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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127263 | MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE SCALABILITY FOR CO-LOCATED PARTICIPANTS A terminal device associated with a participant of the multipoint session can be identified. The multipoint session can be associated with a video and an audio stream. The terminal device can be a computing device comprising of an audio and video input, and a video outp... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120082066 | GLOBAL CONFERENCE ROSTER FOR DISTRIBUTED BRIDGES When a conference bridge establishes a link line with another conference bridge to provide a global conference, a global conference application executing at the conference bridge establishes a SIP dialout with one or more remote conference bridges. The global conference... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120044838 | SESSION TRANSFER METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM The present invention discloses a session transfer method, a device and a system, which relate to the communication field and are used to solve the problem that a conference to which a session belongs cannot be controlled after the session is transferred. The technical ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039219 | HIGHLY SCALABLE VOICE CONFERENCING SERVICE A high volume voice conferencing system serving a plurality of users. The system determines whether incoming packets from the plurality of users contains voice information or noise. Packets containing noise are dropped from the system and only voice packets are processe... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033586 | Method of Transmitting Data in a Communication System A method, terminal and program, the method comprising: at a second terminal, receiving a first signal transmitted from a first terminal via a communication network; transmitting a second signal from the second terminal to the first terminal; outputting the first signal ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110317825 | Enhancement of Audio Conference Productivity Through Gain Biasing Techniques are provided for communicating with a plurality of endpoints participating in a conference session. A signal representing audio from each of the endpoints is received at a control unit. The control unit adjusts one or more target power levels for purposes of ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317593 | Conferencing that Bridges Virtual World and Real-World Meeting Places Mechanisms are provided for conference call communication in a virtual world environment. The mechanisms establish a hybrid conference call by establishing a hybrid conference call communication connection between a data based communication conference call server, that ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317592 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING OPERATOR INFORMATION Apparatus and methods for managing operation information include determining a home network for a wireless device and receiving a call with a number identifying a calling party and a network identification identifying the network for the calling party. The apparatus and... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110292163 | CALL CONTROL FOR CONFERENCING CALLS A server device may receive information, associated with a request for a conferencing call, from a call manager, which is responsible for establishing and handling conferencing calls. The server device is a different device than the call manager. The server device may f... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292841 | Preserving Mid-Call State in IMS Centralized Services Sessions Techniques for managing multiple ICS sessions in an IMS network are described. In one method, a MSC server detects that a user terminal has been transferred from a first access network to a second access network and, in response, sends a message to an SCC AS, the messag... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC BRIDGE LINKING Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for implementing telecommunications. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for interconnecting real-time communication links. Such methods include rece... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286365 | Method for Connection Preservation A method is provided for the preservation of communication sessions that are terminated unexpectedly. The present invention detects when an ongoing communication session is (or is about to be) terminated unexpectedly by a first communication session participant. And als... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110267987 | Versatile Conference Adapter and Method Employing Same A conference adapter. In an illustrative embodiment, the conference adapter implements a method for interfacing one or more conference endpoints with one or more conference servers. The method includes registering an endpoint and a conference server to determine endpoin... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267988 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PACKET-BASED MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS The performance of a voice conference using a packet-based conference bridge can be improved with a number of modifications. In one modification, the conference bridge receives speech indication signals from the individual packet-based terminals within the voice confere... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110255446 | SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL EXTENSIONS FOR CALL CONTROL AND RESOURCE STATUS MONITORING IN TURRETS AND TURRET SWITCHING SYSTEMS Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for controlling calls and monitoring resource status for turret systems. A SIP message including at least one of a header field and an event package is received from a SIP user agent over a communication netwo... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110216674 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING TRANSFERRING OF CONFERENCE CALLS USING MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES Systems and methods for facilitating transferring of a conference call. In some embodiments, users of a secure mobile device may be provided with the ability to transfer a media session for use in a conference call to a non-secure communication device. The method may in... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211495 | DUPLICATING DIGITAL STREAMS FOR DIGITAL CONFERENCING USING SWITCHING TECHNOLOGIES Using switching technologies to duplicate packets of a digital stream (e.g., digital video stream) sent from one workstation to multiple recipient workstations, where the switching technologies enable the multiple streams sent from the switch to the recipient workstatio... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110194465 | System and process for mass telephony conference call A method of providing conference call connections includes initiating a conference call between multiple conferees using a conferencing controller, placing each of the multiple conferees in a half-duplex listen only mode using the conferencing controller, and receiving ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194464 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Personal Mobility Features in a Telecommunications Environment Personal mobility, multiparty control, and device augmentation features are provided within a voice-over-Internet protocol environment, such as a distributed feature composition (DFC) telecommunications architecture. The personal mobility features allow a caller to be i... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110182212 | System and process for mass telephony conference call An automated teleconferencing control system and method reduces conference call setup time by simultaneously out dialing to multiple conferees through a plurality of parallel telecommunications resources. The teleconferencing control system includes the feature of autom... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110158132 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CALL SCREENING IN A PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for determining whether a call in a packet-switched network to a first destination is to be forwarded, forwarding the call to a second destination based on a determination that the call is to be forwarded, notifyi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158133 | MULTIPLEXING VOIP STREAMS FOR CONFERENCING AND SELECTIVE PLAYBACK OF AUDIO STREAMS The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems that provide the ability to playback multiple VoIP audio streams simultaneously with a single RTP session and further provides the ability to conference all streams together prior to transmission. More specifi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158131 | MEETING INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A meeting information distribution system and method using a mobile communication base estimates a threshold value of a signal strength of a wireless signal receivable by a meeting room, and monitors user information of a terminal device by a server connected to the mob... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149809 | Web-Enabled Conferencing and Meeting Implementations with Flexible User Calling and Content Sharing Features A plurality of embodiments is presented in relation to conferencing solutions. Consistent with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method is implemented by a computer processing arrangement. The method provides conferencing services between participants. A web-ac... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110134807 | Method for joining SIP communication devices into an existing call Example embodiments provide a method and/or network element capable of joining SIP communication devices into an existing call. According to an example embodiment, a network element may join SIP communication devices by receiving an incoming call from a calling communic... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110110275 | COLLABORATIVE SESSION CONTROL TRANSFER AND INTER-DEVICE TRANSFER IN INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to request collaborative session control transfer for transferring control of an Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) collaborative session from a controller WTRU to another WTR... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110110276 | CENTRALIZED CALL PROCESSING Disclosed are systems and methods which provide a centralized architecture for call processing. Embodiments utilize voice over Internet protocols (VoIP) to carry calls from a location at which calling services are provided to a centralized call processing platform provi... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110096699 | MEDIA PIPELINE FOR A CONFERENCING SESSION In at least some embodiments, a computer system includes a processor and a network interface coupled to the processor. The computer system also includes a system memory coupled to the processor. The system memory stores a communication application having a media pipelin... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090822 | MEDIA CONFERENCE RECORDING BASED ON TERMINATION EVENTS A media conference device is provided. The media conference device includes a processor and a memory coupled with the processor. The memory stores instructions that are executable by the processor. The instructions are executable to detect a termination event and transm... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110077947 | CONFERENCE BRIDGE SOFTWARE AGENTS Systems and methods are provided to generate a software agent that is initiated to continue the business process flow during a conference. Upon initiating a teleconference in response to a selection associated with the business process or predefined rule associated with... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069642 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING RESOURCES FOR LARGE-SCALE MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCES In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for dynamically allocating resources for large-scale multimedia conferences. In one embodiment, a method for allocating resources to a multimedia conference includes receiving a request from a potential ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110044212 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONFERENCE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD In a terminal apparatus used by a speaker, sounds are inputted via a microphone to perform sound recognition processing and morphological analysis, a character string obtained as a result of the analysis is extracted using a predetermined condition, and the extracted ch... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038281 | DISTRIBUTED MEDIA MIXING AND CONFERENCING IN IP NETWORKS Systems and methods are provided for a distributed conferencing service through an internet protocol (IP) network. A plurality of tributary mixers are configured communicate with a master mixer or a plurality of master mixers, at least one of which communicates through ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AN UPLINK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CHANNEL FOR A DOWNLINK DATA CHANNEL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS A communication apparatus and method of a mobile communication system using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). A method of transmitting an uplink acknowledge channel (ACKCH) for a downlink data channel in a mobile communication system using OFDMA inc... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032845 | Multimodal Teleconferencing Multimodal teleconferencing including receiving, by a multimodal teleconferencing module, a speech utterance from one of a plurality of participants in the multimodal teleconference; identifying the participant making the speech utterance as a current speaker; retrievin... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A CONFERENCE CALL The present invention is a system and method for initiating conference calls via an instant messaging system to reduce the effort required to initiate and manage the call. The system uses an IM connection between a requesting party and a conference call server to inform... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110026441 | DYNAMICALLY DEDICATED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVICE FOR HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO TELECONFERENCING In an example embodiment described herein is an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and channel selection logic coupled to the wireless transceiver and operable to select an operating frequency for the wireless transceiver. The channel selection logic is configu... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019593 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING BETWEEN AN AD-HOC CONFERENCE MODE AND AN INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTED CONFERENCE MODE Devices that are enabled to communicate with each other via an ad hoc conference mode and an infrastructure supported conference mode, are provided with processing capabilities that can allow them to evaluate one or more resources required to support an ad hoc conferenc... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100322111 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REALIZING INTERACTION BETWEEN VIDEO INPUT AND VIRTUAL NETWORK SCENE Method and system for realizing an interaction between a video input and a virtual network scene. The method includes receiving input video data for a first user at a first terminal, sending information associated with the input video data through a network to at least ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322112 | System and Method of Multi-End-Point Data-Conferencing A multi end-point (EP) conferencing system, including a decentralized scalable network of End-Points that includes a source EP being configured to connect to a non-virtual target EP. The source EP being configured to transmit to the non-virtual target EP a conference li... | 12/23/2010 |
