VIDEO CONFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20200137129A1
• Filed: 05/09/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Long, Hui
• Granted Patent: US 11,218,521 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1106 Call signalling protocols; H.323 and related
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/5054 Meet-me conference, i.e. participants dial-in
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/562 where the conference facilities are distributed
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

Disclosed are a video conference implementation method and server, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: a video conference server receiving from a terminal a virtual conference number of a conference to be convened; detecting whether the virtual conference number and a corresponding conference state are contained in a stored virtual conference draft; if the virtual conference number is contained and the state is “not convened”, sending to a multipoint control unit conference parameters corresponding to the virtual conference number, and receiving a conference state returned by the multipoint control unit.

Claims

1. A video conference implementation method, comprising the following steps of:

receiving, by a video conference server, a virtual conference number of a conference to be held from a terminal;

detecting, by the video conference server, whether a prestored virtual conference draft contains the virtual conference number and a conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number;

if the prestored virtual conference draft contains the virtual conference number and the corresponding conference state is not held, sending, by the video conference server, a conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number to a multipoint control unit;

receiving a conference state returned by the multipoint control unit, if the conference state is already held, storing the conference state and the multipoint control unit to a corresponding virtual conference number, and sending the multipoint control unit to the terminal; and

if the prestored virtual conference draft contains the virtual conference number and the corresponding conference state is held, directly sending, by the video conference server, the multipoint control unit corresponding to the virtual conference number to the terminal.

2. The video conference implementation method of claim 1, wherein the sending, by the video conference server, the conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number to the multipoint control unit comprises:

selecting the multipoint control unit suitable for the conference parameter according to the conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number, and sending the conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number to the multipoint control unit.

3. The video conference implementation method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

detecting, by the video conference server, whether all the conference participant terminals have left the conference, and if all the conference participant terminals have already left the conference, setting the conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number as being not held and the multipoint control unit corresponding to the virtual conference number as a preset value.

4. The video conference implementation method of claim 1, wherein communication protocols used between the video conference server and the terminal and between the video conference server and the multipoint control unit are H. 323 protocols or SIPs.

5. The video conference implementation method of claim 1, wherein after the step of the receiving, by video conference server, the virtual conference number of the conference to be held from the terminal, the method further comprises the steps of:

verifying, by the video conference server, user authority of the terminal, and if the verification is passed, detecting whether the prestored virtual conference draft contains the virtual conference number of the conference to be held and the conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number.

6. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a video conference implementation program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the video conference implementation method of claim 1.

7. A video conference server, comprising a first interface unit, a processing unit, a second interface unit and a storage unit,

wherein the first interface unit is configured to:

receive a virtual conference number of a conference to be held from a terminal and notify a processing unit; and

receive a notification of the processing unit, and send a multipoint control unit corresponding to the virtual conference number to the terminal;

wherein the processing unit is configured to;

receive a notification of the first interface unit, detect whether a virtual conference draft stored in the storage unit contains the virtual conference number and a conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number, notify the second interface unit if the virtual conference number is contained and the conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number is not held, and notify the first interface unit if the virtual conference number is contained and the conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number is already held; and

receive a notification of the second interface unit, detect a conference state returned by the multipoint control unit, notify the first interface unit if the conference state is already held, and store the conference state and the multipoint control unit to a virtual conference number corresponding to the storage unit;

wherein the second interface unit is configured to;

receive the notification of the processing unit and send a conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number to the multipoint control unit; and

receive a conference state returned by the multipoint control unit, and notify the processing unit; and

wherein the storage unit is configured to store the virtual conference draft which comprises a plurality of virtual conference numbers and conference parameters, conference states and multipoint control units corresponding to each of the virtual conference numbers.

8. The video conference server of claim 7, wherein if the virtual conference number is contained and the corresponding conference state is not held, the processing unit is further configured to select a multipoint control unit suitable for the conference parameter according to the conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number;

and wherein the sending, by the second interface unit, the conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number to the multipoint control unit comprises sending, by the second interface unit, the conference parameter corresponding to the virtual conference number to the selected multipoint control unit.

9. The video conference server of claim 7, wherein the processing unit is further configured to:

detect whether all conference participant terminals have already left the conference, and if all conference terminals have already left the conference, set a conference state corresponding to the virtual conference number in the storage unit as being not held and set the multipoint control unit corresponding to the virtual conference number as a preset value.

10. The video conference server of claim 7, wherein communication protocols used between the video conference server and the terminal and between the video conference server and the multipoint control unit are H. 323 protocols or SIPs.