Patent ID: 7965660

Claim:
A telecommunications terminal hosting a conference mixer capable of being adapted to enable an at least audio conference between a first conference peer and at least two further conference peers, the conference mixer comprising: for each of the at least two further conference peers, a respective first data buffer capable of being configured to buffer portions of at least an audio data stream received from a respective conference peer; a first audio data stream portions mixer fed by the first data buffers and capable of being configured to: a) get audio data stream portions buffered in the first data buffers; b) mix the audio data stream portions from the first data buffers to produce a first mixed audio data portion; and c) feed the first mixed audio data portion to a rendering device of the telecommunications terminal, wherein said first audio data stream portions mixer is capable of being configured to perform operations a), b) and c) upon receipt of a notification from said rendering device indicating that the rendering device is ready to render a new mixed audio data portion.