Video telephone call handling system and method

Details Video telephone call handling system and method Video telephone call handling system and method

1995-12-28

1998-08-04

Woo, Stella

Television

Two-way video and voice communication

User positioning

348 12, 348 13, 348 14, 455 63, H04N 714

Patent

active

057901805

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for providing video telephone call capabilities through a combination of standard audio telephone lines and video cable TV lines. A person at a video telephone may place a call to a person who does not have a video telephone but who does have cable television service. The system transmits the audio portion of the conversation over standard telephone lines in the manner of a conventional, non-video telephone call. The video portion of the conversation, on the other hand, is concurrently transmitted over in-place cable television equipment to be viewed on the call recipient's television. Alternately, protocol conversion may be utilized in the telephone network to allow a caller and a recipient each having respectively incompatible video telephone equipment to freely communicate with one another.

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