Patent ID: 7403969

Claim:
A method of conducting a conference, comprising: initializing the conference amongst at least one intermediate host communications device and at least one downstream participant communications device; prior to the conference, communicating a library of digital objects to the intermediate host communications device, communicating an intermediate host conferencing module to the intermediate host communications device; and during the conference, communicating a synchronization command from a host communications device to the intermediate host communications device, wherein in response to the synchronization command, the intermediate host conferencing module instructs the intermediate host communications device to present an object from the library of digital objects and to communicate the object to the downstream participant communications device with presentation instructions to the downstream participant communications device to present the object, communicating the object with the presentation instructions from the intermediate host communications device to the downstream participant communications device, and communicating the object with the presentation instructions for another downstream participant communications device from the intermediate host communications device to the downstream participant communications device, wherein the downstream participant communications device communicates the object with the presentation instructions to the another downstream participant communications device; and receiving, at the intermediate host communications device, a synchronization acknowledgment from the at least one downstream participant communications device.