BIFURCATED CONFERENCING FUNCTIONS
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- at least one communication interface for coupling to a communication network;
at least one processor coupled to the communication interface; and
at least one storage element, storing instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the instructions comprising;
instructions executable to receive media content from a plurality of media sources;
instructions executable to obtain control information associated with the received media content; and
instructions executable to select media content from the received media content for presentation to at least one media destination in association with at least one media conference based on the control information.
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Abstract
A source conference function is provided for each source device, and a destination conference function is provided for each destination device. Any given user terminal may act as both a destination device when receiving media content and a source device when sending media content to facilitate bidirectional conferencing. The source device generates media content, which is sent to the associated source conference function. In general, the source conference function identifies destination conference functions to which the media content should be delivered, and delivers the media content to the identified destination conference functions. Any given destination conference function receives the media content from this and other source conference functions. The media content received from all or select of the source conference functions may be processed by the destination conference function as desired, and then mixed together to form destination media content, which is delivered to the destination device.
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1. A system comprising:
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at least one communication interface for coupling to a communication network; at least one processor coupled to the communication interface; and at least one storage element, storing instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the instructions comprising; instructions executable to receive media content from a plurality of media sources; instructions executable to obtain control information associated with the received media content; and instructions executable to select media content from the received media content for presentation to at least one media destination in association with at least one media conference based on the control information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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