Communications methods, collaboration session communications organizers, collaboration sessions, and articles of manufacture

A collaboration session communications organizer comprising:

• an interface configured to communicate with a plurality of participants;
• and
• processing circuitry coupled with the interface and configured to implement a plurality of collaboration sessions intermediate a plurality of participants of the respective collaboration sessions, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to associate configuration parameters with respective ones of the participants, to receive scalable media data to be communicated during the collaboration sessions, to scale the media data according to the configuration parameters of respective ones of the participants, and to communicate the scaled media data to recipient participants of the respective collaboration sessions;
• wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access communications rules for respective ones of the collaboration sessions, and to use the communications rules to identify one or more of the recipient participants which are to receive the scaled media data during respective ones of the collaboration sessions, wherein the communications rules identify the one or more recipient participants which are different than any recipients identified by an originator of the scalable media data.

A communications method comprising:

• accessing scalable media data for communication to a plurality of participants, wherein the scalable media data is configured to convey information regarding a subject;
• accessing a plurality of respective configuration parameters corresponding to respective ones of the participants;
• first modifying the scalable media data using a configuration parameter for a first recipient of the participants, the first modifying providing a first data stream having a first quantity of data to convey information for the subject;
• second modifying the scalable media data using a configuration parameter for a second recipient of the participants, the second modifying providing a second data stream having a second quantity of data to convey information for the subject and different than the first quantity of data;
• directing the first and the second data streams to respective ones of the first and the second recipient participants;
• accessing communications rules for a collaboration session;
• identifying the first and the second recipient participants using the communications rules;
• and
• directing a third data stream to a third recipient participant which is identified by an originator of the scalable media data, and wherein the first and the second recipient participants are not identified by the originator of the scalable media data.