Patent ID: 7463598

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first data from a first party through an input module directly into a multiplexing device or a plurality of multiplexing devices; receiving a second data from a second party into a first jitter buffer, processing the second data from the second party, and sending a second output data from the first jitter buffer to the multiplexing device or the plurality of multiplexing devices; receiving a third data from a third party into a second jitter buffer, processing the third data from the third party, and sending a third output data from the second jitter buffer to the multiplexing device or the plurality of multiplexing devices, wherein the first data received from the first party is not received into the first or the second jitter buffer; and determining whether to combine the second output data and the third output data into a first output data for the first party subsequent to the receiving the first data based on a connect message.