PROVISION OF VIDEO CONFERENCING WITH LOAD BALANCING

• US 20140267571A1
• Filed: 03/17/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Blue Jeans Network, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Periyannan, Alagu, Weber, Emmanuel, Grupenhoff, Michael, Shah, Maulik, Jackson, Shacolby, Mohire, Prasad R., Ashford, Brian W., Ho, Lee Y.
• Granted Patent: US 9,154,735 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.08
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1023 based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

Embodiments are described for provision of video conferencing with load balancing. In some embodiments, a protocol connector module receives a media processing request from a client application for the video conference endpoint device and a client application identifier, a profile for the client application is retrieved using the client application identifier, at least one load balancing capability is determined for the client application using the identifier, a load balancing technique is selectively performed based on the at least one load balancing capability, and performance of the client application is logged with the load balancing technique in the profile.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a protocol connector module, a media processing request from a client application for the video conference endpoint device;

receiving, at the protocol connector module, a client application identifier;

retrieving a profile for the client application using the client application identifier;

determining at least one load balancing capability for the client application using the identifier;

selectively perform a load balancing technique based on the at least one load balancing capability; and

logging performance of the client application with the load balancing technique in the profile.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the media processing request at least one proxy from a plurality of proxies forming a first proxy layer; and

sending the media processing request to the protocol connector module, the protocol connector module from a plurality of protocol connector modules forming a second proxy layer.

3. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one proxy is a simple pass through proxy that spreads the media processing request workload across the plurality of protocol connector modules of the second layer.

4. A method comprising:

receiving, at a protocol connector module for a video conference endpoint device, a media processing request from a client application for the video conference endpoint device;

receiving, at the protocol connector module, a network identifier used for communication by the client application;

retrieving a network profile using the network identifier, the network profile comprising information on servers accessible to the network;

selectively determining, using a load balancer, whether to load balance using said information; and

recording performance on media processing with at least one selected server in the network profile, the at least one selected server selected by the load balancer for media processing.