Patent ID: 8112077

Claim:
A method of transmitting media data from a first communication session and media data from a second communication session, wherein a communication terminal participates in the first communication session and in the second communication session, the method comprising: receiving the media data from the first communication session and the media data from the second communication session by a unit in the communication network, wherein each of the first communication session and the second communication session is a half-duplex communication session; combining, based on prescribed and stored combination rules, the media data in the unit in the communication network to form at least one combined media data stream which contains media data of a media data type from the first communication session and the media data of the media data type from the second communication session; and transmitting the at least one combined media data stream to the communication terminal, so that media data from different communication sessions are sent to the communication terminal, wherein the combination rules are prescribed by a subscriber on the communication terminal and stored in a file of a memory located in a server, and wherein the prescribed and stored combination rules indicate, for each type of media data, the media data from which of the first communication session and the second communication session is to be combined.