Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unified, browser-based enterprise collaboration platform
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Application No.: US18106905Application Date: 2023-02-07
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Publication No.: US11956317B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Charles E. Gero , Thomas Houman , Abhijit C. Mehta , Greg Burd , Vladimir Shtokman
- Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agent David H. Judson
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L65/10 ; H04L65/1093 ; H04L65/40 ; H04L65/401 ; H04L65/403 ; H04L67/104 ; H04L67/1042 ; H04L67/14 ; H04N21/00

Abstract:
A system for enterprise collaboration is associated with an overlay network, such as a content delivery network (CDN). The overlay network comprises machines capable of ingress, forwarding and broadcasting traffic, together with a mapping infrastructure. The system comprises a front-end application, a back-end application, and set of one or more APIs through which the front-end application interacts with the back-end application. The front-end application is a web or mobile application component that provides one or more collaboration functions. The back-end application comprises a signaling component that maintains state information about each participant in a collaboration, a connectivity component that manages connections routed through the overlay network, and a multiplexing component that manages a multi-peer collaboration session to enable an end user peer to access other peers' media streams through the overlay network rather than directly from another peer. Peers preferably communicate with the platform using WebRTC. A collaboration manager component enables users to configure, manage and control their collaboration sessions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230188606A1 Unified, browser-based enterprise collaboration platform Public/Granted day:2023-06-15
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