Patent ID: 8207998
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G06Q,G08B,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A communication and control system for selectively enabling face-to-face video communications for conferences through a communication system between members of plural groups, as buyer groups, each including at least one buyer, and as vendor groups, each including at least one vendor, wherein the vendors offer different products or services via the communication and control system, or between at least one requesting party and at least one responding party for accomplishing video communication between the at least one buyer and the at least one vendor or the at least one requesting or responding parties, comprising: a control system for implementing a schedule of appointments for face-to-face video communications between the at least one buyer and vendor or the at least one requesting and responding parties, and for transmitting an email to at least one of the buyer, vendor, requesting or responding parties; interface system for accomplishing video communications between the buyers and vendors or responding and requesting parties via multiple video codec capabilities, the video communications established based upon a schedule arranged via the control system; multiple video display systems, at least one video display system for at least each of said one buyer or vendor or each of the requesting or responding parties, for viewing of select still image video data presented by one select buyer or vendor or the requesting or responding parties, the video display system communicating video displays to video display terminals for use by said one buyer or vendor or each of the requesting or responding parties, the video display terminals including an input, at least one of said video display systems being capable of operating to provide the select still image video data at the video display terminal of said one buyer or said vendor or each of the requesting or responding parties, at least one of said buyer or vendor or requesting or responding party having a capability to manipulate the still image video data via their video display terminals, a dynamic, full motion video system for providing real-time video of said buyers or vendors between them or of said requesting or responding parties between them, said full motion video system providing the real-time video at the video display terminal for each of said buyer and vendor or each of said requesting and responding parties, the real-time video including audio; an interconnect system adapted to selectively electronically couple the video display terminals for said at least one buyer or vendor or the requesting or responding parties on the basis of processing stored information including the schedule, and to permit the provision of the real-time video between the buyer and vendor or the requesting and responding parties, and a video processor adapted to selectively couple at least one buyer or vendor or one of the requesting and responding parties to enable, provision of real-time video via the multiple video codec capabilities to effect video communication between the buyers and vendors or the requesting and responding parties, said video processor being coupled to the interconnect system.