Patent ID: 8830296

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for endpoint device-specific stream control for multimedia conferencing, the method comprising: providing, using one or more computing devices, a hosted multimedia conference to a plurality of participant devices; providing, using the one or more computing devices, video stream controls to each of the plurality of participant devices, wherein for each of the plurality of participant devices, the video stream controls provide for controlling video stream transmissions to the participant device, the video stream transmissions corresponding to a plurality of video streams provided by the plurality of participant devices other than the participant device; receiving, using the one or more computing devices, first selections of at least some of the video stream controls from each the plurality of participant devices; and controlling, using the one or more computing devices, for each of the plurality of participant devices, the video stream transmissions of the plurality of video streams provided by the other participant devices to the participant device, based at least in part on the first selections of the at least some of the video stream controls received from the participant device, wherein for each of the plurality of participant devices, the video stream controls include a control for allocating bandwidth for the plurality of video streams provided by the other participant devices, and wherein controlling the video stream transmissions comprises allocating the bandwidth for at least one of the video stream transmissions, in a case where the first selections include selection, via the control for allocating the bandwidth, by at least one of the participant devices.