Combining P2P and server-based conferencing

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9413540
APP PUB NO 20130028115A1
SERIAL NO

13539584

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A system and a method for teleconferencing including a plurality of terminals, a plurality of peer servers and at least one conferencing servers, where the terminals measure their channel quality, create at least one group of terminals according to their channel quality measurements, and using a coding scheme adaptive to the channel quality measurements. The terminals communicate conferencing content via peer-to-peer communication, directly between terminals who are members of the group of terminals, and using the selected coding scheme, and communicate the same conferencing content with other terminals participating in the conferencing call via at least one network device such as a conferencing-server and a peer-server. Where the conferencing-server and/or the peer-server provide conversion for the conferencing content, adaptive to the other terminals.

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RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING COMPANY INC4 TECHNOLOGY PARK DR WESTFORD MA 01886

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nerst, Alex Ashdod, IL 8 39
Sandlerman, Nimrod Ramat-Gan, IL 83 2686
Shechter, Avi Ramot Hashavim, IL 6 30

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