Communication system, server equipment and terminal equipment

• US 8,718,637 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Okuyama, Satoshi, Ohno, Takashi, Horio, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Elhag, Magdi
• Application Number:
  US12/005,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20080176555A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,328 Days
• Field of Search: 455 23-425, 455/426.1, 455/518, 455/521, 370/270, 370/432, 370/242, 370/252
• US Class Current: 455/424
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0677 Localisation of faults
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4046 with distributed floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS

Abstract

A server equipment forwards received audio data to multiple terminal equipments; judges good or bad of a communication status between the respective terminal equipments; and transmits communication status data indicating good or bad of the communication status to each of the multiple terminal equipments, while a terminal equipment reproduces voice represented by transferred audio data in real-time; receives communication status data transmitted from the server equipment; and notifies a user whether a communication status indicated by the communication status data is good or bad.

Claims

1. A communication system that includes a plurality of terminal equipments and a server equipment, the communication system transmits audio data representing voice from one of the plurality of the terminal equipments, transfers the audio data to other terminal equipments at the server equipment and reproduces the voice in real-time at the other terminal equipments,

the server equipment comprising:

an audio data receiving section that receives audio data transmitted from the terminal equipments;

an audio data transfer section that transfers, using a first communication mode, the audio data received at the audio data receiving section to each of the other terminal equipments excepting an originating terminal equipment that has originated the audio data;

a communication status receiving section that receives communication status data indicating whether or not the transferred audio data has been received normally, from each of the terminal equipments to which the audio data has been transferred;

an audio data retransmitting section that retransfers the audio data if the communication status data indicates that the audio data which has been transferred has not been received normally, wherein the audio data retransmitting section uses a second communication mode in the retransfer, the second communication mode being relatively slow in communication speed and relatively superior in reliability of communication compared with the first communication mode;

a communication status judging section that judges whether or not the audio data received at the audio data receiving section has been received normally;

a communication status data transmitting section that transmits communication status data indicating a result of judgment made at the communication status judging section to each of the plurality of terminal equipments; and

a transmission inhibiting section which inhibits transmission of the audio data from the terminal equipments until the retransfer by the audio data retransmitting section is completed,

each of the terminal equipments comprising;

an audio data transmitting section that transmits the audio data to the server equipment using the first communication mode;

a transferred audio data receiving section that receives audio data transferred from the server equipment;

a communication status judging section that judges whether or not the audio data received at the transferred audio data receiving section has been received normally;

a response data transmitting section that transmits the communication status data indicating a result of judgment made at the communication status judging section to the server equipment;

a communication status data receiving section that receives the communication status data transmitted from the server equipment;

an audio data retransmitting section that retransmits, using the second communication mode, the audio data to the server equipment if the received communication status data indicates the transmitted audio data has not been received normally by the server equipment;

a communication status notifying section which notifies a user that the terminal equipment is in a status of retransmission until the retransmission by the audio data retransmitting section is completed; and

an audio reproduction section that reproduces voice represented by the audio data received at the transferred audio data receiving section.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the response data transmitting section of each of the terminal equipments notifies the server equipment of a response data indicating that the receiving state of the audio data is abnormal as the communication status data, if a judgment is made at the communication status judging section that the audio data received at the transferred audio data receiving section has not been received normally.

3. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the server equipment further comprises a received data storing section that stores audio data received at the audio data receiving section, and

if at the communication status receiving section, the first communication status data received from a terminal equipment among the plurality of terminal equipments excepting the originating terminal equipment indicates a bad receiving state of the audio data, the audio data retransmitting section retransfers the audio data stored in the received data storing section to the terminal equipment.

4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the audio data is a series of delimited data that is delimited per certain timing, and

each of the terminal equipments further comprises:

a list receiving section that receives a list of the delimited data;

a list displaying section that displays the list of the delimited data received at the list receiving section; and

an audio data designating section that designates one delimited data in the list displayed at the list displaying section according to an operation, and

the server equipment further comprises;

a received data storing section that stores the audio data received at the audio data receiving section, for each of the delimited data;

a list transmitting section that transmits a list of the delimited data stored in the received data storing section; and

a retransfer conducting section that retransfers the designated delimited data, upon receipt of designation of one delimited data in the list.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein each of the terminal equipments further comprises a reproducing status notifying section that notifies the server equipment of a reproducing status of the audio data, and

the server equipment further comprises a second communication status judging section which judges that communication status is bad for a terminal equipment, of the plurality of terminal equipments, which has notified that the reproducing is not completed and a terminal equipment, of the plurality of terminal equipments, which has not notified the reproducing status.

6. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the response data transmitting section of each of the terminal equipments repeatedly transmits, as the communication status data, response data to the server equipment indicating that the receiving state of the audio data is normal.

7. A terminal equipment used in a communication system that includes a plurality of terminal equipments and a server equipment, the communication system transmits audio data representing voice from one of the plurality of terminal equipments, transfers the audio data to other terminal equipments at the server equipment, and reproduces the voice in real-time at the other terminal equipments,

the terminal equipment comprising:

an audio data transmitting section that transmits audio data representing voice to

the server equipment using a first communication mode;

a transferred audio data receiving section that receives audio data that has been originated from other terminal equipments and transferred from the server equipment;

a communication status judging section that judges whether or not the audio data received at the transferred audio data receiving section has been received normally;

a response data transmitting section that transmits communication status data indicating a result of judgment made at the communication status judging section;

a communication status receiving section that receives communication status data from the server equipment indicating whether or not the transmitted audio data has been received normally by the server equipment;

an audio data retransmitting section that retransmits the audio data to the server equipment if the received communication status data indicates that the audio data has not been received normally by the server equipment, wherein the audio data retransmitting section uses a second communication mode in the retransmission, the second communication mode being relatively slow in communication speed and relatively superior in reliability of communication compared with the first communication mode;

a communication status notifying section that notifies a user that the terminal equipment is in a status of retransmission until the retransmission by the audio data retransmitting section is completed; and

an audio reproduction section that reproduces voice represented by audio data received at the transferred audio data receiving section.

8. A server equipment used in a communication system that includes a plurality of terminal equipments and a server equipment, the communication system transmits audio data representing voice from one of the plurality of terminal equipments, transfers the audio data to other terminal equipments at the server equipment, and reproduces the voice in real-time at the other terminal equipments,

the server equipment comprising:

an audio data receiving section that receives audio data transmitted from the terminal equipments;

an audio data transfer section that transfers, using a first communication mode, the audio data received at the audio data receiving section to each of the other terminal equipments excepting an originating terminal equipment that has originated the audio data;

a communication status receiving section that receives communication status data indicating whether or not the transferred audio data has been received normally, from each of the terminal equipments to which the audio data has been transferred;

an audio data retransmitting section that retransfers the audio data if the communication status data indicates that the audio data which has been transferred has not been received normally, wherein the audio data retransmitting section uses a second communication mode in the retransfer, the second communication mode being relatively slow in communication speed and relatively superior in reliability of communication compared with the first communication mode;

a communication status judging section that judges whether or not the audio data received at the audio data receiving section has been received normally;

a communication status data transmitting section that transmits communication status data indicating a result of judgment made at the communication status judging section to each of the plurality of terminal equipments; and

a transmission inhibiting section that inhibits transmission of the audio data from the terminal equipment until the retransmission by the audio data retransmitting section is completed.