# US 12,120,457 B2 · Conference creation method, terminal, server end, and storage medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,120,457 B2 - Document ID: US12120457B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/777,085 - Filed: 2020-12-10 - Published: 2022-12-15 - Granted: 2024-10-15 - Earliest claimed: 2019-12-16 - Assignees: Zte Corporation - Applicants: ZTE Corporation - Inventors: Zhou Wang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12120457B2 ## CPC - H04N 7/147: {Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q)} - H04N 7/15: Conference systems - H04L 12/1818: {Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties} - H04L 65/1069: Session establishment or de-establishment - H04L 65/1089: by adding media; by removing media - H04L 65/4015: {where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference} - H04L 65/4025: {where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services} - H04L 65/4038: with floor control - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of communications. Disclosed are a conference creation method, a server end, a terminal, and a storage medium. In the present disclosure, the conference creation method is applied to a video conference terminal. The method includes: establishing a point-to-point video conference with an opposite-end device, and obtaining an identity identifier of the opposite-end device; generating a data conference creation request containing identity identifiers of two parties of the conference, wherein the two parties of the conference include the video conference terminal and the opposite-end device; and transmitting the data conference creation request to a data conference server end, so that the data conference server end creates a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers of the two parties of the conference. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A conference creation method, comprising: establishing a point-to-point video conference with an opposite-end device, and obtaining an identity identifier of the opposite-end device; generating a data conference creation request containing identity identifiers of two parties of the conference, wherein the two parties of the conference comprise a video conference terminal and the opposite-end device; and transmitting the data conference creation request to a data conference server end, so that the data conference server end determines that no other data conference creation request containing the same identity identifiers as the data conference creation request is received within preset time before the data conference creation request is received, and creates a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers of the two parties of the conference. ### Claim 2 A conference creation method, comprising: receiving a data conference creation request sent by a video conference terminal after establishing a point-to-point video conference with an opposite-end device, the data conference creation request containing identity identifiers of two parties of the conference, and the two parties of the conference comprising the video conference terminal and the opposite-end device; determining that no other data conference creation request containing the same identity identifiers as the data conference creation request is received within preset time before the data conference creation request is received; and creating a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The conference creation method according to claim 2, wherein the creating a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers of the two parties of the conference comprises: creating a data conference; adding the video conference terminal to the data conference according to the identity identifier of the video conference terminal; and adding, when the opposite-end device is another video conference terminal, the other video conference terminal to the data conference according to an identity identifier of the other video conference terminal. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The conference creation method according to claim 3, wherein the creating a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers of the two parties of the conference further comprises: generating, when the opposite-end device is a conventional terminal, a conference access code of the conventional terminal, and sending the conference access code to the video conference terminal to notify a user, so that the conventional terminal accesses the data conference according to the conference access code and an identity identifier of the conventional terminal after receiving the conference access code input by the user through a data conference access interface of the conventional terminal. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The conference creation method according to claim 3, wherein the adding the video conference terminal to the data conference according to the identity identifier of the video conference terminal comprises: obtaining, when the identity identifier of the video conference terminal is an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the video conference terminal, a network account corresponding to the IP address of the video conference terminal according to a pre-stored corresponding relationship between an IP address and a network account, and adding the video conference terminal to the data conference according to the network account of the video conference terminal. ### Claim 6 A conference creation method, applied to a conventional terminal and comprising: establishing a point-to-point video conference with a video conference terminal, so that the video conference terminal sends a data conference creation request containing identity identifiers of two parties of the conference to a data conference server end, and the data conference server end determines that no other data conference creation request containing the same identity identifiers as the data conference creation request is received within preset time before the data conference creation request is received, creates a data conference, and adds the video conference terminal to the data conference according to an identity identifier of the video conference terminal, generates a conference access code of the conventional terminal, and sends the conference access code to the video conference terminal to notify a user; providing a data conference access interface; and receiving the conference access code input by the user through the data conference access interface, and access the data conference according to the conference access code and an identity identifier of the conventional terminal. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A video conference terminal, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory in communication connection with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction executable for the at least one processor; and the instruction is executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to execute the conference creation method according to claim 1. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) A data conference server end, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory in communication connection with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction executable for the at least one processor; and the instruction is executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to execute the conference creation method according to claim 2. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) A conventional terminal, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory in communication connection with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction executable for the at least one processor; and the instruction is executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to execute the conference creation method according to claim 6. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program which is executed by a processor to implement the conference creation method according to claim 1. ### Claim 11 (depends on 3) A data conference server end, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory in communication connection with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction executable for the at least one processor; and the instruction is executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to execute the conference creation method according to claim 3. ### Claim 12 (depends on 4) A data conference server end, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory in communication connection with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction executable for the at least one processor; and the instruction is executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to execute the conference creation method according to claim 4. ### Claim 13 (depends on 5) A data conference server end, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory in communication connection with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction executable for the at least one processor; and the instruction is executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to execute the conference creation method according to claim 5. ### Claim 14 (depends on 2) A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program which is executed by a processor to implement the conference creation method according to claim 2. ### Claim 15 (depends on 3) A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program which is executed by a processor to implement the conference creation method according to claim 3. ### Claim 16 (depends on 4) A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program which is executed by a processor to implement the conference creation method according to claim 4. ### Claim 17 (depends on 6) A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program which is executed by a processor to implement the conference creation method according to claim 6.