Patent ID: 8243905
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: H04N,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program for execution by a first participant's computer that is for serving as one of a central distributor and a non-central distributor of content, the computer program for establishing a conference between participants at a plurality of computers, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving an invitation to join a particular conference from a second participant's computer that is designated as the central distributor for the particular conference and that receives content from a plurality of non-central distributors, generates composite content from the received content, and distributes the composite content to the plurality of non-central distributors; and sending an acceptance message to the second participant's computer in response to the invitation, the acceptance message indicating a set of conferencing capabilities of the first participant's computer, the particular conference defined by a plurality of conferencing parameters that are specified by the second participant's computer, wherein at least one of the conferencing parameters is based on a particular conferencing capability indicated by the acceptance message sent from the first participant's computer.