Patent ID: 7782875

Claim:
A method comprising: transferring group-related information of a group from a media gateway controller to a media gateway to which media streams targeted at members of the group are transferred in a telecommunications system, the transferring group-related information occurring at least by: creating, in the media gateway, a group termination for the group-related information, the group termination being non-member-specific and associated with the group, the group being any logical group of three or more users intended to participate in a same group communication, the group termination being a logical entity that sources or sinks or sources and sinks a plurality of media streams corresponding to the group communication; directing the media streams for the group to the group termination; applying, at the group termination, at least one rule with at least one parameter with its value to the plurality of media streams to determine at a particular time which user may transmit and which users may receive corresponding media streams; receiving, in the media gateway, the at least one parameter with its value as group-related information; storing the at least one parameter and its value to the group termination; and applying the stored at least one parameter according to its value to the media streams directed to the members of the group.