Scalable conference bridge
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsShmuel Shaffer, Labhesh Patel, Mukul Jain, Sanjeev Kumar
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a conference bridge receives a call initiated by a first caller endpoint. The conference bridge identifies a conference to which the call requests entry and determines whether the conference bridge has available resources to process the call. The conference bridge enables the call to join the conference via a second conference bridge associated with a second caller endpoint participating in the conference according to whether the conference bridge has available resources to process the call.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, via a first endpoint having conference bridge capabilities, a call request from a multimedia conference bridge hosting a conference call associated with the call request, wherein the call request is initially sent from a second endpoint to the multimedia conference bridge and subsequently forwarded by the multimedia conference bridge to the first endpoint in response to a transfer triggering event;
- identifying a connection between the first endpoint and the conference call through the multimedia conference bridge device;
- and
- in response to the call request, connecting the second endpoint to the conference call via the first endpoint based on the connection between the first endpoint and the conference call.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, via a first endpoint having conference bridge capabilities, a call request initiated from a second endpoint and forwarded to the first endpoint by a conference bridge hosting a conference call associated with the call request, the call request being forwarded by the conference bridge in response to a transfer triggering event;
- identifying a connection between the first endpoint and the conference call through the conference bridge device;
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- in response to the call request, connecting the second endpoint to the conference call via the first endpoint based on the connection between the first endpoint and the conference call.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, via the system, a call request initiated from a first endpoint and forwarded to the system by a multimedia conference bridge hosting a conference call associated with the call request, the call request being forwarded by the multimedia conference bridge in response to a transfer triggering event, wherein the system comprises a second endpoint having conference bridge capabilities;
- identifying a connection between the system and the conference call through the multimedia conference bridge device;
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- in response to the call request, connecting the first endpoint to the conference call via the system based on the connection between the system and the conference call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.