Patents by Inventor Aviv Eisenberg
Aviv Eisenberg has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10091461Abstract: A system and method provide a rule-based technique for adapting a videoconferencing system to current conditions of a conference session, automatically converting the session from one conferencing technique to another, based on those current conditions. Rules may involve criteria including number of participants, ability to use a common codex, among others. An escalation module can be used to manage the transition between one type of conference session and another. If a condition occurs that causes transitioning the conference from one type to another, when that condition no longer applies, the conference may automatically transition back to the original conferencing type.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Eran Decker, John Raymond Nicol, Michael Robert Tucker
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Patent number: 9866599Abstract: An intermediary server allows endpoints connected to two different types of conferencing systems to participate in an integrated conference without requiring plugins to be installed at each endpoint. A conference identifier provided by a first type of conferencing system can be used by endpoints of a second type of conferencing system by allowing the intermediary server to send the conference identifier to a server of the first type of conferencing system and receive a link that a server of the second type of conferencing system can use to connect to the first type of conferencing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Rami Boneh, Joanne Kubischta, Paul Regenhardt, Alan Segal, Jeff Adams, Aviv Eisenberg, Adam Jacobs, Erez Avraham, Eran Decker, Assaf Weissblat, Noa Reiter, Boris Sirotin, Inga Levi
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Publication number: 20160269687Abstract: An intermediary server allows endpoints connected to two different types of conferencing systems to participate in an integrated conference without requiring plugins to be installed at each endpoint. A conference identifier provided by a first type of conferencing system can be used by endpoints of a second type of conferencing system by allowing the intermediary server to send the conference identifier to a server of the first type of conferencing system and receive a link that a server of the second type of conferencing system can use to connect to the first type of conferencing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Rami Boneh, Joanne Kubischta, Paul Regenhardt, Alan Segal, Jeff Adams, Aviv Eisenberg, Adam Jacobs, Erez Avraham, Eran Decker, Assaf Weissblat, Noa Reiter, Boris Sirotin, Inga Levi
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Patent number: 9392225Abstract: An incidental virtual meeting (IVM) system deployed in multiple rooms can be used to provide a “virtual cafeteria” allowing for incidental meetings and video conferences. Wall endpoints in each room may detect the presence of a person in a proximity to the IVM (wall) endpoint and establish a connection to the associated wall endpoint in the other room, to allow unplanned meetings to occur. A room may have multiple wall endpoints, allowing the room to be connected to more than one other rooms.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventor: Aviv Eisenberg
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Publication number: 20150103137Abstract: A system and method provide a rule-based technique for adapting a videoconferencing system to current conditions of a conference session, automatically converting the session from one conferencing technique to another, based on those current conditions. Rules may involve criteria including number of participants, ability to use a common codex, among others. An escalation module can be used to manage the transition between one type of conference session and another. If a condition occurs that causes transitioning the conference from one type to another, when that condition no longer applies, the conference may automatically transition back to the original conferencing type.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Eran Decker, John Raymond Nicol, Michael Robert Tucker
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Publication number: 20140267575Abstract: An incidental virtual meeting (IVM) system deployed in multiple rooms can be used to provide a “virtual cafeteria” allowing for incidental meetings and video conferences. Wall endpoints in each room may detect the presence of a person in a proximity to the IVM (wall) endpoint and establish a connection to the associated wall endpoint in the other room, to allow unplanned meetings to occur. A room may have multiple wall endpoints, allowing the room to be connected to more than one other rooms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Polycom, Inc.Inventor: Aviv Eisenberg
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Patent number: 8704871Abstract: One or more horizontal stripes are defined in a continuous presence video conferencing image, comprising one or more segments of the video image. The horizontal stripes may have different heights. A horizontal stripe builder associated with a continuous presence videoconferencing port composes and compresses the horizontal stripe from two or more video images received from a plurality of endpoints of the video conferencing system. A continuous presence image stream generator organizes compressed horizontal strips into a plurality of compressed continuous presence video streams for sending toward sites of the video conferencing system.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Niv Wagner, Eyal Leviav, Craig Clapp
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Patent number: 8638355Abstract: A user can design their own custom composed view for a videoconference depending on the users' individualized needs. The view can include segments (windows) in which participating conferees' video images are presented and accessory elements such as window borders, text, icons, and the like. The content of the accessory elements can be linked to events within the conference or the content of other objects within the view. A custom composed view for a video conference can be designed off-line by a user, loaded into a videoconferencing device, and executed to generate the custom composed view. The videoconferencing device can synchronize the content of accessory elements with the content of other objects presented in the view.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Roni Even
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Publication number: 20120274729Abstract: A user can design their own custom composed view for a videoconference depending on the users' individualized needs. The view can include segments (windows) in which participating conferees' video images are presented and accessory elements such as window borders, text, icons, and the like. The content of the accessory elements can be linked to events within the conference or the content of other objects within the view. A custom composed view for a video conference can be designed off-line by a user, loaded into a videoconferencing device, and executed to generate the custom composed view. The videoconferencing device can synchronize the content of accessory elements with the content of other objects presented in the view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Roni Even
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Patent number: 8248455Abstract: A user can design their own custom composed view for a videoconference depending on the users' individualized needs. The view can include segments (windows) in which participating conferees' video images are presented and accessory elements such as window borders, text, icons, and the like. The content of the accessory elements can be linked to events within the conference or the content of other objects within the view. A custom composed view for a video conference can be designed off-line by a user, loaded into a videoconferencing device, and executed to generate the custom composed view. The videoconferencing device can synchronize the content of accessory elements with the content of other objects presented in the view.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Roni Vistuch
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Patent number: 8223191Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Moshe Elbaz, Noam Eshkoli, Ilan Yona, Aviv Eisenberg
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Patent number: 8217987Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems of multipoint videoconferencing wherein layout description information is used to create videoconferencing displayed images of a composite video of one or more video images and one or more accessory elements. The layout description information is responsive to events in the videoconferencing session. Synchronization between the images of the composite video and the one or more accessory elements is done by using synchronization information that reflects the event.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Roni Even
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Publication number: 20120050454Abstract: One or more horizontal stripes are defined in a continuous presence video conferencing image, comprising one or more segments of the video image. The horizontal stripes may have different heights. A horizontal stripe builder associated with a continuous presence videoconferencing port composes and compresses the horizontal stripe from two or more video images received from a plurality of endpoints of the video conferencing system. A continuous presence image stream generator organizes compressed horizontal strips into a plurality of compressed continuous presence video streams for sending toward sites of the video conferencing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Niv Wagner, Eyal Leviav, Craig Clapp
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Publication number: 20120007944Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems of multipoint videoconferencing wherein layout description information is used to create videoconferencing displayed images of a composite video of one or more video images and one or more accessory elements. The layout description information is responsive to events in the videoconferencing session. Synchronization between the images of the composite video and the one or more accessory elements is done by using synchronization information that reflects the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Roni Even
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Patent number: 8035679Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems of multipoint videoconferencing wherein layout description information is used to create videoconferencing displayed images of a composite video of one or more video images and one or more accessory elements. The layout description information is responsive to events in the videoconferencing session. Synchronization between the images of the composite video and the one or more accessory elements is done by using synchronization information that reflects the event.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Aviv Eisenberg, Roni Even
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Publication number: 20090284581Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: POLYCOM ISRAEL LTD.Inventors: MOSHE ELBAZ, NOAM ESHKOLI, ILAN YONA, Aviv Eisenberg
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Patent number: 7535485Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Moshe Elbaz, Noam Eshkoli, Ilan Yona, Aviv Eisenberg
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Publication number: 20080136898Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems of multipoint videoconferencing wherein layout description information is used to create videoconferencing displayed images of a composite video of one or more video images and one or more accessory elements. The layout description information is responsive to events in the videoconferencing session. Synchronization between the images of the composite video and the one or more accessory elements is done by using synchronization information that reflects the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: AVIV EISENBERG, Roni Even
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Publication number: 20080136899Abstract: A user can design their own custom composed view for a videoconference depending on the users' individualized needs. The view can include segments (windows) in which participating conferees' video images are presented and accessory elements such as window borders, text, icons, and the like. The content of the accessory elements can be linked to events within the conference or the content of other objects within the view. A custom composed view for a video conference can be designed off-line by a user, loaded into a videoconferencing device, and executed to generate the custom composed view. The videoconferencing device can synchronize the content of accessory elements with the content of other objects presented in the view.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: AVIV EISENBERG, Roni Vistuch
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Publication number: 20040042553Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Moshe Elbaz, Noam Eshkoli, Ilan Yona, Aviv Eisenberg