Patent ID: 6501739
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A communications system comprising:at least one communications network; a plurality of communicators connectable to said at least one communications network, each of said communicators being operative to transmit, via said network, audio streams bound from any of said plurality of communicators; a plurality of mixers, each mixer including a mixer output, each of said mixer output associated with at least one of said communicators and being operative to: receive from said plurality of communicators a plurality of incoming streams bound from said communicators to said mixer; transmit any mixed combination of said incoming streams to said communicator associated with said mixer; and retransmit a previously-transmitted stream concurrent with any of said mixers currently transmitting a stream not previously transmitted; and means for controlling any of said mixers to independently control a volume level of any of said incoming streams being mixed at any of said mixers to create said required mixed combination of said incoming streams.