METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC WHITEBOARD IN AUDIO/VIDEO CONFERENCE

• US 20110061005A1
• Filed: 11/15/2010
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: ZHA, Feng
• Application Number:
  US12/946,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20110061005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A method, a device, and a system for implementing an electronic whiteboard in an audio/video conference are provided. The method includes the following steps. An electronic whiteboard is created. A first extended message is sent to a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) audio/video conference, so as to instruct the first UE and the second UE to initialize the electronic whiteboard. A second extended message containing an operation instruction of the electronic whiteboard sent by the first UE is received. The second extended SIP INFO message is sent to the second UE. Thus, a function of the electronic whiteboard is integrated in an SIP audio/video conference.

Claims

1. A method for implementing an electronic whiteboard in an audio/video conference, comprising:

creating, by a server, an electronic whiteboard, and sending, by the server, a first extended message to a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) audio/video conference, so as to instruct the first UE and the second UE to initialize the electronic whiteboard;

receiving, by the server, a second extended message sent by the first UE, wherein the second extended message contains an operation instruction of the electronic whiteboard; and

sending, by the server, the second extended message to the second UE.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the creating the electronic whiteboard, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the server, a request for creating whiteboard sent from the first UE or the second UE.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the sending the second extended message to the second UE, the method further comprises:

sending, by the server, a third extended message to the first UE and the second UE in the SIP audio/video conference, so as to instruct the first UE and the second UE to close the electronic whiteboard.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the sending the second extended message to the second UE, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the server, a request for closing whiteboard sent from the first UE or the second UE.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the request for creating whiteboard is carried in the extended message.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the request for closing whiteboard is carried in the extended message.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein

at least one of the first UE and the second UE has the same authority to initiate the request for creating whiteboard.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein

at least one of the first UE and the second UE has the same authority to initiate the request for closing whiteboard.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the sending the second extended message to the second UE, the method further comprises:

parsing, by the second UE, the second extended message, and recovering and displaying the operation instruction.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the containing the operation instruction of the electronic whiteboard in the second extended message comprises constructing, by the first UE, an Extensible Markup Language (XML) packet from the operation instruction, and adding the XML packet in the second extended message.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein after the sending the second extended message to the second UE, the method further comprises:

after receiving the second extended message, unpacking, by the second UE, the XML packet, and performing an operation of sharing the operation instruction.

12. A device for implementing an electronic whiteboard in an audio/video conference, comprising:

a whiteboard creating unit, adapted to create the electronic whiteboard;

a first message unit, adapted to send a first extended message to a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) audio/video conference system, so as to instruct the first UE and the second UE to initialize the electronic whiteboard; and

a second message unit, adapted to receive a second extended message containing an operation instruction of the electronic whiteboard from the first UE, and send the second extended message to the second UE.

13. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a create request receiving unit, adapted to receive a request for creating whiteboard sent from the first UE or the second UE, and start the whiteboard creating unit after receiving the request for creating whiteboard.

14. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a third message unit, adapted to send a third extended message to at least one of the first UE and the second UE, so as to instruct at least one of the first UE and the second UE to close the electronic whiteboard.

15. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a close request receiving unit, adapted to receive a request for closing whiteboard sent from at least one of the first UE and second UE, and start the third message unit after receiving the request for closing whiteboard.

16. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a second message control unit, adapted to control the second message unit to process a plurality of second extended messages respectively according to a sequence of receiving the second extended messages.

17. A device for implementing an electronic whiteboard in an audio/video conference, comprising:

a whiteboard initialization unit, adapted to initialize the electronic whiteboard according to a first extended message received from a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server; and

a message construction unit, adapted to generate a second extended message according to an operation instruction input through the electronic whiteboard by a user, and send the second extended message to user equipments (UEs) in the SIP audio/video conference through the server.

18. The device according to claim 17, further comprising:

a message parsing unit, adapted to receive an extended message of other UEs sent by the SIP server, and parse and display the operation instruction in the extended message.

19. A system for implementing an electronic whiteboard in an audio/video conference, comprising a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server connected to a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, wherein

the SIP server is adapted to create the electronic whiteboard, send a first extended message to the first UE and the second UE in the audio/video conference system so as to instruct the first UE and the second UE to initialize the electronic whiteboard, receive a second extended message containing an operation instruction of the electronic whiteboard from the first UE, and send the second extended message to the second UE;

and

the first UE and the second UE are adapted to initialize the electronic whiteboard according to the first extended message sent by the SIP server, the first UE is adapted to construct the second extended message from the operation instruction input through the electronic whiteboard by a user, and send the second extended message to the second UE through the SIP server, and the second UE is adapted to receive the second extended message sent from the SIP server, and parse and display the operation instruction in the second extended message.