US 8,711,202 B2Granted

Performing failover for a plurality of different types of videoconferencing devices

AssigneeLifeSize Communications, Inc.

InventorsPrithvi Ranganath, Raghuram Belur, Sandeep Lakshmipathy, Kalluru Vijayananda Reddy

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Abstract

Providing high availability in videoconferences system. A first plurality of videoconferencing devices of a first type may be monitored. Additionally, a second plurality of videoconferencing devices of a second type may be monitored. During this monitoring, at least one device of the first plurality of videoconferencing devices performs activities corresponding to a respective videoconference and at least one device of the second plurality of videoconferencing devices performs activities corresponding to the respective videoconference. In response to failure of a one of the devices associated with the respective videoconference, failover to a second device of the same type may be performed. After performing failover, the second device performs the activities corresponding to the respective videoconference that the original device was performing.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A non-transitory, computer accessible memory medium storing program instructions for providing high availability in videoconferencing systems, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor of a first server to:

monitor a first plurality of videoconferencing devices of a first type, wherein at least one device of the first plurality of videoconferencing devices is performing activities corresponding to a respective videoconference during said monitoring, wherein the first type is multipoint control unit (MCU);
monitor a second plurality of videoconferencing devices of a second type, wherein the second type is different from MCU, and wherein at least one device of the second plurality of videoconferencing devices is performing activities corresponding to the respective videoconference during said monitoring;
in response to failure of a first device of the at least one device of the first plurality of videoconferencing devices, perform failover of the first device to a second device of the first plurality of videoconferencing devices, wherein after said performing failover, the second device performs the activities corresponding to the respective videoconference that the first device was performing based on the failure of the first device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.