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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050207355 | Video communication method of internet protocol phone A video signal communication method, applicable to IP phone, the method comprises of the following steps: when starting up the supporting video signal function, also starting to receive transmission using video related communication protocol; receiving the internet addr... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050201303 | Distributed voice conferencing A voice conferencing system assigns voice conferences across multiple media processors. The voice conferencing system may thereby allow voice conferences to proceed, even when any single media processor in the conferencing system does not have the resources needed to ha... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050190706 | Automatic conferencing service One embodiment disclosed relates to an apparatus for an automatic conferencing service. The apparatus includes at least a service logic execution environment in a telecommunications service network, and an automatic conferencing service running in the service logic exec... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050185600 | Meeting aid A meeting aid (10) configured to facilitate the identification of persons in attendance at a meeting, said meeting aid being one of a set of such meeting aids each for allocation to a said person in attendance at a meeting, the meeting aid comprising:
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| 20050185602 | 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... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050185601 | Video conferencing system A method configured to continuously receive frames from a plurality of video channels and transmit to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual frames containing information concerning each of the video channels. The method only transmits at a... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050180341 | Method and system for recording videoconference data A recording system for capturing videoconference session data is provided. The recording system includes a packet intercepting unit configured to identify packets related to the videoconference data being transmitted over a network. The packet intercepting unit is furth... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050180317 | Server backup device A server backup device comprises a unit detecting the failure of an IP Centrex server and a unit rewriting a destination address in a prescribed message transmitted from a terminal for intra-office communication between terminals on a network during the failure from the... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050174951 | Method for adhoc buffer The present invention discloses a method for connecting one or more systems to a user for automatic determination of which system the user may use to participate in a call. A predefined list of video conferencing systems and/or locations for each user is predefined and ... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050169197 | Real-time, multi-point, multi-speed, multi-stream scalable computer network communications system An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network a... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050163062 | Real-time, multi-point, multi-speed, multi-stream scalable computer network communications system An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network a... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050162507 | Video communication method of internet protocol phone In a video communication method, an IP phone is provided with a video-compatible functionality so that video data can be received from a remote communication terminal. When video data are received, the status of a video-processing device connected to the IP phone is det... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050151833 | Method and apparatus for video conferencing A videoconferencing system couples to a network for providing videoconferencing services to a user. The videoconferencing session is controlled and initiated by a user in a manner consistent with establishing a conventional audio-only session. In one embodiment, an inde... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050154874 | Setting in wireless communication device for encrypted communication A system administrator of a wireless LAN 100 manipulates a personal computer PC1 to change a WEP key. The personal computer PC1 authenticates a memory card MC as genuine under management of the system administrator. In the case of the authenticated ... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050147085 | Communication system A communication system capable of improving telephone communication service by effectively integrating communications with IP phones and with mobile phones. A connection controller controls a connection interface with a mobile phone and obtains the phone number of the m... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050144225 | High data rate interface A data Interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protoc... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050140780 | Video conferencing system A method configured to continuously receive frames from a plurality of video channels and transmit to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual frames containing information concerning each of the video channels. The method only transmits at a... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050135279 | Real-time mobile conferencing solution An invention is disclosed which exists as part of a computer program product for enabling real-time multi-media communications and conferencing events between mobile subscribers; and additionally provides multi-cast server functionality for the real-time distribution of... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050135280 | Distributed processing in conference call systems Conference calls are handled using distributed processing. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving sets of telephone audio signals from conference subnodes, the telephone audio signals corresponding to subscribers of the conference call, selecting an output ... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050125500 | Instant messenger(s) extension and system thereof Disclosed is an instant messenger extension. The instant messenger extension includes a message monitor to filter the messages of nowadays instant messengers. For providing an interface extension of a communication apparatus, messages exchanging extends between the comm... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050117527 | Use of a closed communication service for social support networks to diagnose and treat conditions in subjects Methods and systems are described for diagnosis and/or treatment of physical or mental conditions, disorders, disabilities or illnesses, injuries, and chronic conditions. According to one embodiment, a communications network that provides a closed communication service ... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050108328 | Distributed multipoint conferencing with automatic endpoint address detection and dynamic endpoint-server allocation An embodiment of the invention is a multipoint conferencing system having the ability to dynamically assign an endpoint to a “closest” one of multiple conference servers is disclosed. In one embodiment, when an endpoint first connects to the conferencing system, its... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050094578 | Method and apparatus for conducting a video conference A video conferencing terminal includes an encoder that receives a baseband audio signal and a baseband video signal and creates compressed audio packets and compressed audio-video packets. A network interface driver receives the compressed audio packets and the compress... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050094581 | Security and support for flexible conferencing topologies spanning proxies, firewalls and gateways A method and system for setting up and managing secure data/audio/video conferences with a wide range of topologies is described. The disclosed method and system allow extending the range of topologies possible with the H.323 conferencing standards while overcoming T.12... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050094580 | System and method for an endpoint participating in and managing multipoint audio conferencing in a packet network A system and method is disclosed for implementing a multipoint control unit in an endpoint that is participating in and managing a multipoint audio conference in a packet network. The multipoint control unit establishes audio communications between a plurality of endpoi... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050094579 | System and apparatus for geographically distributed VoIP conference service with enhanced QoS The present invention is directed to a system, including apparatus and architecture, and method for providing scheduled and ad hoc voice over IP conference services having enhanced quality and reliability. The system uses an overlay network of geographically distributed... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050088981 | System and method for providing communication channels that each comprise at least one property dynamically changeable during social interactions One embodiment of the invention is a computer controlled method for use with a communication system. The method includes a step of receiving a plurality of communications, where each one of the plurality of communications is from one of a plurality of communication sour... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050083912 | Method and apparatus for functional architecture of voice-over-IP SIP network border element In order to provide a single common cost-efficient architecture for real time communication services for audio, video, and data over internet protocol, a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) system and architecture is provided by placing border elements (BEs) at the inte... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050078614 | Adaptive correlation of access codes in a packet-based communication system Whether to indicate reception of an access code in a receiver operating in a communications system is determined by receiving a signal and generating a correlation value by correlating the received signal with a reference code. A threshold level is set to a first value ... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050078613 | System and method for establishing a parallel conversation thread during a remote collaboration Methods and systems for utilizing a parallel conversational thread during a remote collaboration are described. In one embodiment, a managing entity is utilized to establish a first communications path for a remote collaboration of at least two parties. Then, a request ... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050078612 | Method and apparatus for providing extended call setup and control features using a short message service A system for enabling setup and control of conference calls using short message service (SMS) messages (SMs). The SMS messages may be used to set up, or control a scheduled or real-time conference call. The SMS messages can also be used to exercise real-time control ove... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050073964 | Method and system for fast setup of group voice over IP communications A method and system for fast setup of group Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications. The method and system provide a lower VoIP signaling overhead and a faster setup-time of group calls such as N-way audio and/or audio-video conference calls. Multi-party VoIP... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050076081 | Methods and systems for participant sourcing indication in multi-party conferencing and for audio source discrimination Indications of which participant is providing information during a multi-party conference. Each participant has equipment to display information being transferred during the conference. A sourcing signaler residing in the participant equipment provides a signal that ind... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050068905 | Audio/video-conferencing using content based messaging A content based messaging audio and video conferencing system provides a messaging infrastructure for multimedia and collaborative applications. The audio/video conferencing system may be implemented using a publish/subscribe infrastructure, such as a content-based mess... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071427 | Audio/video-conferencing with presence-information using content based messaging A content based messaging audio and video conferencing system provides a messaging infrastructure for multimedia and collaborative applications. The audio/video conferencing system may be implemented using a publish/subscribe infrastructure, such as a content-based mess... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050068906 | Method and system for group communications in a wireless communications system Apparatus (50) for enabling group duplex communication in a wireless communications system (100) that includes a receiving device for receiving a first (14), second (24) and third (34) individual encoded voice signal from a first (1... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050066001 | System and method for supporting virtual conferences A system for supporting virtual conferences includes a switching center, a virtual conference database and a virtual conference bridge. The virtual conference database stores virtual conference information comprising, for example, images associated with a room type, an ... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050058088 | System and method for providing reservationless third party meeting rooms A video and/or audio conferencing system having virtual meeting room services is disclosed. The virtual meeting room services enables a third party to control and manage one or more virtual meeting rooms. Each third party organization may receive one or more dial in num... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050053018 | Real-time messaging in collaborative network environments A real-time messaging environment for collaborative communication scenarios is described. A real-time messaging component according to the present invention is capable of transferring messages relating to data received from one or more data sources to one or more messag... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050041602 | Methods and apparatus for providing high speed connectivity to a hotel environment Methods and apparatus are described for providing access to a network via a first one of a plurality of network access nodes in the network. The network access nodes each have a network address associated therewith which is unique on the network, the first network acces... | 02/24/2005 |
