Patent Document ID: 7643628
Application ID: 11337078
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A communication system comprising a conference server device, a conference control unit, a plurality of moderator units, and a plurality of telecommunication devices, wherein: the conference server provides at least one conference for the plurality of telecommunication devices, each of the plurality of telecommunication devices has a message generation unit for generating a communication request message and a transmission device for transmitting the communication request message to the conference server device, the conference server device has a receiver device for receiving the communication request messages, a message generation unit for generating a notification message if a communication request message has been received, and a transmission device for transmitting notification messages to all of the moderator units, each of the plurality of moderator units has a receiver device for receiving the notification messages, a message generation unit for generating a communication right decision message based on all of the notification messages, and a transmission device for transmitting the communication right decision message to the conference server device, the plurality of moderator units each decide, independently of one another, which telecommunication device is to be granted a communication right and informs the conference server device of these communication right individual decisions, the conference control unit automatically combines the communication right individual decisions of the plurality of moderator units to form an overall decision which specifies which telecommunication device is granted a communication right, and the communication right is granted to only a single telecommunication device within a conference as the right to transmit a data stream for a chosen communication medium.