"Cloud-Based Interoperability Platform for Video Conferencing" in Patent Application Approval Process - Politics & Government Week | HighBeam Research

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- A patent application by the inventors Gage, Steven (Merrick, NY); Sethuraman, Aravind (Piscataway, NJ); Chiorazzi, Lou (New York, NY), filed on November 1, 2012, was made available online on May 9, 2013, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews correspondents.

Patent application serial number 666373 is assigned to Teliris, Inc.

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Conferencing systems generally employ specialized hardware known as multipoint control units (MCU's) to support video and/or audio conferencing. A problem with MCU's are that they are generally expensive, are capable of handling limited types of communication protocols or codecs, and generally are limited in the number of simultaneous connections that they can support with other hardware devices in a conferencing system. …