Patent ID: 7113992

Claim:
A system for controlling multimedia multipoint communication, comprising: a plurality of multimedia terminals; a multipoint controller in communication with said plurality of multimedia terminals for call signaling and call control information; and at least one multipoint processor unit in communication with said plurality of multimedia terminals for media information and in communication with said multipoint controller over H.248/Megaco protocol for interfacing the call signaling and the call control information between said multipoint controller and the terminals, wherein the multipoint controller is used to establish and control multipoint mixing of media; and wherein at least one of said plurality of multimedia terminals is a non-H.323 terminal that does not support H.323 protocol, and wherein the multipoint processor unit is capable of demultiplexing input from said non-H.323 terminal into call signaling and call control information and into media information and transferring the call signaling and the call control information to the multipoint controller over H.248/Megaco.