IP Library Granted Patent US 9,661,268
Granted Patent B2
US 9,661,268 · App. 14/205,831 · Granted May 23, 2017

System and method for distributing video conference data over an internet protocol television system

Inventor: Edward A Walter (Boerne, TX)
Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
H04N7/15H04L12/1813H04L65/403H04N7/152H04N21/6125H04L65/4076H04L67/303
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Patent No.
US 9,661,268
App. No.
14/205,831
Granted
May 23, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system is disclose including but not limited to a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium; a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program including but not limited to instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices' addresses; and instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel in the video system to first group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over a single video conference channel.

Claims (34)

1. A system comprising:

a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium;

a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program comprising:

instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices' addresses; and

instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel number in a video system to first group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over the single video conference channel number.

2. The system of claim 1 , the computer program further comprising:

instructions to send from a second client device to the server, second video conference data to a second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses to the server; and

instructions to send a second conference video data to the server, the second video conference data to be sent from the server to the second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses over the single video conference channel number.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the first and second client devices are the same client device.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the first and second client devices are not the same client device.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising:

a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program comprising:

instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices' addresses; and

instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel number in a video system to first group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over the single video conference channel number.

6. The system of claim 5 , the computer program further comprising:

instructions to send from a second client device to the server, second video conference data to a second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses to the server; and

instructions to send a second conference video data to the server, the second video conference data to be sent from the server to the second group of video conference participants' end user devices addresses over the single video conference channel number.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the first and second client devices are the same client device.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the first and second client devices are not the same client device.

9. A system for distributing video conference data over a video system, the system comprising:

a processor;

a computer readable medium in data communication with the processor, the computer readable medium containing a computer program for execution by the processor, the computer program comprising instructions to allocate at a server in the video system, a single video conference channel number for viewing at an end user device by each of a plurality of groups of video conference participants' end user devices, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data for viewing over the single video conference channel number;

instructions to map at the server, a first one of a plurality of internet protocol addresses for a first one of a plurality of video conferences data to a first group of video conference participants' end user devices internet protocol addresses, wherein the first one of the plurality of video conferences data and a second one of the plurality of video conferences data are different video conference data;

instructions to send duplicated audio data, concurrently with a video broadcast during the video conference, to a mobile device associated with a video conference participant associated with one of the plurality of end user devices in the first group whom has left the one of the plurality of end user devices in the first group during the video conference; and

instructions to send from the server over the single video conference channel number from a second one of the plurality of internet protocol addresses, the second one of the plurality of video conferences internet protocol data to a second group of video conference participants' end user device.

10. The system of claim 9 , the computer program further comprising:

instructions to access first end user device data at the server indicating a first group of video conference participants' end user devices in the plurality of groups of video conference participants' end user devices, the first group of end user devices being associated with a first one of the plurality of video conferences data.

11. The system of claim 10 , the computer program further comprising:

instructions to map at the server, an internet protocol address for the first one of the plurality of video conferences data to the first group of video conference participants' end user devices internet protocol addresses.

12. The system of claim 10 , the computer program further comprising:

instructions to send from the server over the single video conference channel number from the first one of the plurality of addresses, the first one of the plurality of video conferences data to the first group of video conference participants' end user devices.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first video conference data further comprises audio data, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to map the audio data to an address for a mobile device associated with an end user device for a video conference participant; and

instructions to receive audio data from the mobile device address.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 040704 FRAME: 0138. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jul 12, 2017
From: WALTER, EDWARD A.
To: SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
Reel/Frame 043176/0902 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 12, 2017
From: SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
To: AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
Reel/Frame 043176/0906 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 12, 2017
From: AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 043176/0908 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2016
From: WALTER, EDWARD A
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1, L.P.
Reel/Frame 040704/0138 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 11399048 · Apr 6, 2006
Continuation 12627344 · Nov 30, 2009
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