Patents by Inventor Odd Arild Skaflestad

Odd Arild Skaflestad 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).

  • Endpoint initiation of multipart conferences
    Patent number: 9270474
    Abstract: A method establishes a conference through a Multipoint Control Unit, MCU. The method includes pre-assigning and storing in the MCU one or more conference numbers respectively associated with a user or a multimedia terminal. The method also includes initiating a first call from a first multimedia terminal by dialing a first conference number among the one or more conference numbers, routing the first call to the MCU based on a prefix number of the first conference number, and, at a receipt of the first call in the MCU, allocating primary MCU resources and establishing the conference including the first multimedia terminal. The method further includes initiating a second call from a second multimedia terminal by dialing the first conference number, routing the second call to the MCU, and, at a receipt of the second call in the MCU, allocating secondary resources and including the second multimedia terminal in the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Odd Arild Skaflestad