Multimedia communications software with network streaming and multi-format conferencing
First Claim
1. A computer system comprising two or more receiver payload handler modules and two or more corresponding decoder modules for handling and decoding two or more types of data.
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Abstract
Computers, particularly personal computers, have become everyday communications devices, nearly as common as telephones and televisions. A big reason for this is the expansion of computer networks, such as the internet, which allow sending and receiving information, including audio and video information, from one computer to one or more other computers. Communicating audio and video information between computers can be problematic because users have to wait for the information to be fully downloaded before viewing or hearing it and because different computers sometimes communicate using incompatible communications protocols, which prevents comprehension. Accordingly, the inventors devised new methods, software, and computer systems that support interactive data streaming (real-time exchange of multimedia data) and full-duplex communications, for example, network conferencing, using more than one communications protocol.
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17 Claims
- 1. A computer system comprising two or more receiver payload handler modules and two or more corresponding decoder modules for handling and decoding two or more types of data.
- 9. A computer system comprising a demultiplexer operatively coupled to two or more receiver payload handler modules or to two or more decoder modules for routing data to one of the receiver payload handlers or to one of the decoder modules based on data type.
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15. A computer-readable medium comprising:
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a first set of instructions for decoding a first type of audio or video data; and
a second set of instructions for decoding a second type of audio or video data. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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