CN111541857A - Conference joining method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a conference joining method, a conference joining device, conference joining equipment and a storage medium, which are applied to a protocol conversion server, wherein the protocol conversion server is registered to a first video network and is also connected with a video conference platform in the internet; the method comprises the following steps: when receiving an conference call signaling sent by the video conference platform, analyzing a video networking number from the conference call signaling, wherein the video networking number is the number of a called video networking terminal; determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type; and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

Description

Conference joining method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a conference joining method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium.

Background

The video networking adopts the most advanced worldwide Vision Vera real-time high-definition video exchange technology, realizes the real-time transmission of the whole-network high-definition video which cannot be realized by the current Internet, integrates dozens of services such as high-definition video conferences, video monitoring, remote training, intelligent monitoring analysis, emergency command, video telephone, live broadcast, television mails, information distribution and the like into a system platform, and realizes the real-time interconnection and intercommunication of high-definition quality video communication through various terminal devices.

In the related art, video conference services in the video networking all need to rely on the same video networking environment, that is, each device in the same video networking can perform video conference. However, with the continuous popularization of the video conference range, the video conference is often required to be developed in a plurality of networks with different environmental conditions, and due to different protocols used by different network environment devices or the inability of communication among different networks, the video conference linkage of a plurality of different networks cannot be realized, and the customer experience is not high.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above problems, embodiments of the present invention provide a conferencing method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium, so as to overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.

The first aspect of the embodiment of the invention discloses a conference entering method, which is applied to a protocol conversion server, wherein the protocol conversion server is registered to a first video network and is also connected with a video conference platform in the internet; the method comprises the following steps:

when receiving an conference call signaling sent by the video conference platform, analyzing a video networking number from the conference call signaling, wherein the video networking number is the number of a called video networking terminal;

determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type;

and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

Optionally, determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type includes:

when the video networking number is not a number registered in the first video networking, determining that the network type is an external domain video networking type, and determining that the conference call mode is an inter-network conference call mode;

and when the video network number is the number registered in the first video network, determining that the network type is the local domain video network type, and determining that the conference calling mode is the in-network conference calling mode.

Optionally, establishing a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode includes:

when the conference call mode is the cross-network conference call mode, sending a cross-network call signaling to a second video network registered with the video network number based on the conference call signaling so that the video network terminal acquires the cross-network call signaling;

receiving a video networking reply signaling returned by the video networking terminal aiming at the cross-network call signaling, and converting the video networking reply signaling into an Internet reply signaling;

and sending the internet reply signaling to the video conference platform, and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

Optionally, the negotiation server is further connected to a bridging server, and the sending, based on the conference call signaling, an inter-network call signaling to a second video network in which the video network number is registered includes:

sending the cross-network call signaling to the bridge server so that the bridge server sends the cross-network call signaling to the video networking terminal through a second video networking registered with the video networking number;

the receiving of the video networking reply signaling returned by the video networking terminal for the cross-network call signaling comprises:

and receiving a video networking reply signaling returned by the bridge server, wherein the video networking reply signaling is sent to the bridge server by the video networking terminal.

Optionally, the parsing out the video networking number from the incoming call signaling includes:

determining a talk protocol encapsulating the incoming call signaling;

analyzing the conference call signaling according to the conversation protocol to obtain the video networking number;

the converting the video networking reply signaling into the internet reply signaling comprises the following steps:

and carrying out protocol conversion on the video networking reply signaling to obtain the Internet reply signaling conforming to the conversation protocol.

Optionally, after the step of establishing a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode, the method further comprises at least one of:

receiving multimedia data of a participant, which is sent by the video conference platform, converting the multimedia data of the participant into first multimedia data, and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal; the first multimedia data are data matched with a video network terminal;

receiving second multimedia data sent by the video networking terminal, converting the second multimedia data into third multimedia data, and sending the third multimedia data to the video conference platform; and the third multimedia data is data adaptive to the video conference platform.

In a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a conference entering method is disclosed, which is applied to a video conference platform side in the internet, the video conference platform is further connected to a protocol conversion server, the protocol conversion server is registered in a first video network, and the method includes:

generating an conference call signaling according to the received conference invitation operation, wherein the conference call signaling comprises a video networking number;

sending the conference call signaling to the coordination server, so that the coordination server determines a conference call mode corresponding to the network type according to the network type corresponding to the video networking number, and establishes communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode;

and associating the video networking terminal to a preset video conference service based on the communication connection.

Optionally, the preset video service object is further associated with a plurality of participant terminals, and the method further includes at least one of:

receiving multimedia data sent by each of the plurality of participant terminals, mixing the multimedia data to obtain participant multimedia data, sending the participant multimedia data to the cooperative conversion server, so that the cooperative conversion server converts the participant multimedia data into first multimedia data, and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal;

receiving third multimedia data sent by the collaboration server, and respectively sending the third multimedia data to the multiple participating terminals; the third multimedia data is obtained by the protocol conversion of the received second multimedia data by the protocol conversion server, and the second multimedia data is generated and sent by the video network terminal.

In a third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a conference entering apparatus is provided, where the conference entering apparatus is applied to a collaboration server, the collaboration server is registered in a first video network, and the collaboration server is further connected to a video conference platform located in the internet; the device comprises:

the analysis module is used for analyzing a video networking number from the conference call signaling when the conference call signaling sent by the video conference platform is received;

the network type determining module is used for determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type;

and the calling module is used for establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

In a fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a conference apparatus, applied to a video conference platform side in an internet, where the video conference platform is further connected to a transfer server, and the transfer server is registered in a first video network, the apparatus including:

a signaling generation module, configured to generate an conference call signaling according to a received conference invitation operation, where the conference call signaling includes a video networking number;

a signaling sending module, configured to send the conference call signaling to the coordination server, so that the coordination server determines, according to a network type corresponding to the video networking number, a conference call mode corresponding to the network type, and establishes a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode;

and the conference joining association module is used for associating the video networking terminal to a preset video conference service based on the communication connection.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses an electronic device, which comprises:

one or more processors; and one or more machine readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform a method of conferencing as described in the first or second aspects of embodiments of the invention.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a computer readable storage medium, which stores a computer program to enable a processor to execute the conference entry method according to the first aspect or the second aspect of the embodiment of the invention.

The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:

in the embodiment of the invention, the protocol conversion server analyzes the conference call signaling sent by the video conference platform and then provides the video networking number, can determine the network type corresponding to the video networking number, starts the corresponding conference call mode according to the network type, and can complete the communication connection between the video networking terminal and the video conference platform based on the conference call mode, thereby enabling the video networking terminal to successfully join the video conference.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the protocol conversion server can start the corresponding conference call mode aiming at different network types to realize the communication connection between the video networking terminal and the video conference platform, so that the video networking terminal in different types of networks with the protocol conversion server can be added into a video conference managed by the video conference platform in the internet, the linkage of the video conference can be realized by equipment in different networks, the application range of the video networking video conference is expanded, and the customer experience is optimized.

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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 communication architecture diagram of a conferencing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for conferencing according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a diagram of yet another communication architecture for a method of conferencing in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

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

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a method for conferencing according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a conferencing device according to the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of a conferencing device according to 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 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, obtains 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 the related technology, when the video conference platform is used for inviting the video networking terminal to enter the conference, the video networking virtual terminal virtualized by the protocol conversion server and the invited video networking terminal are both in a network environment organized by a core server, and under the condition, the protocol conversion can be directly carried out by the protocol conversion server, so that the conference entering invitation function of the video networking terminal can be realized. However, with the expansion of the video conference service, the video networking terminal and the protocol server which are invited to the conference are often not in the same video networking environment, and different video networking terminals are independent from each other and cannot communicate with each other.

In view of the above, based on the characteristics of the video networking, the core concept of the present invention is provided, that is, the coordination server is used to call the conference of the video networking terminals in different networks, and a corresponding call mode is adopted, so that in the video conference, the video conference platform can invite the video networking terminals in different video networks to participate in the video conference through the coordination server, thereby realizing the video conference linkage of the devices in different networks.

Referring to fig. 5, a communication architecture diagram of a conferencing method according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown, as shown in fig. 5, a video conference platform is deployed in the internet, the video conference platform is communicatively connected to an assisted forwarding server, and the assisted forwarding server is registered in a first video network a; the collaboration server may further communicate with a plurality of video networks B (three video networks B shown in the figure are different from each other) different from the first video network a, and each video network B may have a plurality of video network terminals disposed therein.

Wherein, the difference between the first video network a and the video network B may refer to: the first video network a is a 64-bit video network, then video network B is a 16-bit video network. Alternatively, first video network A is a 16-bit video network, and video network B is a 64-bit video network. Alternatively, in one case, a first video network a is of a different home range than a different video network B, e.g., first video network a is a video network of a certain a-region and video network B is a video network of another B-region.

In this embodiment, after the protocol conversion server registers in the first video network a, a virtual terminal number of the video network may be obtained, and the protocol conversion server may add the virtual terminal number of the video network into the first video network a to communicate with the device in the first video network a. In practice, the collaboration server may also register in the internet at the same time, obtain an IP address from the internet, and use the IP address to communicate with the devices in the internet, for example, may communicate with the video conference platform using the IP address.

In this embodiment, the video conference platform refers to a microprocessor MCU for processing and forwarding data in a video communication service in the internet, and may be configured with a plurality of ports, where each port may correspond to a video stream in a video conference.

With reference to the communication architecture shown in fig. 5, the conference method of the present embodiment is described in detail below from the collaboration server side and the video conference platform side, respectively.

Referring to fig. 6, a flowchart illustrating steps of a conferencing method implemented by a collaboration server side in the embodiment is shown, and specifically may include the following steps:

step S601: and when receiving an incoming call signaling sent by the video conference platform, analyzing a video networking number from the incoming call signaling.

In this embodiment, the video conference platform may perform stream control management in the video conference, that is, the video conference platform constructs a video conference, and the video conference platform may invite some devices to participate in the video conference, where the devices participating in the video conference may include devices in the internet and devices in the video network.

Specifically, when the video conference platform invites devices in the video network to join the video conference, the video conference platform needs to transfer the invitation through the protocol transfer server. In this case, the collaboration server may receive an incoming call signaling sent by the video conference platform, where the incoming call signaling is encapsulated by an internet protocol, and the role in the video conference may be: and calling the video networking terminals in the video networking reversely to invite the video networking terminals to join the video conference.

In specific implementation, the video networking number of the called video networking terminal can be carried in the conference call signaling. In practical applications, one video network terminal can have one video network number only. For example, the terminal of the video network is registered in the video network B shown in fig. 5, and the core server in the video network B allocates a video network number to the terminal of the video network, where the video network number may be a unique number in all of the plurality of video networks B, so as to facilitate the terminal of the video network to join the registered video network B through the video network number.

Specifically, the protocol conversion server calls the video networking terminal in the video networking according to the conference call signaling which is an internet protocol and cannot be directly communicated with the video networking terminal in the video networking, so that the protocol conversion server can analyze the conference call signaling to analyze the video networking number carried by the conference call signaling and perform subsequent calling according to the video networking number.

In this embodiment, different call protocols may be configured on the video conference platform according to requirements, for example, an h.323 protocol or an SIP protocol or both protocols may be configured in the video conference platform. Specifically, one of the talk protocols may be selected to encapsulate the incoming call signaling. Among them, the session initiation protocol SIP is used to establish and disconnect media sessions, and the h.323 protocol is used to specify which protocol is used to provide media services.

In one embodiment, the protocol server may parse out the video networking number from the incoming call signaling by the following steps.

Step S6011: a talk protocol encapsulating the incoming call signaling is determined.

Step S6012: and analyzing the conference call signaling according to the conversation protocol to obtain the video networking number.

In a specific implementation, a plurality of analysis modules may be configured in advance in the protocol conversion server, and each analysis module may correspond to one call protocol. For example, a parsing module corresponding to the h.323 protocol and a parsing module corresponding to the SIP protocol may be configured. Then, after determining the call protocol encapsulating the conference call signaling, the protocol conversion server may analyze the conference call signaling through an analysis module corresponding to the call protocol, and further obtain the video networking number.

Step S602: and determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type.

In this embodiment, since the number of the video network is registered in the video network, and during the registration, the terminals of the video networks in different video networks have unique numbers of the video networks, the network type of the registered video network can be determined according to the number of the video networks. The network type may refer to a network relationship type between the registered video network and the first video network, for example, the network relationship type may be a home domain type or an external domain type. The local domain type may mean that the first video network and the registered video network are the same video network, and the external domain type may mean that the first video network and the registered video network are two different video networks.

After the network type is determined, a corresponding conference call mode may be determined according to the network type, where the conference call mode may be: and the coordination server calls an operation mode of the video network terminal for conference entry.

In one implementation, the network type and the incoming call mode may be determined as follows:

and S6021, when the video network number is not the number registered in the first video network, determining that the network type is an external domain video network type, and determining that the conference calling mode is a cross-network conference calling mode.

And S6022, when the video network number is the number registered in the first video network, determining that the network type is the local video network type, and determining that the conference calling mode is the in-network conference calling mode.

In this embodiment, since the protocol conversion server is registered in the first video network, when the video network number is analyzed, the protocol conversion server may query whether the video network number is a number registered in the first video network from the first video network where the protocol conversion server is located.

In an implementation manner, the protocol conversion server may pre-store a correspondence table of all registered video networking numbers in the first video networking and video networking terminals, and further, query whether the analyzed video networking numbers are in the correspondence table. If not, the video network number is represented as not the number registered in the first video network, then step S6021 may be performed, and if yes, the video network number is represented as the number registered in the first video network, then step S6022 may be performed.

In another implementation, to distinguish the registered video networks for the video network number, the video network number may be added with a prefix number that may uniquely identify the registered video network. For example, if the number of the view network is 91-10010, then 91 is a prefix number, and in this case, it can be determined whether the number is a number registered in the first view network or not based on the prefix number.

Step S603: and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

In this embodiment, the collaboration server may call the video network terminal to join the conference based on the determined conference joining call mode. Specifically, calling the video networking terminal for meeting is to associate the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service by the video conference platform after establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal. The establishing of the communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal may refer to: the cooperation transfer server successfully performs communication transfer between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal.

In specific implementation, if the network type represents that the first video network and the video network registered by the video network terminal are different video networks, the protocol conversion server can execute a cross-network conference call mode to call the video network terminal in another video network for conference.

If the network type indicates that the first video network and the video network registered by the video network terminal are the same video network, the coordination server can execute an in-network conference calling mode to call the video network terminal in another video network for conference. Under the condition, the cooperation server can directly communicate with the core server in the first video network so as to send the video network conference entering command to the video network terminal, and the video network terminal can join in the video conference.

In practice, after the communication connection between the video networking terminal and the video conference platform is established, the video conference platform and the video networking terminal can interact conference data through the communication connection.

In this embodiment, the preset video conference service may refer to a video conference service that a video networking terminal needs to participate in, and associating the video networking terminal with the preset video conference service may refer to: the video conference platform allocates a port for the video networking terminal, and the port can be pre-configured to be used for carrying out video stream transmission in preset video conference services, so that the video networking terminal is invited to a video conference.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the protocol conversion server can start the corresponding conference call mode aiming at different network types to realize the communication connection between the video networking terminal and the video conference platform, so that the video networking terminal in different types of networks with the protocol conversion server can be added into the video conference managed by the video conference platform in the internet, the video conference linkage of the equipment in different networks can be realized, the application range of the video networking video conference is expanded, and the customer experience is optimized.

In a specific embodiment, how to establish a communication connection between a video conference platform and a video networking terminal by a collaboration server in a cross-network access call mode is explained, which may specifically include the following steps:

step S6031: and when the conference call mode is the cross-network conference call mode, sending a cross-network call signaling to a second video network registered with the video network number based on the conference call signaling, so that the video network terminal acquires the cross-network call signaling.

In this mode, the protocol conversion server can generate the cross-network call signaling comprising the video network number so as to transmit the cross-network call signaling across the video network. In a specific implementation, when it is determined that the video networking number is not a number registered in the first video networking, the protocol conversion server may further determine, according to the parsed video networking number, a second video networking in which the video networking number is registered. In this case, the protocol conversion server may further store a correspondence table between all registered numbers of the video networks and the video network terminals in the plurality of different video networks, and further determine a second video network to which the video network number is registered in the plurality of correspondence tables.

As shown in fig. 5, the coordination server may send the cross-network call signaling to the core server in the second video network, so as to transmit the cross-network call signaling from the first video network to the second video network, and the core server in the second video network may further forward the cross-network call signaling to the video network terminal, so that the video network terminal obtains the cross-network call signaling.

In a specific implementation of this embodiment, the collaboration server may further include a video networking module, and then the video networking module may be used to generate the cross-network call signaling based on the conference call signaling, which specifically includes the following steps:

step S1: generating an inter-module communication message including the video networking number.

In practice, after the video networking number is resolved, the collaboration server may construct an inter-module communication message call.

Step S2: and sending the inter-module communication message to a preset video networking module.

In practice, the inter-module communication message may be subscribed to by the video networking module in the protocol server in advance, and the inter-module communication message may be captured by the video networking module in the message queue of the YATE, so that the protocol server may send the inter-module communication message to the video networking module.

Step S3: and extracting the video networking number from the communication message between the modules through the video networking module, and generating a cross-network call signaling conforming to a video networking protocol.

After receiving the inter-module communication message, the video networking module extracts a video networking number carried in the inter-module communication message, and encapsulates the video networking number in a call signaling of the video networking message to obtain a cross-network call signaling.

Step S6032: and receiving a video networking reply signaling returned by the video networking terminal aiming at the cross-network call signaling, and converting the video networking reply signaling into an Internet reply signaling.

In this embodiment, the protocol conversion server may receive a video networking reply signaling sent by the second video networking by the video networking terminal, and since the video networking reply signaling is encapsulated by a video networking protocol, the protocol conversion server may convert the video networking reply signaling into an internet reply signaling.

Specifically, the protocol conversion server may search, according to the content of the video networking reply signaling and according to a preset content correspondence, internet content corresponding to the content of the video networking reply signaling, where the internet content is content whose meaning is consistent with that of the content of the video networking reply signaling, and then encapsulate the internet content using an internet protocol to obtain the internet reply signaling.

For example, if the content of the internet reply signaling is "8 e 01", indicating agreement with the conference, the internet content corresponding to "8 e 01" is "8F 85", and also indicating agreement with the conference, the internet reply signaling is "8F 85".

Then in one implementation, since the coordination server may include a plurality of parsing modules and an internet of view module, the internet of view reply signaling may be converted into the internet reply signaling through the parsing module that parses the incoming call signaling.

For example, if the incoming call signaling is a signaling of an h.323 protocol, the incoming call signaling is parsed by a parsing module corresponding to the h.323 protocol, and meanwhile, the internet reply signaling may also be converted into an internet reply signaling conforming to the h.323 protocol by the parsing module corresponding to the h.323 protocol.

Step S6033: and sending the internet reply signaling to the video conference platform, and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

In this embodiment, after the protocol conversion server sends the internet reply signaling to the video conference platform, the communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal is established, so that the video conference platform can associate the video networking terminal with the preset video conference service, and can return the internet reply confirmation signaling to the protocol conversion server. After receiving the internet reply confirmation signaling, the video networking terminal can be determined to be added into the video conference managed by the video conference platform.

Referring to fig. 7, a communication architecture diagram of a conferencing method according to still another embodiment of the present invention is shown, as shown in fig. 7, a video conference platform is deployed in the internet, the video conference platform is communicatively connected to a collaboration server, and the collaboration server is registered in the first video network a. The cooperative conversion server can be connected with a bridge server, the bridge server can be in communication connection with core servers in a plurality of different video networks B at the same time, and thus the bridge server and the core servers form a plurality of video networks B different from the first video network A.

As can be seen from fig. 7, the bridge server plays a role of communication bridging in the first video network a and the plurality of video networks B, and the collaboration server can implement cross-network communication with the plurality of different video networks B through communication connection with the bridge server.

Therefore, in conjunction with the communication architecture shown in fig. 7, the collaboration server may complete the cross-network call of the video networking terminal through the bridge server in the cross-network conference call mode, and how to establish the communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal in this case is described below, which may specifically include the following steps:

step S6031': and when the conference call mode is the cross-network conference call mode, sending the cross-network call signaling to the bridge server based on the conference call signaling, so that the bridge server sends the cross-network call signaling to the video networking terminal through a second video networking registered with the video networking number.

In this embodiment, when determining that the number of the video network is not the number registered in the first video network, the protocol conversion server may send a cross-network call signaling to the bridge server, and the bridge server calls the video network terminal located in the second video network according to the parsed number of the video network.

The designated field in the cross-network call signaling may include a number of the bridge server, and the designated field may indicate that the cross-network call signaling needs to be sent to the corresponding bridge server, so as to invite the video networking terminal to participate in the video conference across the network.

Step S6032': and receiving a video networking reply signaling returned by the bridge server, wherein the video networking reply signaling is sent to the bridge server by the video networking terminal.

Step S6033': and sending the internet reply signaling to the video conference platform, and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

In the following, a process of how the collaboration server forwards conference data between the video networking terminal and the video conference platform is described. Specifically, in a possible implementation, the collaboration server may execute the following steps S604 and S605, or execute only one of the steps S604 and S605, to implement data forwarding:

step S604: and receiving multimedia data of the participants sent by the video conference platform, converting the multimedia data of the participants into first multimedia data, and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal.

The first multimedia data is data matched with the video network terminal.

In this embodiment, the protocol conversion server may receive, through an internet communication protocol, the participant multimedia data sent by the video conference platform, and in practice, the protocol for encapsulating the participant multimedia data may include a transport layer protocol, a network layer protocol, and an application layer protocol.

In this embodiment, the network layer protocol of the multimedia data of the participating party can be converted from the internet protocol to the video networking protocol, and meanwhile, the multimedia data can be identified in the internet and the video networking conveniently, and the encoding protocol of the multimedia data of the participating party can also be converted. The encoding protocol may refer to a protocol for characterizing the encoding type of the multimedia data, for example, in the internet, the G711 protocol characterizes that the multimedia data is audio data, and the h.264 protocol characterizes that the multimedia data is video data.

In this embodiment, the multimedia data of the participant transmitted by the video conference platform may be audio data in a G711 format, and g.711 is an audio coding method specified by the international telecommunication union (ITU-T), which is also called ITU-T g.711. The collaboration server may convert the multimedia data of the participant into first multimedia data, that is, audio data of a 2001 protocol, where the 2001 protocol is a protocol for encapsulating audio data in the video network, so that the video network terminal can recognize that the multimedia data is audio data through the 2001 protocol.

Or, the multimedia data of the participant sent by the video conference platform may be video data of h.264 encoding protocol, and the first multimedia data may be video data of 2002 protocol, where the 2002 protocol is a protocol for encapsulating audio data in video network.

In practice, the multimedia data of the participants may be data obtained by mixing multimedia data (audio data or video data) sent by each participant in the preset video conference service by the video conference platform.

Step S605: and receiving second multimedia data sent by the video networking terminal, converting the second multimedia data into third multimedia data, and sending the third multimedia data to the video conference platform.

And the third multimedia data is data adaptive to the video conference platform.

Based on the foregoing step S604, in this embodiment, the second multimedia data may be audio data or video data collected by the video networking terminal, where the protocol for encapsulating the multimedia data of the participant may include a transport layer protocol, a network layer protocol, and an application layer protocol.

In specific implementation, the protocol conversion server may convert a network layer protocol of the second multimedia data from a video networking protocol to an internet new protocol, and may convert an encoding protocol of the second multimedia data to an encoding protocol that can be recognized by the video conference platform.

For example, if the second multimedia data is audio data of the 2001 protocol, the second multimedia data may be converted into audio data of the G711 encoding protocol. Alternatively, the second multimedia data is video data of 2002 protocol, and then the second multimedia data can be converted into video data of h.264 coding protocol.

In an embodiment, when the video conference terminal needs to exit the video conference, the video conference platform may send a conference end signaling to the coordination server, and then the process of the video conference terminal exiting the video conference may be as follows:

first, the protocol conversion server may send a cross-network conference end signaling to the video networking terminal in the second video networking based on the conference end signaling, and the video networking terminal returns a video networking conference end signaling for the cross-network conference end signaling.

And then, the coordination server converts the video networking conference ending signaling into an internet conference ending signaling and sends the internet conference ending signaling to the video conference platform, so that the video conference platform cancels the association between the video networking terminal and a preset video conference service object, and the video networking terminal exits the video conference.

In the embodiment, because the cooperation transfer server can carry out cross-network calling between different video networks, the video network terminals which are not in the same video network with the cooperation transfer server can be added into a video conference managed by a video conference platform in the internet, so that equipment in different networks can be linked with the video conference, the application range of the video conference of the video network is expanded, and the customer experience is optimized.

The conference method of the present embodiment is explained from the video conference platform side based on the communication architecture diagram shown in fig. 5 or fig. 7.

Referring to fig. 8, a flowchart illustrating steps of implementing a conference method of the embodiment by a video conference platform side is shown, and specifically may include the following steps:

step S801: and generating an conference call signaling according to the received conference invitation operation.

Wherein, the conference call signaling comprises a video networking number.

In this embodiment, the meeting invitation operation may refer to an operation of inputting a call address in an address bar provided by the video conference platform, where the call address may be: a form of a video networking number @ protocol server IP address, e.g., 00100@ 10.1.54.252. The video conference platform may send the incoming call signaling to the collaboration server based on the incoming call address. The protocol conversion server IP address refers to an IP address used by the protocol conversion server in the Internet.

Step S802: and sending the conference call signaling to the coordination server so that the coordination server determines a conference call mode corresponding to the network type according to the network type corresponding to the video networking number, and establishes communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode.

In this embodiment, the conference call signaling may be sent to the coordination server, and the process of the coordination server responding to the conference call signaling may refer to the process from step S601 to step S603, which is not described herein again.

Step S803: and associating the video networking terminal to a preset video conference service based on the communication connection.

After the protocol conversion server calls the successful video networking terminal, the video networking terminal can be associated to the preset video conference service based on the successfully established communication connection. In a specific implementation, as described in steps S6031 to S6033, when the video conference platform receives an internet reply signaling sent by the coordination server, the video networking terminal may be associated with the preset video conference service. The internet reply signaling is generated by the protocol conversion server after the protocol conversion is carried out on the received video networking reply signaling, and the video networking reply signaling is generated by the video networking terminal aiming at the cross-network call signaling.

In this embodiment, the video conference platform may manage a plurality of video conference services at the same time, and the preset video conference service associated with the video networking terminal may refer to: the video conference service is appointed in advance in a plurality of video conference services, and the appointed video conference service is the video conference service in which the video networking terminal is to participate.

In a specific implementation, the video conference platform may allocate a plurality of ports to each video conference service, and associating the video networking terminal to the preset video conference service may refer to: and allocating a port for the video networking terminal from the plurality of ports allocated to the preset video conference service, wherein the port can be configured in advance for carrying out video stream transmission in the preset video conference service, and then inviting the video networking terminal to the video conference is realized.

In one embodiment, the preset video conference service is further associated with a plurality of participant terminals, that is, a plurality of participant terminals participate in the preset video conference service. The plurality of participant terminals may be all terminals in the internet, or may include a part of terminals in the first video network and a part of terminals in the internet.

The video conference platform may further perform at least one of the following steps S805 and S806 in the stream control of the video conference:

step S805: and acquiring multimedia data of the participant, sending the multimedia data of the participant to the coordination server so that the coordination server converts the multimedia data of the participant into first multimedia data, and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal.

Specifically, the process of the collaboration server converting the multimedia data of the participant into the first multimedia data may refer to the process of step S705, which is not described herein again.

For the step S805, since the preset video service object is associated with a plurality of participant terminals, the video conference is a video conference in which multiple parties participate, in this case, the video conference platform may obtain multimedia data of the participants through the following steps:

and receiving the multimedia data sent by the multiple participant terminals respectively, and mixing the multimedia data to obtain the participant multimedia data.

In this embodiment, the video conference platform may mix the received multimedia data sent by each of the multiple participating terminals, that is, mix multiple paths of multimedia data into one path of multimedia data of the participating party.

In a specific implementation, the multimedia data sent by each of the multiple participating terminals may be video data or audio data, and the video conference platform may mix the audio data sent by each of the multiple participating terminals into one audio data, and use the mixed audio data as the multimedia data of the participating party. Or, the video conference platform may perform screen mixing on the video data sent by each of the plurality of participant terminals to obtain a path of video data, and use the path of video data after screen mixing as the multimedia data of the participant.

Step S806: and receiving third multimedia data sent by the collaboration server, and respectively sending the third multimedia data to the multiple participating terminals.

The third multimedia data is obtained by the protocol conversion of the received second multimedia data by the protocol conversion server, and the second multimedia data is generated and sent by the video network terminal.

In practice, the video conference platform may send the third multimedia data to the multiple participating terminals individually, or, when receiving the third multimedia data and also receiving the multimedia data sent by other participating terminals, may mix the third multimedia data and the multimedia data sent by other participating terminals into one path of multimedia data and send the path of multimedia data to the multiple participating terminals.

And if the third multimedia data is audio data, mixing the multimedia data sent by the other participant terminals with the third multimedia data.

In the embodiment, the video conference platform can invite video networking terminals in different video networks to participate in the video conference, so that equipment in different networks can be linked with the video conference, the application range of the video networking video conference is expanded, and the customer experience is optimized.

Referring to fig. 9, fig. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a complete flow of inviting a video networking terminal to join a conference through a cross-network call conference mode in the communication architecture provided in fig. 7, where a huaweiMCU is a video conference platform, a video networking STB terminal is a video networking terminal (also an extreme optical terminal), an H323 coordination server is a coordination server in the present application, a video networking server is a core server in the present application, a video networking server is a bridge server, and a huaweiMCU adopts an H323 call protocol. The method completely comprises the following steps:

(1) the Huaqi MCU is used as the internet terminal side for video conference participation, and the video network aurora terminal is used as the video network side in the conference. Firstly, configuring an H323 cooperative server to enable the virtual terminal to normally access the network, and meanwhile, configuring the virtual terminal by the bridge server and waiting for network access after starting.

(2) And configuring 00100@10.1.54.252 as a calling address in an address bar of the MCU of a calling initiator, and after the calling is started, the MCU sends a callsetup signaling to the virtual terminal generated by the XMCU coordination server.

(3) When the XMCU judges that 00100 is a number belonging to the external video network, the cross-network calling mode is started, the virtual terminal of the XMCU firstly sends an 8F85 signaling to the bridge server, the signaling contains the destination number of the called terminal, and the virtual terminal of the bridge server converts the 8F85 into a calling signaling 8e01 of the video network protocol.

(4) The virtual terminal of the bridge server sends 8e01 signaling to the core server, which converts 8e01 to 8e02 to the aurora terminal.

(5) After receiving 8e02, the aurora terminal replies with 8e01 response to the core server, and the core server converts the 8e01 reply into 8e02 reply and sends the reply to the virtual terminal of the bridge server.

(6) After receiving the reply, the virtual terminal of the bridging server converts the signaling into an 8F85 signaling reply of the video networking protocol and sends the 8F85 signaling reply to the XMCU coordinated virtual terminal, and converts the signaling into a connect signaling of the H323 protocol and sends the connect signaling to the Huawei MCU.

(7) After receiving the connect signaling, the hua cheng MCU replies an ACK signaling indicating that the normal conference of the aurora terminal is known.

(8) At this time, the Huawei MCU starts to send the h264 video stream and the G711 audio stream to the XMCU for cooperative conversion, the cooperative conversion server packages the two paths of video streams respectively into 2002 and 2001 media streams and sends the 2002 and 2001 media streams to the polar light terminal, and meanwhile, the 2001 and 2002 media streams sent by the polar light terminal are unpacked into G711 and h264 and sent to the Huawei MCU.

(9) When the conference needs to be ended, the MCU sends a releaseComplete signaling to the virtual terminal generated by the XMCU protocol conversion server, and the virtual terminal converts the signaling into a hang-up signaling 8F85 of the video networking protocol.

(10) And signaling 8F85 to the bridge server, where the signaling includes the destination terminal number of the hung-up terminal, and the virtual terminal of the bridge server converts this 8F85 into hanging-up signaling 8e01 of the video networking protocol.

(11) The virtual terminal of the bridge server sends 8e01 signaling to the core server, which converts 8e01 to 8e02 to the aurora terminal.

(12) After receiving 8e02, the aurora terminal replies with 8e01 response to the core server, and the core server converts the 8e01 reply into 8e02 reply and sends the reply to the virtual terminal of the bridge server.

(13) After receiving the reply, the virtual terminal of the bridge server converts the signaling into the 8F85 signaling reply of the video networking protocol and sends the 8F85 signaling reply to the XMCU coordinated virtual terminal, and converts the signaling into the ReleaseComplete signaling of the H323 protocol and sends the ReleaseComplete signaling to the Huawei MCU, so that the MCU hangs up the video networking terminal needing to quit.

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. 10, there is shown a block diagram of a conference joining apparatus applied to a collaboration server registered to a first video network, the collaboration server further connected to a video conference platform located in the internet; the apparatus may include the following modules:

the parsing module 1001 is configured to parse a video networking number from an incoming call signaling sent by the video conference platform when the incoming call signaling is received;

a network type determining module 1002, configured to determine a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type;

a calling module 1003, configured to establish a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode, so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

Optionally, the network type determining module 1002 may specifically include the following units:

a first unit, configured to determine that the network type is an external-domain video networking type and determine that the conference call mode is an inter-network conference call mode when the video networking number is not a number registered in the first video networking;

a second unit, configured to determine that the network type is a local area video networking type and determine that the conference call mode is an in-network conference call mode when the video networking number is a number registered in the first video networking

Optionally, the calling module 1003 may specifically include the following units:

a signaling forwarding unit, configured to send, based on the conference call signaling, a cross-network call signaling to a second video network in which the video network number is registered, so that a video network terminal corresponding to the video network number obtains the cross-network call signaling when the conference call mode is the cross-network conference call mode;

the signaling receiving unit is used for converting the video networking reply signaling into an Internet reply signaling by the video networking terminal aiming at the video networking reply signaling returned by the cross-network call signaling;

and the signaling sending unit is used for sending the Internet reply signaling to the video conference platform so as to enable the video conference platform to associate the video networking terminal to a preset video conference service.

Optionally, the parsing module may specifically include the following units:

a protocol determining unit, configured to determine a session protocol for encapsulating the incoming call signaling;

the number analysis unit is used for analyzing the conference call signaling according to the conversation protocol to obtain the video networking number;

the signaling receiving unit comprises a signaling conversion unit, and the signaling conversion unit is used for carrying out protocol conversion on the reply signaling of the video networking to obtain the reply signaling of the internet, which accords with the conversation protocol.

Optionally, the signaling forwarding unit may specifically include the following units:

the communication message generating unit is used for generating an inter-module communication message comprising the video networking number;

the first sending unit is used for sending the inter-module communication message to a preset video networking module;

the generation unit is used for extracting the video networking number from the inter-module communication message through the video networking module and generating a cross-network call signaling conforming to a video networking protocol;

and the second sending unit is used for sending the cross-network call signaling to a second video network registered with the video network number.

Optionally, the signaling forwarding module may be specifically configured to send the cross-network call signaling to the bridge server, so that the bridge server sends the cross-network call signaling to the video networking terminal through a second video networking registered with the video networking number;

the signaling receiving unit may be specifically configured to receive a video networking reply signaling returned by the bridge server, where the video networking reply signaling is sent to the bridge server by the video networking terminal.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises at least the following modules:

the first data forwarding unit can be used for receiving participant multimedia data sent by the video conference platform, converting the participant multimedia data into first multimedia data and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal; the first multimedia data are data matched with a video network terminal;

the second data forwarding unit may be configured to receive second multimedia data sent by the video networking terminal, convert the second multimedia data into third multimedia data, and send the third multimedia data to the video conference platform; and the third multimedia data is data adaptive to the video conference platform.

Referring to fig. 11, a block diagram of a further conference entering apparatus is shown, which is applied to a video conference platform side in the internet, where the video conference platform is further connected to a coordination server, and the coordination server is registered in a first video network, where the apparatus may specifically include the following modules:

a signaling generation module 1101, configured to generate an conference call signaling according to a received conference invitation operation, where the conference call signaling includes a video networking number;

a signaling sending module 1102, configured to send the conference call signaling to the coordination server, so that the coordination server determines, according to the network type corresponding to the video networking number, a conference call mode corresponding to the network type, and establishes a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode;

a conference joining association module 1103, configured to associate the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service based on the communication connection.

Optionally, the preset video service object is further associated with a plurality of participant terminals, and the apparatus may further include at least one of:

the third forwarding unit is used for acquiring participant multimedia data, sending the participant multimedia data to the coordination server, so that the coordination server converts the participant multimedia data into first multimedia data and sends the first multimedia data to the video network terminal;

the fourth forwarding unit is used for receiving third multimedia data sent by the collaboration server and respectively sending the third multimedia data to the multiple participating terminals; the third multimedia data is obtained by the protocol conversion of the received second multimedia data by the protocol conversion server, and the second multimedia data is generated and sent by the video network terminal.

Optionally, the third forwarding unit may specifically include the following units:

and the screen mixing unit is specifically used for receiving the multimedia data sent by the multiple participant terminals respectively and mixing the multimedia data to obtain the participant multimedia data.

For the embodiments of the conference device, since they are basically similar to the embodiments of the conference method, the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the partial description of the embodiments of the conference method.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an electronic device, including:

one or more processors; and one or more machine readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform a method of conferencing in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

Embodiments of the present invention further provide a computer-readable storage medium, which stores a computer program to enable a processor to execute the conference entry method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

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 like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.

The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium for conference, wherein a specific example is applied to illustrate the principle and the implementation of the present invention, and the above description of the embodiment is only used to help understanding the method and the core idea of the present 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.

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1. The conference joining method is characterized by being applied to a cooperative transfer server, wherein the cooperative transfer server is registered to a first video network and is also connected with a video conference platform in the Internet; the method comprises the following steps:

when receiving an conference call signaling sent by the video conference platform, analyzing a video networking number from the conference call signaling, wherein the video networking number is the number of a called video networking terminal;

determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type;

and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the network type corresponding to the video networking number and the incoming call mode corresponding to the network type comprises:

when the video networking number is not a number registered in the first video networking, determining that the network type is an external domain video networking type, and determining that the conference call mode is an inter-network conference call mode;

and when the video network number is the number registered in the first video network, determining that the network type is the local domain video network type, and determining that the conference calling mode is the in-network conference calling mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein establishing a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the incoming call mode comprises:

when the conference call mode is the cross-network conference call mode, sending a cross-network call signaling to a second video network registered with the video network number based on the conference call signaling so that the video network terminal acquires the cross-network call signaling;

receiving a video networking reply signaling returned by the video networking terminal aiming at the cross-network call signaling, and converting the video networking reply signaling into an Internet reply signaling;

and sending the internet reply signaling to the video conference platform, and establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein a bridging server is further connected to the collaboration server, and the sending cross-network call signaling to a second video network registered with the video network number based on the conference call signaling comprises:

sending the cross-network call signaling to the bridge server so that the bridge server sends the cross-network call signaling to the video networking terminal through a second video networking registered with the video networking number;

the receiving of the video networking reply signaling returned by the video networking terminal for the cross-network call signaling comprises:

and receiving a video networking reply signaling returned by the bridge server, wherein the video networking reply signaling is sent to the bridge server by the video networking terminal.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein parsing out the video networking number from the incoming call signaling comprises:

determining a talk protocol encapsulating the incoming call signaling;

analyzing the conference call signaling according to the conversation protocol to obtain the video networking number;

the converting the video networking reply signaling into the internet reply signaling comprises the following steps:

and carrying out protocol conversion on the video networking reply signaling to obtain the Internet reply signaling conforming to the conversation protocol.

6. The method of any of claims 1-5, wherein after the step of establishing a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the incoming call mode, the method further comprises at least one of:

receiving multimedia data of a participant, which is sent by the video conference platform, converting the multimedia data of the participant into first multimedia data, and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal; the first multimedia data are data matched with a video network terminal;

receiving second multimedia data sent by the video networking terminal, converting the second multimedia data into third multimedia data, and sending the third multimedia data to the video conference platform; and the third multimedia data is data adaptive to the video conference platform.

7. A conferencing method, applied to a video conference platform side in the internet, wherein the video conference platform is further connected to a collaboration server, and the collaboration server is registered to a first video network, the method comprising:

generating an conference call signaling according to the received conference invitation operation, wherein the conference call signaling comprises a video networking number;

sending the conference call signaling to the coordination server, so that the coordination server determines a conference call mode corresponding to the network type according to the network type corresponding to the video networking number, and establishes communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode;

and associating the video networking terminal to a preset video conference service based on the communication connection.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the preset video service object further has associated therewith a plurality of participant terminals, and wherein the method further comprises at least one of:

receiving multimedia data sent by each of the plurality of participant terminals, mixing the multimedia data to obtain participant multimedia data, sending the participant multimedia data to the cooperative conversion server, so that the cooperative conversion server converts the participant multimedia data into first multimedia data, and sending the first multimedia data to the video networking terminal;

receiving third multimedia data sent by the collaboration server, and respectively sending the third multimedia data to the multiple participating terminals; the third multimedia data is obtained by the protocol conversion of the received second multimedia data by the protocol conversion server, and the second multimedia data is generated and sent by the video network terminal.

9. The conference entrance device is applied to a cooperative conversion server, the cooperative conversion server is registered to a first video network, and the cooperative conversion server is also connected with a video conference platform in the Internet; the device comprises:

the analysis module is used for analyzing a video networking number from the conference call signaling when the conference call signaling sent by the video conference platform is received;

the network type determining module is used for determining a network type corresponding to the video networking number and an incoming call mode corresponding to the network type;

and the calling module is used for establishing communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode so that the video conference platform associates the video networking terminal with a preset video conference service.

10. A conferencing apparatus, applied to a video conference platform side in the internet, wherein the video conference platform is further connected to a collaboration server, and the collaboration server is registered to a first video network, the apparatus comprising:

a signaling generation module, configured to generate an conference call signaling according to a received conference invitation operation, where the conference call signaling includes a video networking number;

a signaling sending module, configured to send the conference call signaling to the coordination server, and configured to send the conference call signaling to the coordination server, so that the coordination server determines, according to a network type corresponding to the video networking number, a conference call mode corresponding to the network type, and establishes a communication connection between the video conference platform and the video networking terminal based on the conference call mode;

and the conference joining association module is used for associating the video networking terminal to a preset video conference service based on the communication connection.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more machine readable media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform the method of conferencing of any of claims 1-6 or any of claims 7-8.

12. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a processor to perform a method of conferencing as claimed in any of claims 1 to 6 or 7 to 8.

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