Patents by Inventor Joanne Kubischta

Joanne Kubischta 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).

  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9866599
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20160269687
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    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