Patent ID: 8046409

Claim:
A communications method comprising: accessing scalable media data for communication to a plurality of participants, wherein the scalable media data is configured to convey information regarding a subject; accessing a plurality of respective configuration parameters corresponding to respective ones of the participants; first modifying the scalable media data using a configuration parameter for a first recipient of the participants, the first modifying providing a first data stream having a first quantity of data to convey information for the subject; second modifying the scalable media data using a configuration parameter for a second recipient of the participants, the second modifying providing a second data stream having a second quantity of data to convey information for the subject and different than the first quantity of data, wherein the first and the second data streams individually comprise different quantities of data providing images of different resolutions of the subject; directing the first and the second data streams to respective ones of the first and the second recipient participants; accessing communications rules for a collaboration session; and identifying the first and the second recipient participants using the communications rules.