491 results about "Conference control" patented technology

A system and method for teleconferencing using multiple media mixers is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a conferencing system may include a conference control server in communication with a central media mixer (CMM) and one or more edge media mixers (EMM). The conference control server may create a media path that connects the CMM and the EMM(s) via a call-control protocol. Additionally, conference participants may communicate with one another by connecting to the CMM and/or the EMM.

A video conferencing control system for controlling the transmission of media streams between endpoints (103, 116.1, 116.2, 116.3). The system comprises: a plurality of video conferencing endpoints; a video conferencing bridge (110) arranged to provide a virtual meeting room (114.1, 114.2, 144.3) that operates to directly connect to each of the endpoints in a given video conferencing session for the exchange of media streams; a controller (105) connected to a first endpoint (103) of the plurality of video conferencing endpoints for the management of incoming and outgoing media streams; and a user interface (107) connected to the controller. The controller is further connected to the video conferencing bridge and is configured to control operation of the virtual meeting room using an Application Programming Interface.

An apparatus, a system, a method and a computer program product are provided. The system includes a controller configured to broadcast a web-based meeting between a first user and a second user. The system further includes a graphical user interface configured to display the broadcasted web-based meeting. The controller is configured to receive a request from the first user through the graphical user interface. The request includes one of a text question, a recorded video question and a request from the first user to present a live video question to the second user. The controller is further configured to broadcast the request through the graphical user interface. When the received request includes the request from the first user to present the live video question, the controller is further configured to broadcast the request as a real time video feed of the first user, so that the first user can ask the question in real time and the second user can respond to the first user's question in real time.

A system, method, and computer readable medium that facilitate verbal control of conference call features are provided. Automatic speech recognition functionality is deployed in a conferencing platform. Hot words are configured in the conference platform that may be identified in speech supplied to a conference call. Upon recognition of a hot word, a corresponding feature may be invoked. A speaker may be identified using speaker identification technologies. Identification of the speaker may be utilized to fulfill the speaker's request in response to recognition of a hot word and the speaker. Particular participants may be provided with conference control privileges that are not provided to other participants. Upon recognition of a hot word, the speaker may be identified to determine if the speaker is authorized to invoke the conference feature associated with the hot word.

A conference control device includes: a communication processing unit which performs transmission/reception processing of conference information containing voice information and image information between the conference control device and a plurality of video conference terminal devices through a network; an information collecting unit which collects information on connection paths between the conference control device and the respective video conference terminal devices; a grouping unit which sorts the plurality of video conference terminal devices into a plurality of groups based on information on the connection paths collected by the information collecting unit; a band monitoring unit which monitors a use band of the communication processing unit in accordance with every group; and a bandwidth control unit which is, when the group having the use band of less than a predetermined value is detected by the band monitoring unit, controls the bandwidth of the video conference terminal devices belonging to the group.

A system and method for using one communication mode, such as instant messaging, to initiate and manage an alternative communication mode conversation. In one exemplary embodiment, an automated agent transfers conversation participants from an instant messaging conversation to a voice conversation by accepting an instant message command from a conference organizer and interacting with a voice conversation platform to call the instant messaging conversation participants on the telephone. One or more conversation participants can manipulate the conversation via commands to the automated agent using the first communication mode.

The invention relates to a method and a system for realizing the transfer of the control authority in multimedia conferences. The method comprises: a network side receives a request which is sent by a host terminal which applies for switching the host; the request applying for switching the host contains information of the conference member terminal being designated as the new host terminal; the network side modifies the parameter of the venue authority of the conference member terminal being designated as the new host terminal to be the identification of the host according to the informationof the conference member terminal being designated as the new host terminal; and therefore, the transfer of the control authority in the multimedia conferences is realized and an orderly process of the multimedia conferences is guaranteed. The system comprises a request message receiving module and a venue authority parameter setting module and can carry out the method for transferring the control authority of the multimedia conferences and realize the transfer of the control authority in the multimedia conferences.

The invention discloses a remote-presence conference control device, a method and a remote-presence conference system; the system comprises video end equipment, a video interchange unit, a plurality of conference terminals, and at least one control unit; wherein the video interchange unit is used for leading an audio and/or video signal collected locally to be output to the conference terminal, and receiving a signal output by the conference terminal to transmit to the video end equipment, and the switching-over of the audio and/or video signal is carried out according to the indication of thecontrol unit; the control unit is used for indicating the video interchange unit to switch over the signal on the conference terminal with fault to the conference terminal without fault. As the videointerchange unit is additionally arranged, when determining a certain conference terminal to have faults, the control unit can indicate the video interchange unit to switch over the signal on the conference terminal with fault to the conference terminal without fault, thereby improving the reliability of the remote-presence conference system.

A method and conference controller for cluster-based conferencing between ad-hoc network terminals supporting cluster-based conferences and legacy network terminals not equipped with such capabilities. The controller implements a Super User Agent (SUA) having a conference identity, a cluster member list including identities of legacy network's terminals members of a cluster of terminals of the legacy network participating to the conference, and a cluster neighbour list that identifies terminals from an ad-hoc network that act as a super member of a cluster of terminals of the ad-hoc network. Responsive to receipt of a first message for establishing the conference between an ad-hoc network terminal and a legacy network terminal, the SUA sends a second message to establish a connection between the conference controller and one of the legacy network terminal and the ad-hoc network terminal, stores information relative to the conference, and notifies the terminals that the connection for use by the conference is established.

The system comprises: a video conference service management system used for completing the conference service management and conference control function, and controlling the multipoint control device; a multipoint control device used for providing sound-mixing and image codec functions, and initiating a conference; a friend list set on the video conference service management system; an instant communication server used to access the video conference service management system; multi multimedia terminals with the instant communication client side, which is used for communicating with the instant communication server.

The invention discloses an implementation method of a video conference and a video conference system. The implementation method of the video conference comprises: voice terminals respectively have interaction with a media resource server (MRS) through a public switched telephone network so as to realize audio transmission among the voice terminals; conference control terminals respectively have interaction with a video conference server through internet so as to realize video transmission among the conference control terminals; wherein all the conference control terminals respectively correspond to all the voice terminals; and video signals coming from the video conference server are blended with audio signals coming from the MRS through the conference control terminals. The invention separated the transmission of the video signals and the audio signals in the video conference, thus relieving the limitation of network bandwidth for the video conference to a large extent and improving the quality of the video conference.

The embodiment of the invention provides a video scheduling method and system, applied to Internet of videos. The method includes the following steps: a conference control client sends a display modeinstruction to a conference participating terminal through an Internet of videos server, wherein the display mode instruction includes a display mode identifier bit and a first mapping table; the conference participating terminal receives the display mode instruction, performs window initialization and window arrangement according to the display mode identifier bit, and configures a decoder corresponding to a video stream identity for each window according to the first mapping table; the conference control client schedules a video stream of a speaker to a specified receiver in the conference participating terminal through the Internet of videos server; and the receiver schedules the received video stream to the corresponding decoder for decoding and further displays the video stream in thecorresponding window. Thereby, a large-scale video conference can be implemented in the Internet of videos, the management, scheduling and display of the video conference can be achieved, the problemof poor real-time communication and untimely execution due to a large number of business outlets can be solved, and the office efficiency can be improved.

Provided are a conference control method and device, and a conference system. The method comprises: acquiring identification information about a current speaker at a speech terminal; searching for identity information matching the identification information in an identity information base; sending the found identity information to at least one of other participating terminals. By means of the implementation of the present invention, the identification information about the current speaker is acquired, and the identity information about the current speaker is searched for in the identify information base, and the identity information about the current speaker is sent to at least one of other participating terminals, so as to enable participating members to know the information about the current speaker such as the identity thereof through the identity information received by the participating terminals, thereby deepening the understanding of speech contents of the current speaker, solving the problem in the prior art that the participating members are unable to deeply understand the speech contents of the current speaker due to the incapability of the participating members in a remote conference to acquire the identity information about the current speaker in time when there are too many participating members, and enhancing the user experience.

The invention discloses a multimedia conference discussion system comprising a background and a client, wherein the background comprises a system parameter setting module, a conference parameter setting module, a conference control module, a conference result module, a help center module and an exit module, and the client comprises a seat list module, a conference agenda module, a call service module, a viewing and annotating module, a conference information module, a conference material module, a projection application module, a same-screen management module, a voting module, a speech management module, a statistical result module and a notepad module. The multimedia conference discussion system disclosed by the invention facilitates all operations by an efficient control system, and canenter an orderly organization state while ensuring efficient conferences.

The invention discloses a remote conference control method and device based on automatic recognition of howling sound. The method comprises the steps that a terminal collects a sound input signal; the terminal extracts a time domain envelope signal of the sound input signal and calculates the energy proportion of a frequency band above preset frequency of the sound input signal; and the terminal executes a mute operation when determining that the time domain envelope signal has periodicity and that the energy proportion is larger than or equal to a preset threshold. According to the invention, the influence of howling sound to the process of an audio and video conference can be fundamentally eliminated to guarantee the call quality of the audio and video conference and improve the user experience.

A remote conference management system includes a conferencing control terminal and a conferencing terminal in electronic communication with the conferencing control terminal. The conferencing control terminal includes a multipoint control unit that stores a plurality of predetermined face images of anticipated meeting participants. The conferencing terminal includes an image recording unit and a signal control unit. The image recording unit records face images of current participants. The signal control unit receives the face images from the image recording unit and transmits the face image to the MCU. The MCU compares the received face images with the prestored face images, and creates and communicates attendance information of the current participants according to the comparison.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a system for controlling a conference over the articulated naturality web. The method is applied to the Internet. The method comprises the following steps: a user terminal scans a preset two-dimensional code and jumps to a video conference management page; The user terminal receives the selection operation of the target video network terminal,the target conference and the target service in the video network conference management page, and generates a conference control instruction according to the selection operation. The user terminal sends the conference control command to the video network server through the protocol conversion server. The video networking server forwards the conference control command to the selected target video networking terminals. After receiving the conference control command, the target video network terminal responds to the conference control command and replies the confirmation message to the video network server. The video network server transmits the confirmation information sent by each target video network terminal to the user terminal through the protocol conversion server. The method is convenient to operate and can improve the user's experience by controlling the videoconferencing.

The invention discloses a method for realizing wireless video conference and a method. A conference control server is set in a wireless video conference system; during the wireless video conference, an AT of a calling party sends siganlling stream and/or data stream of a wireless video conference to the conference control server through a PCN; and the conference control server obtains the data stream and controls as well as distributes the data stream to an AT of a non-call party. The invention can realize a multi-party wireless video conference and guarantee integrating control of wireless video conference function.

Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a device for displaying participant information. In an articulated naturality web, conference control equipment is connected to an articulated naturality web server, and the articulated naturality web server is connected to a plurality of articulated naturality web terminals for video conference. The method comprises the following steps that the conference control equipment sets a plurality of participant information for the articulated naturality web terminals; the conference control equipment sends a switching instruction to the articulated naturality web server in order to inform the articulated naturality web server to switch a target articulated naturality web terminal in the articulated naturality web terminals to a speaking party ofthe video conference; and the conference control equipment sends the participant information corresponding to the target articulated naturality web terminal to the articulated naturality web server inorder to be forwarded to the articulated naturality web terminals for display according to downlink communication links configured for the articulated naturality web terminals. Related participant information can be automatically displayed when a participant is switched, the information of the participant who is speaking right does not need to be introduced manually, and the convenience for operation is improved.