Media negotiation method, device, and system for multi-stream conference

• US 9,525,847 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2015
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Weiwei, Wei, Haitao, Ren, Jungang, Xiao, Jing
• Primary Examiner(s): Tieu, Binh
• Application Number:
  US14/640,210
• Publication Number:
  US 20150181164A1
• Time in Patent Office: 655 Days
• Field of Search: 348/14.01, 348/14.03, 348/14.07, 348/14.08, 348/14.09, 348/14.13
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

The present invention provides a media negotiation method, device, and system for a multi-stream conference. The method includes: sending a media advertisement message that carries information about at least two media data objects; receiving a media selection message that carries information, about a media data object, selected by a second media entity; and determining a corresponding media data object according to the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity, and establishing a media transmission channel with the second media entity, so as to transmit the corresponding media data object to the second media entity through the media transmission channel. In embodiments of the present invention, more media data streams can be represented, and the representation accuracy and the amount of information of the media data stream can be improved

Claims

1. A media negotiation method for a multi-stream conference, the method comprising:

sending, by a first media entity, a media advertisement message to a second media entity, wherein the media advertisement message carries information about at least two media data objects, the information about the media data objects at least comprises information about one real-time site picture, the information about the real-time site picture at least comprises media view information, and the media data objects are media data streams that are provided by the first media entity for the second media entity;

receiving, by the first media entity, a media selection message sent by the second media entity, wherein the media selection message carries information, about a media data object, selected by the second media entity, and the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity is selected by the second media entity from the information about the at least two media data objects; and

determining, by the first media entity, a corresponding media data object according to the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity, and establishing a media transmission channel with the second media entity, so as to transmit the corresponding media data object to the second media entity through the media transmission channel.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the media view information comprises:

coordinate range information of the real-time site picture;

or

location content information of the real-time site picture;

or

region division information of the real-time site picture in a particular scenario.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information about the media data objects further comprises information about a presentation of shared content in a conference, and the information about the presentation comprises:

type information of the shared content.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information about the media data objects further comprises at least one of the following:

language information;

role information;

priority information;

state variation information;

embedded text information;

supplementary description information;

telepresence identification information; and

coding and decoding format information.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein before sending, by a first media entity, the media advertisement message to the second media entity, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first media entity, a media capability message sent by the second media entity, wherein the media capability message carries media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity, so that the first media entity determines the information about the at least two media data objects according to the media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the first media entity, a media advertisement message sent by the second media entity, wherein the media advertisement message sent by the second media entity is used to notify the first media entity of information about a media data object that can be provided by the second media entity; and

sending, by the first media entity, a media selection message to the second media entity, so as to notify the second media entity of information, about a media data object, selected by the first media entity, wherein the information about the media data object selected by the first media entity is selected from the information about the media data object that can be provided by the second media entity, so that the second media entity transmits the media data object selected by the first media entity to the first media entity through the media transmission channel.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the media advertisement message and/or the media selection message is carried by one or a combination of several of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the Session Description Protocol (SDP), the controlling multiple streams for telepresence (CLUE), and the H.323series protocols;

or

the information about the media data objects is carried in a text, binary, or extensible markup language (XML) format.

8. A media negotiation method for a multi-stream conference, the method comprising:

receiving, by a second media entity, a media advertisement message sent by a first media entity, wherein the media advertisement message carries information about at least two media data objects, the information about the media data objects at least comprises information about one real-time site picture, the information about the real-time site picture at least comprises media view information, and the media data objects are media data streams that are provided by the first media entity for the second media entity;

selecting, by the second media entity, from the information about the at least two media data objects, information about a media data object;

sending, by the second media entity, a media selection message to the first media entity, wherein the media selection message carries the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity, so that the first media entity determines a corresponding media data object according to the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity; and

establishing, by the second media entity, a media transmission channel with the first media entity, and receiving, through the media transmission channel, the corresponding media data object sent by the first media entity.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the media view information comprises:

coordinate range information of the real-time site picture;

or

location content information of the real-time site picture;

or

region division information of the real-time site picture in a particular scenario.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the information about the media data objects further comprises information about a presentation of shared content in a conference, and the information about the presentation comprises:

type information of the shared content.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the information about the media data objects further comprises at least one of the following:

language information;

role information;

priority information;

state variation information;

embedded text information;

supplementary description information;

telepresence identification information; and

coding and decoding format information.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein before receiving, by the second media entity, the media advertisement message sent by the first media entity, the method further comprises:

sending, by the second media entity, a media capability message to the first media entity, wherein the media capability message carries media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity, so that the first media entity determines the information about the at least two media data objects according to the media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity.

13. A media negotiation device for a multi-stream conference, wherein the device is a first media entity, the device comprising:

a transceiver, configured to send a media advertisement message to a second media entity, wherein the media advertisement message carries information about at least two media data objects, the information about the media data objects at least includes information about one real-time site picture, the information about the real-time site picture at least includes media view information, and the media data objects are media data streams that are provided by the first media entity for the second media entity; and

receive a media selection message sent by the second media entity, wherein the media selection message carries information, about a media data object, selected by the second media entity, and the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity is selected by the second media entity from the information about the at least two media data objects;

a processor, configured to determine a corresponding media data object according to the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity, and establish a media transmission channel with the second media entity, so as to transmit the corresponding media data object to the second media entity through the media transmission channel.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the media view information comprises:

coordinate range information of the real-time site picture;

or

location content information of the real-time site picture;

or

region division information of the real-time site picture in a particular scenario.

15. The device according to claim 13, wherein the information about the media data objects further comprises information about a presentation of shared content in a conference;

and the information about the presentation comprises type information of the shared content.

16. The device according to claim 13, wherein the information about the media data objects further comprises at least one of the following:

language information;

role information;

priority information;

state variation information;

embedded text information;

supplementary description information;

telepresence identification information; and

coding and decoding format information.

17. The device according to claim 13, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive a media capability message sent by the second media entity, wherein the media capability message carries media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity, so that the first media entity determines the information about the at least two media data objects according to the media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity.

18. The device according to claim 13, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive a media advertisement message sent by the second media entity, wherein the media advertisement message sent by the second media entity is used to notify the first media entity of information about a media data object that can be provided by the second media entity;

send a media selection message to the second media entity, so as to notify the second media entity of information, about a media data object, selected by the first media entity, wherein the information about the media data object selected by the first media entity is selected from the information about the media data object that can be provided by the second media entity, so that the second media entity transmits the media data object selected by the first media entity to the first media entity through the media transmission channel.

19. The device according to claim 13, wherein:

the media advertisement message and/or the media selection message is carried by one or a combination of several of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the Session Description Protocol (SDP), the controlling multiple streams for telepresence (CLUE), and the H.323series protocols;

or

the information about the media data objects carried in the media advertisement message is carried in a text, binary, or extensible markup language (XML) format.

20. A media negotiation device for a multi-stream conference, wherein the device is a second media entity, the device comprising:

a transceiver, configured to receive a media advertisement message sent by a first media entity, wherein the media advertisement message carries information about at least two media data objects, the information about the media data objects at least includes information about one real-time site picture, the information about the real-time site picture at least includes media view information, and the media data objects are media data streams that are provided by the first media entity for the second media entity;

a processor, configured to select, from the information about the at least two media data objects, information about a media data object;

the transceiver is further configured to send a media selection message to the first media entity, wherein the media selection message carries the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity, so that the first media entity determines a corresponding media data object according to the information, about the media data object, selected by the second media entity; and

establish a media transmission channel with the first media entity, and receive, through the media transmission channel, the corresponding media data object sent by the first media entity.

21. The device according to claim 20, wherein the media view information comprises:

coordinate range information of the real-time site picture;

or

location content information of the real-time site picture;

or

region division information of the real-time site picture in a particular scenario.

22. The device according to claim 20, wherein the information, about the media data objects, carried in the media advertisement message further comprises information about a presentation of shared content in a conference, and the information about the presentation comprises type information of the shared content.

23. The device according to claim 20, wherein the information, about the media data objects, carried in the media advertisement message further comprises at least one of the following:

language information;

role information;

priority information;

state variation information;

embedded text information;

supplementary description information;

telepresence identification information; and

coding and decoding format information.

24. The device according to claim 20, wherein the transceiver is further configured to send a media capability message to the first media entity, wherein the media capability message carries media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity, so that the first media entity determines the information about the at least two media data objects according to the media capability information that can be parsed by the second media entity.