ACCESS TO AUDIO OUTPUT THROUGH CAPTURING SERVICE, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO STREAMING AUDIO RECORDING AND RENDERING COMPONENTS OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM

• Main Authors: FLENNIKEN DAVID W, SELCUK ALPER, SWENSON STEVEN E, DOOLEY JAMES H.
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 30.09.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION

PURPOSE: An access to an audio output through a capturing service is provided to enable a client application to open a capturing stream with regards to a reproduction device by using an audio capturing service of an operating system, to receive access to a global audio output, so that the client application can capture the global output from an output device. CONSTITUTION: The first person(152) makes a call with the second person(172) through a packet switching network(170) by using each PC(154,174) in a PC network telephone environment(100). Each PC(154,174) has more than one microphone(164,184) for receiving inputs from ambients(166,186) including voices of the first and second persons(152,172), respectively. Each PC(154,174) has more than one speaker(162,182) with which the local persons(152,172) can listen to the voices of the remote persons(172,152).