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20080239996 | Sharing Ongoing Data Session - The present invention discloses a solution for performing a sharing an ongoing data session between a first user and a group of at least one additional user in a telecommunication system. The basic idea of this invention is to provide a network integration node with a shared streaming session logic, replication logic and group membership management functions of a conference node, like for example the “Push to-talk over Cellular (PoC)” application. Using this functionality the conference system is to be included into the ongoing streaming session, shall invite additional members and forward the streaming traffic to them as well. This results into a shared streaming service using unicast communication resources. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239997 | Distributed Real-time Data Mixing for Conferencing - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data that indicates a maximum number of end nodes with which to set up real-time data sessions that is less than a conference number of nodes whose data is mixed in a single real-time data conference. Real-time data sessions are established with a connected set of a connected number of nodes not greater than the maximum number. A mix of the real-time data received from the connected set is presented to a user of the first node. Local real-time data is received from a user. The received real-time data is distributed by mixing and sending. This includes, for each individual node in the connected set, mixing received local real-time data with real-time data received from other nodes in the connected set different from the individual node to form individual mixed real-time data, and sending the individual mixed real-time data to the individual node. | 10-02-2008 |
20080267096 | Tunnel Device, Relay Device, Terminal Device, Call Control System, Ip Telephone System, Conference Device, and Their Control Method and Program - In a call between terminals in different FWs, tunnel devices T | 10-30-2008 |
20080279119 | GROUP CALL CAPABILITY QUERY - A system and method for handling multimedia conference calls in a telecommunication network. To determine the capabilities of the other terminals in a group, a first terminal sends a query message to a group server. The group server sends further query messages to the other terminals and collects their responses containing their capabilities. The group server analyzes the capabilities to determine a common set of capabilities. The group server then sends the common set of capabilities in a response to the first terminal. | 11-13-2008 |
20090003249 | Determination and Display of Endpoint Identities - Tools and techniques for determination and display of endpoint identities are described herein. The tools may provide machine-readable storage media containing machine-readable instructions for receiving responses to requests to open call sessions involving given endpoints, and for extracting human-understandable identification information from these responses. These instructions may also extract previously stored identification information associated with the endpoint, where the identification information was extracted from a previous response transmitted from the endpoint. | 01-01-2009 |
20090097421 | IP-based interworking methods and apparatus for voice and data communications - Method and apparatus for call interworking between user equipments (UEs) located in domain using different communication protocols. The methods and apparatus receive a call request for establishing a call between a first UE and a second UE, the call request including a list of addresses corresponding to the second UE. A list of list of addresses corresponding to the first UE is then retrieved and a forking operation is performed the received list of addresses corresponding to the second UE. Then a determination is made, based on a set of rules, on which address to be used from the list of addresses corresponding to the first UE and which address to be used from the list of addresses corresponding to the second UE for establishing the call between the first UE and the second UE. | 04-16-2009 |
20090122729 | MEETING AID - A meeting aid ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090129296 | METHOD OF CALL CONFERENCING TO SUPPORT SESSION CONTINUITY FOR MULTI-MODE CLIENTS - The present invention provides methods of inter-technology handoff of a multi-mode mobile unit in a packet-switched communication system. One embodiment of the method includes establishing a call from a first application layer client in the first mobile unit using a first wireless communication link that operates according to a first wireless access technology. The method also includes sending, in response to detecting changing conditions of the first wireless communication link, a request to form a conference call including the first application layer client and inviting a second application layer client in the first mobile unit to join the conference call. The second application layer client uses a second wireless communication link that operates according to a second wireless access technology. The method further includes handing off the call from the first application layer client to the second application layer client. | 05-21-2009 |
20090135743 | METHOD FOR THE CONDITIONAL SETTING-UP OF A TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE SESSION, TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENT AND TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE SESSION SERVER - In a method for the conditional setting-up of a telecommunication conference session with a multiplicity of telecommunication conference session user terminals, wherein a group of user terminals having at least one telecommunication conference session user terminal is identified by means of a telecommunication conference session user group identification, a predefined telecommunication conference session set-up condition is checked by involving two telecommunication conference session servers. A first telecommunication conference session server receives an enquiry for the conditional setting-up of a telecommunication conference session and a second telecommunication conference session server determines condition-related information for checking the predefined telecommunication conference session set-up condition. | 05-28-2009 |
20090147705 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE USER TERMINAL FOR A TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE SESSION, TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENT AND TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE SESSION SERVER - In a method for determining at least one user terminal for a telecommunication conference session with a multiplicity of telecommunication conference session user terminals, wherein a predefined telecommunication conference session participation condition is allocated to the at least one telecommunication conference session user terminal, the predefined telecommunication conference session participation condition may be checked by involving two telecommunication conference session servers. A first telecommunication conference session server receives an enquiry for determining at least one user terminal for a telecommunication conference session and a second telecommunication conference session server determines condition-related information for determining the user terminal which meets the telecommunication conference session participation condition. | 06-11-2009 |
20090201835 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A MULTI-PARTY CALL IN COMBINATIONAL SESSION - There is provided a method of a first mobile communication device for supporting a combinational circuit switched and packet switched session with other communication devices. During a combination session ( | 08-13-2009 |
20090232032 | Methods and Apparatus for the Manipulation of Conferenced Data - Methods and apparatus may permit the manipulation of conferenced data. Primary sequenced audio-optical data structures may be populated with conferenced data, and secondary sequenced audio-optical data structures may be populated with derivative conferenced data. Electronic identity characteristics may be utilized to selectively deny access of conference participants to an exchange of conferenced electronic communications, verify the identity of prospective conference participants to an exchange of conferenced electronic communications, and verify the identity of known and unknown individuals in conjunction with electronic identity signatures. Conferenced data tags may be associated to conferenced data elements to create derivative conferenced data. Derivative conferenced data may be utilized in conjunction with primary conferenced data structures and secondary conferenced data structures to create augmented functionalities for conferenced data elements. | 09-17-2009 |
20090245143 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, CONFERENCE PROGRAM, AND CONFERENCE RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD - Conference system includes a conference status recording unit recording an identifier of a conference using allocated resources and a usefulness value indicating the degree of usefulness of the conference. A request accepting unit accepts a conference start request from a user. A conference opening unit instructs a multipoint connection apparatus to secure resources for use in the requested conference and records an identifier of the conference to be started and an initial usefulness value of the conference in the conference status recording unit. A resource releasing unit, when there are no available resources necessary for the new conference accepted, selects another open conference, of which resources may be released, based on the usefulness value of the other open conference recorded in the conference status recording unit, and instructs the multipoint connection apparatus to release the resources allocated to the selected open conference. | 10-01-2009 |
20090323560 | Customized Media Routing For Conferencing - Technologies are described herein for customizing media routing for a conference. In one method, a request to modify a routing table is received. The routing table specifies connections between a plurality of sources and a plurality of sinks. The method determines whether the request to modify the routing table is permitted. Upon determining that the request to modify the routing table is permitted, the routing table is modified according to the request. | 12-31-2009 |
20090323561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VOICE CONTROL FOR ACCESSING TELECONFERENCE SERVICES - A method and apparatus for providing access to teleconference services using voice recognition technology to receive information on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the service provider enables a caller to enter access information for accessing a conference service using at least one natural language response. | 12-31-2009 |
20100118742 | System and Method for Monitoring Call Flow in Heterogeneous Environments - The call states of all devices in a call are monitored and reported even when the devices belong to networks that use different types of call identifiers. A first device and a second device are different types of devices selected from a group of types comprising: a legacy device type, a SIP basic device type, and a SIP advanced device type. In response to a request-from an application to monitor the first device and a request to establish a call between the first device and the second device, a Universal Call Identifier (UCID) is generated for the call and the call is established. A request to monitor the second device is sent using the UCID. When a change in the call state of the second device is detected, the change of the call state is reported to the application based on the UCID. | 05-13-2010 |
20100128641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONFERENCE CALLS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to retrieve from an address book a communication identifier for each of a plurality of participants, determine from the address book a conferencing type for each of the plurality of participants, and initiate according to the conference type and the communication identifier of each participant a Voice over Internet Protocol conference call directed to communication devices of the plurality of participants. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-27-2010 |
20100142412 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING THE PRESENTATION OF MEDIA STREAMS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL FOR TRANSMITTING MEDIA STREAMS - For some mobile communication services, a media stream such as video, will be combined with another media stream such as voice. For example, a user of a first terminal ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100142413 | Media Stream Setup in a Group Communication System - A basic idea for efficient media communication between two nodes in a group communication system is to set up a number, N, of parallel, separate media streams of the same media type in a given direction between the nodes, where N is equal to or greater than 2. Before setting up the media streams, the actual number of media streams is negotiated (S | 06-10-2010 |
20100165889 | DISTRIBUTED AUDIO CONFERENCING ARCHITECTURE WITH OPTIMUM RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND SEAMLESS SCALABILITY - A conference call solution with one or more conference server, one or more conference bridge and one or more media mixer. A conference server is chosen as the conference bridge for the conference call using various optimization techniques. A media mixer for the conference call may also be chosen using various optimization techniques. The media mixer mixes media data from one or more conference bridge. If a conference bridge or the media mixer fails, the system recovers from the failure with minimal interruption to the users. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165890 | Voice Communication with Any of Multiple Terminals - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for handling a voice communication in an integrated system includes receiving information indicating that a voice communication between a first party and a second party is to be initiated. The method includes identifying one of a plurality of terminal assignment records as being associated with the second party, each of the terminal assignment records configured to specify, for a particular party, at least one of a plurality of terminal units for receiving an alert to the particular party regarding the voice communication. The method includes generating at least one alert to the second party according to the identified terminal assignment record, the alert based on the received information. The method includes forwarding communication data to an application program available to the second party, the communication data obtained from the received information. | 07-01-2010 |
20100182938 | Feature Interaction Detection in Multi-Party Calls and Calls With Bridged Appearances - A method is disclosed for detecting feature interactions in multi-party calls (i.e., calls involving more than two endpoints), and in calls with bridged appearances. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a set of rules is applied to the specifications of two features in order to detect interactions between the features. The rules specify conditions for, or relationships among, the original connections for the features, the resulting connections for the features, the triggering party for the features, and the originating and terminating parties of connections. A rule is considered matched for a multi-party call when any of the original and resulting connections for the call match the conditions of the rule. Similarly, a rule is considered matched for a call with one or more bridged appearances when any of the original and resulting connections for the call, including those of bridged appearances, match the conditions of the rule. | 07-22-2010 |
20100189018 | System architecture for linking packet-switched and circuit-switched clients - A method and computer program product which allows both phone-based and IP-based clients to participate in a single audio conference. The method enables at least two multi-point control units (MCUs) (i.e., conferencing servers) to connect via a standard data linkage (i.e., full-duplex dial-up or IP link). The method and computer program product enables the phone-based MCU to handle the phone clients and the IP-based MCU to handle the IP-based clients, while connecting the two to allow each participating client to hear all other participating clients. | 07-29-2010 |
20100214963 | Telephone system - A telephone system that allows multiplexing and demultiplexing plural group calls through simple operations is provided. The telephone system includes a conference trunk creating unit that creates a conference trunk as required and has a multiplexing/demultiplexing special number table prestoring a multiplexing special number and demultiplexing special number corresponding to plural group calls. After plural group calls start, if the multiplexing special number is input, a control unit causes the conference trunk creating unit to create a large-conference trunk, switches and connects the voices of plural group calls corresponding to the multiplexing special number to the large-conference trunk and starts the multiplexed group call. If the demultiplexing special number is input, the control unit causes the conference trunk creating unit to create plural small-conference trunks, connects and switches each group call corresponding to the demultiplexing special number to the small-conference trunk and starts the demultiplexed group calls. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CONFERENCE CALLS USING SECURITY TOKENS - Systems and methods are described that for authenticating participants in a conference call. One method may include: providing a first primary communication device having a first security token generator configured to generate first security tokens; providing a second primary communication device; providing a conference call controller configured to receive and authenticate security tokens; establishing a first control link between the first primary communication device and the conference call controller; generating a first security token; communicating the first security token between the first primary communication device and the conference call controller via the first control link; authenticating the first security token; and establishing a media link between the first and second primary communication devices via the conference call controller. In some embodiments, the first control link may comprise a WiFi connection. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CONFERENCE CALLS USING MULTIPLE MEDIA STREAMS - Systems and methods are described that facilitate a conference call between a plurality of communication devices. The method may comprise: providing a first primary communication device; providing a second primary communication device; providing a conference call controller; providing a first alternate communication device; establishing a first control link between the first primary communication device and the conference call controller; establishing a media link between the first and second primary communication devices via the conference call controller; and establishing a second media link between the first alternate communication device and the conference call controller. The second media link may be established upon the conference call controller receiving a link request from the first primary communication device via the control link. In some embodiments, the first media link conveys a first media signal which is different than a second media signal conveyed by the second media link. | 09-02-2010 |
20100238842 | PHONE CONFERENCING ARCHITECTURE WITH OPTIMIZED SERVICES MANAGEMENT - Architecture that employs a cost-effective mechanism to only engage the services as needed, and then release these services in a managed way. This reduces the runtime cost so that users can have more conferences for the same amount of hardware purchased for such purposes at a minimum cost. The architecture provides the efficient and seamless integration of PSTN phone users and VoIP audio users in a cost effective and efficient way by the use of the same conferencing server and the same audio-video multi-point control unit that users currently employ with additional services that include a conferencing auto attendant service authenticates the phone user and transfers the phone user into the conference, a conference announcement server application is responsible for playing conference announcements, and a personal virtual assistant application which is responsible for translating user-initiated DTMF (dual-tone multi-frequency) tones into conference control commands. | 09-23-2010 |
20100246449 | SESSION REPLACEMENT USING REPLACED SESSION ATTRIBUTES - Architecture for session management enabling the reusing of session attributes of a current session in creating a new session, for adding new participants to a call session. A telephony component manages IP-based call sessions. The telephony component can be an IP telephone or a personal computing device running an IP telephony application, for example. A header component includes attributes of an existing IP call session with multiple parties. The header component can be sent in an INVITE message when establishing the new IP call session, for example. An attribute selection component selects attributes of the existing IP call session to be reused with the new IP call session with the multiple parties and a different party or parties. A session replacement component replaces the existing IP call session with the new IP call session, including the attributes reused from the previous session. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246450 | EXTENSIBLE REALTIME DELEGATION FOR CALLS, CONFERENCES AND COLLABORATION - Architecture for enabling identification of a call party's representative during calls on behalf of the call party. The call representative is delegated to initiate or answer an IP call on behalf of the call party. An IP-telephony component initiates or answers the IP call by the call representative on behalf of the call party. The IP-telephony component can be an IP telephone, or any other suitable IP calling interface. An identification component presents a representation notification identifying the call representative to a connected call party. The representation notification can be displayed on a caller ID display on an IP phone, or can be displayed on a user interface of the personal computing device, for example. The calls can be point-to-point IP calls with a single participant, or can be conference calls with multiple participants, and can be performed with one or more suitable protocols. | 09-30-2010 |
20100260075 | 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 a signal at the conferencing controller from at least one of the multiple conferees to actively participate in the conference call. Active participation can be in the form of asking questions, giving comments, or providing a keypress to vote or provide other information. The conference call can also be broadcast to increase participants. Also, after the conference call is initiated, additional potential conferees can be added. | 10-14-2010 |
20100296418 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING CENTRALIZED SERVICE CHAIRMAN SIDE CONFERENCE SERVICE OF IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - A method for implementing a chairman side conference service of an IP Multimedia Subsystem centralized service is disclosed. A non ICS UE has contracted a conference service and is currently in calls with multiple UEs. The method for implementing the conference service when the non ICS UE serves as a chairman UE comprises: the chairman UE originating a conference setup request to an eMSC; after receiving the request, the eMSC sending a session request message for setting up the conference service to a conferencing server according to the address of the conferencing server to which the chairman UE belongs; the conferencing server returning a success response message to the eMSC; after receiving the response, the eMSC inviting the UEs, which are currently in calls with the chairman UE, to participate in the conference, and returning a conference setup success message to the chairman UE after the participation is successful. | 11-25-2010 |
20100322113 | ACCESS CONTROL TO COMMUNICATION FACILITY - Access to a teleconferencing system is granted to a prospective attendee ( | 12-23-2010 |
20110013541 | Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) location based 911 conferencing - Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) emergency calls to an Emergency Response Center (ERC) are handled through a VoIP conference bridge on a VoIP service provider's soft switch. The soft switch works with a VoIP positioning center (VPC) to obtain location information, which is compared against a PSAP database to find an initial best-appropriate PSAP for the location of the emergency caller. The PSAP is issued an Invite message to join the conference, establishing an emergency call. Third parties such as police, ambulance may be issued Invite messages to join the conference. Cold transfers are avoided by Inviting participants to join a single emergency conference rather than passing an emergency call from party to party (e.g., from PSAP to police to ambulance, etc.) The PSAP, other emergency responders, and even the initial VoIP emergency caller may leave and rejoin the VoIP conference without dropping the conference between the others. | 01-20-2011 |
20110069643 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AUDIO IN A COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for designating an aural position of an audio stream in a collaboration environment. A plurality of icons corresponding to participants are displayed in a user interface. A moderator may move the icons from a first position in the user interface to a second position in the user interface. Upon moving an icon from a first position to a second position, an aural position identifier corresponding to the second position is generated and sent to a conference processor. The conference processor uses the aural position identifier to generate an outgoing audio stream that aurally positions the audio stream generated by the participant corresponding to the icon at the aural position. The outgoing audio stream is provided to the moderator, who uses a multi-channel capable device to perceive the audio stream at the designated aural position. | 03-24-2011 |
20110090823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CALL ORIGINATIONS USING SMS AND HOTLINE CAPABILITIES - A method for handling call originations is provided. The method includes sending origination information from a mobile device to an application server in an enterprise network using Short Message Service (SMS) and determining whether a hotline feature is present in a subscriber profile associated with the mobile device. Data is then routed from the mobile device to a predetermined destination based on the hotline feature. | 04-21-2011 |
20110141950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTI-MEDIA CONFERENCING BETWEEN UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY (UPnP) ENABLED TELEPHONY DEVICES AND WIRELESS AREA NETWORK (WAN) DEVICES - A system and method of multi-media conferencing between Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) telephony devices and Wide Area Network (WAN) devices is provided. The method includes initiating a multi-media conferencing session with WAN devices by at least one telephony control point (TCP) in an UPnP telephony based home network via a session request. The session request includes session information, media capabilities of a telephony client device (TC) associated with the at least one TCP, a list of WAN devices or a conference group identifier associated with one or more WAN devices, and a subject of the multi-media conferencing session. The method further includes establishing the multi-media conferencing session between the TC and the WAN devices by a telephony server (TS) in the UPnP telephony based home network based on the session request. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149810 | DECOUPLED CASCADED MIXERS ARCHITECHTURE AND RELATED METHODS - Methods for inter-mixer communication enable a “self-formed” cascaded mixer node tree topology. One method enables inter-mixer node signaling and includes first selecting a plurality of media flow payloads at a first cascaded mixer node. A set of conference payloads are generated and each include the media flow payloads from the plurality of media flow payloads that are part of the same conference call, an identifier for the conference call, and a node identifier for each media flow in the conference call. For each media flow in the conference call, each conference payload further identifies whether the first cascaded mixer node is a root node or a leaf node. The set of conference payloads are bundled into a single packet and sent to a second cascaded mixer node. Another method enables the “self-forming” of the mixer node tree topology. Yet another method enables active talker identification within the “self-formed” tree topology. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149811 | Web-Enabled Conferencing and Meeting Implementations with Flexible User Calling Features - Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a meeting system is implemented that includes a computer server arrangement that is configured to provide a web-accessible virtual-meeting interface. Meeting scheduling data is received from the virtual meeting interface. The meeting scheduling data includes participant identifying information and meeting time information for a primary meeting. In response to the meeting time information and the participant identifying information, audio connections are established for participants of the primary meeting. Merged audio from the established audio connections is provided to the participants. The participants of the primary meeting are provided with an option to establish a secondary meeting for which a subset of audio connections is established for the subset of the participants. Merged audio from the subset audio connections is provided to the subset of participants. | 06-23-2011 |
20110194466 | Pull Based Data Driven Consultative Transfer - A method for transferring a telephone call includes receiving a communication at a first client computer from a second client computer. The first client computer and the second client computer run communication software that supports voice over Internet Protocol. The communication includes a request to transfer the telephone call to the first client computer. After receiving the communication from the second client computer at the first client computer, determining whether to accept the telephone call. When a determination is made to accept the telephone call, an action is initiated at the first client computer that causes the telephone call to be transferred to the first client computer. The action results in replacing the second client computer with the first client computer as a party in the telephone call. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194467 | System and Method for Converged Network Services - Systems and methods for providing services for stations supported by a residential gateway are provided. The residential gateway can support one or more fixed-line station and/one or more mobile stations. The mobile stations can be supported by a wireless macro network and/or the residential gateway. Services such as simultaneous ringing, distinctive ringing, call transfer, extension functionality, and the like can be provided for the mobile station and the fixed-line station. | 08-11-2011 |
20110205939 | Method for Implementing Radiophone Based Conference Call and Dynamic Grouping - The present invention provides a method for implementing a radiophone based conference call and dynamic grouping, which generally includes selecting a dynamic grouping function and members of an intended group through a man-machine interface of a radiophone, generating a control packet in a coding format and an extensible interface, the coding format and the extensible interface being inherent to a preset protocol stack module, and then transmitting the control frame in a control frame to a corresponding receiving end, and the receiving end upon reception of the control frame decodes the control frame and initiates a frequency modification module to modify frequency modification information by adding the group ID of the intended group. The radiophone in the present invention can perform a scheduling function, and time can be saved in an emergency for rapid and convenient dealing with an incident. | 08-25-2011 |
20110267989 | PROCESSING OF A REQUEST TO INSTIGATE COMMUNICATION BY A ROUTING DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS - A method and apparatus are provided for processing a request to instigate communication, received by a routing device associated with a plurality of terminals. The request relates to a communication to be established between a sender device of the request and at least one of the terminals. The method includes a step of comparing communication capabilities of said sender device with respective communication capabilities of one or more terminals, called addressee terminals, which are able to establish said communication, so as to identify at least one terminal having capabilities making it possible to establish with the sender device a communication of maximum quality. A call notification is transmitted to at least one of the addressee terminals, which is suitable for triggering on the addressee terminal a call presentation prompting a user to use, by priority, one of the terminals identified during the comparison step to establish the communication. | 11-03-2011 |
20110274013 | APPLICATION SERVER FOR DISPATCHING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS IN A HOSPITAL, IN REAL TIME - An application server (AS) for dispatching physiological signals in a hospital, in real time, this hospital comprising a local area network infrastructure (HN) with a virtual local area (VN) supporting voice over IP telephony application, comprises:—means for receiving packets containing samples of a physiological signal via a first terminal (IPP | 11-10-2011 |
20110286367 | Internet conference call bridge management system - The invention pertains to an Internet conference call bridge management (ICCBM) system and method with which a person (customer) having access to the Internet may efficiently input the contact number of at least one party (call recipient) with whom the customer wants to speak. The ICCBM system then calls the customer, calls the party or parties, and the audio signals are bridged in a manner that optimizes the call signal to noise ratio, minimizes demands placed on computing resources, and provides controls with which the customer may monitor and control the telephonic access of the other participants through the duration of the conference call. | 11-24-2011 |
20110305170 | SWITCHABLE CONFERENCE MULTICAST STREAMING WITH DYNAMIC ASYMMETRY - Techniques are provided herein to add multicast media streams to teleconferencing sessions without the unwanted side effects that occur when a speaker's own media is echoed back to the speaker. Multicast and unicast media streams are generated by a network device, e.g., a conference bridge, and distributed to any number of endpoints, e.g., conference endpoints. A media selector is provided that selects the appropriate multicast or unicast media stream for forwarding to an associated network endpoint. | 12-15-2011 |
20120134302 | Method and Service Device for Realizing a Private Call During A Conference in an IP Multimedia Subsystem - The present application discloses a method for realizing a private call during a conference in an IP multimedia subsystem, which includes the following steps: a service device receives a first request message that is sent by a first communication device to request a private call with a second communication device; if the first communication device is a communication device at the conference presider side, the service device modifies conference media of the communication device having participated in the conference within the first and the second communication devices; and after modifying the conference media, the service device establishes a private call between the first and the second communication devices. The present application also correspondingly discloses a service device for realizing a private call during a conference in an IP multimedia subsystem. In the present application, after a request for a private call is received, the conference media of the conference presider and/or conference members is modified, thus enabling the conference presider or conference members to make a private call with the conference members or the conference presider freely or as needed. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140681 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CONFERENCES - Described are a conference management system and method for administering an online conference. The conference management system receives an electronic communication from a conference participant. A group is determined to be associated with the conference participant. An action is performed on the conference participant based on the group association. | 06-07-2012 |
20120176943 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR LINKING PACKET-SWITCHED AND CIRCUIT-SWITCHED CLIENTS - A method and computer program product which allows both phone-based and IP-based clients to participate in a single audio conference. The method enables at least two multi-point control units (MCUs) (i.e., conferencing servers) to connect via a standard data linkage (i.e., full-duplex dial-up or IP link). The method and computer program product enables the phone-based MCU to handle the phone clients and the IP-based MCU to handle the IP-based clients, while connecting the two to allow each participating client to hear all other participating clients. | 07-12-2012 |
20120275349 | CONFERENCE CALL MONITORING WITH AUTOMATIC RECONNECT - Technologies are described herein for monitoring a participant's connection to a conference and automatically reconnecting the participant if the participant is inadvertently disconnected. A conference proxy module receives a request from a participant identifying a conference to join and an endpoint of the participant to connect to the conference. Upon receiving the request, the conference proxy module joins the conference on behalf of the participant and instructs the conferencing service to establish a connection with the identified endpoint. The conference proxy module then monitors the status of the connection with the participant's endpoint, and if the endpoint is unintentionally disconnected, the conference proxy module instructs the conferencing service to reconnect the endpoint to the conference. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281596 | CONFERENCE-CALL PARTICIPANT-INFORMATION PROCESSING - In one embodiment, a telecommunication device for Internet-based conference calling with one or more similar telecommunication devices. The telecommunication device is used by a plurality of co-located participants, each participant having an individually identifiable microphone. The telecommunication device accesses a database correlating each individually identifiable microphone to participant ID and information. During the conference-call setup, the similar telecommunication devices exchange participant IDs and corresponding information. The conference-call audio content is then exchanged using RTP packets, where the telecommunication devices generate RTP packets containing the participant IDs of participants contributing to the content of each RTP packet. Receiving telecommunication devices then display corresponding participant information when playing the audio content of received RTP packets to identify current speakers. Individual, identifiable microphones improve the audio quality received by remote participants and permit the automatic exchange and display of the current participants and the current speakers. | 11-08-2012 |
20120287827 | PRIVATE CHANNELS IN UNIFIED TELEPHONY APPLICATIONS - A method, computer program product, and system for private channels in unified telephony applications is described. A method may comprise allowing a unified telephony meeting moderator to define one or more private audio channel preferences for establishing a private audio channel and for providing a communication over the private audio channel during a unified telephony meeting, wherein the communication over the private audio channel is separate from a communication over a main audio channel of the unified telephony meeting. The method may further comprise establishing the private audio channel between the unified telephony meeting moderator and a first unified telephony meeting participant based upon, at least in part, the one or more private audio channel preferences for establishing the private audio channel. The method may additionally comprise providing the communication over the private audio channel during the unified telephony meeting. | 11-15-2012 |
20120300677 | OUTGOING COMMUNICATION BARRING SERVICE IN THE IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - A user terminal may include an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, client to enable the terminal to communicate with an IMS network. The IMS client may include a conference creation and control unit configured to create and control an IMS conference involving one or more participants, participants being identified within a conference INVITE or REFER message by respective Uniform Resource Identifiers, URIs, within a URI list. The conference creation and control unit may include a response handling unit configured to receive from the IMS network, in response to the sending of an INVITE or REFER, a SIP response message including an XML body specifying an Outgoing Communication Barring, OCB, service invocation result and configured to present the specified result to a terminal user. Related methods and application servers are also discussed. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300678 | Conferencing PSTN Gateway Methods And Apparatus To Facilitate Heterogeneous Wireless Network Handovers For Mobile Communication Devices - For initially establishing a voice call, a first connection leg for the voice call is established between a mobile device operating in a wireless network and a conference room of a conferencing gateway. A second connection leg is established via the conferencing gateway between a processor and a communication device connected in a telephone network. Subsequently, the processor sends a message to the conferencing gateway for transferring the second connection leg from between the processor and the communication device to the conference room and the communication device, for initially establishing the voice call. The conference gateway is configured to combine media streams of connection legs of the voice call. | 11-29-2012 |
20130021951 | Systems and Methods to Connect Members of a Social Network for Real Time Communication - Methods and apparatuses to provide telephonic connections to members of a social network. One embodiment includes: identifying a first member connected to a second member in a social network; determining whether profile data of the first member of the social network includes a telephonic reference of the first member; presenting a user interface element to the second member over a data communication network in response to a determination that the profile data of the first member includes the telephonic reference of the first member; and responsive to a selection of the user interface element, initiating a first telephonic connection to the first member using the telephonic reference of the first member and a second telephonic connection to the second member to provide a telephonic connection between the first member and the second member. | 01-24-2013 |
20130077539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONFERENCE FOYER - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for implementing a conference foyer for conferencing. The system receives a request to join a conference call that is hosted on a specific conference server. The system receives the request via a call from a caller using a specific phone number. The system is a back-to-back user agent configured to transfer requests to one or more SIP-based conference servers. Based on the request, the system identifies a specific conference server hosting the requested conference. The system uses a conference code included in the request to identify the specific conference server hosting the conference call. The system then transfers the call to the specific conference server, which can join the call to the conference requested by the caller. This approach provides a flexible, efficient, and scalable way to increase the number of conference calls associated with a specific phone number. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083702 | ACTIVATING AND DEACTIVATING SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING FOR AN LTE VOIP RADIO BEARER - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines an operational state of a header compressor or a header decompressor by determining a transition between different operational states associated with the header compressor and/or by determining a transition between different operational states associated with the header decompressor. A persistent scheduling mode is changed in response to a change in the operational state of the header compressor. The persistent scheduling mode may be changed by activating uplink persistent scheduling when the operational state of the header compressor changes from a first order state to a second order state, and/or by deactivating the uplink persistent scheduling when the operational state of the header compressor exits the second order state. | 04-04-2013 |
20130182616 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TIMESLOT TELECONFERENCING - Methods and apparatus are provided for a timeslot teleconference. A meeting invite is created for a timeslot teleconference on a computer. Timeslots are created for the timeslot teleconference in the meeting invite on the computer. Participants are designated for the timeslots in the meeting invite on the computer, and the timeslots are different time periods during the timeslot teleconference, which can have variable start and end times, as determined by a host. Reach numbers are added for each of the participants in the meeting invite on the computer, and the reach numbers are contact numbers to call the participants for their respective timeslots. The meeting invite is transmitted to participants on the computer. To participate in the timeslot teleconference, the timeslot teleconference is configured for the reach numbers to be called for the participants to correspond to their respective timeslots and/or the participants to call in for their respective timeslots. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEAMLESSLY IMPLEMENTING TRANSFERRING DUAL-PARTY CALL INTO CONFERENCE - A method for seamlessly transferring a dual-party call into a conference includes receiving a conference room creation request from a first terminal, and creating a conference room according to the conference room creation request. The method also includes establishing and starting a first voice channel between the first terminal and the conference room, a second voice channel between the second terminal and the conference room, and a third voice channel between a third terminal and the conference room while maintaining a dual-party voice channel between the first terminal and a second terminal in an on state. After starting the first voice channel and the second voice channel, the method includes simultaneously releasing the dual-party voice channel. | 07-18-2013 |
20130223291 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STAGGERING INTERNET PROTOCOL TELECONFERENCING CALLS - A method and apparatus for enabling providers of PSTN toll free services to stagger simultaneous transmission of call setup signaling messages into an IP based teleconference bridge, supported by a VoIP network, by suspending a subset of calls and placing them on hold while placing other calls to be connected to the conference bridge are disclosed. The PSTN network can stagger calls by limiting the number of call setup signaling messages to be sent to the VoIP network within a predefined period of time interval and spread all the calls over multiple of such predefined periods. Prerecorded announcements or music can be played while the calls that have been placed on hold are in queue. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223292 | TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM, COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, PROGRAM PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - A transmission management system receives, from a request source terminal which is an addition request source requesting to add a certain transmission terminal as a destination candidate, an addition request for the destination candidate, identification information of the request source terminal and identification information of a request target terminal which is an addition request target of the destination candidate; and informs the request target terminal of an approval request for requesting the request target terminal to approve the addition request, and the identification of the request source terminal. The system receives an addition request response from the request target terminal in response to the addition request. When the addition request response indicates to approve the addition request, the system additionally associates the identification information of the request target terminal with the identification information of the request source terminal as the identification information of the destination terminal. | 08-29-2013 |
20130235767 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING UP AND/OR CONTROLLING A TELECOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE - A conference condition file is used to check whether at least one stored conference condition is met, which indicates a condition regarding a participant's setup of and/or participation in the telecommunication conference. If at least one condition is met then the conference is set up or the participant is added to the conference. | 09-12-2013 |
20130329609 | VOICE CONFERENCE UNIT SELECTION - A conferencing system provides selection of a mixer from among a pool of mixers for a conference. The selection may be based on querying the pool of mixers for availability and mixing capacity and determining from the response which of the signal mixers provides optimal mixing for the conference. In some embodiments, software resident on terminals or on a centralized server in the conferencing system may provide instructions for determining which of the mixers provides the optimal mixing performance under requirements of the teleconference. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336171 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VOICE CONTROL FOR ACCESSING TELECONFERENCE SERVICES - A method and apparatus for providing access to teleconference services using voice recognition technology to receive information on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the service provider enables a caller to enter access information for accessing a conference service using at least one natural language response. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336172 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE TELEPHONIC CONNECTIONS VIA CONCURRENT CALLS - Methods and apparatuses to present communication references to connect people for real time communications via concurrent calls. One embodiment includes: responsive to a search request, identifying information of an entity according to the search request; associating a telephonic reference with the information of the entity; providing the telephonic reference for presentation with the information of the entity to a user; and responsive to a request made via the telephonic reference for a telephonic connection between the user and the entity, initiating a plurality of concurrent calls to a plurality of telephonic references of the entity or a plurality of concurrent calls to a plurality of telephonic references of the user. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343233 | MOBILE, PC, AND WEB ENHANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for providing enhanced telecommunications services are provided. Example embodiments provide a Enhanced Telecommunications System ETS, which provides less expensive calling and other services by initiating telephone requests using data request packets. In one embodiment, the ETS comprises a client communications device with client code, an ETS portal, an API server, one or more PABX servers, and various billing, payment, and accounting systems. Other systems, such as quality assurance and logging systems may also be available. These components cooperate to provide various telecommunications services. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 12-26-2013 |
20140022957 | TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention discloses a telephone communication method and a system thereof. The method comprises following steps: sending a communication request signal via a first dialer; receiving the communication request signal by a server for sending a communication connection signal to a first telecommunication device and a second telecommunication device with a predetermined account number corresponding to the server according to the communication request signal, such that a communication connection channel is established between the first telecommunication device and the second telecommunication device by the server; and using the first telecommunication device for executing the voice communication or the video communication with the second telecommunication device. | 01-23-2014 |
20140098716 | End-to-End Address Transfer - According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of facilitating the end-to-end transfer of a URI between a plurality of SIP entities. The method comprising generating a SIP message and including the URI to be transferred in a Contact header of the message and including in the Contact header a parameter indicating to a back-to-back user agent that this URI is not to be changed or replaced. | 04-10-2014 |
20140112211 | REDUCTION OF CHAINING IN CONFERENCE SESSIONS - Techniques are provided for adding a participant at an end point device to an ongoing conference session. An ongoing conference session is established, where the conference session includes a communication between a plurality of endpoint devices, and a bridging device facilitates a connection between at least some of the endpoint devices engaging in the conference session. At least one communication message is provided from the bridging device to a communications manager device associated with the conference session, where the at least one communication message provides identification information associated with the bridging device and the conference session. The ongoing conference session is extended to an additional participant's endpoint device, where the additional endpoint device is connected with the ongoing conference session utilizing the bridging device and based upon the conference session information obtained from the at least one communication message. | 04-24-2014 |
20140160995 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SUPPRESS VOICE PROMPTS IN SIP CALLS - System and method to enable selective suppression of an audible indication in a SIP-based call, the method including: receiving, by a SIP conferencing server, a message from a caller to initiate a SIP-based call, wherein the message comprises a header section; searching the header section for a predetermined header; if the predetermined header is found, determining a field and a corresponding field value from the predetermined header; and storing the field value in a memory, wherein the stored field value is specific to the field and to the caller. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECENTRALIZED VOICE CONFERENCING OVER DYNAMIC NETWORKS - Systems, devices, methods for use of a highly mobile conferencing system over potentially dynamic networks, such as a self-healing mobile mesh network which, by means of discrete embedded computers mixes analog and digital data for end user communications in remote, disaster, warfare or topographically challenging environments with further capability of conference calling between groups and discrete nodes within the network. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160997 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF A MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method are provided for data transmission and reception of a mobile terminal, which seamlessly provide data transmission and reception between the mobile terminal and a multipoint communication device. The method includes requesting, by the mobile terminal, data sharing from another mobile terminal, for sharing of data transmitted and received to and from the another mobile terminal; receiving approval of the request for the data sharing from the another mobile terminal; establishing a channel connection between the mobile terminal and a sharing device for the sharing of the data; and transmitting and receiving the data to and from the sharing device through the channel. | 06-12-2014 |
20140219138 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR LINKING PACKET-SWITCHED AND CIRCUIT-SWITCHED CLIENTS - A method and computer program product which allows both phone-based and IP-based clients to participate in a single audio conference. The method enables at least two multi-point control units (MCUs) (i.e., conferencing servers) to connect via a standard data linkage (i.e., full-duplex dial-up or IP link). The method and computer program product enables the phone-based MCU to handle the phone clients and the IP-based MCU to handle the IP-based clients, while connecting the two to allow each participating client to hear all other participating clients. | 08-07-2014 |
20140286200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION LINKS BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES - A method of establishing a communication link between a first mobile communication device and a second mobile communication device on a first network or a second network is provided. The method includes processing by a processor from the first mobile communication device, an indication to initiate a link to the second mobile communication device, initiating by the processor, (i) a first link from the first mobile communication device to the second mobile communication device through the first network, and (ii) a second link from the first mobile communication device to the second mobile communication device through the second network, receiving an indication on the first mobile communication device including a selection of the first link or the second link to obtain a selected link, and establishing by the processor, a communication link between the first mobile communication device and the second mobile communication device on the selected link. | 09-25-2014 |
20140301250 | REAL TIME APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for implementing providing a web conferencing service. In one example, the system and methods involve a real-time application programming interface (RTAPI) component in the telecommunications network. The RTAPI is configured, in one embodiment, to provide a platform through which one or more users of the telecommunications network interfaces with one or more conferencing components of the network. In one example, the RTAPI may be configured to coordinate a dial-out to a participant of a conference at a designated time such that the participant is entered into the conference automatically. | 10-09-2014 |
20140334345 | PUSH-TO-ALL (PTA) SERVICE FACILITATING SELECTIVE DATA TRANSMISSION - In a Push-To-All (PTA) service system and method enabling selective designation of data transmission targets, a transmitting PTA terminal requests a selective data transmission to a PTA server using a receiver-designated Talk Burst Control Protocol (TBCP) message containing information about some receiving PTA terminals participating in the same session as the transmitting PTA terminal, and the PTA server transmits data received from the transmitting PTA terminal to designated receiving PTA terminals by referring to the information contained in the receiver-designated TBCP message. Thus, a selective data transmission can be performed within one PTA session. | 11-13-2014 |
20140341088 | Conferencing System - Administering conferencing resources in a communications system comprising a plurality of user equipments and a server. A first user equipment transmits a first message to the server. The first message comprises a request for a resource configured for sustaining a conference call. The server allocates a network address identifying the resource and transmits a second message comprising the network address to the first user equipment. | 11-20-2014 |
20140355489 | Method and Corresponding Device for Managing the Set-Up of a Communication Between a Calling Terminal and a Group of Terminals Sharing One and The Same Public Identity - A method and a terminal are provided for commanding a set-up of a communication between the terminal and a group of terminals associated with one and the same shared public identity. The method includes a step of the terminal issuing, via a communication network, a communication request intended for the shared public identity; and a step of sending to a management server a request to obtain an item of information representing the number and the state of the terminals in the group of terminals associated with the shared public identity. Following reception of the item of information from the server, the terminal returns the item of information to a user of the terminal. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355490 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONFERENCING - Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a network node, and corresponding method, for conference handling. The method comprises receiving an invitation, from an initiating user equipment, to create an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) conference, the invitation comprising a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) associated with the initiating user equipment. The method further comprises obtaining a conference focus identifier associated with a conference focus unit hosting the IMS conference, and compiling a mapping of the URI and the conference focus identifier. The method also comprises receiving, from a participating user equipment, a communication request comprising the URI associated with the initiating user equipment, and forwarding, based on the mapping, the participating user equipment to the IMS conference associated with the conference focus identifier. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362741 | TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM, COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, PROGRAM PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - A transmission management system receives, from a request source terminal which is an addition request source requesting to add a certain transmission terminal as a destination candidate, an addition request for the destination candidate, identification information of the request source terminal and identification information of a request target terminal which is an addition request target of the destination candidate; and informs the request target terminal of an approval request for requesting the request target terminal to approve the addition request, and the identification of the request source terminal. The system receives an addition request response from the request target terminal in response to the addition request. When the addition request response indicates to approve the addition request, the system additionally associates the identification information of the request target terminal with the identification information of the request source terminal as the identification information of the destination terminal. | 12-11-2014 |
20140376415 | Systems and Methods for Voice Communication - Systems and methods are provided for voice communication. For example, multiple friendship chains are acquired from a relation server upon launching an application; a voice room is accessed via a voice server upon receipt of a voice-communication request from a user; a voice-invitation signal is sent to the relation server, the voice-invitation signal including identification of the voice room, where one or more friends of the user in the friendship chains determine whether to access the voice room based on at least information associated with the voice-invitation signal; and one or more voice connections associated with the one or more friends are established via the voice server in response to the friends accessing the voice room. | 12-25-2014 |
20150029899 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Bridgeless Conferencing Services - A system and method for making a VoIP-based and other types of group calls includes a user interface adapted for use by a group call administrator via the Internet, a database manager connected to the user interface, and a database connected to the database manager. In one embodiment of the invention, the group call administrator identifier and one or more group call invitee identifiers is a telephone number. A method includes using call information from the database to initiate conference call connections and an administrator call connection to facilitate a conference call in which the administrators call connections and the participants connections are joined to allow communications between the participants and the administrator. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029900 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Bridgeless Conferencing Services - A system and method for making a VoIP-based and other types of group calls includes a user interface adapted for use by a group call administrator via the Internet, a database manager connected to the user interface, a database connected to the database manager. Establishing one or more caucuses within the group call at a central location includes establishing the group call between an administrator and invitees to the group call where the administrator and the invitee are assigned to caucuses as members of the caucus. In the method, the central location receives a caucus request from the administrator, the caucus request identifying a first caucus and a control feature. The control feature is executed on the members of the first caucus and not to invitees of the conference call that are not members of the first caucus. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029901 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Bridgeless Conferencing Services - A system and method for making a VoIP-based and other types of group calls includes a user interface adapted for use by a group call administrator via the Internet, a database manager connected to the user interface, and a database connected to the database manager. In one embodiment, the group call administrator identifier and one or more group call invitee identifiers is a telephone number. The server responds to a group call request by initiating a first group call connection and initiating at least one or more second group call connections to join a group call administrator and at least one group call invitee. A method includes using call information from a database to initiate conference call connections and an administrator call connection to facilitate a conference call in which the administrators call connections and the participants connections are joined to allow communications between the participants and the administrator. | 01-29-2015 |
20150036553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED TELEPHONE SERVICES - A switching platform comprises a first, second, and third circuit. The first circuit is adapted for recognizing a first set of tones generated by art originating telephone line. The originating telephone line is associated with a call origin telephone number. The first set of tones represents a request for a telephone conference over a conference line. The second circuit is adapted for determining whether the call origin telephone number is included in a set of defined telephone numbers permitted to connect to the conference line without further authentication. The third circuit is adapted for establishing a telephone connection between the originating telephone line and the conference line if the set of defined telephone numbers includes the call origin telephone number. | 02-05-2015 |
20150063173 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO A CONFERENCE CALL - Methods and systems are disclosed for connecting an electronic device to a conference call. The method includes determining, at a conference server, whether the electronic device is VoIP-enabled. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the electronic device is VoIP-enabled, sending data to the electronic device for establishing connection to the conference call over VoIP communications; otherwise, sending data to the electronic device for establishing connection to the conference call over one of a public land mobile network (PLMN) or a public switched telephone network (PSTN). | 03-05-2015 |
20150078209 | Systems and Methods of Conducting Conference Calls - Systems and methods performed by an IP telephony system allow a user to request that his IP telephony device be set into a conference calling mode for an indefinite period of time. When the user's IP telephony device is in the conference calling mode, all parties that attempt to call the user's IP telephony device are added to a conference bridge tied to the user's IP telephony device. All incoming calls are treated in this fashion until the user cancels the conference calling mode and returns to a normal calling mode. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085707 | RENEWING AN IN-PROCESS MEETING WITHOUT INTERRUPTION IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes establishing a connection with each of a first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees, and establishing a first online meeting between the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees in which the first online meeting has a meeting identifier associated therewith. The method further includes receiving first context information associated with the first online meeting from at least one of the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees, and establishing a second online meeting between a second set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees without disconnecting at least one of the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees in which the second online meeting has the same meeting identifier as the first online meeting associated therewith. The method still further includes maintaining the first context information within the second online meeting. | 03-26-2015 |
20150092618 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING DATA LINK BASED ON AUDIO CONNECTION - In a communications system, after parties form a voice telephone connection, the parties respective communications devices automatically create or leverage machine readable features or content of the telephone connection to identify the parties to each other or to a rendezvous server, and thereafter the communications devices and/or the rendezvous server automatically establishes a data link between the parties. | 04-02-2015 |
20150109968 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING CONFERENCING IN A COMMUNICATION SESSION - Methods and system for automating conferencing in a communication session are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for automating conferencing in a communication session includes detecting an established communication session between a first end-user device and a second end-user device, notifying a third end-user device associated with the first user device that the established communication session is available to be joined, receiving a request from the third end-user device to join the communication session, and establishing a conference session with the first end-user device, the second-end user device, and the third end-user device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150139044 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING A MOBILE ENDPOINT DEVICE TO BE A HUB FOR A CONFERENCE CALL - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for enabling a mobile endpoint device to be a hub for a conference call are disclosed. For example, the method connects to the conference call, broadcasts a signal to at least one slave mobile endpoint devices to join the conference call over a personal area network, receives a pairing request from the at least one slave mobile endpoint device over the personal area network, accepts the pairing request and connects the at least one slave mobile endpoint device to the conference call via the master mobile endpoint device over the personal area network, wherein both the master mobile endpoint device and the at least one slave mobile endpoint device have two-way communications with the conference call and conference call controls. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146580 | Communication System Architecture - Disclosed herein is an instance of a media modality controller of a communication system which is assigned to convey media modality control signals of a communication event to respective media modality agents of endpoints of the communication event without accessing respective call agents of the endpoints. The media modality controller instance is so assigned independently of a call controller of the communication system and responsive to an instruction received via the network. The media modality controller instance is released from said assignment responsive to the media modality controller instance returning a response to the received instruction while the call controller continues to operate in communication with the call agents of the endpoints. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146581 | Communication System Architecture - Disclosed is a communication system for effecting communication events between a plurality of endpoints connected via a communication network. The communication system comprises a plurality of processing units other than said endpoints, each having access to computer storage holding executable code modules for managing a communication event. The code modules are configured to implement a media modality controller configured to manage media modality of an established communication event and a call controller configured to establish the communication event. An instance of the call controller is assigned to progress the establishment of the communication event responsive to an instruction received via the network and is configured to initiate an instruction to at least one of: the media modality controller; and at least one of the endpoints. | 05-28-2015 |
20150334244 | Network-Administered Conference Call Using SIP Messaging - Methods, systems, and apparatus can be used for the establishment of a conference call via a packet network (which may be an IP fixed packet network) administered by a communications server, including a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based server. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334245 | ROOM SENSOR APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES - The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and system to provide automated audio video conferencing in a conference room. In an exemplary embodiment, the disclosure relates to a mobile device having one or more processors and circuitry. The circuitry may execute a first logic, a second logic and a third logic. The first logic may be configured to receive instructions to connect the mobile device to a wireless equipment in a conference room. The second logic may be configured to obtain conference room information. The third logic may be configured to transmit a request to pair with a wireless equipment in the conference room. The third logic may be further configured to: receive information in a first communication mode that a code challenge will be issued, receive a code challenge in the second communication mode and pair the mobile device with the wireless equipment. | 11-19-2015 |
20150365243 | GROUP COMMUNICATION - In order to facilitate group communication using characteristics of a pre-arranged group but not involving all members of the pre-arranged group, a parameter indicating that the group communication is not intended to all members of the pre-arranged group is added by an inviting group member sending a request to a group server, and the group server, in response to the parameter, is configured to not to invite all members to the group communication. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365444 | INTER-USER EQUIPMENT (UE) TRANSFER (IUT) FOR COLLABORATIVE SESSIONS THAT INCLUDE MEDIA SESSION INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for inter-user equipment (UE) transfer (IUT) of collaborative session control and session information between WTRUs. A collaborative session control transfer request including ongoing session information is transmitted prior to transfer of session control from one WTRU to another WTRU. Ongoing session information may include information regarding media flows and devices involved in the session. A media control transfer response is transmitted in response to the transfer request. | 12-17-2015 |
20150381665 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DATA TRANSMISSION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A transmission management system, when a request for starting communication with a second transmission terminal is received from a first transmission terminal, obtains first service contents information associated with first service identification information for identifying a service to be provided to the first transmission terminal, and causes a relay device to transmit content data that matches the first service contents information to the second transmission terminal in response to receiving content data at the relay device from the first transmission terminal. | 12-31-2015 |
20160006574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONFERENCING IN A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods for a conferencing system. Responsive to a new conference request received at a conference orchestration service, participants of the conference and participant regions for each determined participant are determined. A mixer topology is generated that specifies an assignment of each determined participant to at least one input channel of a plurality of mixers. A mixer state manager generates the mixer topology based on the determined participant regions and at least one regional association of a mixer. Media of each determined participant is routed to the assigned at least one input channel according to the generated mixer topology by using the conference orchestration service. The mixer state manager generates the topology responsive to a request provided by the conference state manager. The conference orchestration service receives the generated mixer topology from the mixer state manager via the conference state manager. | 01-07-2016 |
20160014169 | DYNAMIC CONFERENCED COMMUNICATIONS | 01-14-2016 |
20160044066 | PERSONALIZED TELEPRESENCE SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a telepresence service providing method and an apparatus thereof. The telepresence service providing method according to the present invention comprises: receiving at least one of current location information, peripheral device information acquired at the current location, and noise information acquired at the current location from a user device; generating or updating a service profile which specifies a service mode corresponding to the user device and a device profile which specifies functions which the user device and the peripheral devices can provide, based on the received information; and transmitting data for telepresence services to at least one device of the user device and the peripheral devices based on the profiles. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention may provide a telepresence service with consideration of user's surrounding environment. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044068 | CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. | 02-11-2016 |
20160050321 | COMPUTER-PROGRAMMED TELEPHONE-ENABLED DEVICES FOR PROCESSING AND MANAGING NUMEROUS SIMULTANEOUS VOICE CONVERSATIONS CONDUCTED BY AN INDIVIDUAL OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK AND COMPUTER METHODS OF IMPLEMENTING THEREOF - In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a computer-implemented method, including: causing, by a specifically programmed computer call management communication system, to transform, over a computer network, computing devices of users, into corresponding specialized call management devices, by having each computing device to execute a specialized call management client software application being in electronic communication with the specifically programmed computer call management communication system over the computer network by utilizing SIP; where the specialized call management client software application generates specialized graphical user interfaces configured to allow each user to concurrently initiate and maintain, over the computer network, a plurality of voice communications of distinct types with other users, by, for example, allowing each user to independently and dynamically divert, in real-time, any voice communication of any type to any audio device associated with a corresponding specialized call management device of such user. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057179 | MANAGEMENT OF ONLINE INTERACTIONS - The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system and method for managing interactions between two or more users. In response to a request of a caller to establish an interaction with one or more recipients, the preferences of the caller and the recipients are considered in a process which determines which interaction application is recommended to be used in the requested interaction. A user can be associated with a respective user profile which includes information with respect to the user's communication preferences. The recommendation is generated based on preferences of the users participating in the interaction. In case a conflict is identified between the preferences of different users which are about to participate in the interaction, an arbitration process is executed in which the conflict is resolved. | 02-25-2016 |
20160080433 | Remote Conference Implementation Method and Apparatus - The present invention relates to the field of remote access technologies, and discloses a remote conference implementation method and apparatus, where the method is specifically that: a conference terminal detects a first mobile terminal at a current conference site, sends, a first dialing instruction to the detected first mobile terminal, to enable the first mobile terminal to establish an audio link according to an identifier of a second mobile terminal; and encodes a received audio signal of another conference site and/or an obtained audio signal of the current conference site, sends the encoded audio signal to the second mobile terminal based on the audio link, receives an audio signal sent by the second mobile terminal by using the first mobile terminal, decodes the audio signal, and then plays the decoded audio signal. In this way, a sound pickup range can be effectively expanded. | 03-17-2016 |
20160099978 | Distributed Audio Conferencing Architecture with Optimum Resource Utilization and Seamless Scalability - A conference call solution with one or more conference server, one or more conference bridge and one or more media mixer. A conference server is chosen as the conference bridge for the conference call using various optimization techniques. A media mixer for the conference call may also be chosen using various optimization techniques. The media mixer mixes media data from one or more conference bridge. If a conference bridge or the media mixer fails, the system recovers from the failure with minimal interruption to the users. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105476 | OPTIMIZING TELECONFERENCING USING TRANSPARENT REFLECTORS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and machine readable media for implementing a teleconferencing system using transparent relays. The transparent relays may be used to push network probing and certain functionalities as close as possible to each teleconferencing endpoint in order to improve overall video performance. | 04-14-2016 |
20160119387 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING COMMON SERVICES AVAILABLE ACROSS NETWORK ENDPOINTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing access to common services in a communication session. According to certain embodiments, a request to initiate a communication session is received. The communication can include a plurality of endpoints. An inventory of available services can be determined for each of the plurality of endpoints. At least one service that is commonly available to at least a subset of endpoints can be identified from the inventories of available services. Access can be provided to the at least one common service to the subset of endpoints during the communication session. | 04-28-2016 |
20160149963 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SESSION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A control apparatus determines one of a plurality of relay devices as a representative relay device to manage a relay destination of content data in a session to be established. In response to receiving a request for starting relay of content data, from a communication terminal, the control apparatus transmits, with a request for starting relay of content data, relay device identification information for identifying the representative relay device to a relay device connected to the communication terminal, to cause the relay device to further transmit the request for starting relay of content data to the representative relay device identified with the relay device identification information of the representative relay device. | 05-26-2016 |
20160165055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN EVENT SCHEDULING REQUEST IN A TELEPHONY SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing an event scheduling request in a telephony system. According to certain embodiments, a call between a first communication device and a second communication device is established. Upon authenticating a user identity associated with the second communication device, an event scheduling request is determined based on one or more attributes provided to the first communication device. A notification is provided to the second communication device based on the event scheduling request. | 06-09-2016 |
20160191575 | Bridge Device for Large Meetings - Various embodiments provide a bridge device that can enable a conferencing communication platform, such as audio/visual conferencing software, to discover that it is in a large meeting context and, automatically enter a so-called “large meeting mode.” In the large meeting mode, the conferencing communication platform can automatically apply policies associated with establishing the meeting and automatically select meeting room equipment for use during the meeting. In addition, the conferencing communication platform can provide a user interface experience to enable a meeting organizer to quickly select and/or modify various meeting parameters. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191593 | METHOD AND MULTI-MEDIA DEVICE FOR VIDEO COMMUNICATION - A method for two-way video communication between devices is executable by a multi-media device. The multi-media device obtains configuration information of hardware of all devices. The multi-media device obtains first voice data and first image data from a first device, transforms the first voice data and the first image data into second voice data and second image data recognizable by other remote communication devices. A multi-media device without microphone and camera can achieve video communications between local and remote communication devices. | 06-30-2016 |
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