Patent ID: 7792901

Claim:
A method performed by an event management system including at least one processing element, the method comprising: hosting a first collaboration event that includes first and second event endpoints that provide respective first and second sets of audio/visual (A/V) media streams to respective first and second sets of attendees during the first collaboration event; hosting a second collaboration event that includes third and fourth event endpoints that provide respective third and fourth sets of A/V media streams to respective third and fourth sets of attendees during the second collaboration event; while hosting the first collaboration event, reconfiguring the first collaboration event to cause the third event endpoint to provide a third fifth set of audio/visual A/V media streams to at least one of the first set of attendees at the third event endpoint; and while hosting the first collaboration event, reconfiguring the second collaboration event to cause the first event endpoint to provide a sixth set of A/V media streams to the third set of attendees at the first event endpoint substantially contemporaneously with reconfiguring the first collaboration event to cause the third event endpoint to provide the fifth set of A/V media streams to the first set of attendees at the third event endpoint.