Method of Terminal-Based Conference Load-Balancing, and Device and System Utilizing Same

• US 20180227139A1
• Filed: 02/25/2016
• Published: 08/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: ZHOU, Yunwu
• Granted Patent: US 10,728,050 B2
• Time in Patent Office: 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.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before the receiving, by a scheduler, a call resource and a media resource reported by a 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, before the receiving, by a scheduler, a call resource and a media resource reported by a server, the method 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 step of allocating, by the scheduler, an idle call resource access node in the call resource to a 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.

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

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.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of allocating, by the scheduler, an 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.

7. The method according to claim 6, 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, an 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.

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

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 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

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.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the device 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.

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

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

11. The device according to claim 8, wherein the call allocation module comprises:

a first call allocation unit configured to allocate 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.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the call allocation module comprises:

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 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.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the media allocation module comprises:

a first media allocation unit configured to allocate 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.

14. The device according to claim 13, 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 an 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.

15. A system for balancing a load of a terminal-based conference, comprising:

a scheduler, a server and a terminal, wherein;

the scheduler receives a call resource and a media resource reported by the 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 the terminal managed by the server according to the call resource request; and

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.