Patent ID: 9549154
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. A multipoint communication server for establishing multipoint communication between a plurality of endpoints, the multipoint communication server comprising: a session control interface configured to receive a set of endpoint identifiers, wherein each endpoint identifier identifies a participating endpoint which participates to a multipoint communication session, a data repository containing the set of endpoints identifiers, a media processing unit configured to receive a first upstream media stream from a first emitting endpoint among the participating endpoints of the multipoint communication session, the media processing unit being further configured to generate a plurality of downstream media streams for the participating endpoints of the multipoint communication session, wherein the data repository further contains a first replication inhibition set associated to the first emitting endpoint, wherein the first replication inhibition set consists of a subset of the set of endpoint identifiers of the participating endpoints, wherein the first replication inhibition set comprises at least an endpoint identifier of the first emitting endpoint, wherein the media processing unit is configured to generate the downstream media stream for each participating endpoint whose endpoint identifier belongs to the first replication inhibition set so that the downstream media stream does not replicate the first upstream media stream, wherein the media processing unit is configured to generate the downstream media stream for each participating endpoint whose endpoint identifier does not belong to the first replication inhibition set, so that the downstream media stream does replicate the first upstream media stream, wherein the media processing unit is further configured to: