Patent ID: 7551573

Claim:
A video conferencing system comprising: an interactive voice response system operable to: transmit and receive packets; automatically query a user and respond to a response to the query; detect a query from a video conference terminal regarding whether the interactive voice response system is capable of communicating video data; respond to the query by indicating the interactive voice response system is capable of processing video data even if the interactive voice response system is not capable of processing video data; detect receipt by the interactive voice response system of a first plurality of packets representative of video data from a video conference terminal, each of the first plurality of packets comprising a header and a payload; and reflect back to the source a copy of the first plurality of packets representative of the video data, each packet of the copy having a modified header and an unmodified payload; a multipoint control unit operable to perform one or more of the following of: receive and decode a second plurality of packets representative of video data; encode and transmit data representative of the video data based at least in part on the decoded second plurality of packets; encode the data representative of the video data; and transmit a third plurality of packets representative of the video data to the video conference terminal; and the video conference terminal comprising a camera and operable to: produce data representative of an image captured by the camera and produce the first plurality of packets in response; transmit the first plurality of packets to the interactive voice response system; render a video image on a display in response to receiving the third plurality of packets representative of video data transmitted by the multipoint control unit; and render a video image on a display representative of the image captured by the camera in response to receiving the reflected copy of the first plurality of packets.