Patent ID: 8402099

Claim:
A method for executing a multimedia communication, in particular at least one of a video, audio or text chat, between a totality of terminals ( 2 ) arranged in a communication network ( 1 ), which communication is based on a network protocol, in particular at least one of TCP/IP or UDP, wherein: at least one subscriber generates a personalized user account in the form of a virtual subscriber profile on a server ( 3 ) or in a peer-to-peer network, wherein, by setting up the virtual subscriber profile, the multimedia communication is established at each of the terminals: via the subscriber profile a mode of a subscriber selection preceding the communication, at least one of a communication type or a number of communication links to one of the terminals or the type of data transmission employed for the communication are freely defined; the subscriber selection mode includes a random process for setting up a communication link between a selecting terminal of a first subscriber profile to at least another terminal of a random subscriber profile; and the subscriber selection mode includes an activatable call procedure for establishing a communication link between the selecting terminal of the first subscriber profile and at least one other terminal of a subscriber profile stored in a selection list, wherein these subscribers form a plurality of at least one of an open and a closed subscriber sub-pool, whereby all subscribers in the procedure form a total set referred to as a subscriber pool, which subscriber pool may be subdivided into a number of the subscriber sub-pools, whereby all subscribers are classified by entries within their respective subscriber profiles and arbitrarily defined contacts to other subscribers, and whereby the subscriber classifications result in the number of sub-pools, which are formed as subsets of the larger subscriber pool.