Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and nodes for enabling a peer-to-peer teleconference
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Application No.: US14442818Application Date: 2012-11-14
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Publication No.: US10091261B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Jouni Mäenpää , Oscar Novo Diaz
- Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/SE2012/051254 WO 20121114
- International Announcement: WO2014/077743 WO 20140522
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04M3/56 ; H04N7/15 ; H04M7/00 ; H04L12/18 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Methods and nodes for enabling a teleconference involving multiple peer nodes in a P2P network (502). A first peer node (500) appoints a subset of the peer nodes to act as Floor Control Peers, FCPs, (504) in a floor control overlay by handling floor requests from peer nodes to make input to a floor in the teleconference. The first peer node (500) creates a tree structure (506) of the appointed FCPs which is distributed to the P2P network and can be accessed by a joining peer node to discover a primary FCP in the tree and send floor requests to the primary FCP. A floor chair function (508) is also created in the floor control overlay maintaining a floor record (508a) with information about floor utilization which can be provided to the FCPs. Thereby, joining peer nodes are enabled to join the teleconference and find respective primary FCPs in the floor control overlay based on the tree structure, and to make input to the at least one floor of the teleconference depending on the information in the floor record. In this way, the teleconference is handled by the appointed FCPs and does not require any centralized components for floor control.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150295965A1 METHODS AND NODES FOR ENABLING A PEER-TO-PEER TELECONFERENCE Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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