US 9,866,599 B2Granted

Integration of scheduled meetings with audio-video solutions

AssigneePolycom, Inc.

InventorsRami Boneh, Joanne Kubischta, Paul Regenhardt, Alan Segal, Jeff Adams, Aviv Eisenberg, Adam Jacobs, Erez Avraham, Eran Decker, Assaf Weissblat, Noa Reiter, Boris Sirotin, Inga Levi

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Abstract

An intermediary server allows endpoints connected to two different types of conferencing systems to participate in an integrated conference without requiring plugins to be installed at each endpoint. A conference identifier provided by a first type of conferencing system can be used by endpoints of a second type of conferencing system by allowing the intermediary server to send the conference identifier to a server of the first type of conferencing system and receive a link that a server of the second type of conferencing system can use to connect to the first type of conferencing system.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A videoconferencing system, comprising:

a multipoint control unit of a first videoconferencing type, configured to:
receive instructions from a videoconferencing endpoint configured for videoconferences of the first videoconferencing type to join a videoconference of a second videoconferencing type designated by a videoconference identifier, the videoconference of the second videoconferencing type employing different videoconferencing protocols than videoconferences of the first videoconferencing type;
create a videoconference of the first videoconferencing type;
connect the videoconference of the first videoconferencing type to the videoconference of the second videoconferencing type via a first multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type;
and
connect the videoconferencing endpoint to the videoconference of the first videoconferencing type;
and
wherein the multipoint control unit of the first videoconferencing type is configured to connect to the first multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type via a second multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type.

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A videoconferencing method, comprising:

receiving instructions from a videoconferencing endpoint configured for videoconferences of a first videoconferencing type to join a videoconference of a second videoconferencing type designated by a videoconference identifier, wherein videoconferences of the first videoconferencing type employ different protocols than videoconferences of the second videoconferencing type;
creating a videoconference of a first videoconferencing type;
connecting the videoconference of the first videoconferencing type to the videoconference of the second videoconferencing type via a first multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type;
connecting a multipoint control unit of the first videoconferencing type to the first multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type via a second multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type;
and
connecting the videoconferencing endpoint to the videoconference of the first videoconferencing type.

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A non-transitory machine readable medium on which are stored instructions, comprising instructions that when executed cause a call server to:

receive a request to join a videoconference of a second videoconferencing type from a videoconferencing endpoint configured for videoconferences of a first videoconferencing type, wherein videoconferences of the first videoconferencing type employ different protocols than videoconferences of the second videoconferencing type;
request a multipoint control unit of the first videoconferencing type to connect to the videoconference of a second videoconferencing type via a first multipoint control unit of a second videoconferencing type;
and
request the multipoint control unit of the first videoconferencing type to create a videoconference of the first videoconferencing type and cascade the videoconference of the first videoconferencing type into the videoconference of the second videoconferencing type,
wherein the multipoint control unit of the first videoconferencing type is configured to connect to the first multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type via a second multipoint control unit of the second videoconferencing type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/066,498Filed 10 Mar 2016 · us provisional application
Priority: 10 Mar 2015
Published: US 2016/0269687 A115 Sep 2016
Granted: 9 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 65/1086
In-session procedures: session scope modification
H04L 12/1813
For broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast: for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms
H04L 12/1822
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants,…
H04L 65/1069
Session management: session establishment or de-establishment