Data center reselection
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsDanny Levin, Bradford R. Clark, Amer Hassan, Russell Andrew Penar
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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsDanny Levin, Bradford R. Clark, Amer Hassan, Russell Andrew Penar
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An initial data center is selected to host the online conference. This data center can be selected based on the locations of the participants, a weighting (or ‘priority’) of the participants, or a combination of the two (e.g., locations that are weighted by the participant's priority.) Typically, the data center closest to the centroid (i.e., geometric center, or ‘center of mass’) of the participants is selected. In anticipation that participants will join and/or leaver the conference, a list is calculated that each possible change to a respective data center that will be selected if that change occurs. This list may be distributed to the data centers that, if selected, would host the online conference.
A method for handing-off conference calls among data centers, the method comprising:
A communication system, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for handing-off conference calls among data centers that, when executed by a computer, at least instruct the computer to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.