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We are thrilled to announce that two University of Strathclyde community members are representing Team GB at the Paris Olympics! 🏅🇬🇧 Alumna…
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It makes me incredibly proud of our teams and our products, to hear these comments from such a valuable customer: “For multi-channel, customer…
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Lifecycle management provides an effective approach toward delivering safe, effective AI-enabled Health Care. FDA welcomes your feedback on our…
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How the Internet Helps Build Collaborative Multimedia Applications
Communications of the ACM
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ATM to the Desktop: Impacting Modern Business Communications with Broadband Technology
Telematics and Informatics (Special Issue on Multimedia Technologies, Systems, and Applications)
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Supporting Interoperation of Continuous Media Objects
Theory and Practice of Object Systems (Special Issue on Distributed Object Management)
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Experiences of Constructing Multimedia Applications over ATM
Multimedia Services Over the Broadband Network: Current and Future Technologies, International Engineering Consortium, ISBN 0-933217-21-8
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Constructing Multimedia Applications over ATM
International Engineering Consortium 1994-95 Annual Review of Communications, 48, ISBN 0-933217-14-5
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An Experiment in ATM Support for Telemedicine
Proc. 1st Annual Technical Conference on Telecommunications R&D in Massachusetts
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WWWinda: An Orchestration Service for WWW Clients and Browsers
Proc. 2nd International WWW Conference, Chicago, IL
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Experiences of Developing Distributed Multimedia Business Applications
Proc. IEEE ‘94 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Boston, MA
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Object Orientation in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
IEEE Computer
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The WWWinda Orchestrator: A Mechanism for Coordinating Distributed Flocks of Java Applets
Proc. Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997, San Jose, CA
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Operating System Design for Distributed Programming Environments
Ph.D. Thesis, Lancaster University (ISBN 0-X5068-7859)
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System and Method for Real-time Adaptation of a Conferencing System to Current Conditions of a Conference Session
Issued US 10,091,461 B2
A system and method provide a rule-based technique for adapting a videoconferencing system to current conditions of a conference session, automatically converting the session from one conferencing technique to another, based on those current conditions. Rules may involve criteria including number of participants, ability to use a common codex, among others. An escalation module can be used to manage the transition between one type of conference session and another. If a condition occurs that…
A system and method provide a rule-based technique for adapting a videoconferencing system to current conditions of a conference session, automatically converting the session from one conferencing technique to another, based on those current conditions. Rules may involve criteria including number of participants, ability to use a common codex, among others. An escalation module can be used to manage the transition between one type of conference session and another. If a condition occurs that causes transitioning the conference from one type to another, when that condition no longer applies, the conference may automatically transition back to the original conferencing type.
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Methods and Systems for Generating Specialized Indexes of Recorded Meetings
Filed US US20160342639
Disclosed are systems and methods for creating indexes of recorded meetings, and particularly for creating refined indexes of recorded meeting. By way of example only, the system can record a meeting and create a starting index for the meeting based on keyword spotting. The system can also detect events that occur during the meeting that may reflect topic changes. The starting index can then be updated to reflect the topic changes to create a more useful and condensed meeting index.
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Methods and Systems for Selection of Multimedia Presentations
Issued US 9,235,576
Described are a variety of techniques for viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for the speed and direction of the multimedia presentation. Different techniques for presenting multimedia data items are disclosed. User controls providing control for speed and direction in accordance with a user selection device being in a particular location. When a user device is with the defined area, the speed and direction control are on. When the user selection device leaves…
Described are a variety of techniques for viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for the speed and direction of the multimedia presentation. Different techniques for presenting multimedia data items are disclosed. User controls providing control for speed and direction in accordance with a user selection device being in a particular location. When a user device is with the defined area, the speed and direction control are on. When the user selection device leaves the defined area, the speed and direction are off. Also described is a system using a browser tool for displaying multimedia data in accordance with these viewing techniques. Multimedia data items displayed with the viewing techniques are indices into multimedia presentations. A user selection is made by viewing the multimedia data items and control is transferred accordingly to an appropriate application to present a multimedia presentation corresponding to a selected multimedia data item.
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Flexible Decomposition and Recomposition of Multimedia Streams Using Real-Time Control Information
Issued US 8310520
A multimedia conferencing system is presented that can modify the composite multimedia stream into separate multimedia streams. Two or more video conference participants send multimedia streams, capturing and encoding the conference at the participant's location, to a multimedia server. The multimedia server includes a multipoint control unit that creates a composite multimedia display, which includes video regions corresponding to at least two of the multimedia streams from the participants. A…
A multimedia conferencing system is presented that can modify the composite multimedia stream into separate multimedia streams. Two or more video conference participants send multimedia streams, capturing and encoding the conference at the participant's location, to a multimedia server. The multimedia server includes a multipoint control unit that creates a composite multimedia display, which includes video regions corresponding to at least two of the multimedia streams from the participants. A composite multimedia stream describes the composite multimedia display. The ancillary server receives the composite multimedia stream from the multipoint control unit together with static and dynamic control information, which describes the format and layout of the composite multimedia display and the composite multimedia stream. Using the dynamic and static control information, the ancillary server decomposes the composite multimedia stream into two or more constituent streams. The two or more constituent streams may then be separately processed.
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Real Time Media Journaler with a Timing Event Coordinator
Issued US 6665835 B1
A media journaling method and apparatus provides an ability for capturing an event, such as a seminar style presentation with visual aids, in real-time and coordinating other related events as they occur, and then processing the combination to create a synchronized multimedia record of events. The presentation is captured in real-time, and the audio/video converted to digital format, and using post-processing techniques, within a very short period thereafter, the related presentation material…
A media journaling method and apparatus provides an ability for capturing an event, such as a seminar style presentation with visual aids, in real-time and coordinating other related events as they occur, and then processing the combination to create a synchronized multimedia record of events. The presentation is captured in real-time, and the audio/video converted to digital format, and using post-processing techniques, within a very short period thereafter, the related presentation material such as slides and user notes are combined and synchronized therewith. The new presentation is then made available on a network such as the Internet through a media journal player. The player is, for example, web browser based and allows the user to view the whole presentation, or allows for seeking to different places in the presentation while maintaining the synchronization. A user is able to add new events that are synchronized to the presentation using a timing event coordinator that tracks relative discrete time changes of the new events.
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