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US 10,708,180 B2Granted
Central conferencing routing server
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorsGregory Thomas Ellison, Andrew James Broadworth
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- maintaining, by at least one computing device, a list of master identification numbers associated with a plurality of customers of a communications network;
- receiving, by the at least one computing device, a communication from a user of the communications network to establish a collaboration conference on the network;
- and
- in response to receiving the communication:
- associating, by the at least one computing device, the user with a master identification number from the list of master identification numbers;
- determining, by the at least one computing device, at least one priority criterion associated with the master identification number;
- analyzing, by the at least one computing device, performance information for one or more conference bridges associated with the network;
- and
- selecting, by the at least one computing device, one of the one or more conference bridges associated with the network for hosting the collaboration conference based at least on the performance information meeting at least one of the at least one priority criterion associated with the master identification number.
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A system for selecting a conference bridge associated with a network for hosting a collaboration conference event, the system comprising:
- a network interface unit configured to receive a communication from a user of the network to establish the collaboration conference event on the network;
- a processing device in communication with the network interface unit;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to maintain a list of master identification numbers associated with a plurality of customers of the network,
- wherein the computer-readable medium is operably connected to the processing device and is configured to store information and instructions that, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to perform the operations of:
- associating the user with a master identification number from the list of master identification numbers stored in the computer-readable medium;
- determining at least one priority criterion associated with the master identification number;
- analyzing the performance information for one or more conference bridges associated with the network;
- and
- selecting one of the one or more conference bridges associated with the network for hosting the collaboration conference event based at least on the performance information meeting at least one of the at least one priority criterion associated with the master identification number.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.