Patent ID: 8813149

Claim:
A process for management of a continuous broadcast session of a video stream posted directly on a plurality of terminals connected to a communication network, comprising: sending invitations to participate in the broadcast session to a destination of a plurality of terminals selected and invited from a transmitting terminal, placing the transmitting terminal in a standby state that is a function of a predetermined synchronization duration, the state during which the transmitting terminal is not transmitting, in a created broadcast session, a direct video stream to the destination of a broadcast server able to receive and continuously multicast a video stream, wherein the predetermined synchronization duration of the standby state is defined only from the sending of said invitations; placing the invited terminals that have responded in the affirmative to the invitation in a standby state that is synchronized with that of the transmitting terminal; when the transmitting terminal leaves its standby state to send a direct video stream to the broadcast server, allowing the invited terminals that have responded in the affirmative to the invitation to access the broadcast server to receive the continuously broadcast video stream; wherein the invited terminals that have responded in the affirmative to said invitation periodically consult status information of said broadcast session, this information being kept updated by a management server, and the process comprises in response to a-said consultation of an invited terminal after starting said direct video stream transmission from the transmitting terminal to the broadcast server, a stage of transmission, to said invited terminal, of an access address to the broadcast server in such a way that said invited terminal can access the continuously broadcast video stream; and wherein, if the management server ceases to receive periodic status requests from an invited terminal, it deduces from this that the terminal has terminated the broadcast session and automatically updates its response status.