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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903588 | System and method for dynamically establishing optimum audio quality in an audio conference A system and method for dynamically establishing optimum audio quality in an audio conference is disclosed. A connection with one or more remote communication devices is initially established. An available data rate associated with the connection is then determined.... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7885208 | IP-based services for circuit-switched networks A mechanism for providing a connection from an IP-based network to a circuit-switched network, such as a GSM network is disclosed. A temporary routing number for the circuit-switched network, such as an E.164 number, is delivered to a user terminal, and a circuit-sw... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881232 | Techniques for managing expenses for a conference scheduled using availability data Techniques for scheduling a conference among multiple persons include receiving quorum data, availability data and cost data. Quorum data indicates a quorum for a particular conference. Availability data indicates availability of a plurality of persons who satisfy t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881234 | Detecting interruptions in audio conversations and conferences, and using a conversation marker indicative of the interrupted conversation An implementation for detecting interruptions in audio conversations between a plurality of participants comprising continuously recording the most recent predetermined time segment of the conversation stream of one participant in the conversation, monitoring the co... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881233 | Techniques for planning a conference using location data Techniques for scheduling a conference among multiple persons include receiving quorum data and location data. Quorum data indicates a quorum for a particular conference. Location data indicates locations of a plurality of persons who satisfy the quorum. A proposed ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876714 | Techniques for managing conference schedules using groups A method and apparatus for scheduling a conference among multiple persons includes receiving group data that indicates persons in a first group. Availability data is received from a shared database that includes information about availability for a conference of a p... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872994 | SIP out-of-dialog REFER mechanism for handoff between front-end and back-end services In one embodiment, a method includes steps of verifying, by a first server, that a user associated with an endpoint is authorized to access a service provided by a second server. The first server then sends a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) out-of-dialog REFER wit... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869386 | Method and system for conveying media source location information A method for conveying media source location information includes receiving a first communication from a first endpoint and receiving location information indicating a first location of the first endpoint. The method also includes presenting the first communication ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869387 | Communucation device for providing multimedia in a group communication network A system and method for providing group communication services is disclosed. Each of a plurality of group communication devices coverts media, such as video, audio, image and/or data into data packets suitable for transmission over a data network, such as the Intern... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864714 | Capability management for automatic dialing of video and audio point to point/multipoint or cascaded multipoint calls In various embodiments, a management system may query connection devices for their capabilities and store the information in a data structure. In some embodiments, the data structure may be in a form of a Deducible Capability Numbering (DCN) number. In some embodime... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864716 | Talk group management architecture Systems and methods for supporting group communications are provided. A group list management server (GLMS) stores communications group definitions in documents, such as extensible mark-up language (XML) documents. The communications group can include communication ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864715 | Data communication method, communication server system, and communication terminal A data communication method able to transfer data well in real time group communication between one and many communication terminals, which has a communication server system repeatedly judge whether or not each receiving side communication terminal can communicate, ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7848265 | Apparatus and method for automatic conference initiation In some embodiments, an automatic conference initiator system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory having, (i) an automatic conference initiator program that initiates a conference when conferees are determined available based upon presenc... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7839803 | Method and system of teleconferencing A telecommunication system and method for communicating between at least two end users over a telecommunication network, where the communication is defined by a set of parameters. At least two entities, such as one or both of the end users and/or the service provide... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835308 | Method implemented by a subscriber unit for selectively suppressing communications A subscriber unit, used for communicating in voiced communications at a first data rate and communicating at a second data rate for other data, suppresses a selected communication during communication rate modification. A determination is made as to whether the tran... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830823 | SIP telephone feature control A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) enabled device sends feature information about remotely configurable features that are offered by the SIP enabled device to a central server. The central server uses the feature information to determine if the features that are of... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7813304 | Providing conferencing data in a network communications system based on client capabilities 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 made obsolete by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of n... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7792063 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for gatekeeper streaming A conferencing Gatekeeper configured to be adjusted so as to forward a conferencing media stream to be recorded to an appropriate streaming/archiving server, or alternatively to have streaming and archiving modules incorporated. Further, a method and computer progra... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792062 | System and method for supporting conferencing capabilities over packet-switched networks An IP telephone which supports a voice conference call with a plurality of other IP telephones over a packet-switched network is disclosed. The IP telephone exchanges audio and signaling messages with the other IP devices during the conference call, and thereby allo... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7782801 | Flush support for virtual synchrony A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. The application programming interface provides for a flush protocol to force members of a group to s... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778206 | Method and system for providing a conference service using speaker selection A method for providing a conference service using speaker selection includes hosting a conference between a plurality of endpoints and receiving from the plurality of endpoints a plurality of media streams. The plurality of media streams each include a power indicat... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773544 | Call jump system, method and apparatus A call jump establishes a jump from a call of a traditional telephone carrier established with audio signals. When it is determined that video should be added to the call, a packetized network is connected. The audio and video are transmitted over the packetized net... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764632 | Software bridge for multi-point multi-media teleconferencing and telecollaboration A multimedia bridge which enables enterprise-class voice, Web, and video teleconferencing. The multimedia bridge is a distributed media server architecture that efficiently routes, bridges, manages integrated voice, data and video streams across multiple sites in re... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7751348 | Method and system for providing a push-to-talk communication session A method for providing a push-to-talk communication session includes facilitating a push-to-talk communication session among a full duplex endpoint supporting simultaneous two-way communication and a plurality of half duplex endpoints. Communications are received fr... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751347 | Converged conferencing appliance methods for concurrent voice and data conferencing sessions over networks A converged conferencing appliance having at least one voice port and one data port for managing multi-device conferences allowing multiple participants to concurrently connect diverse devices over public switched, mobile, IP, wireless local or wide area, personal n... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7733812 | Method for enabling multipoint network services over a ring topology network A method, device, and system for providing multipoint network services over a ring topology network. According to the disclosed method point-to-point connections and point-to-multipoint connections are established between network elements (NEs) providing the same ne... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729299 | Efficient error response in a video conferencing system Elements in a video conferencing system may respond to error message(s) by aggregating any related error messages and responding based on a severity of the error indicated by the related error messages. A multipoint control unit (MCU) may identify an active stream f... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729298 | Method and system for manipulating a shared object A system includes a first wireless device (102) and a second wireless device (106), each having at least two communication modes—one for voice transmission and reception and one for data transmission and reception, and able to communicate wirelessly ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720012 | Speaker identification in the presence of packet losses A system, method, and apparatus for identifying a speaker of an utterance, particularly when the utterance has portions of it missing due to packet losses. Different packet loss models are applied to each speaker's training data in order to improve accuracy, especia... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715331 | Providing conference data in a network communications system based on client or server information examined during a conference 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 made obsolete by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of n... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7701882 | Systems and methods for collaborative communication A collaborative communication system comprises a highly flexible architecture that facilitates connecting communication devices and networks to establish multimedia collaboration sessions in a manner that allows distribution of various services and features througho... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701883 | Telephone number binding in a voice-over-internet system Telephone number binding in a voice-over-Internet system is provided. One embodiment is a method for provisioning a customer voice-over-Internet device for voice-over-Internet service. One such method comprises: providing a customer voice-over-Internet device for co... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701884 | Network communications bandwidth control A method for controlling real time data communications over a packet based network comprises steps of dynamically measuring data packet loss between a receiver and a sender on the network, dynamically measuring data latency between the sender and receiver, and compa... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693093 | QoS-aware handover procedure for IP-based mobile ad-hoc network environments A handover method for a wireless mobile network including interconnected mobile nodes having time varying connectivity includes determining Quality of Service (QoS) resources of each potential routing path between a mobile node and a correspondent node. The method a... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688764 | Method and apparatus for speaker arbitration in a multi-participant communication session A communication system provides in-band speaker arbitration in a multi-participant communication session by use of RTP floor control messages that include a speaker arbitration command embedded in a data packet header extension. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684356 | System and method for providing hotline and preemption features in real-time communications using presence and preference information A communications system for providing hotline and preemption features in real-time communication sessions includes a presence server for collecting presence and preference information for a presentity and a communications manager for handling requests for communicat... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7675872 | System, method, and apparatus for displaying pictures Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for displaying pictures. In one embodiment, there is presented a decoder system for decoding video data. The decoder system comprises a port and a transport processor. The port receives packets carrying encoded vi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675873 | Enhanced IP-voice conferencing A system and method are provided for providing users of voice conferencing with indications of the quality perceived by other users of the voice conferencing system. A voice conferencing bridge measures the quality of the each user's channel, and provides real-time ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675874 | Peer-to-peer instant messaging and chat system Disclosed is a method for controlling access to a chat room using a peer-to-peer (“P2P”) network. The method includes the steps of sending a search request to a first set of nodes in the P2P network, the first set of nodes neighboring a node requesting the searc... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672255 | Mobile instant messaging conferencing method and system A server-based architecture for instant messaging conferencing is presented. Session-based instant messaging conferencing is established by transmitting necessary server network address information through page-mode based messaging services to establish connections ... | 03/02/2010 |
