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Teleconferencing system

  • US 7,245,710 B1
  • Filed: 04/07/1999
  • Issued: 07/17/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A teleconferencing system comprising a conference bridge having a multichannel audio connection to each of a plurality of terminal equipments, each multichannel audio connection comprising a plurality of individual audio channels, and each of the terminal equipments receiving the individual audio channels through a respective one of the multichannel audio connections, each of the terminal equipments having means to separately process each received audio channel to provide a plurality of outputs, each output representing one of the other terminal equipments;

  • wherein the conference bridge comprises a concentrator, having means to identify the currently active input channels, and to transmit only those active channels over the multichannel audio connections as the plurality of individual audio channels, together with control information identifying the transmitted channels.

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