Patent ID: 8412842

Claim:
A method for controlling display of video streams on an electronic terminal, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of the video streams at the electronic terminal from a media server; displaying the received video streams in an ordered set of elements on a display device of the electronic terminal; receiving a user selection of at least a first one of the elements; and communicating commands from the electronic terminal to the media server, responsive to the user selection, that control quality of service of the video streams that are received and displayed in each of the non-selected elements responsive to their respective location within the ordered set of elements relative to the selected first element, wherein the commands communicated to the media server request that a video stream associated with a second element, which is immediately adjacent to the selected first element, be communicated at a lower bandwidth relative to the video stream associated with the selected first element, and further request that a video stream associated with a third element, which is on an opposite side of the second element from the selected first element, be communicated at a lower bandwidth relative to the video stream associated with the second element.