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

Inactive Publication Date: 2015-10-08
CAFEX COMM
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The patent is about a way to make video calls using both new and old equipment. This helps to make the best use of resources and avoid the need for extra equipment when it's not needed. The technical effect is that this method makes videoconferencing more efficient and effective.

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Video processing is intensive and requires expensive dedicated hardware or significant quantity of commodity servers to scale to large numbers of conferences or participants.
MCU-based videoconferencing, however, merely reallocates the resource strain to the MCU service.
As the number of participants and MCU videoconferences increase, the strain may affect the quality of the videoconference environment provided by the MCU service.

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[0018]A conference system may be configured to implement a conference service for support of end-to-end communications between participants within a conference environment, such as one or more networks through which participants may effectuate two-way communication using communication devices associated with respective endpoints of the conference. While conferencing may generally be referred to herein as videoconferencing, it is to be understood that other forms of conferencing may benefit from the systems and methods described herein. As such, other types of media data may be included in data streams in addition to or instead of video or audio data, and the herein describes methods may be similarly applicable to such data or data streams.

[0019]Two-way communication generally refers to the ability of a participant to both transmit conference data to other participants as well as receive conference data transmissions from other participants. Two-way communication may include various ...

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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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IPC IPC(8): H04N7/15H04N5/265H04N7/14
CPCH04N7/152H04N5/265H04N7/147
Inventor GLASS, KEVINHOPKINS, KRISHOLVEY, JOHNO'LOUGHLIN, SEAN
Owner CAFEX COMM
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