Christian Lorenzo Carpico

20030091046, May 15, 2003

Nov 13, 2001

10/054230

Zheng Fang - Horsham PA, US
Christian Carpico - Schwenksville PA, US

General Instrument Corporation

H04L012/56

370/392000, 370/401000

A virtual gateway bridges voice and related signaling traffic between multiple endpoints behind the same or different Network Address Translation devices or firewalls or neither. The virtual gateway also serves as a mixer when used in a teleconferencing mode, which handles a number of endpoints that are behind the same Network Address Translation device or firewall or not. In this mode, the virtual gateway mixes packets on its incoming side with other packets on its incoming side so that all outgoing packets include voice (or other) data from all sources. The embodiments herein may be used with Voice over IP (VoIP) connections and applications, as well as other applications in which two or more endpoints are attempting to establish a communications channel and their IP addresses are otherwise not suitable for the communications application.

20070115997, May 24, 2007

Oct 10, 2006

11/539924

Zheng Fang - Horsham PA, US
Christian Carpico - Schwenksville PA, US

GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATE - Horsham PA

H04L 12/56

370392000, 370401000

A virtual gateway bridges voice and related signaling traffic between multiple endpoints behind the same or different Network Address Translation devices or firewalls or neither. The virtual gateway also serves as a mixer when used in a teleconferencing mode, which handles a number of endpoints that are behind the same Network Address Translation device or firewall or not. In this mode, the virtual gateway mixes packets on its incoming side with other packets on its incoming side so that all outgoing packets include voice (or other) data from all sources. The embodiments herein may be used with Voice over IP (VoIP) connections and applications, as well as other applications in which two or more endpoints are attempting to establish a communications channel and their IP addresses are otherwise not suitable for the communications application.

20070133785, Jun 14, 2007

Dec 9, 2005

11/298029

Christopher Cotignola - Doylestown PA, US
Christian Carpico - Schwenksville PA, US
Alexander Feldman - Huntingdon Valley PA, US

H04M 1/00
H04M 3/00

379373010

An audio clip is provided as a ringback tone for an incoming call. A specific audio clip may be dedicated for specific callers or for a group of callers. A processor detects an incoming call and determines if an audio clip is assigned for the caller based on communication information associated with the caller such as Caller ID. The processor may also determine that the original ringback tones should be provided to an individual caller. The audio clips may be downloaded to the processor by a user and may be assigned to specific callers by the user.