Patent ID: 7710449

Claim:
A method of broadcasting multimedia data files, during a video conference established between a sending device and one or more receiving terminals, these terminals being equipped with audio and video sources, the method comprising negotiating, while the video conference communication is being established between the sending device and said one or more receiving terminals at least one communication parameter including a video coding standard; mixing in real time in the sending device, the video issuing from a multimedia file with the video issuing from the video capture source, in response to an action performed by a participant via a user interface of said sending device to broadcast said multimedia file; broadcasting by the sending device, trough the audio and video channels opened for said communication according to the negotiated at least one communication parameter and without disrupting the communication, the mixed video resulting from the mixing and coded according to said video coding standard, in replacement of the video issuing from the video capture source of the sending device, and the audio issuing from the audio source of the sending device.