Television – Two-way video and voice communication – User positioning
Patent
1994-07-08
1996-09-10
Cumming, William
Television
Two-way video and voice communication
User positioning
H04M 1100, H04N 715
Patent
active
055550177
ABSTRACT:
Techniques are disclosed for controlling the communication of multimedia electronic signals representing audio, video, and/or data. These techniques operate in conjunction with a system including a network and a plurality of endpoint devices connected to the network. A novel MMS is coupled to the network and is equipped to utilize the network such that multimedia signals may be exchanged among a plurality of endpoint devices, thereby providing a multimedia conference. A Multi-Media Server (MMS) provides a multimedia conference independently, such that the reservation system utilized by existing multimedia conferencing system is no longer required. The conference is initiated by a multimedia endpoint that is equipped with a user interface device for encoding user input as BAS signals. The MMS is responsive to BAS DTMF commands issued by endpoint devices to implement multimedia conferences.
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Landante Diane G.
Skran Dale L.
Snowdon Arthur R.
Bartholomew Steven R.
Cumming William
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Woo Stella L.
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