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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:
Jan. 03, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;

James Patrick Galvin, Jr., Georgetown, KY (US);

Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Ballsbridge, IE;

Mark E. Wallace, Blackrock, IE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/4038 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing communication traffic relaying in a multiparty communication session. In an implementation, a method may include receiving a request from a first computing device to join a multiparty communication session. The method may also include associating the first computing device with a second computing device for the multiparty communication session, the second computing device participating in the multiparty communication session via a multipoint control unit. The method may further include relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the multipoint control unit to the first computing device by the second computing device.


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