Patent ID: 8250142
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. In a home networking environment with a television client, a method for a computing device with connectivity to the Internet to provide video conferencing, the method comprising: receiving, by the computing device, incoming video conferencing data from a video conferencing party on the Internet; transmitting, by the computing device, conferencing user interface data representing the incoming video conferencing data over the home network to the television client for display on a television, wherein the computing device utilizes a first transmission protocol and data tunneling to perform the transmitting; receiving, by the computing device, outgoing video conferencing data from the television client, wherein the computing device utilizes a second transmission protocol and the data tunneling to perform the receiving, the second transmission protocol being different from the first transmission protocol; and forwarding, by the computing device, the outgoing video conferencing data to the video conferencing party on the Internet.