Conferencing system
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorAki Niemi
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Abstract
A method for administering conferencing resources in a communications system comprising a plurality of terminals and a conference server, the method comprising: transmitting from a first terminal to the server a first message comprising a request for a resource capable of sustaining a conference call; allocating by means of the server a network address identifying a resource capable of sustaining the conference call; and transmitting from the server to the first terminal a second message comprising the network address.
Claims27
A method comprising:
- transmitting to a conference server a first message comprising a request for a resource capable of sustaining a conference call;
- receiving from the conference server a second message comprising a dynamic uniform resource identifier for identifying a resource capable of sustaining the conference call which has been allocated by the conference server;
- and
- transmitting a third message comprising the dynamic uniform resource identifier to a user agent;
- wherein the received second message specifies that the resource is being allocated a respective address of a corresponding plurality of addresses, the respective address being unique to the conference call at any given time;
- and wherein each of the corresponding plurality of addresses are allocated according to a pre-set pattern such that the respective address refers to a resource that is available for the conference call at the given time.
A computer readable medium encoded with instructions for performing a method when run on a computer, the method comprising:
- transmitting to a conference server a first message comprising a request for a resource capable of sustaining a conference call;
- receiving from the conference server a second message comprising a dynamic uniform resource identifier for identifying a resource capable of sustaining the conference call which has been allocated by the conference server;
- and
- transmitting a third message comprising the dynamic uniform resource identifier to a user agent;
- wherein the received second message specifies that the resource is being allocated a respective address of a corresponding plurality of addresses, the respective address being unique to the conference call at any given time;
- and wherein each of the corresponding plurality of addresses are allocated according to a pre-set pattern such that the respective address refers to a resource that is available for the conference call at the given time.
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
- transmitting to a conference server a first message comprising a request for a resource capable of sustaining a conference call;
- receiving from the conference server a second message comprising a dynamic uniform resource identifier for identifying a resource capable of sustaining the conference call which has been allocated by the conference server;
- and
- transmitting a third message comprising the dynamic uniform resource identifier to a user agent;
- wherein the received second message specifies that the resource is being allocated a respective address of a corresponding plurality of addresses, the respective address being unique to the conference call at any given time;
- and wherein each of the corresponding plurality of addresses are allocated according to a pre-set pattern such that the respective address refers to a resource that is available for the conference call at the given time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.