CN117857734A

CN117857734A - Statistical method and system for internal and external network call terminals in video conference

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Publication number: CN117857734A
Application number: CN202311802925.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴旋; 赵兴国
Original assignee: Shanghai Sailian Information Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Sailian Information Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2023-12-25
Filing date: 2023-12-25
Publication date: 2024-04-09

Abstract

The invention provides a statistics method and a system for an intranet and extranet call terminal in a video conference. Wherein the method comprises: marking the terminal as an intranet terminal or an extranet terminal according to a mode of accessing the conference from the intranet MCU or the extranet MCU at preset intervals by taking the conference as a unit; assigning department attributes to the intranet terminal and the extranet terminal; selecting departments requiring statistics as designated departments; selecting a time period which needs to be counted by a designated department as a designated time period; and counting the number of intranet terminals and the number of extranet terminals of the designated department according to the preset interval time, and counting the maximum value in the number of intranet terminals and the maximum value in the number of extranet terminals at each time in the designated time period to obtain the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period. The invention counts the number of the intranet calling terminals and the number of the extranet calling terminals in the conference from the dimension of the organization architecture, and provides a favorable reference basis for department operation.

Description

Statistical method and system for internal and external network call terminals in video conference

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of video communication, in particular to a statistical method and a statistical system for an intranet and extranet call terminal in a video conference.

Background

Internet-based video communication technology is widely used in video conference scenes for work and life. In the video conference system in privately deployed, in order to meet the interconnection and interworking between the internet and the intranet terminals, an MCU (multipoint control unit) responsible for managing the connection of the video conference and coordinating the communication between the terminals is often deployed in the intranet and DMZ zones (Demilitarized Zone). DMZ zones are an intermediate area between an Intranet (Intranet) and an extranet (e.g., the internet) that is typically configured to be relatively open to accommodate services that need to be shared between the Intranet and the extranet while maintaining some security.

In order to facilitate operation management, data statistics in a video conference system becomes one of the reference bases for management analysis. In the prior art, the number of terminals accessing to the conference from the intranet MCU or the extranet MCU is generally counted only by taking the conference as a unit. Different terminals in the same conference may come from the same department or from different departments, so that the manner of counting the intranet and extranet terminals only by taking the conference as a unit in the prior art cannot provide effective reference for video conference operation of each department in an enterprise.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a statistics method and a system for internal and external network call terminals in a video conference, which are used for counting the number of internal network call terminals and the number of external network call terminals in the conference from the dimension of an organization architecture, providing a favorable reference basis for department operation and helping an administrator to more flexibly carry out department operation planning and resource allocation.

In a first aspect, the present invention provides a method for counting internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference, which is characterized in that the method includes:

marking the terminal as an intranet terminal or an extranet terminal according to a mode of accessing the conference from the intranet MCU or the extranet MCU at preset intervals by taking the conference as a unit;

assigning department attributes to the intranet terminal and the extranet terminal;

selecting departments requiring statistics as designated departments;

selecting a time period which needs to be counted by the designated department as a designated time period;

and counting the number of intranet terminals and the number of extranet terminals of the designated department according to the preset interval time, and counting the maximum value in the number of intranet terminals and the maximum value in the number of extranet terminals at each time in the designated time period to obtain the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period.

In a second aspect, the present invention also provides a statistics system for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference, which is characterized in that the system includes:

the marking device is used for marking the terminal as an intranet terminal or an extranet terminal according to a mode of accessing the conference from the intranet MCU or the extranet MCU at preset intervals by taking the conference as a unit;

a attribution giving unit for giving department attribution to the intranet terminal and the extranet terminal;

a selection department means for selecting a department requiring statistics as a designated department;

a selecting time device for selecting a time period that the designated department needs to count as a designated time period;

and the statistics device is used for counting the number of intranet terminals and the number of extranet terminals of the designated department according to the preset interval time, counting the maximum value in the number of intranet terminals and the maximum value in the number of extranet terminals at each time in the designated time period, and obtaining the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period.

The invention provides a statistics method and a system for internal and external network call terminals in a video conference, wherein the statistics method comprises the steps of counting the number of internal network call terminals and the number of external network call terminals in the conference from the dimension of an organization architecture, and obtaining the maximum internal network call concurrency and the maximum external network call concurrency of a designated department in a designated time period; the visualization tools, such as a line graph and a bar graph, are utilized to display a series of maximum intranet call concurrency and maximum extranet call concurrency, so that a manager can more intuitively know the video conference operation condition of a department; when the number of the intranet terminals and/or the number of the extranet terminals of the appointed department at a certain moment in the appointed time period reaches a certain threshold, the network configuration is adjusted according to the resource allocation strategy, so that more terminals are ensured to be accessed from the intranet MCU, the network cost is reduced, the overall system performance is improved, the internal safety of an enterprise is maintained, and the operation effect of the video conference system is optimized to the maximum extent.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings that are needed in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below, it being obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a statistical method for an intranet and extranet call terminal in a video conference according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a block diagram of a statistical system of an intranet and extranet call terminal in a video conference according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a graphical interface for statistics of intranet and extranet call terminals in a video conference according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme of the invention is further described in detail through the drawings and the embodiments.

Summary of The Invention

As described above, the present invention provides a statistics method for an intranet call terminal and an extranet call terminal in a video conference, and a system thereof, which obtain the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of a designated department in a designated time period, and an administrator supports and adjusts network configuration based on these data, so as to ensure that more terminals are accessed from an intranet MCU, thereby optimizing the operation effect of the video conference system to the maximum extent.

Exemplary method

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a statistical method for an intranet and extranet call terminal in a video conference according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the embodiment includes the following steps:

s101: and marking the terminal as an intranet terminal or an extranet terminal according to the mode of accessing the conference from the intranet MCU or the extranet MCU at preset intervals by taking the conference as a unit.

Since the terminals are slaved to the conference, the management and control of the terminals is typically done in units of the whole conference, the marking of the terminals is done as a separate unit per conference, instead of in units of each terminal in the conference.

The intranet MCU is an MCU deployed in an enterprise intranet; the external network MCU is an MCU deployed in a non-enterprise internal network, and comprises an MCU accessed through the Internet, a DMZ and/or a government external network.

During the whole conference, due to the requirement of network load balancing, the MCU connected with the same terminal may be changed in real time along with the network environment, i.e. dynamically switch the terminal to the MCU with lower load according to the current network load condition, so as to ensure the performance and stability of the whole system, or a certain MCU fails or the network connection is unstable, and automatically switch the terminal to another available MCU, so as to ensure the continuous progress of the conference.

In summary, in order to optimize the communication quality of conference participants, the terminal is automatically connected to provide a better quality MCU according to the network conditions, so as to ensure the smoothness and definition of audio and video transmission.

Because the MCU that the terminal is connected can transform in real time, therefore the MCU that this terminal is connected is intranet MCU or outer net MCU also transforms in real time, namely it marks as intranet terminal or outer net terminal also transforms in real time.

In order to satisfy the real-time property of the terminal marking, the predetermined interval is preferably set to every second.

S102: and giving department attributes to the intranet terminal and the extranet terminal, namely associating specific department identifications to the intranet terminal and the extranet terminal.

For example, the video conference system of the enterprise X marks every second in a conference unit whether each participant terminal in the video conference in progress of the enterprise is an intranet terminal or an extranet terminal, so as to form detailed time sequence data; then, the corresponding departments are associated with each terminal through integration with an identity verification system, a user database or other information sources of the enterprise, and the department attributes corresponding to the terminals are stored through setting a field. In order to ensure that the department attribute of the terminal is accurate, periodic updating can be performed according to the requirement, for example, when an employee changes the department, the department attribute corresponding to the terminal can be changed within 1 hour.

The department attributes include, but are not limited to, department name and department ID.

S103: the department requiring statistics is selected as the designated department.

The departments include the actual departments in the organization architecture and/or SDK (Software Development Kit) virtual departments.

The SDK virtual department is a virtual department created based on special roles or requirements of software developers, technical support, and the like.

S104: and selecting the time period which needs to be counted by the designated department as a designated time period.

The designated period may be one period or a plurality of periods.

For example, the specified time period is daily, weekly, and/or monthly for a certain period of time, and as shown in fig. 3, the specified time period is daily in units of days 2023, 6, 30, to 2023, 7, 6, and seven total time periods.

Additionally, the specified time period may include a past time, a current time, and/or a future time. If the appointed time period contains the past time, calling historical conference data in the appointed time period during statistics; if the specified time period does not contain the past time, the current conference data in the specified time period can be counted in real time.

S105: and counting the number of intranet terminals and the number of extranet terminals of the designated department according to the preset interval time, and counting the maximum value in the number of intranet terminals and the maximum value in the number of extranet terminals at each time in the designated time period to obtain the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period.

For example, the designated division is division a of enterprise X, the predetermined interval is every second, and the designated time period is weekly in the unit of week 2023, 12, 4, and 2023, 12, 31, i.e., the designated time period is four time periods in the unit of week. Counting the number of the intranet terminals and the number of the extranet terminals of the department a per second to form a series of time sequence data; at the end of each week during month 4 of 2023, 12, to month 31 of 2023, the maximum value was found among 604,800 intranet terminal numbers, which is the maximum intranet call concurrence within the week, by summarizing and analyzing the data counted per second (604,800 seconds total for each week) for that week. Similarly, the maximum value is found in the number of 604,800 external network terminals, and the maximum value is the maximum external network call concurrency in the week.

When the specified time period is a plurality of time periods, visualization tools such as a line graph and a bar graph can be utilized to show that the specified department is concurrent with the maximum intranet call and the maximum extranet call in the specified time period, and data export is supported, so that an administrator can conveniently and intuitively acquire data information, further better understand, analyze and optimize the operation condition of the video conference system, and adjust network configuration according to a resource allocation strategy.

As an optional embodiment, when the number of intranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period, the capacity of the intranet MCUs of the designated department is temporarily increased, for example, the number of the intranet MCUs is increased, so that the terminals of the designated department can still access the conference from the intranet MCUs.

Compared with a terminal which does not occupy the internet bandwidth and accesses the conference from the intranet MCU, the terminal which accesses the conference from the extranet MCU occupies the internet bandwidth, the generated network cost is higher, and compared with the terminal which accesses through the extranet, the intranet is generally more easily protected by the internal security control of the enterprise, so that the terminal user should access the conference from the intranet MCU preferentially when initially participating in the conference. In practical situations, however, the behavior of the user is not always performed according to the optimal network access manner, for example, some users choose to access the conference from the external network MCU if both the internal and external network MCUs can be connected, resulting in higher internet bandwidth usage and network cost.

For this case, the present invention provides the following embodiments of adjusting the number of external network terminals based on the number of external network terminals of a specified department at a certain time within the specified time period:

as another alternative embodiment, departments are ranked according to importance, such as a higher level department and a lower level department; when the number of the external network terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value at a certain moment in the designated time period, the threshold value of the designated department is adjusted according to the grade of the designated department: if the designated department is a high-level department, the number threshold of the external network terminals of the designated department is temporarily increased, and if the designated department is a low-level department, the number threshold of the external network terminals of the original designated department of the designated department is kept unchanged, and the terminals of the designated department cannot be accessed from an external network MCU.

For example, the designated department is a primary leader (advanced department), and when the number of external network terminals is 50 sides above the threshold number of external network terminals of the designated department at a certain time in the designated time period of the primary leader, the external network call budget of the primary leader is automatically increased to raise the maximum external network call concurrency threshold of the primary leader to be 100 sides.

In a word, the departments are classified according to the importance degree, an intelligent foundation is provided for the subsequent adjustment of the external network call budget, the high-level departments are ensured to have enough resources to support the maximum external network call concurrency requirement, and the low-level departments can more economically utilize the resources.

As a further alternative embodiment, when the number of the external network terminals of the designated department at a certain moment in the designated time period reaches a certain threshold, the permission of accessing the conference mode is allocated to the terminals of the designated department according to the service requirement.

For example, the corresponding number of times of accessing the conference from the external network MCU is allocated to the corresponding terminal according to the business trip frequency of the terminal user, when the number of external network terminals is higher than 30 parties at a certain moment in a specified time period of the sales department, the corresponding number of times of accessing the conference from the external network MCU is allocated to the corresponding terminal according to the average business trip number of each member of the sales department in the history record, for example, the average business trip number of the terminal per month is 0, and the number of times of accessing the conference from the external network MCU by the terminal is 0, that is, only accessing the conference from the intranet MCU is possible.

In a word, assign the authority of the meeting mode of access to the terminal station of the appointed department according to the business requirement, reduce the unnecessary external network MCU and cut in the number of times.

As still another alternative embodiment, when the number of the external network terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period, the terminal of the designated department is prompted to access the conference from the internal network MCU preferentially before meeting, so that the terminal user is guided to select the internal network MCU, the internet bandwidth is not occupied, the network cost is not generated, and meanwhile, the network security is enhanced. An administrator can adjust the threshold according to actual requirements to adapt to video conference operation and network management requirements of departments in an enterprise.

For example, when the statistics is performed in real time that the number of terminals of the external network is higher than the threshold value by 50 at a certain moment in a week of a designated time period of the third-level department, the user interface receives a prompt "please prefer to access the conference from the intranet MCU" immediately before all terminals of the third-level department enter the conference. The user is reminded to preferentially select the intranet MCU access, so that the user is guided to more accord with the network use behavior of the whole benefit of the enterprise.

In addition, besides the above embodiment, user guiding information can be provided to explain advantages of access from the intranet MCU, including reducing network cost, improving access speed, and the like, so as to ensure that more terminals are accessed from the intranet MCU, thereby reducing network cost, improving overall system performance, maintaining internal security of enterprises, and optimizing operation effects of the video conference system to the maximum extent.

When the concurrency of a plurality of maximum extranet calls of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value in the designated time period, the threshold value of the number of extranet terminals of the designated department is increased; and when the concurrency of a plurality of maximum intranet calls of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value within the designated time period, increasing the intranet MCU capacity of the designated department.

Exemplary System

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention also provides a statistical system of the internet and intranet call terminals in the video conference. Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a statistical system of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 2, a system 100 provided in this embodiment includes:

a marking device 101, configured to mark a terminal as an intranet terminal or an extranet terminal according to a manner of accessing the conference from the intranet MCU or the extranet MCU at a predetermined interval time in a conference unit;

a attribution imparting means 102 for imparting department attributes to the intranet terminal and the extranet terminal;

a selection department means 103 for selecting a department requiring statistics as a designated department;

a selecting time device 104 for selecting a time period that the designated department needs to count as a designated time period;

and the statistics device 105 is used for counting the number of intranet terminals and the number of extranet terminals of the designated department according to the preset interval time, counting the maximum value in the number of intranet terminals and the maximum value in the number of extranet terminals at each time in the designated time period, and obtaining the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period.

The system 100 further comprises a threshold adjustment device 106 comprising:

a ranking unit 107 for ranking departments according to importance degrees;

an adjusting unit 108 for adjusting the threshold value of the designated department according to the grade of the designated department when the number of extranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value at a certain moment in the designated time period: if the designated department is a high-level department, the threshold value of the number of the external network terminals of the designated department is increased, and if the designated department is a low-level department, the threshold value of the number of the external network terminals of the original designated department of the designated department is kept unchanged.

The system 100 further comprises an access limiting means 109 for allocating, to the terminals of the designated department, rights to access the conference mode according to the service requirement, when the number of terminals of the external network of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period.

The system 100 further comprises prompting means 110 for prompting the priority to access the conference from the intranet MCU before the terminals of the designated department enter the conference when the number of extranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period.

The system 100 further comprises a capacity increasing device 111, configured to increase the capacity of the intranet MCU of the designated department when the number of intranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period.

The departments include the actual departments and/or SDK virtual departments in the organization architecture.

The intranet MCU is an MCU deployed in an enterprise intranet;

the external network MCU is an MCU deployed in a non-enterprise internal network, and comprises an MCU accessed through the Internet, a DMZ and/or a government external network.

The system 100 further comprises update properties means 112 for periodically updating department properties of the terminal.

The system 100 further comprises display means 113 for displaying maximum intranet call concurrency and maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department for the designated time period using visualization means.

The predetermined interval is every second;

the specified time period is daily, weekly and/or monthly for a certain period of time.

It should be noted that although the operations of the statistical method of the present invention for a video conferencing intranet and extranet calling terminal are depicted in a particular order in the figures, this does not require or imply that these operations must be performed in that particular order or that all of the illustrated operations must be performed in order to achieve desirable results. Additionally or alternatively, certain steps may be omitted, multiple steps combined into one step to perform, and/or one step decomposed into multiple steps to perform.

Furthermore, although several means, units, or modules of a statistical system of intranet and extranet call terminals in video conferencing are mentioned in the above detailed description, such a division is merely exemplary and not mandatory. Indeed, the features and functions of two or more modules described above may be embodied in one module in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. Conversely, the features and functions of one module described above may be further divided into a plurality of modules to be embodied.

While the spirit and principles of the present invention have been described with reference to several particular embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments nor does it imply that features of the various aspects are not useful in combination, nor are they useful in any combination, such as for convenience of description. The invention is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

The invention provides:

1. a method for counting internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference, the method comprising:

selecting departments requiring statistics as designated departments;

2. The method for counting internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1, further comprising:

grading departments according to the importance degree;

when the number of the external network terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value at a certain moment in the designated time period, the threshold value of the designated department is adjusted according to the grade of the designated department: if the designated department is a high-level department, the threshold value of the number of the external network terminals of the designated department is increased, and if the designated department is a low-level department, the threshold value of the number of the external network terminals of the original designated department of the designated department is kept unchanged.

3. The statistical method for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises:

and when the number of the external network terminals of the designated department at a certain moment in the designated time period reaches a certain threshold, distributing the permission of the access conference mode to the terminals of the designated department according to the service requirement.

4. The statistical method for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises:

when the number of the external network terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value at a certain moment in the designated time period, prompting that the conference is preferentially accessed from the internal network MCU before the terminals of the designated department enter the conference.

5. The statistical method for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises: and when the number of intranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value at a certain moment in the designated time period, increasing the intranet MCU capacity of the designated department.

6. The statistical method of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the departments include an actual department and/or an SDK virtual department in an organization architecture.

7. The statistical method of the internet and intranet call terminals in the video conference according to the 1 st or 2 nd, wherein the intranet MCU is an MCU deployed in an enterprise intranet;

8. The statistical method for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises: the department attributes of the terminal are updated periodically.

9. The statistical method for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises: and displaying the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period by utilizing a visualization tool.

10. The statistical method for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the predetermined interval is every second;

11. A statistical system for internet and extranet call terminals in a video conference, the system comprising:

12. The statistics system for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 11, further comprising a threshold adjustment device comprising:

a ranking unit for ranking departments according to importance degrees;

an adjusting unit, configured to adjust, when the number of extranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain time within the designated time period, the threshold of the designated department according to the level of the designated department: if the designated department is a high-level department, the threshold value of the number of the external network terminals of the designated department is increased, and if the designated department is a low-level department, the threshold value of the number of the external network terminals of the original designated department of the designated department is kept unchanged.

13. The statistics system for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 11 or 12, further comprising an access limiting device, configured to allocate, to a terminal of the designated department, permission to access to a conference mode according to a service requirement when the number of extranet terminals of the designated department at a time within the designated time period reaches a certain threshold.

14. The statistics system for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 11 or 12, further comprising prompting means for prompting priority to access to a conference from an intranet MCU before a terminal of the designated department enters the conference when the number of internet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period.

15. The statistics system for internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 11 or 12, further comprising a capacity increasing device for increasing the capacity of the intranet MCU of the designated department when the number of intranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold at a certain moment in the designated time period.

16. The statistics system of claim 11 or 12, wherein the departments include an actual department and/or an SDK virtual department in an organization architecture.

17. The statistical system of the internet and intranet call terminals in the video conference according to the 11 th or 12 th, wherein the intranet MCU is an MCU deployed in an enterprise intranet;

18. The statistics system for internet and intranet call terminals in video conferencing according to claim 11 or 12, further comprising updating attribute means for periodically updating department attributes of the terminals.

19. The statistics system of the internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 11 or 12, further comprising display means for displaying maximum intranet call concurrency and maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period using visualization means.

20. The statistics system of the internet and intranet call terminal in a video conference according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the predetermined interval is every second;

Claims

selecting departments requiring statistics as designated departments;

grading departments according to the importance degree;

3. A method for statistics of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising:

4. A method for statistics of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising:

5. A method for statistics of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: and when the number of intranet terminals of the designated department reaches a certain threshold value at a certain moment in the designated time period, increasing the intranet MCU capacity of the designated department.

6. A method of statistics of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the departments comprise the actual departments and/or SDK virtual departments in an organizational framework.

7. The statistical method of the internet and intranet call terminals in the video conference according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the intranet MCUs are MCUs deployed in an enterprise intranet;

8. A method for statistics of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: the department attributes of the terminal are updated periodically.

9. A method for statistics of internet and intranet call terminals in a video conference according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: and displaying the maximum intranet call concurrency and the maximum extranet call concurrency of the designated department in the designated time period by utilizing a visualization tool.

10. A statistical system for internet and extranet call terminals in a video conference, the system comprising: