# US 2014/0192143 A1 · System and method for distributing video conference data over an internet protocol television system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0192143 A1 - Document ID: US20140192143A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/205,831 - Filed: 2014-03-12 - Published: 2014-07-10 - Earliest claimed: 2006-04-06 - Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Inventors: Edward A. Walter - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140192143A1 ## CPC - H04N 7/15: Conference systems - H04L 12/1813: {for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms (instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15)} - H04L 65/403: Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) - H04N 7/152: {Multipoint control units therefor} - H04N 21/6125: {involving transmission via Internet (transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82)} - H04L 65/611: for multicast or broadcast (systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06) - H04L 67/303: Terminal profiles - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A system is disclose including but not limited to a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium; a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program including but not limited to instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices' addresses; and instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel in the video system to first group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over a single video conference channel. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system comprising: a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium; a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program comprising: instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices' addresses; and instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel in the video system to first group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over a single video conference channel. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, the computer program further comprising: Instructions to send from a second client device to a server, second video conference data to a second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses to the server; and instructions to send a second conference video data to the server, the second video conference data to be sent from the server to the second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses over the single video conference channel. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the first and second client devices are the same client device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the first and second client devices are not the same client device. ### Claim 5 A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising: a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program comprising: instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices' addresses; and instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel in the video system to first group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over a single video conference channel. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5, the computer program further comprising: instructions to send from a second client device to a server, second video conference data to a second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses to the server; and instructions to send a second conference video data to the server, the second video conference data to be sent from the server to the second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses over the single video conference channel. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The system of claim 6, wherein the first and second client devices are the same client device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The system of claim 6, wherein the first and second client devices are not the same client device. ### Claim 9 A system for distributing video conference data over a video system, the system comprising: instructions to allocate at a server in the video system, a single video conference channel for viewing at a end user device by each of a plurality of groups of video conference participants' end user devices, wherein each of the plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data for viewing over the single video conference channel; instructions to map at the server, a first one of the plurality of internet protocol addresses for a first one of the plurality of video conferences data to a first group of video conference participants' end user devices internet protocol addresses, wherein the first one of the plurality of video conferences data and a second one of the plurality of video conferences data are different video conference data; instructions to send duplicated audio data, concurrently with the video broadcast during the video conference, to a mobile device associated with a video conference participant associated with one of the plurality of end user devices in the first group whom has left the one of the plurality of end user devices in the first group during the video conference; and instructions to send from the server over the single internet protocol television video conference channel from a second one of the plurality of internet protocol addresses, the second one of the plurality of video conferences internet protocol data to a second group of video conference participants' end user device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, the computer program further comprising: instructions to access first end user device data at the server indicating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices in the plurality of groups of video conference participants' end user devices, the first group of end user devices being associated with a first one of the plurality of video conferences data. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, the computer program further comprising: instructions to map at the server, an internet protocol address for the first one of the plurality of video conferences data to the first group of video conference participants' end user devices internet protocol addresses. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, the computer program further comprising: instructions to send from the server over the single video conference channel from the first one of the plurality of addresses, the first one of the plurality of video conferences data to the first group of video conference participants' end user devices. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the first video conference data further comprises audio data, the computer program further comprising: instructions to map the audio data to an address for a mobile device associated with an end user device for a video conference participant; and instructions to receive audio data from the mobile device address.