JP2011155585A - Electronic conference controller, electronic conference system, electronic conference control method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a participant of a teleconference to easily participate in an electronic conference such as file sharing during the teleconference. <P>SOLUTION: An electronic conference controller includes: a storage for associating a user ID with a telephone number to store them; a unit for receiving an electronic conference setting request including a user ID from a predetermined terminal device and acquiring a telephone number corresponding to the user ID from the storage; a unit for transmitting a telephone call list request including the telephone number to a communication controller and receiving, from the communication controller, a list of telephone numbers of telephone terminals participating in the teleconference together with the telephone terminal of the telephone number, and a conference ID; and a unit for acquiring each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list from the storage and transmitting the user IDs of the entire or partial telephone terminals participating in the teleconference and the conference ID to an electronic conference service providing device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technology for allowing participants in a telephone conference to participate in an electronic conference such as file sharing when a telephone conference realized by an IP telephone system is being held.

  An IP telephone system using SIP (session initiation protocol) as a call control communication protocol is widely used. Many IP telephone systems that can hold telephone conferences are also provided.

  On the other hand, there is also a file sharing service providing apparatus that enables an electronic conference by chat or message exchange on a bulletin board while sharing the same information by displaying the same conference material (file) on the screen on a plurality of PC terminals. It is popular.

  Here, if a plurality of participants in a telephone conference can access the file sharing service providing apparatus and perform file sharing while performing the telephone conference, the efficiency of the conference is improved, which is convenient.

  In the prior art, the file sharing service providing apparatus and the IP telephone system that can provide the telephone conference function are separate systems. Therefore, in order to share files among participants during a telephone conference, the telephone conference organizer It is necessary to make complicated preparations such as notifying participants of places and procedures to access for file sharing in advance, and efficiently conducting electronic conferences such as file sharing between participants during a conference call I couldn't. Further, even during a one-to-one call, an electronic conference such as file sharing could not be efficiently performed between users.

  In addition, there exists patent document 1 as a prior art document relevant to this application.

JP 2002-041461 A

  As described above, in the conventional technology, the file sharing service providing apparatus and the IP telephone system that can provide the telephone conference function are separated, so that the file can be efficiently shared between users during a telephone conference or the like. It was not possible to hold an electronic conference.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and allows a user to efficiently and easily perform a file during a conference call using the conference call function provided by the IP phone system or during a one-to-one call. An object is to provide a technology that enables participation in electronic conferences such as sharing.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a communication control apparatus having a conference call service providing function and an electronic conference control apparatus connected to the electronic conference service providing apparatus via a communication network, wherein the user ID A telephone number information storing means for storing the telephone number and the telephone number in association with each other, and receiving from the predetermined terminal device an electronic conference setting request including a user ID corresponding to the user of the telephone terminal participating in the telephone conference, A telephone number acquisition means for acquiring a telephone number corresponding to a user ID from the telephone number information storage means; and a call list request including the telephone number is transmitted to the communication control apparatus, and the communication control apparatus transmits the call list request. Call list acquisition to receive a list of phone numbers of the phone terminals participating in the conference call together with the phone number of the phone number included in and the conference ID of the conference call And each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list is acquired from the telephone number information storage means, and the user ID and the conference ID of all or some of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call And an electronic conference participation subject notification means that transmits the information as electronic conference participation subject information to the electronic conference service providing device.

  The present invention is also an electronic conference system connected to a communication control device having a conference call service providing function via a communication network, the electronic conference system comprising an electronic conference control device, an electronic conference service providing device, The electronic conference control device includes a telephone number information storage unit that stores a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other, and a user corresponding to a user of the telephone terminal participating in the conference from a predetermined terminal device An electronic conference setting request including an ID is received, a telephone number acquisition unit that acquires a telephone number corresponding to the user ID from the telephone number information storage unit, and a call list request including the telephone number is transmitted to the communication control device And a list of telephone numbers of the telephone terminals participating in the telephone conference together with the telephone terminals of the telephone numbers included in the call list request from the communication control device. A call list acquisition means for receiving the conference ID of the telephone conference, and each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list is acquired from the telephone number information storage means and participates in the telephone conference. An electronic conference participation target person notifying means for transmitting user IDs of all or a part of telephone terminals and the conference ID as electronic conference participation target person information to the electronic conference service providing device, and providing the electronic conference service The apparatus includes an address information storage unit that stores an IP address of a terminal that can use the electronic conference service and a user ID in association with each other, and each IP corresponding to each user ID received from the electronic conference participant notification unit An electronic conference that acquires an address from the address information storage means and transmits an electronic conference participation request message including the conference ID to a terminal identified by the acquired IP address It can also be configured as an electronic conference system characterized by comprising participation request means.

  The present invention is also an electronic conference control apparatus connected to a communication control apparatus having a call connection function and an electronic conference service providing apparatus via a communication network, and stores a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other. The electronic conference setting request including the user ID corresponding to the user of the telephone terminal that is in communication with the other telephone terminal from the telephone number information storage means that performs the call and the telephone number corresponding to the user ID Is transmitted from the telephone number information storage means, and a telephone number request during a call including the telephone number is transmitted to the communication control apparatus, and is included in the telephone number request during a call from the communication control apparatus. A telephone number acquiring means for receiving a telephone number of the other telephone terminal that is in a call with the telephone terminal of the telephone number; and a user ID corresponding to the telephone number of the other telephone terminal. Electronic conference participation target person notifying means for acquiring from the information storage means and transmitting the user ID of the telephone terminal and the user ID of the other telephone terminal to the electronic conference service providing apparatus as electronic conference participation target information. It can also be configured as an electronic conference control apparatus characterized by comprising.

  According to the present invention, in response to a request from the telephone terminal, the electronic conference control apparatus acquires the telephone number of the telephone terminal participating in the telephone conference or the telephone terminal of the other party from the communication control apparatus, and uses the telephone number as the user ID. It is converted and transmitted as electronic conference participation target information to the electronic conference service providing apparatus, and the electronic conference service providing apparatus can transmit an electronic conference participation request to the terminal corresponding to the user ID. .

  Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible for a user to participate in an electronic conference such as file sharing efficiently and easily when performing a conference call or the like.

1 is a configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a functional block diagram of the communication control apparatus 1 which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the information stored in the telephone conference participant information storage part. 3 is a functional configuration diagram of an electronic conference control device 2. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in a telephone number information storage unit 25. FIG. 3 is a functional configuration diagram of a file sharing service providing apparatus 3. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in an address information storage unit 35. FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating operation | movement of the system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a functional block diagram of the communication control apparatus 1 which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating operation | movement of the system which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

<First Embodiment>
(System configuration)
FIG. 1 shows a configuration diagram of a system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the system according to the present embodiment includes a communication control device 1, an electronic conference control device 2, and a file sharing service providing device 3, which are connected to a communication network 4.

  In addition, the communication network 4 includes a telephone terminal 5 of a participant who performs a telephone conference, a PC terminal 6 for using a file sharing service provided by the file sharing service providing apparatus 3, and designation of a user to participate in file sharing. A PC terminal 7 is connected for participation control. Of course, the PC terminal 7 can also be used as a terminal for using the file sharing service. Moreover, you may use portable terminals other than the telephone terminal 5 as a terminal for participation control.

  The communication control apparatus 1 has a function for performing a conference call among a plurality of telephone terminals, in addition to a function for performing a normal call connection by performing call control communication using SIP. The electronic conference control device 2 acquires information on the telephone conference participants from the communication control device 1, and based on the information, sends information on the user to participate in file sharing, which is a kind of electronic conference, to the file sharing service providing device 3. It has a function to notify. The file sharing service providing apparatus 3 provides a file sharing service to the PC terminal 6.

  The communication network 4 is an IP network such as the Internet. The telephone terminal 5 may be a fixed telephone terminal or a mobile terminal (including a mobile phone) that performs wireless communication.

  In order to support mobile terminals that perform wireless communication, the communication network 4 includes a wireless LAN access point, and each mobile terminal communicates with other telephone terminals via IP telephone communication via the wireless LAN access point and the communication network 4. Can be done. The PC terminal 6 and the PC terminal 7 are general desktop personal computers.

  In the present embodiment, since file sharing is taken up as an example of a form of electronic conference, the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 is used. However, instead of the file sharing service providing apparatus 3, a file sharing and chat function is used. An electronic conference service providing apparatus that can provide an electronic conference service including the above may be used. Of course, the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 is a kind of electronic conference service providing apparatus. In addition, the “electronic conference” in the present specification is other than the audio conference, and includes file sharing, message exchange, and the like.

  FIG. 2 shows a functional configuration diagram of the communication control apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the communication control device 1 includes a call control communication unit 11, a conference call control unit 12, a conference call participant information storage unit 13, and a conference call media communication unit 14.

  The call control communication unit 11 includes all SIP functions and is a functional unit that performs control communication for call connection between devices. The telephone conference control unit 12 is a functional unit that performs control for realizing a telephone conference between a plurality of telephone terminals.

  For example, the telephone conference control unit 12 receives a call connection request (call connection request to the communication control device 1) to a telephone number predetermined as a telephone number for telephone conference connection corresponding to a certain conference ID. When the call is made, the call is determined to be a call connection request to the conference call identified by the conference ID, and the conference call participation is made by associating the phone number of the caller telephone terminal with the conference ID. When the call connection disconnection is detected and stored in the caller information storage unit 13, the telephone number of the caller telephone terminal is deleted from the conference call participant information storage unit 13.

  Furthermore, the telephone conference control unit 12 performs each voice communication established between each telephone terminal and the communication control device 1 (more specifically, the telephone conference media communication unit 14) in response to the call connection request identified by the conference ID. In addition, it has a function of instructing the teleconference media communication unit 14 to appropriately mix and distribute to each telephone terminal in accordance with an instruction from the participant.

  The telephone conference control unit 12 also has a function of returning telephone conference participant telephone numbers and the like to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 in response to a request from the electronic conference control apparatus 2.

  The telephone conference media communication unit 14 performs call connection with the telephone terminals of the telephone conference participants, and mixes the voices from the respective telephone terminals in combination according to instructions from the telephone conference control unit 12. It has a function to distribute to telephone terminals.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of information stored in the conference call participant information storage unit 13. As shown in FIG. 3, the conference ID information storage unit 13 stores a conference ID and a telephone number of a telephone terminal connected to the conference call in association with each other. In the example of FIG. 3, it is shown that three telephone terminals of telephone number 1A, telephone number 2B, and telephone number 3 are participating in the conference call of conference ID1.

  FIG. 4 shows a functional configuration diagram of the electronic conference control apparatus 2. As shown in FIG. 4, the electronic conference control apparatus 2 includes a user terminal interface (IF) unit 21, a conference call participant information acquisition unit 22, a user ID conversion unit 23, a file sharing participant target notification unit 24, a telephone number. An information storage unit 25 is included.

  The user terminal IF unit 21 has a Web server function and communicates with the Web browser of the PC terminal 7 that performs participation control, thereby receiving various requests from the PC terminal 7 and displaying the processing results to the PC. A function of notifying the terminal 7 is provided.

  The telephone conference participant information acquisition unit 22 acquires the telephone number corresponding to the user ID included in the file sharing setting request received from the PC terminal 7 from the telephone number information storage unit 25, and the telephone conference with the telephone terminal of the telephone number. It is a functional unit that requests the communication control device 1 for a list of telephone numbers of other telephone terminals that are performing communication, and receives the list from the communication control device 1.

  The user ID conversion unit 23 is a functional unit that converts a telephone number in the list acquired by the conference call participant information acquisition unit 22 into a corresponding user ID by referring to the telephone number information storage unit 25.

  The file sharing participation target person notification unit 24 sends a list of user IDs selected by the user from the user IDs obtained by the user ID conversion unit 23 to the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 and the corresponding conference call. This is a function unit that notifies the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 of the conference ID.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of information stored in the telephone number information storage unit 25. As shown in FIG. 5, the telephone number information storage unit 25 stores a user ID and a telephone number of the user's telephone terminal identified by the user ID in association with each other. The information in the telephone number information storage unit 25 is registered in advance by a system administrator or the like. As shown in FIG. 5, the number of telephone numbers registered for one user ID is not limited to one and may be plural. In the example of FIG. 5, telephone number 1A and telephone number 1B are registered for user ID1, and telephone number 2A and telephone number 2B are registered for user ID2. The plurality of telephone numbers include, for example, an extension number and an outside line number.

  FIG. 6 shows a functional configuration diagram of the file sharing service providing apparatus 3. As shown in FIG. 6, the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 includes a file sharing target user information receiving unit 31, a file sharing participation request unit 32, an authentication unit 33, a file sharing control unit 34, an address information storage unit 35, and a user information storage unit. 36 and a file information storage unit 37.

  The file sharing target user information receiving unit 31 is a functional unit that receives a list of user IDs and a conference ID from the electronic conference control apparatus 2 and passes them to the file sharing participation request unit 32. The file sharing participation request unit 32 refers to the address information storage unit 35 to obtain an IP address corresponding to each user ID included in the list, and for each PC terminal 6 identified by the IP address, It is a functional unit that transmits a file sharing participation request message including a conference ID.

  The authentication unit 33 is a functional unit that performs user authentication by checking the user ID and password included in the login information received from the PC terminal 6 against the user ID and password stored in advance in the user information storage unit 36. is there. At this time, the authentication unit 33 stores the IP address of the PC terminal 6 included in the login information received from the PC terminal 6 and the user ID that has been successfully authenticated in the address information storage unit 35 in association with each other.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the address information storage unit 35 stores a user ID and an IP address in association with each other. In the user information storage unit 36, a user ID and a password are stored in association with each other. In this embodiment, an IP address is used as information for identifying a PC terminal. However, if the identification information can be held together with a user ID and can be identified for communication, the IP address is used. Not necessarily.

  The file sharing control unit 34 receives the file sharing request including the conference ID from the PC terminal 6 that has received the above file sharing participation request message, acquires the file corresponding to the conference ID from the file information storage unit 37. These are functional units that transmit to the PC terminal 6. In addition, the file sharing control unit 34 participates in file sharing, and there is a write on the file data in a specific PC terminal 6 among the plurality of PC terminals 6 where the file (meeting material etc.) is being browsed. In this case, the PC terminal 6 of all other participants also has a function of reflecting the writing. The file information storage unit 37 stores a conference ID, a user ID corresponding to the conference ID, and a file corresponding to the conference ID in association with each other.

  In the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the communication control device 1, the electronic conference control device 2, and the file sharing service providing device 3 are respectively connected to a general computer having a storage device and a CPU. This can be realized by installing a program for performing processing corresponding to each functional unit in the apparatus. The program may be installed in the computer from a recording medium such as a memory or a disk, or may be downloaded from a server on a network to the computer and installed. Further, the electronic conference control device 2 and the file sharing service providing device 3 which is a kind of electronic conference service providing device may be collectively referred to as an electronic conference system. Further, the electronic conference control device 2 and the file sharing service providing device 3 may be realized by a single device.

(System operation)
Next, the operation of the system according to the present embodiment having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to the sequence chart of FIG. In the present embodiment, the conference ID of the conference call and the conference ID in the file sharing that is a kind of electronic conference are common, and as a premise of the following operation, for example, the conference call organizer The ID is registered in the communication control device 1 and the conference ID and the file (conference material) are registered in the file sharing service providing device 3 in advance. It is not always necessary to register the conference ID in advance, and it may be shared among the devices as appropriate together with the processing sequence.

  In the following, the user ID of the PC terminal 7 that first transmits the file sharing setting request is the user ID 1, the conference ID of the conference call (and the file sharing) is the conference ID 1, and each storage unit has FIG. Assume that the information shown in FIGS. 5 and 7 is stored.

  First, the PC terminal 7 of the user of the telephone terminal 5 participating in the conference call transmits a file sharing setting request including the user ID 1 of the user to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 based on the operation on the Web browser screen by the user. (Step 1). The file sharing setting request is, for example, information transmitted when logging in to the electronic conference control apparatus 2. In the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the file sharing setting request, the telephone conference participant information acquisition unit 22 receives a plurality of telephone numbers corresponding to the user ID 1 included in the received file sharing setting request from the telephone number information storage unit 25. The telephone number of one of them is acquired. Here, it is assumed that the telephone number 1A is acquired first (step 2).

  The conference call participant information acquisition unit 22 transmits a call list request including the phone number 1A to the communication control device 1 (step 3). In the communication control device 1, the telephone number of the telephone terminal participating in the conference call with the conference ID 1 is stored in the conference call participant information storage unit 13 together with the conference ID 1 by the function of the conference call control unit 12 (FIG. 3). As shown).

  In the communication control device 1 that has received the call list request including the telephone number 1A, the telephone conference control unit 12 searches the telephone conference participant information storage unit 13 by using the telephone number 1A, so that the telephone terminal of the telephone number 1A is obtained. The telephone number (telephone number 2B, telephone number 3) of the other telephone terminal participating in the telephone conference in which 5 is participating and the conference ID 1 of the telephone conference are acquired (step 4). As in the case where the telephone conference participant information acquisition unit 22 acquires the telephone number 1B in step 2, the telephone number included in the call list request in step 4 is the telephone conference participant information storage unit. If it is not stored in 13, the telephone conference control unit 12 returns error information to the electronic conference control device 2. Then, the conference call participant information acquisition unit 22 in the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the error information acquires another phone number (phone number that has not yet been tried) corresponding to the user ID 1, and uses this as a call list request. And transmitted to the communication control device 1. This process is repeated until the telephone number included in the call list request is detected in the conference call participant information storage unit 13.

  Subsequently, the telephone conference control unit 12 transmits the call list including the telephone numbers acquired in Step 4 and the conference ID 1 to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 (Step 5). The conference call participant information acquisition unit 22 of the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the call list and the conference ID 1 passes the call list and the conference ID 1 to the user ID conversion unit 23, and the user ID conversion unit 23 receives the telephone number information. By acquiring each user ID (user ID2, user ID3) corresponding to each telephone number included in the call list by referring to the storage unit 25, the telephone number in the call list is assigned as the user ID user ID2, user. ID3) (step 6).

  Then, the user terminal IF unit 21 transmits a call list including the user ID obtained by the user ID conversion unit 23 to the PC terminal 7 (step 7). Note that the user ID itself may be transmitted, but the user information (name, title, etc.) associated with the user ID may be transmitted to the PC terminal 7.

  On the Web browser screen of the PC terminal 7, a call list composed of the user ID 1 and the received user ID (user ID 2, user ID 3) is displayed, and the user of the PC terminal 7 wants to share the file. One or more participants are selected from the screen (step 8). Of course, all participants may be selected. Thereafter, a list of selected user IDs (referred to as a selected user ID list) is transmitted from the PC terminal 7 to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 (step 9). Here, it is assumed that a user ID list (user ID 1, user ID 2, user ID 3) of all users including user ID 1 is transmitted to the electronic conference control apparatus 2.

  In the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the selected user ID list, the file sharing participation target person notification unit 24 transmits the selected user ID list and the conference ID 1 to the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 (step 10).

  The file sharing target user information receiving unit 31 in the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 receives the selected user ID list and the conference ID 1 and passes them to the file sharing participation request unit 32. The file sharing participation request unit 32 acquires the IP address (IP address 1, IP address 2, IP address 3) corresponding to each user ID in the selected user ID list from the address information storage unit 35, and uses each IP address. A file sharing participation request message including the conference ID 1 is transmitted to the identified PC terminal 6 (step 11).

  In each PC terminal 6 that has received the file sharing participation request message, for example, the meeting ID 1 is displayed in the form of a link, and by selecting the meeting ID 1, a download request including the meeting ID 1 is notified to the file sharing control unit 34. The file corresponding to the conference ID 1 is downloaded from the file sharing control unit 34 to the requesting PC terminal 6 and displayed.

  Further, in each PC terminal 6 that has received the file sharing participation request message, when the link of the meeting ID 1 is selected, the file sharing is performed, and a predetermined meeting room is entered (that is, a bulletin board is accessed), and chatting is performed. Or message exchange or the like.

  In the example of the embodiment described above, after the electronic conference control apparatus 2 acquires the user ID of the conference call participant in step 6, the user of the PC terminal 7 is made to select the file sharing participant in steps 7 and 8. However, instead of performing steps 7 and 8, the user ID acquired in step 6 and the user ID 1 and the conference ID 1 may be transmitted to the file sharing service providing apparatus 3.

  As described above, by using the system according to the present embodiment, it is possible to easily join a participant who is participating in a conference call to an electronic conference such as file sharing.

<Second Embodiment>
In the above-described example, the case where file sharing is performed when each telephone terminal is participating in a telephone conference has been described. However, even when two telephone terminals are making a normal one-to-one call. It is possible to share a file between one user and the other party of the call. Hereinafter, an embodiment of file sharing when two telephone terminals are making a normal one-to-one call will be described.

  The overall configuration of the system and the configuration of each device in the present embodiment are basically the same as those in the first embodiment. However, as described below, the operation of each device, the data to be stored, etc. There is a difference from the first embodiment.

  In the present embodiment, while the call control communication unit 11 in the communication control device 1 shown in FIG. 2 establishes a normal one-to-one call connection between two telephone terminals, the two telephone terminals Are stored in a storage means (memory or the like) in association with each other. FIG. 9 shows the configuration of the communication control apparatus 1 in which this storage means is illustrated as the call connection telephone number storage unit 111. Hereinafter, the operation of the system in the present embodiment will be described with reference to the sequence chart of FIG.

  In the following example, it is assumed that the user X (user ID 1) and the user Y (user ID 2) are making a one-to-one call, the user X is the one who sends the file sharing setting request, and the other party is the user Y User X's PC terminal is PC terminal 7 (also used for file sharing), user Y's PC terminal is PC terminal 6, user X's telephone terminal is telephone terminal 5 (phone number 1A), and user Y's The telephone terminal is assumed to be a telephone terminal 8 (phone number 2B). Further, the telephone number 1A and the telephone number 2B are stored in association with each other in the call connection telephone number storage unit 111 in the communication control device 1, and the telephone number 1A and the telephone number are stored in the conference call participant information storage unit 13. It is assumed that 2B is not stored. The information shown in FIGS. 5 and 7 is the same as that in the first embodiment.

  First, the PC terminal 7 of the user X transmits a file sharing setting request including the user ID 1 to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 based on the operation on the Web browser screen by the user X (step 101). In the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the file sharing setting request, the telephone conference participant information acquisition unit 22 receives a plurality of telephone numbers corresponding to the user ID 1 included in the received file sharing setting request from the telephone number information storage unit 25. The telephone number of one of them is acquired. Here, it is assumed that the telephone number 1A is acquired first (step 102).

  The telephone conference participant information acquisition unit 22 transmits a call list request including the telephone number 1A (which may be referred to as a busy telephone number request) to the communication control device 1 (step 103).

  In the communication control device 1 that has received the call list request including the telephone number 1A, the telephone conference control unit 12 first searches the call connection telephone number storage unit 111 based on the telephone number 1A included in the call list request, and The telephone number 2B stored corresponding to 1A is acquired. (Step 104). In step 104, if the telephone number included in the call list request is not stored in the call connection telephone number storage unit 111, the telephone conference is performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment. If the participant information storage unit 13 is searched and a telephone number is included therein, processing similar to that in the first embodiment is performed thereafter.

  If neither of the storage units includes the telephone number included in the call list request, the conference call control unit 12 returns error information to the electronic conference control device 2. Then, the conference call participant information acquisition unit 22 in the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the error information acquires another phone number (phone number that has not yet been tried) corresponding to the user ID 1, and uses this as a call list request. And transmitted to the communication control device 1. This process is repeated until the telephone number included in the call list request is detected in any storage unit.

  Subsequently, the telephone conference control unit 12 transmits a call list including the telephone number 2B acquired in step 104 to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 (step 105). The telephone conference participant information acquisition unit 22 of the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the telephone number 2B passes the telephone number 2B to the user ID conversion unit 23, and the user ID conversion unit 23 refers to the telephone number information storage unit 25. Thus, by acquiring the user ID 2 corresponding to the telephone number 2B, the telephone number 2B in the call list is converted into the user ID 2 (step 106).

  Then, the user terminal IF unit 21 transmits information including the user ID 2 obtained by the user ID conversion unit 23 to the PC terminal 7 (step 107). Note that the user ID itself may be transmitted, but the user information (name, title, etc.) associated with the user ID may be transmitted to the PC terminal 7.

  The user ID 1 and the user ID 2 are displayed on the Web browser screen of the PC terminal 7, and the user X of the PC terminal 7 displays the user Y (user ID 2) who wants to share the file on the screen. By instructing (clicking) (step 108), a user ID list including user ID 1 and user ID 2 is transmitted from the PC terminal 7 to the electronic conference control apparatus 2 (step 109).

  In the electronic conference control apparatus 2 that has received the user ID list, the file sharing participation target person notifying unit 24 transmits the user ID list to the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 (step 110).

  The file sharing target user information receiving unit 31 in the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 receives the user ID list and passes it to the file sharing participation request unit 32. The file sharing participation request unit 32 acquires the IP address (IP address 1, IP address 2) corresponding to each user ID in the user ID list from the address information storage unit 35, and from the file information storage unit 37, the user ID 1 The conference ID corresponding to the user ID 2 is acquired, and a file sharing participation request message including the conference ID is transmitted to the PC terminal 6 and the PC terminal 7 identified by the respective IP addresses (step 11).

  Each PC terminal that has received the file sharing participation request message can perform the same file sharing process as in the first embodiment.

  In the above-described example, after the electronic conference control apparatus 2 acquires the user ID 2 of the communication partner in step 106, the user X (user ID 2) is designated to the user X of the PC terminal 7 in steps 107 and 108. The user ID 2 and the user ID 1 acquired in step 106 may be transmitted to the file sharing service providing apparatus 3 without performing steps 107, 108, and 109.

  As described above, by using the system according to the present embodiment, it is possible to easily share a file between two users who are making a one-to-one normal call.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications and applications are possible within the scope of the claims.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Communication control apparatus 2 Electronic conference control apparatus 3 File sharing service provision apparatus 4 Communication network 5 Telephone terminal 6 PC terminal 11 Call control communication part 12 Telephone conference control part 13 Telephone conference participant information storage part 14 Telephone conference media communication part 21 User terminal interface (IF) unit 22 Conference call participant information acquisition unit 23 User ID conversion unit 24 File sharing participation target notification unit 25 Telephone number information storage unit 31 File sharing target user information reception unit 32 File sharing participation request unit 33 Authentication Unit 34 file sharing control unit 35 address information storage unit 36 user information storage unit 37 file information storage unit 111 call connection telephone number storage unit

Claims (7)

An electronic conference control device connected to a communication control device having a telephone conference service providing function and an electronic conference service providing device via a communication network,
Telephone number information storage means for storing a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other;
An electronic conference setting request including a user ID corresponding to a user of a telephone terminal participating in a conference call is received from a predetermined terminal device, and a telephone number corresponding to the user ID is acquired from the telephone number information storage unit. Telephone number acquisition means;
A call list request including the telephone number is transmitted to the communication control apparatus, and a list of telephone numbers of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call together with the telephone number of the telephone number included in the call list request is transmitted from the communication control apparatus. And a call list acquisition means for receiving the conference ID of the conference call,
Obtaining each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list from the telephone number information storage means, the user ID of all or some of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call and the conference ID, An electronic conference control apparatus comprising: electronic conference participation target person notification means for transmitting to the electronic conference service providing apparatus as electronic conference participation target information. The electronic conference participation target person notification means,
A list including each user ID acquired from the telephone number information storage means is transmitted to the telephone terminal, the user ID selected at the telephone terminal is received, the user ID selected at the telephone terminal, and the conference ID The electronic conference control device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic conference service providing device is transmitted to the electronic conference service providing device. The telephone number information storage means stores a plurality of telephone numbers for the user ID of the telephone terminal, and the telephone number acquisition means stores the plurality of telephone numbers as telephone numbers corresponding to the user ID. Select one of the phone numbers,
When a list of telephone numbers cannot be received from the communication control device due to a call list request including the telephone numbers, the telephone number acquisition means uses the plurality of telephone numbers as telephone numbers corresponding to the user ID. The electronic conference control device according to claim 1, wherein one telephone number that has not been selected is selected from the list. An electronic conference system connected via a communication network to a communication control device having a telephone conference service providing function, the electronic conference system comprising an electronic conference control device and an electronic conference service providing device,
The electronic conference control device
Telephone number information storage means for storing a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other;
An electronic conference setting request including a user ID corresponding to a user of a telephone terminal participating in a conference call is received from a predetermined terminal device, and a telephone number corresponding to the user ID is acquired from the telephone number information storage unit. Telephone number acquisition means;
A call list request including the telephone number is transmitted to the communication control apparatus, and a list of telephone numbers of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call together with the telephone number of the telephone number included in the call list request is transmitted from the communication control apparatus. And a call list acquisition means for receiving the conference ID of the conference call,
Obtaining each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list from the telephone number information storage means, the user ID of all or some of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call and the conference ID, Electronic conference participation target person notification means for transmitting to the electronic conference service providing apparatus as electronic conference participation target person information,
The electronic conference service providing apparatus includes:
Address information storage means for storing an IP address of a terminal that can use the electronic conference service and a user ID in association with each other;
An electronic conference including the conference ID addressed to the terminal identified by the acquired IP address, obtained from the address information storage unit, each IP address corresponding to each user ID received from the electronic conference participation target person notification unit An electronic conference system comprising: an electronic conference participation request means for transmitting a participation request message. An electronic conference control method executed by an electronic conference system connected to a communication control device having a conference call service providing function via a communication network,
The electronic conference system includes an electronic conference control device and an electronic conference service providing device, and the electronic conference control device includes telephone number information storage means for storing a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other, and the electronic conference The service providing apparatus includes an address information storage unit that stores an IP address of a terminal that can use the electronic conference service and a user ID in association with each other,
The electronic conference control method includes:
The electronic conference control apparatus receives an electronic conference setting request including a user ID corresponding to a user of a telephone terminal participating in a telephone conference from a predetermined terminal device, and sets the telephone number corresponding to the user ID to the telephone A telephone number acquisition step of acquiring from the number information storage means;
The electronic conference control apparatus transmits a call list request including the telephone number to the communication control apparatus, and participates in the telephone conference together with the telephone terminal of the telephone number included in the call list request from the communication control apparatus. A call list acquisition step of receiving a list of telephone numbers of telephone terminals and a conference ID of the conference call;
The electronic conference control apparatus acquires each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list from the telephone number information storage means, and user IDs of all or a part of telephone terminals participating in the conference call And the conference ID, an electronic conference participation target person notification step for transmitting to the electronic conference service providing device as electronic conference participation target information,
The electronic conference service providing apparatus acquires each IP address corresponding to each user ID received from the electronic conference participation target person notification unit from the address information storage unit, and is addressed to a terminal identified by the acquired IP address. An electronic conference participation request step for transmitting an electronic conference participation request message including the conference ID;
An electronic conference control method comprising: A program for causing a computer to function as an electronic conference control device connected via a communication network to a communication control device having a teleconference service providing function and an electronic conference service providing device,
Telephone number information storage means for storing a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other;
An electronic conference setting request including a user ID corresponding to a user of a telephone terminal participating in a conference call is received from a predetermined terminal device, and a telephone number corresponding to the user ID is acquired from the telephone number information storage unit. Phone number acquisition means,
A call list request including the telephone number is transmitted to the communication control apparatus, and a list of telephone numbers of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call together with the telephone number of the telephone number included in the call list request is transmitted from the communication control apparatus. And a call list acquisition means for receiving the conference ID of the conference call,
Obtaining each user ID corresponding to each telephone number included in the list from the telephone number information storage means, the user ID of all or some of the telephone terminals participating in the conference call and the conference ID, Electronic conference participation target person notifying means for transmitting to the electronic conference service providing apparatus as electronic conference participation target person information,
Program to function as. An electronic conference control device connected to a communication control device having a call connection function and an electronic conference service providing device via a communication network,
Telephone number information storage means for storing a user ID and a telephone number in association with each other;
An electronic conference setting request including a user ID corresponding to a user of a telephone terminal that is in a call with another telephone terminal is received from a predetermined terminal device, and a telephone number corresponding to the user ID is received from the telephone number information storage unit. A telephone number acquisition means to acquire;
The other telephone terminal that is in a call with the telephone terminal of the telephone number included in the busy telephone number request is transmitted from the communication control apparatus to the communication control apparatus. A telephone number acquisition means for receiving the telephone number of
A user ID corresponding to the telephone number of the other telephone terminal is acquired from the telephone number information storage means, and the user ID of the telephone terminal and the user ID of the other telephone terminal are used as the electronic conference participation target information. An electronic conference control apparatus comprising: an electronic conference participation target person notification means for transmitting to an electronic conference service providing apparatus.

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