Patent ID: 8984156
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of conference streams at a network interface of a mesh conferencing node of a multi-party mesh networking system at least one stream being received from a downstream client node and at least one stream being received from an upstream mesh conferencing node of the multi-party mesh networking system; assigning a priority to each stream including receiving a priority assignment for at least some of the streams from a remote mesh conferencing node; identifying each stream as either local or remote and sending the local streams to the upstream mesh conferencing node; selecting a subset of the local streams to send to the upstream mesh conferencing node using the assigned priorities; selecting at least one stream to send to the downstream client node based on the assigned priorities using a processor of the mesh conferencing node; and sending the selected streams to the downstream client node from the network interface of the mesh conferencing node.