Communication traffic management

• US 9,537,912 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2013
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dunne, Jonathan, Galvin, James Patrick Jr., O'Sullivan, Patrick J., Wallace, Mark E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jean, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US13/911,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,307 Days
• Field of Search: 709/227, 709/206, 709/204
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• 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 65/4038 with floor control

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing communication traffic relaying in a multiparty communication session. In an implementation, a method may include receiving a request from a first computing device to join a multiparty communication session. The method may also include associating the first computing device with a second computing device for the multiparty communication session, the second computing device participating in the multiparty communication session via a multipoint control unit. The method may further include relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the multipoint control unit to the first computing device by the second computing device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, a request from a first participating computing device to join a multiparty communication session;

associating, by the one or more processors, the first participating computing device with a second participating computing device for the multiparty communication session, the second participating computing device participating in the multiparty communication session via a non-participating multipoint control unit; and

relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the non-participating multipoint control unit to the first participating computing device by the second participating computing device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further including:

analyzing a network quality of service factor for a network connection between the first participating computing device and the non-participating multipoint control unit; and

analyzing a network quality of service factor for a network connection between the first participating computing device and the non-participating multipoint control unit via the second participating computing device;

wherein associating the first participating computing device with the second participating computing device is in response to identifying a preferred network quality of service criteria for the network connection between the first participating computing device and the non-participating multipoint control unit via the second participating computing device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further including:

determining a network quality of service requirement of the first participating computing device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further including:

relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the first participating computing device to the non-participating multipoint control unit by the second participating computing device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further including:

identifying a change in a network quality of service factor; and

un-associating the first participating computing device with the second participating computing device for relaying communication traffic from the non-participating multipoint control unit.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further including:

associating the first participating computing device with a third participating computing device for the multiparty communication session, the third participating computing device participating in the multiparty communication session via the non-participating multipoint control unit; and

relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the non-participating multipoint control unit to the first participating computing device by the third participating computing device.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further including:

associating the first participating computing device directly with the non-participating multipoint control unit for the multiparty communication session; and

relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the non-participating multipoint control unit directly to the first participating computing device.