Patent Document ID: 9128927
Application ID: 13895491

Base Claim:
1. A method for communicating, by a first endpoint in a hybrid peer-to-peer network, in an ongoing communication session with a second endpoint and a third endpoint via a bridge comprising: identifying, by the first endpoint, that the first endpoint is associated with a first spoken language, the second endpoint is associate with a second spoken language, and the third endpoint is associated with a third spoken language; sending, by the first endpoint, a request to the bridge for an inbound port and an outbound port to be provisioned on the bridge for the first endpoint; notifying, by the first endpoint, a language translation component in the hybrid peer-to-peer network of the inbound port, wherein the language translation component is accessible to the first endpoint via the hybrid peer-to-peer network, and wherein the notifying instructs the language translation component to send audio received from the first endpoint to the inbound port; sending to the language translation component, by the first endpoint, audio speech input received by the first endpoint from a user of the first endpoint, wherein the audio speech input sent by the first endpoint is in the first spoken language; and receiving, by the first endpoint, audio speech originating from the second and third endpoints from the outbound port on the bridge, wherein the audio speech received by the first endpoint via the outbound port was sent to the bridge by the second and third endpoints in the second and third spoken languages, respectively, translated into the first spoken language, and then sent to the first endpoint in the first spoken language.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving, by the first endpoint, notifications directly from each of the second and third endpoints of inbound and outbound ports corresponding to the second and third endpoints.