Conference-to-Live Stream Conversion for Large Multimedia Meetings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia conferences face challenges in maintaining smoothness due to increased communication pressure as the number of participants grows, leading to restrictions on the number of users that can participate effectively.
Innovation Solution
The multimedia conference stream is converted into a live stream, allowing more users to receive the conference content while reducing communication pressure by utilizing a live server to broadcast the multimedia conference, thereby ensuring smoothness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the number of participants in a multimedia conference is increased, then more users can participate in the conference, but the communication pressure on the conference server increases, leading to degradation in conference smoothness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the conference system into two independent parts: a conference server that manages only conference participants, and a live server that manages live stream broadcasting. This segmentation allows the conference server to maintain smooth operations with fewer participants while the live server handles the broadcasting load for a larger audience, resolving the contradiction between participant quantity and conference smoothness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a live server as an intermediary component between the conference server and the audience. The live server receives the conference stream and redistributes it to live viewers, acting as a mediator that offloads the broadcasting pressure from the conference server. This allows more users to access the conference content without increasing the communication pressure on the conference server, thus maintaining conference smoothness while increasing participant capacity.
2Productivity
If the conference server directly broadcasts to all users, then real-time interaction is maintained, but the communication load on the conference server increases, restricting the number of users that can be served
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the live streaming broadcasting function from the conference server and assigns it to a separate live server. The conference server focuses solely on managing conference participants and their interactions, while the live server handles the resource-intensive task of broadcasting to live viewers. This extraction increases user service capacity without increasing the communication load on the conference server.
Solution Approach 2:
The live server is designed as a multi-functional component that can serve multiple purposes: it receives streams from conference servers, processes and redistributes them to live viewers, and can potentially serve multiple different conference streams. This universal broadcasting capability allows the system to serve more users without proportionally increasing the communication load on individual conference servers.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an interaction method and apparatus, and an electronic device. A specific implementation of the method comprises: in response to detecting a trigger operation for a multimedia conference control, sending a multimedia conference start request to a server, wherein the server starts a multimedia conference in response to determining to start the multimedia conference on the basis of the multimedia conference start request; and in response to detecting a confirmation operation for a live broadcast conference confirmation control, sending live broadcast conference confirmation information to the server, wherein a live stream is generated on the basis of a received multimedia conference stream in response to the server receiving the live broadcast conference confirmation information, and in response to receiving the multimedia conference stream, and the multimedia conference stream is sent to the server by a participating subject of the multimedia conference. Thus, provided is a method for generating a live stream on the basis of the multimedia conference stream.