Patent ID: 8463853

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a switch, a first data unit from a first conferencing participant, the first data unit including a payload portion and a first address portion; forwarding, by the switch, the first data unit to at least a second conferencing participant and a third conferencing participant by: generating, using one or more processors at the switch, a first and a second duplicated data unit by: duplicating at least a portion of the payload portion and the first address portion of the first data unit; and changing an IP destination address in an IP header of the duplicated first address portion to reflect destination address information; and sending the first duplicated data unit to the second conferencing participant and sending the second duplicated data units to the third conferencing participant; receiving, at the switch, a second data unit from the second conferencing participant; and forwarding, by the switch, the second data unit to at least the first conferencing participant and the third conferencing participant.