Patents by Inventor Lukas S. Heusler

Lukas S. Heusler 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).

  • Conferencing system
    Patent number: 6509925
    Abstract: A distributed multipoint conferencing system (3) comprises a plurality of participating terminals (31;32;33) for sending and receiving media streams in a conferencing interchange; the system further includes at least one multipoint distributor (30) (MD) connected to one terminal (31) for receiving at least one or all media streams from that terminal (31) but not from any other of the participating (32;33); the multipoint distributor (30) is connected to the other participating terminals (32;33) for sending the media stream or streams received from the MD-associated terminal (31) to the other participating terminals (32;33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Dermler, Claudio Fleiner, Marcel Graf, Lukas S. Heusler, Hong Linh Truong