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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Optical Fusion, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mukund N. Thapa, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Optical Fusion, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04N 5/04 (2006.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/604 (2013.01); H04L 65/1089 (2013.01); H04L 65/1093 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 65/4038 (2013.01); H04N 5/04 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01); H04L 65/4046 (2013.01); H04M 3/562 (2013.01); H04M 3/564 (2013.01); H04M 3/568 (2013.01); H04N 7/155 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method (and corresponding system and computer program product) providing control to open video conference is disclosed. One aspect enables participants of a video conference to asynchronously join and leave the video conference. Another aspect enables participants to merge multiple video conferences into a single video conference, or to split a single video conference into multiple video conferences.