System and method for distributing video conference data over an internet protocol television system

• US 9,661,268 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Walter, Edward A
• Primary Examiner(s): RECEK, JASON D
• Application Number:
  US14/205,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20140192143A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,168 Days
• Field of Search: 709204, 709203, 709219, 725 86, 725 87
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

A system is disclose including but not limited to a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium; a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program including but not limited to instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices'"'"' addresses; and instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel in the video system to first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over a single video conference channel.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium;

a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program comprising;

instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices'"'"' addresses; and

instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel number in a video system to first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over the single video conference channel number.

2. The system of claim 1, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to send from a second client device to the server, second video conference data to a second group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses to the server; and

instructions to send a second conference video data to the server, the second video conference data to be sent from the server to the second group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses over the single video conference channel number.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the first and second client devices are the same client device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the first and second client devices are not the same client device.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising:

a computer program stored in the computer readable medium, the computer program comprising;

instructions to send from a first client device to a server, data indicating a first list designating a first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices'"'"' addresses; and

instructions to send from the client device to the server, a first video conference data, the first video conference data to be sent from the server over a single video conference channel number in a video system to first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data over the single video conference channel number.

6. The system of claim 5, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to send from a second client device to the server, second video conference data to a second group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses to the server; and

instructions to send a second conference video data to the server, the second video conference data to be sent from the server to the second group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices addresses over the single video conference channel number.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the first and second client devices are the same client device.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the first and second client devices are not the same client device.

9. A system for distributing video conference data over a video system, the system comprising:

a processor;

a computer readable medium in data communication with the processor, the computer readable medium containing a computer program for execution by the processor, the computer program comprising instructions to allocate at a server in the video system, a single video conference channel number for viewing at an end user device by each of a plurality of groups of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices, wherein each of a plurality of groups of end user devices receives a different one of a plurality of video conferences data for viewing over the single video conference channel number;

instructions to map at the server, a first one of a plurality of internet protocol addresses for a first one of a plurality of video conferences data to a first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices internet protocol addresses, wherein the first one of the plurality of video conferences data and a second one of the plurality of video conferences data are different video conference data;

instructions to send duplicated audio data, concurrently with a video broadcast during the video conference, to a mobile device associated with a video conference participant associated with one of the plurality of end user devices in the first group whom has left the one of the plurality of end user devices in the first group during the video conference; and

instructions to send from the server over the single video conference channel number from a second one of the plurality of internet protocol addresses, the second one of the plurality of video conferences internet protocol data to a second group of video conference participants'"'"' end user device.

10. The system of claim 9, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to access first end user device data at the server indicating a first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices in the plurality of groups of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices, the first group of end user devices being associated with a first one of the plurality of video conferences data.

11. The system of claim 10, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to map at the server, an internet protocol address for the first one of the plurality of video conferences data to the first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices internet protocol addresses.

12. The system of claim 10, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to send from the server over the single video conference channel number from the first one of the plurality of addresses, the first one of the plurality of video conferences data to the first group of video conference participants'"'"' end user devices.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the first video conference data further comprises audio data, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to map the audio data to an address for a mobile device associated with an end user device for a video conference participant; and

instructions to receive audio data from the mobile device address.