摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an audio-conference bridge system and method. SOLUTION: This present invention discards the traditional notion of a single mixing function for a conference. Instead, the novel, flexible design of the present invention provides a separate mixing function for each participant (20) in the conference. This new architecture is described generally herein as "edge point mixing" (70). The edge point mixing overcomes the limitations of a traditional conference system by providing each participant control over his/her conference experience. The edge point mixing also allows, when desired, the simulation of a "real-life" conference by permitting each participant to receive a distinctly mixed audio signal from the conference depending on the performer's "position" within a virtual conference world. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem wherein it is difficult to invite a new user promptly to a user group using a service in which a plurality of servers cooperate on a network. SOLUTION: A communication control device 20 is provided to hold, in association with a service, setting information applied to communication establishment on settings of communication between a first user terminal 10b and a second user terminal 10c, and a plurality of server devices 30a and 30b for supplying service data to the first user terminal. The communication control device, when receiving an invitation order to the second user terminal from the first user terminal, creates invitation information for establishing communication between the second user terminal and the plurality of server devices according to the setting information, and sends it to each server device and to the second user terminal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a remote maintenance system wherein a burden of transmission cost is not applied to a customer even if the transmission of informational is needed for a host side from a terminal side, and which does not use a line vainly when an urgency furthermore judges it as low. SOLUTION: As shown in Fig 4, maintenance information is transmitted and received by a maintenance information management host 100 that is provided with: a maintenance information communication terminal 1 comprising a call-length control part 71 that informs a host of a communication start request by conducting a call of such a length that the host disconnects the line without line-closing when starting the call; a telephone number recognition part 123 that recognizes a telephone number of a caller when a call comes in from the maintenance information communication terminal 1; a host calling control part that makes a call back to the recognized telephone number; and a maintenance information control part 125 that transmits and receives maintenance information to and from the maintenance information communication terminal after the line closing. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance robustness and availability of automatic conference service. SOLUTION: One embodiment is related to an instrument for automatic conference service. This instrument comprises at least a service logic execution environment in telecommunications service network, and automatic conference service to be executed in the service logic execution environment. Moreover, another embodiment is related to a scheduling method for automatic conference. A conference request, comprising conference information designated by a user, is received by the automatic conference service to be executed in the service logic execution inside the telecommunications network. By the automatic conference service, a conference is registered, and notification is sent to the attendees of the conference. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
摘要:
The present invention implements a multimedia business communications platform that enables conference casting over a network. End users or so-called "audience members" participate in conference casts from anywhere on the Internet or behind an enterprise firewall using a standard Web browser running a streaming media player. The conference platform typically includes a number of subsystems: a Web reservation subsystem, a voice server subsystem, a content storage subsystem, a monitoring data subsystem, an attendee access subsystem, and an archive subsystem. Web reservation subsystem provides a mechanism that enables an entity to make an event reservation. Web reservation subsystem typically includes a database and an associated database management system. Voice server subsystem validates a user and converts an incoming telephone signal (i.e., the conference call) to an output data stream. Attendee access subsystem responds to attendee requests and returns information (e.g., a data structure such as a stream metafile) that directs an attendee's streaming media player on how to join the conference cast. Content storage subsystem is used to manage event information and, under the control of the archive subsystem, to archive the event files. The monitoring data subsystem comprises a set of monitoring agents distributed throughout the network. Using these components, the system implements just-in-time resource provisioning, automated signal acquisition and streaming, and automated archiving upon event completion.