METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING P2P VIDEO COMMUNICATION ON WEBPAGE

• US 20130111311A1
• Filed: 09/06/2010
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Suzhou Codyy Network Science & Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Suzhou Codyy Network Science & Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Hu, Jiaming
• Application Number:
  US13/142,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111311A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• 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 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

A method for implementing p2p video communication on webpage includes the following steps: a user accessing a webpage, loading a flash, and a webpage script calling the flash interface to connect to a socket server; the flash connecting to a stratus server to acquire a key and monitoring received messages; the flash sending the user name and the key to the socket server to store; the flash of the source user and the flash of the target user establishing a direct connection by using the key; the source user and the target user acquiring a video source of a local camera respectively, sending the video source to the counterpart through the established connection, and meanwhile, acquiring and displaying the video stream from the counterpart. The not only largely saves the bandwidth cost of the operator, but also greatly improves the smoothness of the video communication between users.

Claims

1. A method for implementing p2p video communication on webpage, comprising the following steps:

1) a user accessing a webpage and calling a flash interface to connect to a socket server;

the flash connecting to a stratus server and acquiring a key, establishing a connection Netconnection and monitoring received messages, wherein Netconnection is a variable name;

the flash sending a user name and the key of the user to the socket server, and the socket server storing the user name and the key of the user;

a javascript code on the webpage of the source user calling the flash interface to send a message containing a user name of a target user to the socket server;

the socket server receiving the message from the source user, and returning a key corresponding to the user name of the target user to the flash on the webpage of the source user;

the flash on the webpage of the source user sending a video invitation message to the target user via the Netconnection and the key of the target user, and after the target user receives the message, the target user loading a flash, name of which is set as target_video_flash, for playing video on a webpage of the target user;

the target_video_flash connecting to the stratus server and acquiring a new key, connecting to the socket server and storing the new key and the user name of the target user on the socket server;

the target user sending the user name of the source user to the socket server, and the socket server returning a new key corresponding to the user name of the source user to the target_video_flash of the target user;

after the target_video_flash receives the new key corresponding to the user name of the source user returned by the socket server, the target_video_flash starting to play a video stream corresponding to the key via the Netconnection and the new key corresponding to the user name of the source user, and meanwhile, the target user sending a local camera video stream to the flash of the source user via the Netconnection;

2) the target user sending a video communication agreed message to the source user via the Netconnection;

3) after the source user receives the video communication agreed message from the target user, the source user loading a flash, name of which is set as source_video_flash, for playing video on the webpage of the source user;

the source_video_flash connecting to the stratus server and acquiring a new key, connecting to the socket server and storing the new key and the user name of the source user on the socket server;

the source user sending the user name of the target user to the socket server, and the socket server returning the new key corresponding to the user name of the target user to the source_video_flash of the source user;

after the source_video_flash receives the new key corresponding to the user name of the target user returned by the socket server, the source_video_flash starting to play a video stream corresponding to the key via the Netconnection and the new key corresponding to the user name of the target user, and meanwhile, the source user sending a local camera video stream to the flash of the target user via the Netconnection of the source user.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein step 1) comprises the following procedures:

1a) the user accessing the webpage and calling the flash interface to connect to the socket server;

1b) the flash connecting to the stratus server and acquiring the key, establishing the connection Netconnection, wherein Netconnection is a variable name, and monitoring received messages;

1c) the flash sending the user name and the key of the source user to the socket server, and the socket server storing the user name and the key of the source user;

1d) the javascript code on the webpage of the source user calling the flash interface to send a message containing the user name of the target user to the socket server;

the socket server receiving the message from the source user, and returning the key corresponding to the user name of the target user to the flash on the webpage of the source user;

1e) the flash on the webpage of the source user sending a video invitation message to the target user via the Netconnection and the key of the target user;

after the target user receives the message, the target user loading a flash, name of which is set as target_video_flash, for playing video on the webpage of the target user;

the target_video_flash connecting to the stratus server and acquiring a new key, connecting to the socket server and storing the new key and the user name of the target user on the socket server;

1f) the target user sending the user name of the source user to the socket server, and the socket server returning the new key corresponding to the user name of the source user to the target_video_flash of the target user;

after the target_video_flash receives the new key corresponding to the user name of the source user returned by the socket server, the target_video_flash starting to play the video stream corresponding to the key via the Netconnection and the new key corresponding to the user name of the source user, and meanwhile, the target user sending the local camera video stream to the flash of the source user via the Netconnection.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein step 3) comprises the following procedures:

3a) after the source user receives the video communication agreed message from the target user, the source user loading a flash, name of which is set as source_video_flash, for playing video on the webpage of the source user;

the source_video_flash connecting to the stratus server and acquiring a new key, connecting to the socket server and storing the new key and the user name of the source user on the socket server;

3b) the source user sending the user name of the target user to the socket server, and the socket server returning the new key corresponding to the user name of the target user to the source_video_flash of the source user;

after the source_video_flash receives the new key corresponding to the user name of the target user returned by the socket server, the source_video_flash starting to play the video stream corresponding to the key via the Netconnection and the new key corresponding to the user name of the target user, and meanwhile, the source user sending the local camera video stream to the flash of the target user via the Netconnection of the source user;

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user connects to the stratus server and acquires the key for communication, the flash on the webpage of the user establishes the connection by using the key, after the connection is established, the target user and the source user load a flash for playing camera video respectively, and the video flash plays the video corresponding to the key of the counterpart respectively and sends the local video to the counterpart via the connection established by the video flash.