Methods and systems for management of continuous group presence using video conferencing

    公开(公告)号:US10567707B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-18

    申请号:US15783464

    申请日:2017-10-13

    Inventor: Luke Ma

    Abstract: Continuous group presence is managed during a video conference by, for example, connecting a first video conferencing endpoint to a video conference session having at least one secondary video conferencing endpoint, receiving a trigger condition at the first video conference endpoint, determining if the trigger condition exceeds a predetermined threshold, and transmitting through the video conference session, a trigger notification, wherein the trigger notification enables an audio connection from the first conferencing endpoint to at least one secondary video conferencing endpoint.

    Systems and methods for scalable distributed global infrastructure for real-time multimedia communication

    公开(公告)号:US09232191B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-05

    申请号:US13955646

    申请日:2013-07-31

    CPC classification number: H04N7/152 H04N5/265 H04N7/141

    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support the operation of a Virtual Media Room or Virtual Meeting Room (VMR), wherein each VMR can accept from a plurality of participants at different geographic locations a variety of video conferencing feeds of audio and video streams from video conference endpoints. A globally distributed infrastructure that supports operations of the VMR through a plurality of MCUs (Multipoint Control Unit) built from off-the-shelf components instead of custom hardware as media processing nodes, each configured to process the plurality of audio and video streams from the plurality of video conference endpoints in real time. Each single VMR can be implemented and supported across the infrastructure of globally distributed set of servers/media processing nodes co-located in Points of Presence (POPs) for Internet access, wherein such massively distributed architecture can support thousands of simultaneously active VMRs and yet is transparent to the users of the VMRs.

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