Teleconferencing systems and methods
AssigneeAmerican Teleconferencing Services, Ltd.
InventorsRandolph J. Leigh, Thomas Ray Miller, J. Douglas Martin
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Abstract
A method implemented by a teleconferencing system includes assigning a teleconferencing bridge to a teleconference responsive to at least a current workload of the teleconferencing bridge, and forwarding a first plurality of communication sessions corresponding to the teleconference to the teleconferencing bridge, wherein the teleconferencing bridge is configured to connect each of the first plurality of communication sessions to each other communication session among the first plurality of communication sessions.
Claims10
A method implemented by a teleconferencing system, comprising:
- assigning a first teleconferencing bridge to a teleconference, wherein the assignment is responsive to a projected future workload of the first teleconference bridge during the teleconference;
- forwarding, responsive to the assignment of the teleconferencing bridge to the teleconference, a first plurality of communication sessions corresponding to the teleconference to the first teleconferencing bridge, wherein the first teleconferencing bridge is configured to connect each of the first plurality of communication sessions to each other communication session among the first plurality of communication sessions;
- determining that the capacity of the first teleconferencing bridge will be insufficient to accommodate a projected number of additional communication sessions to support the teleconference;
- assigning at least one additional teleconferencing bridge to the teleconference;
- linking the first teleconferencing bridge to the at least one additional teleconferencing bridge;
- receiving additional communication sessions for the teleconference;
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- forwarding to the at least one additional teleconferencing bridge at least one of the additional communication sessions.
A teleconferencing system comprising:
- a first server configured to assign a first teleconferencing bridge to a teleconference responsive to at least a projected future workload of the first teleconferencing bridge;
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- a second server coupled to the first server via a teleconferencing network and configured to forward, responsive to the assignment by the first server of the first teleconferencing bridge to the teleconference, a first plurality of communication sessions corresponding to the teleconference to the first teleconferencing bridge, wherein the first teleconferencing bridge is configured to connect each of the first plurality of communication sessions to other sessions among the first plurality of communication sessions and wherein one of the first server and the second server are further configured to transfer, responsive to a determination that the first teleconferencing bridge has insufficient capacity to accommodate a projected future workload for the first teleconferencing bridge, a subset of the first plurality of communication sessions corresponding to the teleconference from the first teleconferencing bridge to a second teleconferencing bridge, wherein the first teleconferencing bridge and the second teleconferencing bridge are linked to jointly enable the teleconference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.