Framework to support a hybrid of meshed endpoints with non-meshed endpoints

US20150288926A1Inactive Publication Date: 2015-10-08CAFEX COMM
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
CAFEX COMM
Publication Date
2015-10-08
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A videoconferencing system includes a hybrid MCU configured to act as a hybrid mesh participant in a videoconference. The hybrid MCU may include a processing module to mix videoconference media data received by the hybrid MCU in data streams transmitted from mesh and non-mesh endpoints. The hybrid MCU may further include a forking module to fork combined video / audio data streams received by the hybrid MCU to provide separate video and audio data streams to each mesh endpoint. The hybrid MCU may be configured to provide a mixed video / audio data steam to each non-mesh endpoint of the videoconference.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 974,849 filed on Apr. 3, 2014, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.TECHNICAL FIELD

[0002] The present application is directed to videoconferencing. More specifically, the present application is directed to a hybrid framework to support meshed and non-meshed endpoints in a mesh videoconference.BACKGROUND

[0003] Videoconference services provide two-way media data conferencing between multiple conference participants that may be associated with different networks, endpoints, or remote locations. Video processing is intensive and requires expensive dedicated hardware or significant quantity of commodity servers to scale to large numbers of conferences or participants. One videoconferencing technique is mesh-based videoconferencing wherein endpoints exchange streams of media data transmissions. Mesh-based videoconferencing requir...

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