Patents by Inventor Damian Diaz

Damian Diaz 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).

  • Direction dependent MCU/gateway
    Patent number: 10681309
    Abstract: A non-Skype multipoint control unit (MCU) is configured to operate differently for handling incoming streams from endpoints and outgoing streams from a Skype multipoint control unit. When passing incoming streams from non-Skype endpoints to a Skype conference, the non-Skype MCU acts as a gateway, passing the streams to Skype MCU as if they were coming from Skype endpoints. When receiving outgoing streams from Skype MCU, the non-Skype MCU acts as an MCU, transcoding, compositing, and scaling streams into continuous presence layouts for delivery to the non-Skype endpoints. Thus, non-Skype endpoints can participate in Skype conferences as if they were Skype endpoints, allowing a better user experience for both Skype endpoints and non-Skype endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Polycom, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adams, Eric Nylander, Damian Diaz, Chad Alexander, Joanne Kubischta, George David, Matt Parker, Jozef Saniga, Ryan Hermanson
  • DIRECTION DEPENDENT MCU/GATEWAY
    Publication number: 20180288368
    Abstract: A non-Skype multipoint control unit (MCU) is configured to operate differently for handling incoming streams from endpoints and outgoing streams from a Skype multipoint control unit. When passing incoming streams from non-Skype endpoints to a Skype conference, the non-Skype MCU acts as a gateway, passing the streams to Skype MCU as if they were coming from Skype endpoints. When receiving outgoing streams from Skype MCU, the non-Skype MCU acts as an MCU, transcoding, compositing, and scaling streams into continuous presence layouts for delivery to the non-Skype endpoints. Thus, non-Skype endpoints can participate in Skype conferences as if they were Skype endpoints, allowing a better user experience for both Skype endpoints and non-Skype endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adams, Eric Nylander, Damian Diaz, Chad Alexander, Joanne Kubischta, George David, Matt Parker, Jozef Saniga, Ryan Hermanson