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US 8,525,013 B2Granted
VoIP music conferencing system
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorDennis Dale Bicker
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Abstract
A system is disclosed and includes a network interface to receive a first Internet Protocol (IP) message within a first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call over a network, where the first IP message carries a first Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) signal. The system also includes a processor to receive the first IP message from the network interface and to extract the first MIDI signal from the first IP message.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a network interface of a first device, the network interface configured to:
- send an outgoing internet protocol message to a conference bridge, wherein the outgoing internet protocol message includes one or more of an audio signal, a video signal, and a musical instrument digital interface signal, and wherein the conference bridge establishes a voice over internet protocol call between the first device, a second device, and a mix box external to the conference bridge;
- receive an incoming internet protocol message from the conference bridge, wherein the incoming internet protocol message comprises a mixed audio signal produced by the conference bridge from the outgoing internet protocol message and one or more second outgoing internet protocol messages received by the conference bridge from the second device, wherein the mix box sets a mixing level for each audio signal used to produce the mixed audio signal;
- a processor to process the incoming internet protocol message to generate an output;
- and
- an output port to receive the output produced by the processor.
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A system comprising:
- a voice over internet protocol conference bridge to:
- receive input internet protocol messages from two or more devices coupled to the voice over internet protocol conference bridge as participants of a voice over internet protocol call, wherein each internet protocol message includes one or more of an audio signal, a video signal, and a musical instrument digital interface signal;
- send output internet protocol messages to the two or more devices, wherein the output internet protocol messages include a mixed audio signal;
- an audio mixer coupled to the voice over internet protocol conference bridge to generate the mixed audio signal, wherein the mixed audio signal includes one or more of the signals received from the two or more devices;
- and
- mix controls coupled to the audio mixer, wherein the mix controls enable user input that controls a level of each signal used by the audio mixer to generate the mixed audio signal.
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A computer-readable storage device that stores processor-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- send an outgoing internet protocol message to a conference bridge, wherein the outgoing internet protocol message includes one or more of an audio signal, a video signal, and a musical instrument digital interface signal, and wherein the conference bridge establishes a voice over internet protocol call between the first device, at least one second device, and a mix box external to the conference bridge;
- receive an incoming internet protocol message from the conference bridge, wherein the incoming internet protocol message comprises a mixed audio signal produced by the conference bridge from the outgoing internet protocol message and one or more second outgoing internet protocol messages received by the conference bridge from the at least one second device, wherein the mix box sets a mixing level for each audio signal used to produce the mixed audio signal;
- process the incoming internet protocol message to generate an output;
- and
- send portions of the output to one or more output ports.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.