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Distributed conference bridge

  • US 20070041366A1
  • Filed: 05/22/2006
  • Published: 02/22/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implemented method for communication, comprising:

  • specifying a group of packet telephony terminals that are to participate in a telephone conference;

    defining, based on the list, a conference topology in which at least two of the terminals serve as bridge nodes, comprising at least first and second bridge nodes, which are associated respectively with mutually-disjoint first and second sets of the terminals, each of the first and second sets comprising one or more of the terminals;

    setting up telephony connections over a packet network between the first and second bridge nodes, and between the first bridge node and each of the terminals in the first set, and between the second bridge node and each of the terminals in the second set; and

    mixing, at each of the bridge nodes, audio signals conveyed over the telephony connections so as to join the first and second sets of the terminals together with the first and second bridge nodes in the telephone conference.

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