Method of terminal-based conference load-balancing, and device and system utilizing same

• US 10,728,050 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2016
• Issued: 07/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Zhou, Yunwu
• Primary Examiner(s): Survillo, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US15/579,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20180227139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,615 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1012 based on compliance of requirements or conditions with available server resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a system for balancing a load of a terminal-based conference. Herein, the method includes: a scheduler receives a call resource and a media resource reported by a server; the scheduler receives a call resource request of the server, and the scheduler allocates an idle call resource access node in the call resource to a terminal managed by the server according to the call resource request; the scheduler receives a media resource request of a call node corresponding to the call resource access node, and the scheduler allocates an idle media resource access node in the media resource to the terminal according to the media resource request.

Claims

1. A method for balancing a load of a terminal-based conference, comprising:

receiving, by a scheduler, a call resource and a media resource reported by a server;

receiving, by the scheduler, a call resource request of the server, and allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to a terminal managed by the server according to the call resource request; and

receiving, by the scheduler, a media resource request of a call node corresponding to the call resource access node, and allocating, by the scheduler, an idle media resource access node in the media resource to the terminal according to the media resource request,

wherein the allocating, by the scheduler, the idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal managed by the server comprises;

allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal according to a routing configuration rule of an area to which the server belongs,

wherein under a situation that there is no idle call resource access node in a call resource of the area, allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal according to a routing configuration rule of a neighboring area of the server.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the receiving, by the scheduler, the call resource and the media resource reported by the server, the method comprises:

sending, by the scheduler, a call media resource request to the server, wherein the call media resource request is used for indicating the server to report the call resource and the media resource to the scheduler.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving, by the scheduler, the call resource and the media resource reported by the server comprises:

receiving, by the scheduler, the call resource and the media resource cyclically reported by the server according to preset time.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the allocating, by the scheduler, the idle media resource access node in the media resource to the terminal comprises:

allocating, by the scheduler, an idle media resource access node to the terminal according to an allocation rule of the media resource of an area to which the call resource access node belongs.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the method comprises:

under a situation that there is no idle media resource access node in the media resource of the area, allocating, by the scheduler, the idle media resource access node to the terminal according to an allocation rule of the media resource of a neighboring area of the call resource access node.

6. A device for balancing a load of a terminal-based conference, comprising:

a processor and a storage;

wherein the storage stores a processor-executable program executed by the processor, and the program comprises;

a receiving module configured to receive a call resource and a media resource reported by a server;

a call allocation module configured to receive a call resource request of the server, and allocate, by a scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to a terminal managed by the server according to the call resource request; and

a media allocation module configured to receive a media resource request of a call node corresponding to the call resource access node, and allocate, by the scheduler, an idle media resource access node in the media resource to the terminal according to the media resource request,

wherein the call allocation module comprises;

a first call allocation unit configured to allocate the idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal according to a routing configuration rule of an area to which the server belongs; and

a second call allocation unit configured to, under a situation that there is no idle call resource access node in a call resource of the area, allocate the idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal according to a routing configuration rule of a neighboring area of the server.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the program further comprises:

a request module configured to send a call media resource request to the server, wherein the call media resource request is used for indicating the server to report the call resource and the media resource to the device.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the program further comprises:

a report module configured to receive the call resource and the media resource cyclically reported by the server according to preset time.

9. The device according to claim 6, wherein the media allocation module comprises:

a first media allocation unit configured to allocate the idle media resource access node to the terminal according to an allocation rule of the media resource of an area to which the call resource access node belongs.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the media allocation module comprises:

a second media allocation unit configured to, under a situation that there is no idle media resource access node in the media resource of the area, allocate the idle media resource access node to the terminal according to an allocation rule of the media resource of a neighboring area of the call resource access node.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for balancing a load of a terminal-based conference, the method comprising:

receiving, by a scheduler, a call resource and a media resource reported by a server;

receiving, by the scheduler, a call resource request of the server, and allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to a terminal managed by the server according to the call resource request; and

receiving, by the scheduler, a media resource request of a call node corresponding to the call resource access node, and allocating, by the scheduler, an idle media resource access node in the media resource to the terminal according to the media resource request,

wherein the allocating, by the scheduler, the idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal managed by the server comprises;

allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal according to a routing configuration rule of an area to which the server belongs,

wherein under a situation that there is no idle call resource access node in a call resource of the area, allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to the terminal according to a routing configuration rule of a neighboring area of the server.