Methods and systems for interfacing heterogeneous endpoints and web-based media sources in a video conference

US9300705B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Blue Jeans Network, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Alagu Periyannan · Palo Alto, US
• Prasad R. Mohire · Menlo Park, US
• Michael Grupenhoff · Sunnyvale, US
• Swaroop Kulkarni · San Jose, US
• Akshay Kumar Sridharan · Santa Clara, US
• Nithin A. Prakash · Bengaluru, IN
• Emmanuel Weber · Mountain View, US
• Anand Raghavan · Middleton, US
• Kelly Kai Ming Wong · Washington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 17, 2014
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N7/152
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Described herein are methods and systems for interfacing heterogeneous endpoints and web-based media sources in a video conference. Interfacing heterogeneous endpoints can be challenging due to audio/video (A/V) streams being encoded in a format that is proprietary to a media provider of the A/V stream (e.g., format that is proprietary to Skype). To address such a challenge, a client application from the media provider may be installed at a virtual machine, and may be used to decode A/V streams that are encoded in a format proprietary to the media provider. Further, to display content from a web-based media source (e.g., YouTube) in a video conference, a browser may be installed at a virtual machine, and may be used to virtually render a media signal from the web-based media source, such virtually rendered media signal subsequently being captured and presented in a video conference.