System and method for providing internet based phone conferences using multiple codecs

摘要

A method of communicating digitized speech from a transmitting forum participant comprises the step of receiving a data structure that includes said digitized speech. The data structure is analyzed to determine whether the digitized speech is redundantly represented in a plurality of forms in the data structure. A portion of the data structure is forwarded to a receiving forum participant, thereby communicating the digitized speech from the transmitting forum participant. In this method, when the digitized speech is redundantly represented in the data structure in a plurality of forms, the forwarding step includes a step of selecting one or more forms, based on a function, from the plurality of forms in the data structure. Furthermore, the portion of the data structure that is forwarded to the receiving forum participant includes data in the data structure that corresponds to each of the selected one or more forms.

主权项

1. A method of speech communication, comprising:
analyzing, at a server, a data unit received from a first client system via a communication channel to determine a number and types of redundant digitized speech representations in the received data unit; determining at least one second client system to which at least one of the redundant digitized speech representations are to be forwarded and determining which of the redundant digitized speech representations are to be forwarded to the at least one second client system; and routing the at least one of the redundant digitized speech representations to the at least one second client system, in accordance with said determining which of the redundant digitized speech representations are to be forwarded.