Methods, systems, and products for monitoring conferences

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8989361-B2
Application number	US-201213535420-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2012
Priority date	Jan 3, 2007
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for monitoring a conference. A first bridging function is established that bridges together signals received from all conference participants. A second bridging function is established that bridges together signals received from i) a subset of the conference participants, ii) an output of the first bridging function, and iii) a monitor of the conference. The second bridging function isolates the monitor's signals from the conference such that only the subset of the conference participants may communicate with the monitor during the conference.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of monitoring a conference, comprising:
receiving, at a first splitter, first party signals sent from a first participant's device;
receiving, at a separate second splitter, second party signals from a second participant's device;
sending, from the first splitter, the first party signals to a first bridge device;
sending, from the first splitter, the first party signals to a separate second bridge device;
sending, from the separate second sp…

Assignees

• Whitfield Lloyd
• Bedingfield James Carlton
• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Whitfield Lloyd
• Bedingfield James Carlton

Classifications

• H04M3/564

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/567

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/2281

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/563

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/56 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic