公开(公告)号：DE69936834D1

公开(公告)日：2007-09-27

申请号：DE69936834

申请日：1999-01-29

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： DERMLER GABRIEL ,  FLEINER CLAUDIO ,  GRAF MARCEL ,  HEUSLER LUKAS S ,  TRUONG HONG LINH

IPC: H04M3/56 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/44 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N7/15

Abstract: A distributed multipoint conferencing system (3) comprises a plurality of participating terminals (31;32;33) for sending and receiving media streams in a conferencing interchange; the system further includes at least one multipoint distributor (30) (MD) connected to one terminal (31) for receiving at least one or all media streams from that terminal (31) but not from any other of the participating (32;33); the multipoint distributor (30) is connected to the other participating terminals (32;33) for sending the media stream or streams received from the MD-associated terminal (31) to the other participating terminals (32;33).