Systems and methods for distributed conferencing
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1. A method comprising:
- providing access to a distributed conferencing system that provides local meeting contents to remote participants from a plurality of circuit-based source units, each including logic circuitry configured to process communication data, using a meeting multicast group IP address; and
causing the logic circuitry to perform the steps of;
in response to generating media content responsive to and representative of respective portions of the meeting contents, identifying an IP address associated with a source unit in a corresponding announcement for a meeting to be using the generated media content, automatically configuring one of the source units and developing at least one data stream as a separately decodable real-time representation of at least a portion of the media content;
transmitting the at least one data stream to the meeting multicast group IP address; and
configuring the logic circuitry of at least two source units to transmit to a common meeting multicast group IP address after configuration data is received from another data source, and connecting to the meeting multicast group IP address to communicate via the meeting multicast group IP address.
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Abstract
Distributed conferencing systems and methods provide local meeting contents to remote participants. In accordance with various example embodiments, a plurality of authorized source units generate media content responsive to and representative of respective content for a meeting. In response to the generated media content, one or more data streams are developed at each authorized source, each stream being a separately-decodable real-time representation of at least a portion of the media content generated at the respective authorized source. The separate data streams are transmitted by each authorized source to a common multicast IP group address for retrieval/access by remote participants.
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1. A method comprising:
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providing access to a distributed conferencing system that provides local meeting contents to remote participants from a plurality of circuit-based source units, each including logic circuitry configured to process communication data, using a meeting multicast group IP address; and causing the logic circuitry to perform the steps of; in response to generating media content responsive to and representative of respective portions of the meeting contents, identifying an IP address associated with a source unit in a corresponding announcement for a meeting to be using the generated media content, automatically configuring one of the source units and developing at least one data stream as a separately decodable real-time representation of at least a portion of the media content; transmitting the at least one data stream to the meeting multicast group IP address; and configuring the logic circuitry of at least two source units to transmit to a common meeting multicast group IP address after configuration data is received from another data source, and connecting to the meeting multicast group IP address to communicate via the meeting multicast group IP address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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