Patent ID: 7425979
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A server in a communication system including a plurality of terminals, the terminals having an image capture unit and capable of communicating with one another, said server comprising: selection means for selecting for each of said terminals one of image data from one of said terminals and data associated with said one terminal, said selection based on an instruction signal from a related terminal; database means for storing the instruction from said one terminal, said instruction including data to determine which of the image data or the data from the one terminal to transmit to other terminals with which communication is conducted; and transmission means for transmitting the selected data from said selection means to one or more of said plurality of terminals, wherein the server selectively transmits the data associated with the one terminal to a particular one or more of the other terminals and selectively transmits the image data is to one or more of the remaining other terminals based upon the instruction signal stored in the database means, wherein the server transmits a default image to a terminal for which no instruction from the one terminal is stored in the database means.