Patent ID: 9538139
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of facilitating a multi-party communication session, comprising: determining, by a microprocessor, that a number of participants involved in a communication session exceeds a predetermined threshold; in response to determining that the number of participants involved in the communication session exceeds the predetermined threshold, creating, by the microprocessor, a composite media stream of at least two media streams for delivery along with other individual media streams to a communication device of a first participant, wherein the composite media stream is encoded to utilize less bandwidth than the streams that make up the composite media stream individually; and causing, by the microprocessor, the composite media stream to be delivered to the communication device of the first participant in addition to the other individual media streams so that the communication device of the first participant presents the composite media stream in a viewing screen along with the other individual media streams in separate viewing screens.