System for teleconferencing in which collaboration types and participants by names or icons are selected by a participant of the teleconference
CA 2296189 C · Owner: Collaboration Properties, Inc. · Inventors: Burns, Emmett R.; Ludwig, Lester F.; Burnett, Gerald J.
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A multimedia collaboration system that integrates separate real-time and asynchronous networks--the, former for real-time audio and video and the latter for control signals and textual, graphical and other, data--in a manner that is interoperable across different computer and network operating system, platforms and which closely approximates the experience of face-to-face collaboration, while liberating, the participants from the limitations of time and distance. These capabilities are achieved by exploiting, a variety of hardware software and networking technologies in a manner that preserves the quality and, integrity of audio/video/data and other multimedia information even after , …
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- Filed October 3, 1994 and granted July 24, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 3, 2014.
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