Patent ID: 8817668

Claim:
A computer-implemented conferencing system, comprising: a storage device that stores instructions; and a processing unit that accesses and executes the instructions, execution of the instructions by the processing unit causing the conferencing system to provide a conference control component in response to a conference set-up request submitted by a client, the conference control component configured to: receive the conference set-up request from the client to create a conference session; after receiving the request to create the conference session, allocate to the conference session a distributed media component that provides media of the conference session to the client; return a uniform resource identifier of the distributed media component to the client after the conference control component allocates the distributed media component to the conference session; receive individual state information for each distributed media component from a set of distributed media components that are allocated for the conference session, wherein the state information comprises, at least, policy information associated with the distributed media component; generating aggregated state information by aggregating the individual state information for each of the distributed media component from the set of distributed media components allocated for the conference session; and distribute the aggregated state information to each client of the conference session.