Patent ID: 8886823

Claim:
A method of communicating between at least two devices, comprising: a step of hooking up a first device and at least one second device, said first device being connected to a first network, said at least one second device being connected to a second network, said first device or said first network or said second network being suitable for production or transfer of a multimedia stream comprising N channels, said at least one second device comprising means for processing a multimedia stream comprising P channels, where N is less than P; and a step of transferring a first multimedia stream from the first device to the at least one second device, wherein the method further comprises a determination step comprising: determining, on the basis of information received during the step of hooking up, if a trunking of a second multimedia stream, comprising up to P−N complementary multimedia data, to the second device is possible or not, and if a result of the determining step is that trunking is possible: a step of trunking the second multimedia stream to the at least one second device, said step of trunking being carried out in parallel with the step of transferring the first multimedia stream, said second multimedia stream being provided by a server of multimedia resources for transmitting multimedia data.