Patent ID: 7839803

Claim:
A system for teleconferencing comprising: three or more user terminals, each having an audio input and an audio output; a telecommunications network interconnecting said user terminals and operable to transport data to and from said user terminals; separate modular mixing software for each respective user terminal, executing on said telecommunications network, and operable: to receive separate audio signals from said audio outputs of the others of said user terminals; and to combine said separate audio signals into a signal for said audio input of said respective user terminal which correlates to the needs of said respective user terminal; modular connection management software for establishing interconnections between said three or more user terminals and said separate modular mixing software, including a connection proxy for each of said three or more user terminals and said telecommunications network; and each of said connection proxies executing on said system and being operable: to represent its owner's interests in managing the teleconference by recognizing the limitations of its owner's resources.