2013.01); H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 65/1093 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a network interface for sending and receiving one or more of video data and audio data between two or more endpoints. One or more of a video data source and an audio data source located at more than one endpoint and a control unit for controlling one or more of the video data and the audio data between endpoints. The control unit is operable to execute instructions to specify more than one participant in a conference, wherein at least one participant is remotely located and invoke the conference upon receiving one or more requests to connect to the conference by one or more participants. The control unit is further operable to allocate resources upon the conference being invoked and connect participants to the conference.


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