Patent ID: 8180911

Claim:
A method of distributing real time data streams across a multimedia network to receiving terminals, wherein a real time data stream is transmitted from a media server to a receiving terminal at an end of a subscriber of the real time data stream, wherein a mediation device is located in between the media server and the receiving terminal, wherein a bi-directional communication between the media server and the mediation device is terminated at the mediation device for receiving the real time data stream destined for the receiving terminal, wherein the real time data stream is further forwarded from the mediation device to the receiving terminal via a uni-directional distribution network by means of a uni-directional communication protocol, wherein a bi-directional communication is not supported in the uni-directional distribution network, wherein quality control of the transmission of the real time data stream from the media server to the receiving terminal via the uni-directional communication network is performed in the mediation device at least by means of controlling the bi-directional communication, and wherein the real time data stream comprises a multimedia data stream comprising audio and video data, wherein control information is transmitted from a telephone terminal associated with the receiving terminal to the media server or the mediation device for controlling the transmission of the real time data stream from the media server to the receiving terminal, and wherein an address of the receiving terminal is determined by carrying out the following steps: the telephone terminal receiving the address of the receiving terminal by means of a short range communication between the receiving terminal and the telephone terminal; and the telephone terminal passing the address to the multimedia network.