Patent ID: 7978839

Claim:
A communication system that includes one or more terminal equipments and a server equipment, transmits audio data representing a voice from one of the terminal equipments, transfers the audio data to other terminal equipments at the server equipment and reproduces the voice in real-time at the other terminal equipments, the server equipment comprising: an audio data receiving section that receives the audio data transmitted from the terminal equipment; an audio data transfer section that transfers the audio data received by the audio data receiving section to each of the other terminal equipments excepting an originating terminal equipment that originates the audio data; a transfer destination setting section that associates a transfer terminal equipment, to which the audio data is to be transferred by the audio data transfer section, with the terminal equipment that becomes the originating terminal equipment, when the terminal equipment becomes the originating terminal equipment; and a transfer restriction section that restrictively transfers the audio data to the transfer terminal equipment when the audio data transfer section transfers the audio data, each of the terminal equipments comprising: an audio data transmitting section that transmits the audio data; a transferred audio data receiving section that receives the audio data transferred from the server equipment; and an audio reproducing section that reproduces in real-time the voice represented by the audio data received by the transferred audio data receiving section.