Patent ID: 6343116
Filing Date: 2002-01-29
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A computer telephony call control system, usable by an application program running on a computing device, the computing device comprising one or more multimedia devices for sourcing one or more media stream components of a computer telephony call, the system comprising:a media control manager for searching for said one or more multimedia devices for sourcing said one or more media steam components of the computer telephony call and for instantiating a media control object for each of said one or more multimedia devices identified from the search; at least one call control object for controlling the computer telephony call by (1) receiving commands from, and delivering status information to, the application program and (2) marshalling said one or more multimedia devices to support the computer telephony call; and each of the instantiated media control objects responding to commands from the at least one call control object for controlling one of the one or more multimedia devices supporting the telephony call and the one or more media stream components of the computer telephony call sourced from said one of the one or more multimedia devices.