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Media role management in a video conferencing network

  • US 7,139,807 B2
  • Filed: 12/19/2003
  • Issued: 11/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for displaying a multimedia conference, the multimedia conference being at least one of a video conference, an audio conference, or a data conference, the method comprising:

  • receiving a multimedia conference signal, the multimedia conference signal comprising;

    a plurality of media streams, each media stream comprising one or more media types selected from the group consisting of motion video, still video, audio, shared data, and shared applications; and

    a plurality of labels, each label corresponding to a media stream and indicating a role for the corresponding media stream, the role indicating a purpose of the media stream in the multimedia conference;

    determining a policy, the policy including one or more roles to be displayed and rules for how the roles are to be displayed; and

    displaying one or more of the media streams having a label corresponding to the one or more roles of the determined policy.

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