SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CONFERENCING

Patent №

US 6,989,856

Granted

2006-01-24

Filed 2003

Owner

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10703859

A method for executing a video conference is provided that includes receiving one or more audio streams associated with a video conference from one or more end points and determining an active speaker associated with one of the end points. Audio information associated with the active speaker may be received at one or more media switches. One or more video streams may be suppressed except for a selected video stream associated with the active speaker, the selected video stream propagating to one or more of the media switches during the video conference. The selected video stream may be replicated such that it may be communicated to one or more of the end points associated with a selected one of the media switches.

PlanningH04N 7/14H04L 12/1822H04L 65/4046H04L 65/765H04M 3/567H04N 7/15H04M 2207/20

AI classification

Planning0.53
Natural language0.02
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 150300011

Assignors

FIRESTONE, SCOTT S., FRIEDRICH, WALTER R., ISMAIL, NERMIN M., LANTZ, KEITH A., SARKAR, SHANTANU, SURAZSKI, LUKE K., WU, DUANPEI

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