公开(公告)号：US10681309B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-09

申请号：US15939501

申请日：2018-03-29

Applicant: Polycom, Inc.

Inventor： Jeffrey Adams ,  Eric Nylander ,  Damian Diaz ,  Chad Alexander ,  Joanne Kubischta ,  George David ,  Matt Parker ,  Jozef Saniga ,  Ryan Hermanson

IPC: H04N7/15 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N19/40 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A non-Skype multipoint control unit (MCU) is configured to operate differently for handling incoming streams from endpoints and outgoing streams from a Skype multipoint control unit. When passing incoming streams from non-Skype endpoints to a Skype conference, the non-Skype MCU acts as a gateway, passing the streams to Skype MCU as if they were coming from Skype endpoints. When receiving outgoing streams from Skype MCU, the non-Skype MCU acts as an MCU, transcoding, compositing, and scaling streams into continuous presence layouts for delivery to the non-Skype endpoints. Thus, non-Skype endpoints can participate in Skype conferences as if they were Skype endpoints, allowing a better user experience for both Skype endpoints and non-Skype endpoints.

公开(公告)号：US20180288368A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-04

申请号：US15939501

申请日：2018-03-29

Applicant: Polycom, Inc.

Inventor： Jeffrey Adams ,  Eric Nylander ,  Damian Diaz ,  Chad Alexander ,  Joanne Kubischta ,  George David ,  Matt Parker ,  Jozef Saniga ,  Ryan Hermanson

IPC: H04N7/15 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N19/40

CPC classification number: H04N7/152 ,  H04L65/403 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04L65/608 ,  H04L67/2823 ,  H04L69/08 ,  H04N19/40

Abstract: A non-Skype multipoint control unit (MCU) is configured to operate differently for handling incoming streams from endpoints and outgoing streams from a Skype multipoint control unit. When passing incoming streams from non-Skype endpoints to a Skype conference, the non-Skype MCU acts as a gateway, passing the streams to Skype MCU as if they were coming from Skype endpoints. When receiving outgoing streams from Skype MCU, the non-Skype MCU acts as an MCU, transcoding, compositing, and scaling streams into continuous presence layouts for delivery to the non-Skype endpoints. Thus, non-Skype endpoints can participate in Skype conferences as if they were Skype endpoints, allowing a better user experience for both Skype endpoints and non-Skype endpoints.