Electronic conferencing system capable of communicating data through a local area network
First Claim
1. An electronic conferencing system comprising a communications stack conforming to a non-Local Area Network (LAN) based conferencing protocol, the communication stack including a transmission formatter and being coupled to a LAN to exchange non-LAN data with the LAN, the non-LAN date conforming to formats supported by the non-LAN based conferencing protocol and the transmission formatter to operate with any combinations of non-LAN date conforming to the formats.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving non-Local Area Network (LAN)electronic conferencing data over a LAN is disclosed. The method involves an electronic conferencing system with a communication stack conforming to a non-LAN based conferencing protocol. However, the communication stack exchanges the non-LAN data with the LAN. The communication stack may further include a transmission formatter conforming to the non-LAN based conferencing protocol and a modular interface layer, coupled to the transmission formatter. The modular interface layer exchanges the non-LAN data with the LAN.
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21 Claims
- 1. An electronic conferencing system comprising a communications stack conforming to a non-Local Area Network (LAN) based conferencing protocol, the communication stack including a transmission formatter and being coupled to a LAN to exchange non-LAN data with the LAN, the non-LAN date conforming to formats supported by the non-LAN based conferencing protocol and the transmission formatter to operate with any combinations of non-LAN date conforming to the formats.
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5. A method of communication non-Local Area Network (LAN) electronic conferencing data over a LAN, comprising:
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conforming a conferencing system to a non-LAN based conferencing protocol, the conferencing system including a communication stack having a transmission formatter; and
conforming the communication stack to the non-LAN based conferencing protocol to exchange the non-LAN electronic conferencing data with the LAN, the non-LAN electronic conferencing data conforming to formats supported by the non-LAN based conferencing protocol, and the transmission formatter to operate with any combination of the non-LAN electronic conferencing data. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A machine readable medium having embodied thereon instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes said machine to:
transmit and receive non-LAN electronic conferencing data over a Local Area Network (LAN), said instructions comprising a communication stack having a transmission formatter and conforming to a non-LAN based conferencing protocol to exchange the non-LAN electronic conferencing data with the LAN, the non-LAN electronic conferencing data conforming to formats supported by the non-LAN based conferencing protocol, and the transmission formatter to operate with any combination of the electronic conferencing data. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of communicating non-Local Area Network (LAN) electronic conferencing data over a LAN, comprising:
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receiving non-LAN data; and
conforming the received non-LAN data to a non-LAN based conferencing protocol;
using a module interface layer to define at least one function to operate with a non-LAN based conferencing system; and
using a transmission formatter to invoke the at least one function to transfer the non-LAN data to the LAN. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for transmitting and receiving non-LAN (Local Area Network) data over a LAN network comprising:
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an application layer interface to receive non-LAN data;
a system control communicatively coupled to the application layer interface to provide control and indication information to a communication stack through the application layer interface;
the communication stack communicatively coupled to the application layer interface to format data for transmitting via a LAN by conforming itself to a non-LAN based protocol using;
a transmission formatter to collect and package the non-LAN data and control and indication information into a predetermined data packet format; and
a modular interface to coordinate and exchange data packet information with network interface hardware; and
the network interface hardware communicatively coupled to the communication stack to transmit the formatted data to a LAN. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
dialing information;
frame alignment information; and
transmission error information.
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20. The system of claim 18, wherein the modular interface layer coordinates and exchanges data packet information with the network interface hardware by providing at least one non-LAN based function for the transmission formatter to invoke.
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21. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one non-LAN based function comprises functions supported by Win32®
- Application Programming Interface (API).
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