SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POINT TO POINT INTEGRATION OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS WITH VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEMS

• US 20160028995A1
• Filed: 10/08/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Polycom Incorporated (Plantronics, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kenoyer, Michael, Horowitz, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,769,423 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/28 characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks] wireless communication networks H04W ; arrangements for dividing the transmission path H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

A system and method for integrating a personal computer based presentation with a videoconferencing system. A coupling device includes a card, insertable into a PCMCIA slot of a laptop computer or like machine, which includes a cable coupled to the card at a first end and to a connector coupled at a second end. The card includes firmware for loading into RAM of the computer and software operable to execute code.

Claims

1. An apparatus for conducting videoconferences, the apparatus comprising:

a videoconferencing system at a local site configured to be coupled via a network connection to a remote videoconferencing system;

a personal computer coupled to the videoconferencing system via a local area network, wherein the personal computer executes software to cause the personal computer to stream a compressed and scaled non-video image from the personal computer to the videoconferencing system for display as a live graphic on a remote monitor.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the personal computer presents a presentation control user interface to a user for control of the compressed and scaled non-video image transmitted to the videoconferencing system.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the compressed and scaled non-video image is displayed locally by the videoconferencing system.

4. A method of integrating presentation content with a videoconference, the method comprising:

executing, on a personal computer, software causing a compressed and scaled non-video image from the personal computer to be transmitted to a videoconferencing system coupled to the personal computer via a local area network;

receiving at the videoconferencing system the compressed and scaled non-video image; and

transmitting the compressed and scaled non-video image from the videoconferencing system to a remote videoconferencing system via a network connection;

whereby the compressed and scaled non-video image can be displayed by the remote videoconferencing system.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising executing, on the personal computer, software causing a presentation control user interface to be displayed to a user.