Video conference terminal connection system

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a video conference terminal connection system. The system comprises at least two video conference terminals and an address storage server, each video conference terminal comprises an instruction sending module and a terminal connecting module, the address storage server comprises an address searching module and an address sending module, and the video conference terminals are in wireless connection with the address storage server; the instruction sending module is used for responding to the received terminal connection instruction and sending the terminal connection instruction to the address searching module; the address searching module is used for determining a target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses in response to the received terminal connection instruction; the address sending module is used for sending the target address to the terminal connection module; and the terminal connection module is also used for responding to the received target address and establishing connection with the to-be-connected terminal represented by the target address. According to the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, the management difficulty of the terminal address can be reduced.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of data processing, and in particular to a video conference terminal connection system. Background Art

[0002] Before a user conducts a video conference through a video conference terminal, he needs to first establish a connection with the video conference terminal to be connected through the terminal address stored in the address book inside the video conference terminal. Therefore, managing the terminal address is very important for the smooth conduct of the video conference.

[0003] However, the current video conferencing terminal connection solution has a difficult problem in managing terminal addresses, which needs to be solved urgently. Summary of the invention

[0004] The embodiment of the present invention provides a video conference terminal connection system to reduce the difficulty of managing terminal addresses.

[0005] According to one aspect of the present invention, a video conferencing terminal connection system is provided, which may include: at least two video conferencing terminals and an address storage server, wherein the video conferencing terminal includes an instruction sending module and a terminal connection module, the address storage server includes an address search module and an address sending module, and the video conferencing terminal is wirelessly connected to the address storage server; wherein,

[0006] An instruction sending module, configured to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module in response to the received terminal connection instruction;

[0007] an address search module, configured to determine, in response to a received terminal connection instruction, a target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses;

[0008] An address sending module, used for sending a target address to a terminal connection module;

[0009] The terminal connection module is further used to establish a connection with the terminal to be connected represented by the target address in response to the received target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal to be connected to the video conferencing terminal among the at least two video conferencing terminals.

[0010] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention includes at least two video conferencing terminals and an address storage server, wherein the video conferencing terminal includes an instruction sending module and a terminal connection module, the address storage server includes an address search module and an address sending module, and the video conferencing terminal is wirelessly connected to the address storage server; wherein the instruction sending module is used to respond to the received terminal connection instruction and send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module, so that the address search module performs address search according to the terminal connection instruction; the address search module is used to respond to the received terminal connection instruction and determine the target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses, and the terminal address is centrally stored in advance, thereby reducing the difficulty of managing the terminal address; the address sending module is used to send the target address to the terminal connection module; the terminal connection module is also used to respond to the received target address and establish a connection with the terminal to be connected represented by the target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal to be connected to the video conferencing terminal among at least two video conferencing terminals. The above technical solution can reduce the difficulty of managing the terminal address by obtaining the target address from the terminal addresses pre-stored centrally and establishing a connection with the terminal to be connected through the target address.

[0011] It should be understood that the contents described in this section are not intended to identify the key or important features of the embodiments of the present invention, nor are they intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Other features of the present invention will become easily understood through the following description. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0012] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the following briefly introduces the drawings required for use in the description of the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present invention. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative work.

[0013] Figure 1 is a structural block diagram of a video conference terminal connection system provided according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0014] Figure 2 is a structural block diagram of another video conference terminal connection system provided according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0015] Figure 3 is a structural block diagram of another video conference terminal connection system provided according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0016] Figure 4 is a structural block diagram of another video conference terminal connection system provided according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0017] Figure 5The present invention is a schematic diagram of video conferencing terminal connection according to a specific example of another video conferencing terminal connection system provided in an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0018] In order to enable those skilled in the art to better understand the scheme of the present invention, the technical scheme in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work should fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0019] It should be noted that the terms "first", "second", etc. in the specification and claims of the present invention and the above-mentioned drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the data used in this way can be interchangeable where appropriate, so that the embodiments of the present invention described herein can be implemented in an order other than those illustrated or described herein. The situations of "target", "original", etc. are similar and will not be repeated here. In addition, the terms "including" and "having" and any of their variations are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions, for example, a process, method, system, product or device that includes a series of steps or units is not necessarily limited to those steps or units that are clearly listed, but may include other steps or units that are not clearly listed or inherent to these processes, methods, products or devices.

[0020] Before introducing the embodiment of the present invention, the relevant contents described in the background technology are first exemplarily described to better understand the video conference terminal connection system described in the embodiment of the present invention.

[0021] In the related art, the terminal address book inside the video conferencing terminal stores the terminal addresses of multiple video conferencing terminals. When a connection needs to be established with a certain video conferencing terminal, if the terminal address of the video conferencing terminal is not in the terminal address book, the user must manually inquire about the terminal address of the video conferencing terminal. In addition, when modifying, adding, and deleting the terminal address in the terminal address book, it can only be applied to the current video conferencing terminal. The terminal address books of other video conferencing terminals are still independent and cannot be shared, which easily leads to data islands. All of the above reasons will make the management of terminal addresses difficult and need to be solved urgently.

[0022] Figure 1 is a structural block diagram of a video conference terminal connection system provided by an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is applicable to the case where a connection is established between video conference terminals. Figure 1The video conferencing terminal connection system of the embodiment of the present invention may include: at least two video conferencing terminals 11 and an address storage server 12, wherein the video conferencing terminal 11 includes an instruction sending module 111 and a terminal connection module 112, the address storage server 12 includes an address search module 121 and an address sending module 122, and the video conferencing terminal 11 is wirelessly connected to the address storage server 12; wherein,

[0023] The instruction sending module 111 is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module 121 in response to the received terminal connection instruction;

[0024] The address search module 121 is used to determine, in response to the received terminal connection instruction, a target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses;

[0025] An address sending module 122, used for sending a target address to the terminal connection module 112;

[0026] The terminal connection module 112 is further configured to establish a connection with a terminal to be connected represented by the target address in response to the received target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal 11 to be connected with among the at least two video conferencing terminals 11 .

[0027] The video conferencing terminal 11 may be understood as a terminal device capable of conducting a video conference, such as a video conferencing television, a computer, and an all-in-one video conferencing machine.

[0028] The address storage server 12 can be understood as a network server that stores the terminal address of the video conferencing terminal 11. In an optional technical solution, the address storage server 12 is a network attached server. For example, it can be a network attached storage server (NAS). NAS allows multiple users and devices to access data through the network, is easy to configure, can provide centralized management, data protection and remote access functions, and is often used for backup and file sharing.

[0029] The terminal connection instruction can be understood as an instruction to establish a connection between video conferencing terminals 11. Optionally, the terminal connection instruction can be a terminal connection instruction of a video conferencing terminal 11 to one or more other video conferencing terminals 11, and a connection can be established between selected video conferencing terminals 11 through the terminal connection instruction, so that video conferencing terminals 11 can conduct video conferencing.

[0030] The following description will be made by taking one of the at least two video conferencing terminals 11 as an example. In order to distinguish the video conferencing terminal 11 from other video conferencing terminals 11 of the at least two video conferencing terminals 11 , the video conferencing terminal 11 will be named as video conferencing terminal X.

[0031] The instruction sending module 111 in the video conferencing terminal X sends the received terminal connection instruction to the address search module 121 in the address storage server 12. In response to the received terminal connection instruction, the address search module 121 determines the target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses, and uses the address sending module 122 in the address storage server 12 to send the target address to the terminal connection module 112 in the video conferencing terminal X. Based on the received target address, the terminal connection module 112 establishes a connection with the terminal to be connected to the video conferencing terminal X among the at least two video conferencing terminals 11 represented by the target address, thereby completing the connection between the video conferencing terminals.

[0032] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention includes at least two video conferencing terminals and an address storage server, wherein the video conferencing terminal includes an instruction sending module and a terminal connection module, the address storage server includes an address search module and an address sending module, and the video conferencing terminal is wirelessly connected to the address storage server; wherein the instruction sending module is used to respond to the received terminal connection instruction and send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module, so that the address search module performs address search according to the terminal connection instruction; the address search module is used to respond to the received terminal connection instruction and determine the target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses, and the terminal address is centrally stored in advance, thereby reducing the difficulty of managing the terminal address; the address sending module is used to send the target address to the terminal connection module; the terminal connection module is also used to respond to the received target address and establish a connection with the terminal to be connected represented by the target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal to be connected to the video conferencing terminal among at least two video conferencing terminals. The above technical solution can reduce the difficulty of managing the terminal address by obtaining the target address from the terminal addresses pre-stored centrally and establishing a connection with the terminal to be connected through the target address.

[0033] An optional technical solution, the address storage server also includes: an address storage module, which is used to store terminal addresses corresponding to at least two video conferencing terminals.

[0034] The address storage module may be understood as a module in the address storage server that centrally stores the terminal addresses corresponding to at least two video conferencing terminals. Through the centralized storage, the terminal addresses may be uniformly managed, thereby reducing the difficulty of terminal address management.

[0035] Another optional technical solution is that the instruction sending module includes an instruction receiving submodule and an instruction sending submodule, and the terminal connection module includes an address receiving submodule and a terminal connection submodule; wherein the instruction receiving submodule is used to receive a terminal connection instruction; the instruction sending submodule is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module; the address receiving submodule is used to receive the target address; and the terminal connection submodule is used to establish a connection with the terminal to be connected represented by the target address based on the target address.

[0036] Among them, the instruction receiving submodule in the instruction sending module can be used to receive the terminal connection instruction issued; then the instruction sending submodule in the instruction sending module is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module. The address receiving submodule in the terminal connection module can also be used to receive the target address; then the terminal connection submodule in the terminal connection module is used to establish a connection with the terminal to be connected represented by the target address based on the received target address.

[0037] The above technical solution can establish a connection relationship between video conferencing terminals through the mutual cooperation between various sub-modules.

[0038] In another optional technical solution, the video conferencing terminal further includes: a video signal visualization module, which is used to receive the video signal of the terminal to be connected after establishing a connection with the terminal to be connected, and visualize the video signal.

[0039] Among them, the video signal visualization module can be understood as a module that converts video signals into video images, such as a display, etc. The video signal visualization module can be used to visualize the received video signal for conference participants to watch the conference video.

[0040] The above technical solution can improve the user's conference experience by visually displaying the video signal.

[0041] Figure 2 It is a structural block diagram of another video conferencing terminal connection system provided by an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is optimized based on the above-mentioned technical solutions. In this embodiment, optionally, the address search module is specifically used to: determine the access rights corresponding to the terminal connection instruction in response to the received terminal connection instruction, wherein the access rights characterize the accessible terminals that the video conferencing terminal can access, and the accessible terminals belong to at least two video conferencing terminals; in the case where the accessible terminals include the terminals to be connected indicated by the terminal connection instruction, determine the target address of the terminals to be connected from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses. Among them, the explanations of the terms that are the same or corresponding to the above-mentioned embodiments are not repeated here.

[0042] For details, see Figure 2 The video conferencing terminal connection system of this embodiment includes: at least two video conferencing terminals 21 and an address storage server 22, wherein the video conferencing terminal 21 includes an instruction sending module 211 and a terminal connection module 212, the address storage server 22 includes an address search module 221 and an address sending module 222, and the video conferencing terminal 21 is wirelessly connected to the address storage server 22; wherein,

[0043] The instruction sending module 211 is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module 221 in response to the received terminal connection instruction;

[0044] The address search module 221 is used to determine the access rights corresponding to the terminal connection instruction in response to the received terminal connection instruction, wherein the access rights represent the accessible terminals that the video conferencing terminal 21 can access, and the accessible terminals belong to at least two video conferencing terminals 21; when the accessible terminals include the terminal to be connected indicated by the terminal connection instruction, determine the target address of the terminal to be connected from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses;

[0045] An address sending module 222 is used to send the target address to the terminal connection module 212;

[0046] The terminal connection module 212 is further configured to establish a connection with a terminal to be connected represented by the target address in response to the received target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal 21 to be connected with among the at least two video conferencing terminals 21 .

[0047] Among them, after receiving the terminal connection instruction, the address search module 221 of the video conferencing terminal X also determines the access permission corresponding to the terminal connection instruction. The access permission can represent the accessible terminal that the video conferencing terminal X can access among the at least two video conferencing terminals 21; when the terminal to be connected indicated by the terminal connection instruction belongs to the accessible terminal, the target address of the terminal to be connected is determined from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses.

[0048] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention can obtain the target address only when the access permission is met, thereby ensuring the security and privacy of the video conference.

[0049] An optional technical solution, the address storage server further includes: a permission setting module, which is used to set the access rights of the video conferencing terminal to at least two video conferencing terminals in response to the permission setting instruction of the video conferencing terminal.

[0050] The permission setting module may be understood as a module for setting access rights for video conferencing terminals, and may set access rights for the video conferencing terminal X to at least two video conferencing terminals by responding to permission setting instructions of the video conferencing terminals.

[0051] The above technical solution can flexibly adjust the access rights of the video conferencing terminal X through the permission setting module, thereby improving the security and privacy of the video conferencing.

[0052] Figure 3 It is a structural block diagram of another video conference terminal connection system provided by an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is optimized based on the above technical solutions. In this embodiment, optionally, the address storage server also includes: an address update module, which is used to respond to the address update instruction, determine the address to be updated in at least two terminal addresses, and update the address to be updated. Among them, the explanation of the terms that are the same or corresponding to the above embodiments is not repeated here.

[0053] For details, see Figure 3 The video conferencing terminal connection system of this embodiment includes: at least two video conferencing terminals 31 and an address storage server 32, wherein the video conferencing terminal 31 includes an instruction sending module 311 and a terminal connection module 312, the address storage server 32 includes an address update module 321, an address search module 322 and an address sending module 323, and the video conferencing terminal 31 is wirelessly connected to the address storage server 32; wherein,

[0054] The instruction sending module 311 is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module 322 in response to the received terminal connection instruction;

[0055] The address updating module 321 is used for determining an address to be updated among at least two terminal addresses in response to an address updating instruction, and updating the address to be updated.

[0056] The address search module 322 is used to determine, in response to the received terminal connection instruction, a target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses;

[0057] An address sending module 323 is used to send the target address to the terminal connection module 312;

[0058] The terminal connection module 312 is further configured to establish a connection with a terminal to be connected represented by the target address in response to the received target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal 31 to be connected with among the at least two video conferencing terminals 31 .

[0059] Among them, the address update module 321 can be understood as a module for updating the terminal addresses corresponding to at least two stored video conferencing terminals 31. The address update module 321 determines the addresses to be updated in the terminal addresses corresponding to at least two video conferencing terminals 31 through the received address update instruction, and updates the addresses to be updated according to the address update instruction. Optionally, the address update instruction includes an address deletion instruction or an address modification instruction. For example, when the address update instruction is an address deletion instruction, the address update module 321 determines the terminal address to be deleted from at least two terminal addresses according to the address deletion instruction; or when the address update instruction is an address update instruction, the address update module 321 determines the terminal address to be updated from at least two terminal addresses according to the address update instruction, and updates the terminal address based on the address information in the address update instruction.

[0060] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention can achieve real-time synchronization of data and avoid data islands by uniformly updating all terminal addresses.

[0061] Figure 4 This is a structural block diagram of another video conference terminal connection system provided by an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is optimized based on the above technical solutions. In this embodiment, optionally, the address storage server also includes: an address adding module, which is used to respond to the received address adding instruction and store the newly added address indicated by the address adding instruction as a new terminal address. Among them, the explanations of the terms that are the same or corresponding to the above embodiments are not repeated here.

[0062] For details, see Figure 4 The video conferencing terminal connection system of this embodiment includes: at least two video conferencing terminals 41 and an address storage server 42, wherein the video conferencing terminal 41 includes an instruction sending module 411 and a terminal connection module 412, the address storage server 42 includes an address adding module 421, an address search module 422 and an address sending module 423, and the video conferencing terminal 41 is wirelessly connected to the address storage server 42; wherein,

[0063] The instruction sending module 411 is used for sending the terminal connection instruction to the address search module 422 in response to the received terminal connection instruction;

[0064] The address adding module 421 is used for storing the newly added address indicated by the address adding instruction as the new terminal address in response to the received address adding instruction;

[0065] The address search module 422 is used to determine, in response to the received terminal connection instruction, a target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses;

[0066] An address sending module 423 is used to send the target address to the terminal connection module 412;

[0067] The terminal connection module 412 is further configured to establish a connection with a terminal to be connected represented by the target address in response to the received target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal 41 to be connected with among the at least two video conferencing terminals 41 .

[0068] Among them, a new terminal address can be added through the address adding module 421. Optionally, an address adding instruction can be issued to the address adding module 421, and the address adding module 421 stores the newly added address indicated by the address adding instruction as a new terminal address, thereby realizing the addition of the terminal address.

[0069] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention can expand the terminal address in real time and improve the connection efficiency.

[0070] In order to better understand the above-mentioned technical solutions as a whole, the following is an exemplary description of them in combination with specific examples. In this specific example, at least two video conferencing terminals are terminal A, terminal B, terminal C and terminal D, the address storage server is a NAS server, and the video conferencing terminal connection diagram is as follows: Figure 5 As shown, the specific steps are as follows:

[0071] 1. Terminal connection process

[0072] The following takes establishing a connection between terminal A and terminal D as an example.

[0073] 1. In response to receiving a terminal connection instruction for connecting to terminal D, terminal A sends the terminal connection instruction to the NAS server through the instruction sending module.

[0074] 2. The address search module in the NAS server determines the access rights of terminal A according to the terminal connection instruction. When the access rights of terminal A include terminal D, the target address corresponding to terminal D is determined from the four terminal addresses pre-stored in the address storage module of the NAS server, and the target address is sent to the terminal connection module in terminal A through the address sending module.

[0075] 3. The terminal connection module establishes a connection with terminal D based on the target address.

[0076] 2. Terminal Address Management

[0077] The following takes the management of the terminal address of terminal B as an example.

[0078] 1. Send an address modification instruction to the address update module in the NAS server. The address update module determines that the address of terminal B needs to be modified based on the received address modification instruction, and changes the terminal address of terminal B based on the address to be changed in the address modification instruction.

[0079] 2. Send an address deletion instruction to the address update module in the NAS server. The address update module determines that the address of terminal B needs to be deleted according to the received address deletion instruction, and deletes the terminal address of terminal B based on the address deletion instruction.

[0080] 3. Send an address adding instruction to the address adding module in the NAS server. The address adding module determines the terminal address to be added according to the received address adding instruction, and adds the terminal address to the address storage module.

[0081] In the above specific example, the difficulty of managing terminal addresses can be reduced by centrally storing and managing terminal addresses.

[0082] The above specific implementations do not constitute a limitation on the protection scope of the present invention. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications, combinations, sub-combinations and substitutions can be made according to design requirements and other factors. Any modification, equivalent substitution and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A video conference terminal connection system, characterized in that: include: At least two video conferencing terminals and an address storage server, wherein the video conferencing terminal includes an instruction sending module and a terminal connection module, the address storage server includes an address search module and an address sending module, and the video conferencing terminal is wirelessly connected to the address storage server; wherein, The instruction sending module is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module in response to the received terminal connection instruction; The address search module is used to determine, in response to the received terminal connection instruction, a target address corresponding to the terminal connection instruction from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses; The address sending module is used to send the target address to the terminal connection module; The terminal connection module is further configured to establish a connection with a terminal to be connected represented by the target address in response to the received target address, wherein the terminal to be connected is a video conferencing terminal to be connected to the video conferencing terminal among the at least two video conferencing terminals.

2. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that The address search module is specifically used for: In response to the received terminal connection instruction, determining an access right corresponding to the terminal connection instruction, wherein the access right represents an accessible terminal that the video conferencing terminal can access, and the accessible terminal belongs to at least two of the video conferencing terminals; In a case where the accessible terminal includes a terminal to be connected as instructed by the terminal connection instruction, a target address of the terminal to be connected is determined from at least two pre-stored terminal addresses.

3. The system according to claim 2, characterized in that The address storage server further includes: The permission setting module is used to set the access rights of the video conferencing terminal to at least two of the video conferencing terminals in response to the permission setting instruction of the video conferencing terminal.

4. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that The address storage server further includes: The address updating module is used to determine an address to be updated among at least two terminal addresses in response to an address updating instruction, and to update the address to be updated.

5. The system according to claim 4, characterized in that The address update instruction includes an address deletion instruction or an address modification instruction.

6. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that The address storage server further includes: The address adding module is used to store the newly added address indicated by the address adding instruction as the new terminal address in response to the received address adding instruction.

7. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that The address storage server further includes: The address storage module is used to store terminal addresses corresponding to at least two of the video conferencing terminals.

8. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that The instruction sending module includes an instruction receiving submodule and an instruction sending submodule, and the terminal connection module includes an address receiving submodule and a terminal connection submodule; wherein, The instruction receiving submodule is used to receive a terminal connection instruction; The instruction sending submodule is used to send the terminal connection instruction to the address search module; The address receiving submodule is used to receive the target address; The terminal connection submodule is used to establish a connection with the to-be-connected terminal represented by the target address based on the target address.

9. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that The video conferencing terminal also includes: The video signal visualization module is used to receive the video signal of the terminal to be connected after establishing a connection with the terminal to be connected, and to visualize the video signal.

10. The system according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that: The address storage server is a network-attached server.

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