公开(公告)号：US07987233B1

公开(公告)日：2011-07-26

申请号：US10642127

申请日：2003-08-15

申请人： Robert John Osborne ,  Ling-Cheung Aaron Lo ,  Ajay P. Chitturi ,  Leon Chih Wen Wong ,  David J. Simons ,  Vishal Thakkar ,  Rakesh Tangirala

发明人： Robert John Osborne ,  Ling-Cheung Aaron Lo ,  Ajay P. Chitturi ,  Leon Chih Wen Wong ,  David J. Simons ,  Vishal Thakkar ,  Rakesh Tangirala

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04N7/15 ,  H04L65/1006 ,  H04L65/1043 ,  H04L65/4046

摘要： A system and methods for facilitating multiparty communications sessions with a plurality of participants and for dynamically designating a communications session manager. More particularly, a system and methods, including protocols, for: establishing a multiparty communications session between a plurality of participants and their respective communication devices in a full-mesh topology; establishing a dynamically designated session manager uniquely associated with a first participant of the multiparty session and, hence, such participant's communication device; as necessary, adding and removing participants and their respective communication devices from the multiparty communications session; and, designating, or electing, another participant as session manager when the first participant exits the multiparty communications session. The methods also enable participants to maintain consistent lists of session participants and establish peer to peer communication links between the participants.

摘要翻译： 一种用于促进与多个参与者的多方通信会话并用于动态地指定通信会话管理器的系统和方法。 更具体地说，一种包括协议的系统和方法，用于：在全网状拓扑中，在多个参与者和它们各自的通信设备之间建立多方通信会话; 建立与多方会话的第一参与者唯一相关联的动态指定会话管理，并且因此建立该参与者的通信设备; 根据需要，从多方通信会话中添加和删除参与者及其各自的通信设备; 并且当第一参与者退出多方通信会话时，指定或选举另一参与者作为会话管理器。 这些方法还使参与者能够保持一致的会话参与者列表，并建立参与者之间的对等通信链路。