| US 5,854,893 C1 (7056th) | ||
| SYSTEM FOR TELECONFERENCING IN WHICH COLLABORATION TYPES AND PARTICIPANTS BY NAMES OR ICONS ARE SELECTED BY A PARTICIPANT OF THE TELECONFERENCE | ||
| Lester F. Ludwig, Foster City, Calif.; J. Chris Lauwers, Menlo Park, Calif.; Keith A. Lantz, Los Altos, Calif.; Gerald J. Burnett, Atherton, Calif., and Emmett R. Burns, Incline Village, Nev., assignors to Avistar Communications Corporation | ||
| Reexamination Request No. 90/009,014, Feb. 26, 2008. | ||
| Reexamination Certificate for Patent 5,854,893, issued Dec. 29, 1998, Appl. No. 660,880, Jun. 10, 1996. | ||
| Division of application No. 08/131,523, filed on Oct. 1, 1993, now Pat. No. 5,689,641. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06Q 10/00; |
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| U.S. Cl. 709—204 |
| AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
| Claims 23 and 24 are cancelled. |
| Claims 1-22 were not reexamined. |
| 1. A teleconferencing system for conducting a teleconference among a plurality of participants comprising: (a) a plurality of video display devices each having associated
(i) participant video capture capabilities, and
(ii) participant audio
(1) capture and
(2) reproduction capabilities; and
(b) at least one communication path
(i) along which signals
(1) representing participant audio and video
(ii) can be transmitted; wherein the system is configured to display,
(i) a first and a second set of potential participants in which
(1) the first set includes names of potential participants and
(2) the second set includes icons representing potential participants, and
(ii) a set of collaboration types; wherein the system is further configured to allow a selecting participant
(i) to initiate
(1) collaboration
(ii) by selecting
(1) one or more participants
i. from the displayed sets of potential participants, and
(2) at least one collaboration type
i. from the displayed set of collaboration types, and thereby
(iii) establish communication
(1) of the selected type,
(2) with each selected participant.
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