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US 8,300,638 B2Granted
Multimodal multilevel precedence and preemption
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsAmit Barave, Shmuel Shaffer
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Abstract
A device comprising a network resource controller to preempt at least one multiple-user session over a primary modality of communication according to a precedence-level associated with users of the multiple-user session and to switch the multiple-user session to an alternate modality of communication without disconnection of the multiple-user session.
Claims19
A device comprising:
- a network resource controller to preempt at least one multiple-user session over a primary modality of communication according to a precedence-level associated with users of the multiple-user session, where the network resource controller, responsive to the preemption of the multi-user session, is configured to switch the multiple-user session to an alternate modality of communication without disconnection of the multiple-user session, where the network resource controller is configured to monitor an availability of network resources capable of supporting multiple-user sessions over the primary modality of communication after switching the multiple-user session to the alternate modality of communication, and where the network resource controller is configured to automatically switch the multiple-user session back to the primary modality of communication from the alternate modality of communication when the network resource controller determines the network resources are available to support the multiple-user session responsive to the monitored availability of the network resources.
A method comprising:
- determining to switch a multiple-user session from a first modality of communication to a second modality of communication having available network resources to support the multiple-user session;
- preempting the multiple-user session from communicating over the first modality of communication responsive to the determining;
- switching the multiple-user session to the second modality of communication responsive to the preempting;
- monitoring an availability of network resources capable of supporting multiple-user sessions over the first modality of communication after switching the multiple-user session to the second modality of communication;
- automatically switching the multiple-user session back to the first modality of communication from the second modality of communication when, responsive to the monitored availability of the network resources, there are adequate network resources associated with the first modality of communication available to support the multiple-user session.
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A system comprising:
- a primary controller to preempt a multiple-user session over a primary modality of communication according to a precedence-level associated with users of the multiple-user session;
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- a secondary controller to support the multiple-user session with an alternate modality of communication without disconnection of the multiple-user session, where the primary controller is configured to monitor an availability of network resources capable of supporting multiple-user sessions over the primary modality of communication after the switch of the multiple-user session to the alternate modality of communication, and where the primary controller is configured to switch the multiple-user session back to the primary modality of communication from the alternate modality of communication when the primary controller determines the network resources are available to support the multiple-user session responsive to the monitored availability of the network resources.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.