CN110620896A

CN110620896A - Conference establishing method, system and device

Info

Publication number: CN110620896A
Application number: CN201910804028.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李海波; 周逸芳; 褚英奇; 袁占涛
Original assignee: Visionvera Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Visionvera Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-28
Filing date: 2019-08-28
Publication date: 2019-12-27
Anticipated expiration: 2039-08-28
Also published as: CN110620896B

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a conference establishing method, a system and a device, wherein the conference establishing method is executed in a conference management server and comprises the following steps: controlling at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to configuration information of at least one virtual terminal stored in a database; receiving a conference starting request sent by a conference management client, responding to the conference starting request, selecting a virtual terminal with idle state information from virtual terminals accessed to a core server and using the virtual terminal as a target virtual terminal, receiving a conference establishing request sent by the conference management client, sending the conference establishing request to the core server through the target virtual terminal so that the core server controls a plurality of conference participating terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishing request, and receiving a conference establishing success response sent by the core server. The conference establishing method provided by the invention can also develop the conference under the condition of not using the chairman terminal of the entity, thereby enhancing the applicability of the video networking conference.

Description

Conference establishing method, system and device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of data processing technologies, and in particular, to a method, a system, and an apparatus for establishing a conference.

Background

With the continuous development of the video networking technology, the video networking is increasingly widely applied to the aspects of work, study, life and the like of people, and high-definition video call can be realized before participants located in different areas by organizing a conference through the video networking.

The establishment of the current video networking conference requires that a conference management server is connected to a chairman terminal of an entity through an IP (Internet protocol), then a conference signaling is forwarded to a core server through the chairman terminal, and the core server sends the conference signaling to a participant after receiving the conference signaling, so that the conference establishment and the subsequent conference control are realized. However, the conference management server must be connected to the chairman terminal to establish the conference, and when the chairman terminal is not connected to the conference management server or the chairman terminal is damaged, the conference cannot be performed, which affects the applicability of the video networking conference.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, embodiments of the present invention are proposed in order to provide a conference establishment method, system and apparatus that overcome the above problems or at least partially solve the above problems.

In order to solve the above problems, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a conference establishing method, which is applied to a system including a conference management server, a conference management client corresponding to the conference management server, a core server, and a plurality of conference participating terminals; the method comprises the following steps:

the conference management server controls at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in a database;

the conference management client acquires a conference starting request triggered by a user and sends the conference starting request to the conference management server;

the conference management server responds to the conference starting request, selects a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and takes the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal;

the conference management client acquires a conference establishment request and sends the conference establishment request to the conference management server, wherein the conference establishment request comprises the identifications of the multiple conference participating terminals;

the conference management server sends the conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal;

and the core server controls the plurality of conference participating terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishing request.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a conference establishing method which is executed in the conference management server and comprises the following steps:

controlling at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in a database;

receiving a conference starting request sent by a conference management client, responding to the conference starting request, selecting a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and taking the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal;

receiving a conference establishment request sent by the conference management client, wherein the conference establishment request comprises the identifiers of a plurality of conference participating terminals;

sending the conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server can control the multiple conference participating terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishment request;

and receiving a conference establishment success response sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a conference establishing system, which comprises a conference management server, a conference management client corresponding to the conference management server, a core server and a plurality of conference participating terminals;

the conference management server is used for controlling at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to the configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in the database;

the conference management client is used for acquiring a conference starting request triggered by a user and sending the conference starting request to the conference management server;

the conference management server is further configured to select a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server in response to the conference starting request, and use the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal;

the conference management client is further configured to obtain a conference establishment request, and send the conference establishment request to the conference management server, where the conference establishment request includes the identifiers of the multiple conference participating terminals;

the conference management server is used for sending the conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal;

and the core server is used for controlling the plurality of participant terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishment request.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a conference establishing device, which is arranged on the conference management server and comprises:

the control module is used for controlling at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in the data;

the selection module is used for receiving a conference starting request sent by a conference management client, responding to the conference starting request, selecting a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and taking the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal;

the receiving module is used for receiving a conference establishment request sent by the conference management client, wherein the conference establishment request comprises the identifiers of a plurality of conference participating terminals;

a sending module, configured to send the conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server controls the multiple conference participating terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishment request;

and the receiving module is further configured to receive a conference establishment success response sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.

The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:

the conference establishing method provided by the embodiment of the invention is executed in terminal equipment, a target virtual terminal is determined from at least one virtual terminal by obtaining a conference starting request and responding to the conference request, the conference establishing request is obtained, the conference establishing request comprises the identifications of a plurality of conference participating terminals, the conference establishing request is sent to a server through the target virtual terminal so that the server can control the plurality of conference participating terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishing request, and the conference establishing success response sent by the server is received, so that the conference can be carried out under the condition that an entity chairman terminal is not used, and the applicability of the video networking conference is enhanced.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic networking diagram of a video network of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture of a node server according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an access switch of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an ethernet protocol conversion gateway according to the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a conference establishing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a signaling flowchart of a conference establishment method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a signaling flow diagram of another conference establishment method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for establishing a conference according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another conference establishing system provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a conference setting-up apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.

The video networking is an important milestone for network development, is a real-time network, can realize high-definition video real-time transmission, and pushes a plurality of internet applications to high-definition video, and high-definition faces each other.

The video networking adopts a real-time high-definition video exchange technology, can integrate required services such as dozens of services of video, voice, pictures, characters, communication, data and the like on a system platform on a network platform, such as high-definition video conference, video monitoring, intelligent monitoring analysis, emergency command, digital broadcast television, delayed television, network teaching, live broadcast, VOD on demand, television mail, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), intranet (self-office) channels, intelligent video broadcast control, information distribution and the like, and realizes high-definition quality video broadcast through a television or a computer.

To better understand the embodiments of the present invention, the following description refers to the internet of view:

some of the technologies applied in the video networking are as follows:

network Technology (Network Technology)

Network technology innovation in video networking has improved the traditional Ethernet (Ethernet) to face the potentially huge first video traffic on the network. Unlike pure network Packet Switching (Packet Switching) or network Circuit Switching (Circuit Switching), the Packet Switching is adopted by the technology of the video networking to meet the Streaming requirement. The video networking technology has the advantages of flexibility, simplicity and low price of packet switching, and simultaneously has the quality and safety guarantee of circuit switching, thereby realizing the seamless connection of the whole network switching type virtual circuit and the data format.

Switching Technology (Switching Technology)

The video network adopts two advantages of asynchronism and packet switching of the Ethernet, eliminates the defects of the Ethernet on the premise of full compatibility, has end-to-end seamless connection of the whole network, is directly communicated with a user terminal, and directly bears an IP data packet. The user data does not require any format conversion across the entire network. The video networking is a higher-level form of the Ethernet, is a real-time exchange platform, can realize the real-time transmission of the whole-network large-scale high-definition video which cannot be realized by the existing Internet, and pushes a plurality of network video applications to high-definition and unification.

Server Technology (Server Technology)

The server technology on the video networking and unified video platform is different from the traditional server, the streaming media transmission of the video networking and unified video platform is established on the basis of connection orientation, the data processing capacity of the video networking and unified video platform is independent of flow and communication time, and a single network layer can contain signaling and data transmission. For voice and video services, the complexity of video networking and unified video platform streaming media processing is much simpler than that of data processing, and the efficiency is greatly improved by more than one hundred times compared with that of a traditional server.

Storage Technology (Storage Technology)

The super-high speed storage technology of the unified video platform adopts the most advanced real-time operating system in order to adapt to the media content with super-large capacity and super-large flow, the program information in the server instruction is mapped to the specific hard disk space, the media content is not passed through the server any more, and is directly sent to the user terminal instantly, and the general waiting time of the user is less than 0.2 second. The optimized sector distribution greatly reduces the mechanical motion of the magnetic head track seeking of the hard disk, the resource consumption only accounts for 20% of that of the IP internet of the same grade, but concurrent flow which is 3 times larger than that of the traditional hard disk array is generated, and the comprehensive efficiency is improved by more than 10 times.

Network Security Technology (Network Security Technology)

The structural design of the video network completely eliminates the network security problem troubling the internet structurally by the modes of independent service permission control each time, complete isolation of equipment and user data and the like, generally does not need antivirus programs and firewalls, avoids the attack of hackers and viruses, and provides a structural carefree security network for users.

Service Innovation Technology (Service Innovation Technology)

The unified video platform integrates services and transmission, and is not only automatically connected once whether a single user, a private network user or a network aggregate. The user terminal, the set-top box or the PC are directly connected to the unified video platform to obtain various multimedia video services in various forms. The unified video platform adopts a menu type configuration table mode to replace the traditional complex application programming, can realize complex application by using very few codes, and realizes infinite new service innovation.

Networking of the video network is as follows:

the video network is a centralized control network structure, and the network can be a tree network, a star network, a ring network and the like, but on the basis of the centralized control node, the whole network is controlled by the centralized control node in the network.

As shown in fig. 1, the video network is divided into an access network and a metropolitan network.

The devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access switch, terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding boards, memories, etc.). The node server is connected to an access switch, which may be connected to a plurality of terminals and may be connected to an ethernet network.

The node server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the access network and can control the access switch and the terminal. The node server can be directly connected with the access switch or directly connected with the terminal.

Similarly, devices of the metropolitan network portion may also be classified into 3 types: a metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server. The metro server is connected to a node switch, which may be connected to a plurality of node servers.

The node server is a node server of the access network part, namely the node server belongs to both the access network part and the metropolitan area network part.

The metropolitan area server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the metropolitan area network and can control a node switch and a node server. The metropolitan area server can be directly connected with the node switch or directly connected with the node server.

Therefore, the whole video network is a network structure with layered centralized control, and the network controlled by the node server and the metropolitan area server can be in various structures such as tree, star and ring.

The access network part can form a unified video platform (the part in the dotted circle), and a plurality of unified video platforms can form a video network; each unified video platform may be interconnected via metropolitan area and wide area video networking.

Video networking device classification

1.1 devices in the video network of the embodiment of the present invention can be mainly classified into 3 types: server, exchanger (including Ethernet protocol conversion gateway), terminal (including various set-top boxes, code board, memory, etc.). The video network as a whole can be divided into a metropolitan area network (or national network, global network, etc.) and an access network.

1.2 wherein the devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access exchanger (including Ethernet protocol conversion gateway), terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding board, memory, etc.).

The specific hardware structure of each access network device is as follows:

a node server:

as shown in fig. 2, the system mainly includes a network interface module 201, a switching engine module 202, a CPU module 203, and a disk array module 204;

the network interface module 201, the CPU module 203, and the disk array module 204 all enter the switching engine module 202; the switching engine module 202 performs an operation of looking up the address table 205 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; and stores the packet in a queue of the corresponding packet buffer 206 based on the packet's steering information; if the queue of the packet buffer 206 is nearly full, it is discarded; the switching engine module 202 polls all packet buffer queues for forwarding if the following conditions are met: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero. The disk array module 204 mainly implements control over the hard disk, including initialization, read-write, and other operations on the hard disk; the CPU module 203 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with an access switch and a terminal (not shown in the figure), configuring an address table 205 (including a downlink protocol packet address table, an uplink protocol packet address table, and a data packet address table), and configuring the disk array module 204.

The access switch:

as shown in fig. 3, the network interface module mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 301 and an uplink network interface module 302), a switching engine module 303 and a CPU module 304;

wherein, the packet (uplink data) coming from the downlink network interface module 301 enters the packet detection module 305; the packet detection module 305 detects whether the Destination Address (DA), the Source Address (SA), the packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id) and enters the switching engine module 303, otherwise, discards the stream identifier; the packet (downstream data) coming from the upstream network interface module 302 enters the switching engine module 303; the incoming data packet of the CPU module 304 enters the switching engine module 303; the switching engine module 303 performs an operation of looking up the address table 306 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is from the downstream network interface to the upstream network interface, the packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 in association with the stream-id; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the data packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 according to the guiding information of the packet; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded.

The switching engine module 303 polls all packet buffer queues and may include two cases:

if the queue is from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queued packet counter is greater than zero; 3) obtaining a token generated by a code rate control module;

if the queue is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero.

The rate control module 308 is configured by the CPU module 304, and generates tokens for packet buffer queues from all downstream network interfaces to upstream network interfaces at programmable intervals to control the rate of upstream forwarding.

The CPU module 304 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with the node server, configuration of the address table 306, and configuration of the code rate control module 308.

Ethernet protocol conversion gateway：

As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 401 and an uplink network interface module 402), a switching engine module 403, a CPU module 404, a packet detection module 405, a rate control module 408, an address table 406, a packet buffer 407, a MAC adding module 409, and a MAC deleting module 410.

Wherein, the data packet coming from the downlink network interface module 401 enters the packet detection module 405; the packet detection module 405 detects whether the ethernet MAC DA, the ethernet MAC SA, the ethernet length or frame type, the video network destination address DA, the video network source address SA, the video network packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id); then, the MAC deletion module 410 subtracts MAC DA, MAC SA, length or frame type (2byte) and enters the corresponding receiving buffer, otherwise, discards it;

the downlink network interface module 401 detects the sending buffer of the port, and if there is a packet, acquires the ethernet MAC DA of the corresponding terminal according to the destination address DA of the packet, adds the ethernet MAC DA of the terminal, the MACSA of the ethernet coordination gateway, and the ethernet length or frame type, and sends the packet.

The other modules in the ethernet protocol gateway function similarly to the access switch.

A terminal:

the system mainly comprises a network interface module, a service processing module and a CPU module; for example, the set-top box mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding and decoding engine module and a CPU module; the coding board mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding engine module and a CPU module; the memory mainly comprises a network interface module, a CPU module and a disk array module.

1.3 devices of the metropolitan area network part can be mainly classified into 2 types: node server, node exchanger, metropolitan area server. The node switch mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module; the metropolitan area server mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module.

2. Video networking packet definition

2.1 Access network packet definition

The data packet of the access network mainly comprises the following parts: destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), reserved bytes, payload (pdu), CRC.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the access network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

Payload

CRC

wherein:

the Destination Address (DA) is composed of 8 bytes (byte), the first byte represents the type of the data packet (such as various protocol packets, multicast data packets, unicast data packets, etc.), there are 256 possibilities at most, the second byte to the sixth byte are metropolitan area network addresses, and the seventh byte and the eighth byte are access network addresses;

the Source Address (SA) is also composed of 8 bytes (byte), defined as the same as the Destination Address (DA);

the reserved byte consists of 2 bytes;

the payload part has different lengths according to different types of datagrams, and is 64 bytes if the datagram is various types of protocol packets, and is 32+1024 or 1056 bytes if the datagram is a unicast packet, of course, the length is not limited to the above 2 types;

the CRC consists of 4 bytes and is calculated in accordance with the standard ethernet CRC algorithm.

2.2 metropolitan area network packet definition

The topology of a metropolitan area network is a graph and there may be 2, or even more than 2, connections between two devices, i.e., there may be more than 2 connections between a node switch and a node server, a node switch and a node switch, and a node switch and a node server. However, the metro network address of the metro network device is unique, and in order to accurately describe the connection relationship between the metro network devices, parameters are introduced in the embodiment of the present invention: a label to uniquely describe a metropolitan area network device.

In this specification, the definition of the Label is similar to that of the Label of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switch), and assuming that there are two connections between the device a and the device B, there are 2 labels for the packet from the device a to the device B, and 2 labels for the packet from the device B to the device a. The label is classified into an incoming label and an outgoing label, and assuming that the label (incoming label) of the packet entering the device a is 0x0000, the label (outgoing label) of the packet leaving the device a may become 0x 0001. The network access process of the metro network is a network access process under centralized control, that is, address allocation and label allocation of the metro network are both dominated by the metro server, and the node switch and the node server are both passively executed, which is different from label allocation of MPLS, and label allocation of MPLS is a result of mutual negotiation between the switch and the server.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the metro network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

label (R)

Payload

CRC

Namely Destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), Reserved byte (Reserved), tag, payload (pdu), CRC. The format of the tag may be defined by reference to the following: the tag is 32 bits with the upper 16 bits reserved and only the lower 16 bits used, and its position is between the reserved bytes and payload of the packet.

In order to more clearly understand the embodiments of the present invention, a conference establishing method in the prior art is introduced, in the prior art, only a video network terminal capable of performing signaling interaction with a core server is in a video network, therefore, a conference management server needs to be connected to a chairman terminal of an entity through an IP, the chairman terminal of the entity sends a conference establishing request to the core server, the core server receives the conference establishing request and controls a plurality of participant terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishing request, after the conference is established, a terminal device needs to send requests such as a conference establishing request and a speech switching request to the core server through the chairman terminal, and receives responses returned by the core server through the chairman terminal, such as a conference establishing success response and a speech switching success response.

In the prior art, a conference management server must be connected to a chairman terminal to establish a conference, and when the conference management server is not connected to the chairman terminal or the chairman terminal is damaged, the conference cannot be established.

In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a conference establishing method implemented based on the conference establishing system provided in fig. 5, referring to fig. 5 and fig. 6, fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of the conference establishing system provided in the embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 6 is a signaling flow diagram of the conference establishing method provided in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the conference establishing system includes a conference management client, a conference management server, a core server, a participant terminal 1, a participant terminal 2, and a participant terminal 3. In the embodiment of the present invention, at least one virtual terminal is deployed in the conference management server, the conference management server may establish communication connection with a core server through the virtual terminal, the core server may establish communication connection with at least one participant terminal, the participant terminals may be devices such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, and a notebook computer, and fig. 5 only shows three participant terminals.

It should be noted that, for convenience of understanding, the conference establishing system only includes one conference management client, a conference management server, a core server and three conference participating terminals, and those skilled in the art should know that, in actual use, the number of the conference participating terminals may be at least two, and the number of the conference participating terminals is not limited in this embodiment.

As shown in fig. 6, the conference establishing method provided in this embodiment includes:

step 601: and the conference management server controls at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to the configuration information of at least one virtual terminal stored in the database.

In the embodiment of the invention, the database of the conference management server stores the configuration information of at least one virtual terminal, the configuration information of the virtual terminal can be the mac address and the video networking number of the virtual terminal, and the conference management server can control the virtual terminal to establish communication connection with the core server according to the configuration information of the virtual terminal.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, after the conference management server is started to operate, the virtual terminal is controlled to establish a communication connection with the core server.

Step 602: the conference management client acquires a conference starting request triggered by a user.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a user triggers a conference starting request on an operation interface of a conference management client, and how the conference management client obtains the conference starting request triggered by the user belongs to the prior art, so detailed description is omitted here, and a person skilled in the art can select an appropriate manner to obtain the conference starting request triggered by the user.

Step 603: and the conference management client sends the conference starting request to a conference management server.

In the embodiment of the invention, the conference management client sends the conference starting request to the conference management server after acquiring the conference starting request triggered by the user.

Step 604: the conference management server responds to the conference starting request, selects a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and takes the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving a conference starting request sent by a conference management client, a conference management server responds to the conference starting request, selects a currently unoccupied virtual terminal from virtual terminals accessed to a core server, the selected currently unoccupied virtual terminal is a virtual terminal with selected idle state information, and the virtual terminal with the selected idle state information is used as a target virtual terminal.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the conference management server may establish a communication connection with multiple conference management clients at the same time, receive multiple conference initiation requests sent by the multiple conference management clients, and select, for each conference initiation request, one currently idle virtual terminal as a target virtual terminal corresponding to the conference initiation request.

Step 605: the conference management client acquires the conference establishment request and sends the conference establishment request to the conference management server.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the target virtual terminal is determined, the conference management client obtains a conference establishment request triggered by a user, where the conference establishment request includes identifiers of multiple participant terminals, it should be noted that the identifier of each participant terminal is unique, and an identifier of one participant terminal corresponds to one participant terminal. And after acquiring a conference establishment request triggered by a user, the conference establishment client sends the conference establishment request to the conference management server.

Step 606: and the conference management server sends a conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving the conference establishment request, the conference management server sends the conference establishment request to the target virtual terminal, and the target virtual terminal sends the conference establishment request to the core server.

Step 607: and the core server controls a plurality of participant terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishment request.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving a conference establishment request sent by a conference management server through a target virtual terminal, a core server can obtain the identifications of a plurality of participant terminals from the conference establishment request, and the core server controls the participant terminals corresponding to the identifications of each participant terminal to establish a conference according to the identifications of the plurality of participant terminals.

Optionally, the specific method for the core server to control the multiple participant terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishment request may be that the core server sends a conference joining request to the multiple participant terminals, after the multiple participant terminals receive the conference joining request sent by the server, the participant terminals send a conference joining success response to the server if the participant terminals agree to join the conference, and after the core server receives the conference joining success response sent by each participant terminal, the core server indicates that the conference is established successfully.

The conference establishing method provided by the embodiment of the invention can also develop the conference under the condition of not using the chairman terminal of the entity, thereby enhancing the applicability of the video networking conference.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the illustrated order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required to implement the invention.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a signaling flowchart of another conference setup method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 7, the conference establishing method provided in this embodiment is applied to a system including a conference management server, a conference management client corresponding to the conference management server, a core server, and a plurality of participant terminals, and includes:

step 701: and the conference management server controls at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to the configuration information of at least one virtual terminal stored in the database.

Step 702: the conference management client acquires a conference starting request triggered by a user.

Step 703: and the conference management client sends the conference starting request to a conference management server.

Step 704: and the conference management server responds to the conference starting request, selects the virtual terminal with the state information in the idle state from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and takes the selected virtual terminal with the state information in the idle state as a target virtual terminal.

Step 705: the conference management client acquires the conference establishment request and sends the conference establishment request to the conference management server.

Step 706: and the conference management server sends a conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal.

Step 707: and the core server controls a plurality of participant terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishment request.

Step 708: and the core server sends a conference establishment success response to the conference management server through the target virtual terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, after the core server successfully controls a plurality of conference participating terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishing request, the core server sends a conference establishing success response to the target virtual terminal, and the conference management server receives the conference establishing success response through the target virtual terminal. Therefore, the conference management server can know that the core server successfully pulls a plurality of participant terminals into the conference and the conference is successfully established.

It should be noted that, after the conference is successfully established, each participant terminal sends its own coding address to the core server, where the coding address is an address allocated by the core server for each participant terminal after communication connection is established between each participant terminal and the core server, the speaking terminal may store its own media stream to the coding address, and other participant terminals except the speaking terminal may obtain the media stream of the speaking terminal according to the coding address, for example, the media stream of the participant terminal 1 may be stored at the coding address 1, and when the participant terminal 1 is a speaking terminal, the participant terminals 2 and 3 may obtain the media stream of the participant terminal 1 from the coding address 1 of the participant terminal 1.

Optionally, after receiving the conference success establishment response, the conference management server may send a conference opening request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, after receiving the conference opening request, the core server sends a conference opening success response to the conference management server through the target virtual terminal, and the conference management server receives the conference opening success response, which indicates that the video networking conference starts from this moment.

Step 709: the conference management client acquires a switching speaking request triggered by a user.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if a user wishes to switch a terminal speaking in a conference, a switching speaking request may be triggered on an operation interface of a conference management client, where the switching speaking request includes an identifier of a speaking terminal, and the speaking terminal is a terminal that speaks after switching speaking.

Step 710: the conference management client sends the switching speech request to the conference management server.

In the embodiment of the invention, after acquiring a switching speech request triggered by a user, a conference management client sends the switching speech request to a conference management server, wherein the switching speech request comprises an identifier of a speech terminal.

Step 711: and the conference management server sends the switching speaking request to the core server through the target virtual terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving the switching speech request, the conference management server sends the switching speech request to the target virtual terminal, and the target virtual terminal sends the switching speech request to the core server.

Step 712: and the core server sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to other participant terminals except the speaking terminal in the plurality of participant terminals according to the identification of the speaking terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving the switching speaking request sent by the conference management server through the virtual terminal, the core server sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to a plurality of participant terminals. Optionally, the core server sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to other participant terminals in the multiple participant terminals except the speaking terminal, so that the multiple participant terminals obtain the media stream according to the coded address of the speaking terminal, for example, a participant terminal A, B, C, D, E is accessed in the current conference, the participant terminal a is the speaking terminal, the core server sends the coded address of the participant terminal a to all participant terminals B, C, D, E except the participant terminal, and the participant terminal B, C, D, E accesses the coded address of the participant terminal a to obtain the media stream of the participant terminal a.

Optionally, after the speech switching is successful, the server sends a speech switching success response to the conference management server through the target virtual terminal.

Step 713: and the core server receives the media streams sent by the multiple participating terminals respectively.

In the embodiment of the invention, the participating terminals can send respective media streams to the core server, and the core server stores or temporarily stores the media streams sent by the participating terminals to a path corresponding to the coding address of each participating terminal.

Correspondingly, the other participating terminals acquire the media stream of the speaking terminal from the core server according to the coding address of the speaking terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, a plurality of participant terminals can acquire the media stream sent to the core server by the speaking terminal by accessing the coding address of the speaking terminal.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, step 713 and the other participant terminals may acquire the media stream of the originating terminal from the core server according to the coding address of the originating terminal at the same time, that is, the core server may receive the media stream sent by the originating terminal and provide the multiple participant terminals with the media stream according to the coding address of the originating terminal.

Optionally, after the other participant terminal acquires the media stream of the originating terminal from the core server according to the coding address of the originating terminal, the method may further include the following steps:

the conference management client receives a user-triggered conference stopping request and sends the conference stopping request to the conference management server.

And the conference management server sends a conference stopping request to the core server through the target virtual terminal so that the core server responds to the conference stopping instruction and controls the plurality of participant terminals to disperse the conference.

The management server releases the target virtual terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, after the conference management server sends the conference stopping request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, the target virtual terminal is released, so that the target virtual terminal recovers the unoccupied state.

Referring to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a flowchart of steps of another conference establishing method provided in an embodiment of the present invention, where the conference establishing method provided in an embodiment of the present invention may be executed by a conference management server deployed with a conference establishing apparatus, and the conference establishing apparatus is generally implemented in a software or hardware manner, and the method may specifically include the following steps:

step 810: and controlling the at least one virtual terminal to access the core server by the at least one virtual terminal access network according to the configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in the database.

Step 820: receiving a conference starting request sent by a conference management client, responding to the conference starting request, selecting a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and taking the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal.

In the embodiment of the invention, the state information of the virtual terminal comprises an idle state and an occupied state, and the virtual terminal in the idle state can be used for establishing a new conference; the virtual terminal in the occupied state is occupied, and cannot be used for establishing a new conference at present. The terminal equipment selects an idle virtual terminal as a target virtual terminal according to the respective state information of at least one virtual terminal, so that the selected target virtual terminal can be ensured to be used, and the success rate of conference establishment is improved.

Step 830: receiving a conference establishment request sent by a conference management client, wherein the conference establishment request comprises a plurality of identifications of conference participating terminals;

step 840: sending a conference establishment request to a core server through a target virtual terminal so that the core server can control a plurality of conference participating terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishment request;

step 850: and receiving a conference establishment success response sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.

Optionally, after step 850, further comprising:

and sending a switching speaking request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to other participant terminals except the speaking terminal in the plurality of participant terminals according to the identification of the speaking terminal included in the switching speaking request, and the other participant terminals can acquire the media stream of the speaking terminal from the core server according to the coded address of the speaking terminal.

Optionally, the conference initiation request includes an identifier of the chairman terminal, and before the virtual terminal with the state information in the idle state is selected from the virtual terminals accessing the core server in response to the conference initiation request, the method may further include:

judging whether a communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal according to the conference starting request;

and if the fact that the communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal is judged, the communication connection with the chairman terminal is established.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving the conference starting request, the conference management server judges that the communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal contained in the conference starting request. If it is determined that the communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal, go to step 930; if it is determined that the communication connection cannot be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal, step 940 is executed.

In the embodiment of the invention, if the conference management server judges that the communication connection with the chairman terminal can be established, the communication connection with the chairman terminal is established.

After the conference management server establishes communication connection with the chairman terminal, the chairman terminal forwards a conference request (such as a conference establishment request, a speech switching request and other conference requests) to the core server, namely the conference management server sends the conference request to the chairman terminal, and after receiving the conference request, the chairman terminal sends the conference request to the core server, so that the conference establishment and the scheduling in the conference process are realized. The way in which the conference is conducted via the chairman terminal is prior art and will not be described in detail here.

It should be noted that, because the conference management server can simultaneously receive conference starting requests sent by a plurality of conference management clients, and for each conference corresponding to the conference starting request, a chairman terminal or a virtual terminal needs to be allocated to implement establishment of the conference and scheduling of the conference in progress, and the number of virtual terminals that can be used by the conference management server is limited, in the embodiment of the present invention, for each conference starting request, when the chairman terminal can be connected, the chairman terminal is used to establish the conference, so that the occupancy rate of the virtual terminal can be reduced, and the success rate of establishing the conference by using the virtual terminal when the chairman terminal cannot be connected is improved.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if the conference management server determines that the communication connection with the chairman terminal cannot be established, the target virtual terminal is determined from the virtual terminals accessed to the core server, and the method for establishing a conference by using the target virtual terminal may refer to the above embodiment.

Optionally, after the sending the conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, the method may further include:

sending a switching speaking request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to other participant terminals except the speaking terminal in the multiple participant terminals according to the identification of the speaking terminal included in the switching speaking request, and the other participant terminals obtain media streams from the speaking terminal according to the coded address of the speaking terminal;

and receiving a response of successful speech switching sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.

The conference establishing method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be used for developing a conference under the condition that an entity chairman terminal is not used, the applicability of the video networking conference is enhanced, whether the chairman terminal can be connected or not is judged before the target virtual terminal is determined, if the chairman terminal can be connected, the communication connection with the chairman terminal is established, so that the conference can be established through the chairman terminal when the chairman terminal can be connected to establish the conference, and the virtual terminal resources can be more effectively utilized.

Referring to fig. 9, fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a conference establishing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the conference establishing system specifically includes a conference management server 910, a conference management client 920 corresponding to the conference management server 910, a core server 930, and a plurality of participant terminals 940.

The session management server 910 is configured to control at least one virtual terminal to access the core server 930 according to the configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in the database.

The conference management client 920 is configured to obtain a conference starting request triggered by a user, and send the conference starting request to the conference management server 910.

The conference management server 910 is further configured to select a virtual terminal with idle state information from the virtual terminals accessing the core server 930 in response to the conference initiation request, and use the selected virtual terminal with idle state information as a target virtual terminal.

The conference management client 920 is further configured to obtain a conference establishment request, and send the conference establishment request to the conference management server 910, where the conference establishment request includes the identifiers of the multiple participant terminals 940.

The conference management server 910 is further configured to send the conference establishment request to the core server 930 through the target virtual terminal.

And the core server 930 is configured to control the plurality of participant terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishment request.

Optionally, the core server 930 is further configured to send a conference establishment success response to the conference management server 910 through the target virtual terminal.

The conference management client 920 is further configured to obtain a speech switching request triggered by a user, and send the speech switching request to the conference management server, where the speech switching request includes an identifier of a speech terminal.

The conference management server 910 is further configured to send a switch origination request to the core server through the target virtual terminal.

The core server 930 is further configured to receive the utterance switching request sent by the target virtual terminal, and send the encoded address of the utterance terminal to other participant terminals except the utterance terminal in the multiple participant terminals 940 according to the identifier of the utterance terminal, so that the other participant terminals obtain the media stream of the utterance terminal from the core server 930 according to the encoded address of the utterance terminal.

The core server 930 is further configured to receive media streams sent by the multiple participating terminals respectively.

Referring to fig. 10, fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a conference setting-up apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the conference setting-up apparatus includes:

a control module 1010, configured to control at least one virtual terminal to access the core server according to configuration information of the at least one virtual terminal stored in the data.

A selecting module 1020, configured to receive a conference starting request sent by the conference management client, and in response to the conference starting request, select a virtual terminal whose state information is in an idle state from the virtual terminals accessing the core server, and use the virtual terminal whose state information is in the idle state as a target virtual terminal.

The receiving module 1030: and the conference establishing server is used for receiving a conference establishing request sent by the conference management client, wherein the conference establishing request comprises the identifications of a plurality of participant terminals.

The sending module 1040 is configured to send a conference establishment request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server controls the multiple conference participating terminals to establish a conference according to the conference establishment request.

The receiving module 1030 is further configured to receive a conference establishment success response sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.

Optionally, the conference initiating request includes an identifier of the chairman terminal, and the apparatus further includes:

and the judging module is used for judging whether the communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal according to the conference starting request.

And the connection module is used for establishing communication connection with the chairman terminal if judging that the communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal.

Optionally, the sending module 1040 is further configured to send the switching utterance request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server sends the coded address of the utterance terminal to other participant terminals, except the utterance terminal, in the multiple participant terminals according to the identifier of the utterance terminal included in the switching utterance request, so that the other participant terminals obtain the media stream of the utterance terminal from the core server according to the coded address of the utterance terminal.

The receiving module 1030 is further configured to receive a successful speech switching response sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.

The conference establishing device provided by the embodiment of the invention can also develop a conference under the condition of not using an entity chairman terminal, enhances the applicability of the video networking conference, judges whether the chairman terminal can be connected or not before determining the target virtual terminal, and establishes communication connection with the chairman terminal if the chairman terminal can be connected, so that the conference can be established through the chairman terminal when the chairman terminal can be connected to establish the conference, and the virtual terminal resources can be more effectively utilized.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.

In addition, another conference establishing apparatus is provided in an embodiment of the present invention, where the conference establishing apparatus includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program that is stored in the memory and can be run on the processor, and when being executed by the processor, the computer program implements each process of the conference establishing method embodiment in the foregoing embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not described here again.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when being executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the foregoing conference establishment method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition, where the computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or terminal equipment comprising the element.

The method, the system and the device for establishing the conference provided by the invention are introduced in detail, a specific example is applied in the text to explain the principle and the implementation mode of the invention, and the description of the embodiment is only used for helping to understand the method and the idea of the invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A conference establishing method is characterized in that the method is applied to a system comprising a conference management server, a conference management client corresponding to the conference management server, a core server and a plurality of conference participating terminals; the method comprises the following steps:

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the core server controls a plurality of the participating terminals to establish the conference according to the conference establishment request, the method further comprises:

the core server sends a conference establishment success response to the conference management server through the target virtual terminal;

the conference management client acquires a switching speech request triggered by a user and sends the switching speech request to the conference management server, wherein the switching speech request comprises an identifier of a speech terminal;

the conference management server sends the switching speaking request to the core server through a target virtual terminal;

the core server receives a switching speaking request sent by the target virtual terminal, and sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to other participant terminals except the speaking terminal in the multiple participant terminals according to the identification of the speaking terminal, so that the other participant terminals can obtain the media stream of the speaking terminal from the core server according to the coded address of the speaking terminal;

and the core server receives the media streams sent by the multiple participating terminals respectively.

3. A conference establishing method executed in a conference management server, comprising:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the conference initiation request includes an identifier of a chairman terminal, and further comprising, before said selecting a virtual terminal with state information in an idle state from the virtual terminals accessing the core server in response to the conference initiation request:

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein after said sending of said conference establishment request to a core server by said target virtual terminal, further comprising:

sending a switching speaking request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server sends the coded address of the speaking terminal to other participant terminals except the speaking terminal in the multiple participant terminals according to the identification of the speaking terminal included in the switching speaking request, and the other participant terminals obtain the media stream of the speaking terminal from the core server according to the coded address of the speaking terminal;

6. A conference establishing system is characterized by comprising a conference management server, a conference management client corresponding to the conference management server, a core server and a plurality of participant terminals;

7. The system of claim 6,

the core server is used for sending a conference establishment success response to the conference management server through the target virtual terminal;

the conference management client is further configured to acquire a speech switching request triggered by a user, and send the speech switching request to the conference management server, where the speech switching request includes an identifier of a speech terminal;

the conference management server is further configured to send the switching speaking request to the core server through a target virtual terminal;

the core server is further configured to receive a talk switching request sent by the target virtual terminal, and send the coded address of the talk terminal to other participant terminals except the talk terminal among the multiple participant terminals according to the identifier of the talk terminal, so that the other participant terminals obtain the media stream of the talk terminal from the core server according to the coded address of the talk terminal;

the core server is further configured to receive the media streams sent by the multiple participating terminals respectively.

8. A conference setting-up apparatus, the apparatus being provided in a conference management server, comprising:

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the initiate conference request comprises an identification of a chairman terminal, the apparatus further comprising:

the judging module is used for judging whether the communication connection can be established with the chairman terminal corresponding to the identifier of the chairman terminal according to the conference starting request;

10. The apparatus according to claim 8 or 9,

the sending module is further configured to send a switching speech request to the core server through the target virtual terminal, so that the core server sends the coded address of the speech terminal to other participant terminals, except the speech terminal, in the multiple participant terminals according to an identifier of the speech terminal included in the switching speech request, so that the other participant terminals obtain a media stream of the speech terminal from the core server according to the coded address of the speech terminal;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a successful speech switching response sent by the core server through the target virtual terminal.