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Aurélien Sollaud

Patrick Boissonade

David Deleam

Arnault Nagle

Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi

Bertrand Mathieu

Jean-Claude Schmitt

Olivieir Calliger

Jean-Marc Pageot

Disclosed are hybrid conference bridges capable of selectively operating in a replicating mode or a mixing mode based on the number of terminals in an audio conference capable of supporting the replicating mode. A disclosed conference bridge connects a plurality of terminals in an audio conference and includes a replicating-mode operating module, a mixer-mode operating module, and a management module to activate at least one of the operating modules depending on the number of terminals having sufficient capabilities to support the replicating mode.

Hybrid conference bridge

A conference system of the type that comprises a bridge () to which a plurality of terminals (to) can be connected to participate in a conference, said bridge () being equipped to receive the audio and/or video and/or data flows of each terminal (to) and to retransmit them to the other terminals, wherein the flows transmitted by said terminals (to) are coded by means of hierarchical coders and wherein said bridge () is equipped with means (toto) for processing the audio/video/data flows coming from the terminals (j) so that they have a hierarchical level (q) in the flow intended for the terminal (i) and means () for determining said hierarchical level (q) based on decision-making criteria relating to the status of said conference system.

Videoconference system

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Trebeurden, France

Aurélien Sollaud