Patent ID: 6963574
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for changing a number of active users in a multiuser call in a broadband telephony network, the network capable of establishing and deleting connections between the users, the method comprising: for each user initially in an active status, providing a one-way connection with that initial active user as the destination and a one-way connection with that initial active user as an origin; changing a number of active users in the multiuser call; in response to the user number change, for one of the users having the initial active status, changing the destination of one of that maintained one active user's connections where that one active user is the origin while that active user remains as that one connection's origin; and establishing and maintaining one-way connections as needed so that each of the active users having the active status has a one-way connection where that active user is an origin and that active user is a destination.