Patent ID: 8902275

Claim:
A method for multipoint video conferencing involving a plurality of sites, including a target site, the method comprising: obtaining, by a multipoint control unit (MCU), code stream information of each of the plurality of sites, and type attribute information of the target site; determining, by the MCU, a site type of the target site according to the type attribute information; obtaining, by the MCU, a code stream output policy corresponding to the site type of the target site based on a code stream processing policy file, wherein the code stream processing policy file comprises at least two site types and code stream output policies corresponding to each of the at least two site types; generating, using the obtained code stream information, a code stream for the target site according to the obtained code stream output policy; and sending the generated code stream to the target site to present the generated code stream at the target site; wherein before obtaining the code stream output policy, the method further comprises: obtaining a conference mode and a conference state of the target site; and wherein the obtained code stream output policy further corresponds to the conference mode and the conference state of the target site.