WO2017220004A1

WO2017220004A1 - Method and device for video conference session

Info

Publication number: WO2017220004A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/089563
Authority: WO
Inventors: 贺运东; 张作群; 许磊; 司徒有波; 朱贵丽
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2016-06-23
Filing date: 2017-06-22
Publication date: 2017-12-28
Also published as: CN107547822A

Abstract

Provided are a method and device for a video conference session. The method comprises: receiving, by a cloud conference system, a conference request transmitted by a local conference system; and adding, according to the conference request, a conference participation terminal in the local conference system to a conference initiated by the cloud conference system. The technical solution solves a problem in the prior art in which video communication is inflexible, thereby enabling a conference to be convened at a cloud conference system more flexibly, and deployment is simple.

Description

Video session method and device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a video session method and apparatus.

Background technique

In related technologies, with the continuous maturity of network communication technologies and the rapid development of various video and audio devices, the use of multimedia services has become more and more widespread. In the traditional conference television system, the service control and image processing modules are deployed on a proprietary server, and the unique terminal is used to realize multi-party audio and video communication, which has high cost and complicated deployment; the cloud conference system, the service control and the image processing module are all deployed in one On the physical server, the terminal is also implemented by software, which is low in cost and relatively easy to deploy. In the related art, the traditional conference television system and the cloud conference system are independent and cannot communicate with each other.

In view of the inflexibility of video calls in related technologies, there is currently no effective solution.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a video session method and device, so as to at least solve the problem that the video call is inflexible in the related art.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a video session method is provided, including:

The cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system;

And joining the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.

Optionally, the cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system, including:

The cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the cascade port of the local conference system.

The cloud conference system receives a call message sent by the local conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference. The IP is the server address of the cloud conference system.

Optionally, after the cloud conference system receives the call message sent by the local conference system, the method further includes:

The cloud conference system verifies the call message, and if the call message is verified, the conference terminal in the local conference system is added to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.

Optionally, the joining the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request includes:

The cloud conference system allocates a conference number to the conference, where the conference number is the call number;

Adding the conference terminal to the conference corresponding to the conference number.

Optionally, the cloud conferencing system communicates with the local conferencing system by calling a rest_api interface.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for video calling is provided, including:

The local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, wherein the cloud conference system according to the conference request The participant terminal in the local conference system joins the conference initiated by the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, including:

The cascade port of the local conference system sends the conference request to the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the local conference system sends the conference request to the cloud conference system, including:

The local conference system sends a call message to the cloud conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference. The IP address is the server address of the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the local conference system communicates with the cloud conference system through a rest_api interface invoked by the cloud conference system.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for providing a video session, applied to a cloud conference system, includes:

a receiving module, configured to receive a conference request sent by a local conference system;

The conference module is configured to join the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.

Optionally, the receiving module is further configured to receive a conference request sent by a cascade port of the local conference system.

Optionally, the receiving module is further configured to receive a call message sent by the local conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is the cloud conference system The conference number assigned by the conference. The IP address is the server address of the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the receiving module is further configured to: after receiving the call message sent by the local conference system, verify the call message, where the call message passes the verification, according to the conference request, the local The participant terminal in the conference system joins the conference initiated by the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the conference module is further configured to allocate a conference number to the conference, where the conference number is the conference number;

The conference module is further configured to join the conference terminal to a conference corresponding to the conference number.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a device for providing a video session, which is applied to a local conference system, includes:

a sending module, configured to send a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request;

And a determining module, configured to determine, according to the information fed back by the cloud conference system, that the cloud conference system receives the conference request.

Optionally, the sending module is further configured to send the conference request to the cloud conference system through a cascade port.

Optionally, the sending module is further configured to send a call message to the cloud conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is the cloud conference system is The conference number assigned by the conference. The IP address is the server address of the cloud conference system.

According to still another embodiment of the present invention, a storage medium is also provided. The storage medium is set to be stored for execution The program code for the following steps:

Optionally, the storage medium is further arranged to store program code for performing the following steps:

The local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request;

The local conference system receives the feedback signal of the cloud conference system, and determines that the conference request is received.

With the present invention, the cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system, and establishes a conference room according to the conference request, and the conference terminal involved in the conference call request participates in the conference. To solve the problem of inflexible video calling in related technologies, it is more flexible and simple to deploy in the cloud conference system.

DRAWINGS

The drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are intended to be a part of the invention. In the drawing:

1 is a flowchart 1 of a video session method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a second flowchart of a video session method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a network structure diagram of a conference of a local conference system according to the related art;

4 is a network structure diagram of a meeting of a cloud conference system according to the related art;

FIG. 5 is a specific flowchart of a meeting of a cloud conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

6 is a network structure diagram of a meeting of a cloud conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a structural block diagram of a video session apparatus applied to a cloud conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a video session apparatus applied to a local conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

It is to be understood that the terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present invention are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a particular order or order.

Example 1

The embodiments described in this application can be run on a video communication network architecture. The network architecture includes a local conference system and a cloud conference system. It should be emphasized that the operation mode described in this application file is not limited to the foregoing network architecture.

In this embodiment, a video session method is provided in the above network architecture. FIG. 1 is a flowchart 1 of a video session method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the process includes the following steps:

Step S102: The cloud conference system receives a conference request sent by the local conference system.

Step S104: The conference terminal in the local conference system is added to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.

Through the above steps, the cloud system conference receives the conference request initiated by the local conference system, and the cloud conference system convene the conference according to the conference request, and joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system to solve the video call in the related technology. Flexible issues, meeting at the end of the cloud conferencing system is more flexible and simple to deploy.

Optionally, the cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system and is sent by the cascade port of the local conference system. The expansion port is deployed in the local conference system and is mainly used to connect other hubs or network devices.

Optionally, the cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system, where the conference request carries a call message, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is the conference system for the conference The assigned conference number, which is the server address of the cloud conference system. The Internet Protocol (IP) is the server address of the Microcontroller Unit (MCU).

Optionally, after the cloud conference system receives the call message sent by the local conference system, the cloud conference system verifies the call message, and if the call message passes the verification, the parameter in the local conference system is requested according to the conference request. The terminal joins the conference initiated by the cloud conference system.

Optionally, after receiving the call message sent by the local conference system, the cloud conference system allocates a conference number to the conference, where the conference number is the conference number; and the conference terminal joins the conference number Corresponding meeting.

Optionally, the cloud conferencing system communicates with the local conferencing system by calling a rest_api interface. The rest_api interface is deployed in the cloud conference system and is related to conferences and conferences.

FIG. 2 is a second flowchart of a video session method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the steps are as follows:

In step S202, the local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request;

Step S204: The local conference system determines, according to the feedback message of the cloud conference system, that the cloud conference system has already convened the conference.

Optionally, the cascade port of the local conference system sends the conference request to the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the local conference system sends a call message to the cloud conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference, and the IP is The server address of the cloud conferencing system.

In the above embodiments of the present invention, interworking and mutual control of the local conference system and the cloud conference system are implemented.

The embodiment of the present invention adopts the following technical solution: the local conference system synchronously convene a conference on the cloud conference system by calling the rest_api interface provided by the cloud conference system, and virtualizing the conference held by the cloud conference system system side into an ordinary terminal, thereby realizing The local conference system and the cloud conference system interoperate and control each other.

The specific plan is as follows:

The cloud conference system provides a conference and conference-related rest_api interface based on HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Uniform Resource Locator (URI), and Extensible Markup Language ( Extensible Markup Language (referred to as XML) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) are widely available protocols and standards. Use the get GET, post POST and delete DELETE methods, where GET is used to obtain resources, no resources are modified; POST is used to add and modify resources; DELETE is used to delete resources. The cloud conference system listens on the fixed port. After receiving the http request, it will perform the conference and control related operations in the cloud conference system according to the content of the request message.

Step 1: Add a cascade port in the local conference system. The conference call message is the call number + IP, where the number is the conference room number of the cloud conference system, and the IP address is the server address of the soft MCU where the cloud conference system is installed.

Step 2: Create a conference room on the cloud conference system and assign a conference number to the conference room. The number is the number of the local conference call in the local conference system, and the terminal that needs to join the conference is added to the conference room.

Step 3: The local conference system side applies for a conference. The cascade interface will actively call the IP address and conference room number of the soft MCU of the cloud conference system according to the configuration, and call the terminal in the conference to join the conference.

Step 4: After receiving the call, the cloud conference system authenticates the call message. After the authentication is passed, the conference is synchronized according to the conference room number of the call, and the terminal in the conference room is actively called.

Step 5: After receiving the call, the terminal that needs to attend the conference picks up the phone and joins the conference. The local conference system and the cloud conference system are cascaded successfully, and audio and video are interoperable.

The technical solution of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

3 is a network structure diagram of a local conference system meeting according to the related art. As shown in FIG. 3, GK (GateWay) is a gatekeeper, which is responsible for terminal registration authentication, and ASC (Application Server Center) is a service control system, which is responsible for the conference system. Rate control (Rate-Monotonic Scheduling, referred to as RMS) is responsible for resource allocation; MCU is a multi-point control unit, responsible for signaling and media forwarding between terminals; MCApp is part of the MCU and is responsible for system signaling. Processing and forwarding; Ter is an access terminal, VMP (Voted Multiprocessor) is a voting multiprocessor, stack is a stack, and NPU (Network Process Units) is a network processor.

4 is a network structure diagram of a meeting of a cloud conference system according to the related art. As shown in FIG. 4, an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) is a cloud conference system service control system, and a sipAp (sip application) is a registration server, which is responsible for terminal registration, a license. The center is an authentication server, which is responsible for account opening and authentication. The Complete Correlation Matrix Memory (CCMM) is responsible for processing signaling, and the CCMW (Cloud Conference Media Worker) is responsible for processing media.

FIG. 5 is a specific flowchart of a conference of a cloud conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the steps are as follows:

Step S501, configuring a cloud conference system IP address and a port on the local conference system;

Step S502, the local conference system adds a cascade interface of the cloud conference system, and the conference mode of the cascade interface is number + IP;

Step S503, the local conference system creates a draft conference, and the draft includes a cascade port of the cloud conference system;

Step S504, creating a new conference room in the cloud conference system, assigning a conference room number, and calling the conference terminal;

Step S505: The local conference system holds a conference from the draft. After the conference is held, the cascade port starts to call the conference room number of the cloud conference system, and calls the rest_api interface on the cloud conference system side. The execution statement is as follows:

"http://ip:8080/api/1.0/virtualconfroom"

Add a conference room on the cloud conference system side, and the conference message carries the conference number;

Step S506: After receiving the call, the cloud conference system authenticates the call. If the authentication is passed, the cloud conference system concurrently convene a conference, and calls the terminal in the conference to join the conference, and the local conference system and the cloud conference system are cascaded successfully; If the authentication fails, the cloud conference system does not hold a conference, and the cascade fails.

Step S507, after the cascading is successful, the local conference system controls the related rest_api interface by calling the cloud conference system to perform conference control;

The statements for different conference control functions are as follows:

"http://ip:8080/api/1.0/conference/$(ConfUUID)/broadcaster"

Perform a videocaster switch.

"http://ip:8080/api/1.0/conference/$(ConfUUID)/mix"

Allow to speak and prohibit speaking.

"http://ip:8080/api/1.0/conference/$(ConfUUID)/lock"

Lock the meeting.

"http://ip:8080/api/1.0/conference/$(ConfUUID)"

meeting dismiss.

In step S508, the cascading fails, and the cloud conference fails to be held.

In the above process, the local conference system and the cloud conference system are interoperable and mutually controlled through the rest_api interface provided by the cloud conference system.

FIG. 6 is a network structure diagram of a meeting of a cloud conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, a network structure diagram of a local conference system and a cloud conference system is shown.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiment can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, by hardware, but in many cases, the former is A better implementation. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention, which is essential or contributes to the prior art, may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, disk, The optical disc includes a number of instructions for causing a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method of various embodiments of the present invention.

Example 2

In the embodiment, a video session device is provided, which is used to implement the foregoing embodiments and preferred embodiments, and is not described again. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the apparatus described in the following embodiments is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.

FIG. 7 is a structural block diagram of a video session apparatus applied to a cloud conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the apparatus includes:

The receiving module 72 is configured to receive a conference request sent by the local conference system;

The conference module 74 is connected to the receiving module 72, and is configured to join the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.

Optionally, the receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a conference request sent by a concatenation port of the local conference system.

Optionally, the receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a call message sent by the local conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference. , the IP is the server address of the cloud conferencing system.

Optionally, the receiving module 72 is further configured to: after receiving the call message sent by the local conference system, verify the call message, where the call message passes the verification, according to the conference request, the parameter in the local conference system The terminal joins the conference initiated by the cloud conference system.

Optionally, the conference module 74 is further configured to allocate a conference number to the conference, where the conference number is the conference number; the conference module 74 is further configured to join the conference terminal to the conference corresponding to the conference number.

FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a video session apparatus applied to a local conference system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8, the apparatus includes:

The sending module 82 is configured to send a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request;

The determining module 84 is connected to the sending module 82, and is configured to determine, according to the information fed back by the cloud conference system, that the cloud conference system receives the conference request.

Optionally, the sending module 82 is further configured to send the conference request to the cloud conference system through the expansion port.

Optionally, the sending module 82 is further configured to send a call message to the cloud conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference. , the IP is the server address of the cloud conference system.

It should be noted that each of the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware. For the latter, the foregoing may be implemented by, but not limited to, the foregoing modules are all located in the same processor; or, the above modules are in any combination. The forms are located in different processors.

Example 3

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a storage medium. Optionally, in the embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may be configured to store program code for performing the following steps:

S1. The cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system.

S2. The conference terminal in the local conference system is added to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.

S3, the local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request;

S4. The local conference system receives the feedback signal of the cloud conference system, and determines that the conference request is received.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may include, but not limited to, a USB flash drive, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a mobile hard disk, and a magnetic memory. A variety of media that can store program code, such as a disc or a disc.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the processor performs the method steps of the foregoing embodiments according to the stored program code in the storage medium.

Optionally, the specific examples in this embodiment may refer to the examples described in the foregoing embodiment and the optional implementation manner. This embodiment is not described here.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various modules or steps of the present invention described above can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device that can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device by the computing device and, in some cases, may be different from the order herein. The steps shown or described are performed, or they are separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or a plurality of modules or steps thereof are fabricated as a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

The present disclosure is applicable to the field of communications, and is used to solve the problem of inflexible video calls in related technologies. The conference is more flexible and simple to deploy at one end of the cloud conference system.

Claims

A method of video session, including:

The cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system;

And joining the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.
The method of claim 1, wherein the cloud conference system receives a conference request sent by a local conference system, including:

The cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the cascade port of the local conference system.
The method of claim 1, wherein the cloud conference system receives the conference request sent by the local conference system, including:

The cloud conference system receives a call message sent by the local conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference. The IP is the server address of the cloud conference system.
The method of claim 3, wherein after the cloud conference system receives the call message sent by the local conference system, the method further includes:

The cloud conference system verifies the call message, and if the call message is verified, the conference terminal in the local conference system is added to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.
The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the joining the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request comprises:

The cloud conference system allocates a conference number to the conference, where the conference number is the call number;

Adding the conference terminal to the conference corresponding to the conference number.
The method of claim 1 wherein said cloud conferencing system communicates with said local conferencing system by invoking a rest_api interface.
A method of video session, including:

The local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.
The method of claim 7, wherein the local conference system sends a conference request to the cloud conference system, including:

The cascade port of the local conference system sends the conference request to the cloud conference system.
The method of claim 7, wherein the local conference system sends the conference request to the cloud conference system, including:

The local conference system sends a call message to the cloud conference system, where the call message is composed of a call number and an IP, where the call number is a conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference. The IP address is the server address of the cloud conference system.
The method of claim 7, wherein the local conference system and the cloud conference system pass through The rest_api interface communication called by the cloud conference system.
A video session device for use in a cloud conferencing system, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a conference request sent by a local conference system;

The conference module is configured to join the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request.
The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the receiving module is further configured to receive a meeting request sent by a cascade port of the local conferencing system.
The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said receiving module is further configured to receive a call message sent by said local conference system, wherein said call message is composed of a call number and an IP, wherein said call number is The conference number assigned to the conference by the cloud conference system, where the IP is a server address of the cloud conference system.
The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the receiving module is further configured to verify the call message after receiving the call message sent by the local conference system, in case the call message passes the verification, according to the The conference request joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system.
The apparatus according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the conference module is further configured to allocate a conference number to the conference, wherein the conference number is the conference number;

The conference module is further configured to join the conference terminal to a conference corresponding to the conference number.
The apparatus of claim 11 wherein said cloud conferencing system communicates with said local conferencing system by invoking a rest_api interface.
A video session device for use in a local conference system, including:

a sending module, configured to send a conference request to the cloud conference system, where the cloud conference system joins the conference terminal in the local conference system to the conference initiated by the cloud conference system according to the conference request;

And a determining module, configured to determine, according to the information fed back by the cloud conference system, that the cloud conference system receives the conference request.
The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the sending module is further configured to send the meeting request to the cloud conferencing system via a cascade port.
The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the transmitting module is further configured to send a call message to the cloud conferencing system, wherein the call message is comprised of a calling number and an IP, wherein the calling number is the The conference number assigned by the cloud conference system to the conference, and the IP is the server address of the cloud conference system.
The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the local conferencing system and the cloud conferencing system communicate via a rest_api interface invoked by the cloud conferencing system.