Marcel Mwa Vanos

20070152978, Jul 5, 2007

Jul 24, 2006

11/459606

Kenneth Kocienda - Sunnyvale CA, US
Scott Herz - Santa Clara CA, US
Richard Williamson - Los Gatos CA, US
Gregory Novick - Santa Clara CA, US
Virgil King - Mountain View CA, US
Chris Blumenberg - San Francisco CA, US
Marcel Vanos - San Francisco CA, US
Bas Ording - San Francisco CA, US
Scott Forstall - Mountain View CA, US
Imran Chaudhri - San Francisco CA, US
Greg Christie - San Jose CA, US
Stephen Lemay - San Francisco CA, US

G06F 3/041

345173000

A plurality of icons are displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A respective icon in at least a subset of the plurality of icons corresponds to two or more symbols. A contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the respective icon is detected. A respective symbol in the two or more symbols to which the contact further corresponds is determined. The displayed respective icon is modified to indicate that the contact corresponds to the respective symbol.

7881235, Feb 1, 2011

Jun 25, 2004

10/877507

Bruce Arthur - Palo Alto CA, US
Marcel VanOs - San Francisco CA, US
Stephen O Lemay - San Francisco CA, US
Greg Christie - San Jose CA, US
Peter Westen - Menlo Park CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

H04L 12/16
H04Q 11/00

370261, 37920201, 709204, 709227

Multiple users participate in a conference while taking maximum advantage of hardware and bandwidth capabilities of each participant. Each user's system makes known to a directory service its hardware sending and receiving capabilities. The directory service makes this information available to other users who may then wish to join a conference with the user. An initiating user sends invitations via the directory service to the remote users. Each user that accepts an invitation transmits its network address to the initiating user, who then establishes a peer-to-peer connection with each of the remote users. Each participant system exchanges information about hardware capabilities and bandwidth, and a conference manager determines a best model for connecting each of the participants. Depending on the hardware and bandwidth capabilities of the participants, the manager chooses from a duplicate streams model, a multicast model, and a host-among-peers model for connecting the participants.