Patent ID: 8325215
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A conferencing application executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable non-transitory tangible medium, the computerized appliance coupled to one or more networks, the application comprising: functionality for responding to requests to join a conference, and for enabling requesters as participants; functionality for receiving and rendering text, voice or video data from each registered participant as text, voice or video data to be transmitted to individual ones of other participants; functionality for controlling which received text, voice or video data is transmitted to which participants; and functionality for receiving and executing instructions from a trust authority; wherein the instructions include one or more of trust information regarding individual ones of the participants, and one or more rule sets to be adhered to, rules in a rule set affecting at least registration and communication between participants, the rule set enabling the trust authority to provide, for use in conference management, trust scores for individual ones of participants in the conference.