Method and system for improved transcoding of information through a telecommunication network

A system for transferring multimedia information from a source location to a destination location through one or more networks, the system comprising:

• a source output providing a first stream of information in one of a plurality of source;
• a destination input receiving a second stream of information in one of a plurality of destination capabilities;
• a proxy transcoder server (“PTS”) coupled between the source output and the destination input, the PTS comprising:
• a capability module adapted to identify the source capability of the source output and adapted to identify destination capability of the destination input;
• a selection module adapted to select a transcoding process based upon the one capability of the source capabilities and the one capability from the destination capabilities;
• a transcoding module adapted to use the selected transcoding process to process the first stream of information;
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• one or more elements described in the specification of Exhibit 1, which has been incorporated by reference for all purposes.