CN106506530A - Video conference calling method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a kind of conference call method and apparatus, and the method includes：Obtain the ID of user to be called；Call identification set corresponding with the ID is obtained, call identification set includes at least two call identifications；According to the priority setting information of at least two call identification, user to be called is called by the call identification of high priority.As the corresponding call identification set of user to be called includes multiple call identifications with different priorities, so as to the mode of calling party is not limited only to using by the method for calling of video conference application.By conference call mode of the extension to user, when adopting after the method for calling call failure of video conference application, can be with automatically by other method of callings callings, so as to improve the success rate of conference call, it is ensured that user's membership demand.

Description

Video conference calling method and device

technical field

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of communications, and in particular, to a method and device for calling a video conference.

Background technique

With the development of network technology and the increase of the mobility of people's work and study, enterprises and individuals have more and more demands for video communication, and video conferencing systems have emerged as the times require.

Traditional video conferencing systems are often deployed on-site, that is, on the enterprise side, which greatly increases the cost of enterprise investment, and requires specialized personnel to operate and maintain the conference system. Therefore, the video conferencing system is gradually showing the trend of business cloudification, that is, the main functions of the video conferencing system, such as conference management and conference control, audio mixing and frequency mixing, etc., are deployed to the cloud, and the enterprise side does not deploy other conferencing equipment except video conferencing terminals. Thereby greatly reducing the cost for enterprises to use the video conferencing function. Due to the access-independent nature of IMS and the ability to provide centralized services, IMS has become an important method for cloud-based deployment of video conferencing.

An existing calling method based on an IMS network video conference is to identify the calling user through the user's video conference client (or called a video conference application, or a video conference APP), specifically: the conference creator selects multiple After calling the user, call the called user through the video conference APP based on the pre-saved video conference APP identification of each called user.

However, in practical applications, if the user is called only through the video conferencing APP, if the user has uninstalled the video conferencing APP, the APP process is killed, the network is abnormal, etc., it will often lead to the situation that the called user cannot be called, thus Causing the video conference call to fail.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for calling a video conference, which are used to increase the success probability of a video conference call.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for calling a video conference, including:

Obtain the user ID of the user to be called;

Obtain a call identity set corresponding to the user identity, where the call identity set includes at least two call identities;

According to the priority setting information of the at least two call identities, the user to be called is called through the high priority call identities.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a video conference calling device, including:

The first obtaining module is used to obtain the user identification of the user to be called;

A second acquiring module, configured to acquire a call identifier set corresponding to the user identifier, where the call identifier set includes at least two call identifiers;

The call processing module is configured to call the user to be called through a high-priority call ID according to the priority setting information of the at least two call IDs.

In the video conference call method and device provided by the embodiments of the present invention, after the video conference service side obtains the user ID of the user to be called, such as the user name, it can obtain the call ID set corresponding to the user to be called from the local database, which is different from the existing In the technology, the user is only called through the video conference application. In this solution, the call identification set corresponding to the user to be called includes at least two call identifications. Therefore, the method of calling the user is not limited to the method of calling through the video conference application. Moreover, various call identities have different call priority assignments, so that the user can be called with a better calling method first, so as to ensure high-quality and reliable video conference calls. By expanding the video conference calling method for users, when the calling method through the video conference application fails, it can also call through other methods based on other call identifiers, thereby improving the success of the video conference call and ensuring the user's joining needs .

Description of drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention or the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. Obviously, the accompanying drawings in the following description These are some embodiments of the present invention. Those skilled in the art can also obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative work.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of Embodiment 1 of the video conference calling method of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of Embodiment 2 of the video conference calling method of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 1 of a video conference calling device according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 2 of a video conference calling device according to the present invention.

detailed description

In order to make the purpose, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments It is a part of embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Terms used in the embodiments of the present invention are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present invention. As used in the embodiments of the present invention and the appended claims, the singular forms "a", "said" and "the" are also intended to include the plural forms unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" used herein is only an association relationship describing associated objects, which means that there may be three relationships, for example, A and/or B, which may mean that A exists alone, and A and B exist simultaneously. B, there are three situations of B alone. In addition, the character "/" in this article generally indicates that the contextual objects are an "or" relationship.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used to describe XXX in the embodiments of the present invention, these XXX should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish XXX from each other. For example, without departing from the scope of the embodiments of the present invention, the first XXX may also be called the second XXX, and similarly, the second XXX may also be called the first XXX.

Depending on the context, the words "if", "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at" or "when" or "in response to determining" or "in response to detecting". Similarly, depending on the context, the phrases "if determined" or "if detected (the stated condition or event)" could be interpreted as "when determined" or "in response to the determination" or "when detected (the stated condition or event) )" or "in response to detection of (a stated condition or event)".

It should also be noted that the term "comprises", "comprises" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a good or system comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements but also includes items not expressly listed. other elements of the product, or elements inherent in the commodity or system. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not exclude the presence of additional identical elements in the article or system comprising said element.

Fig. 1 is a flow chart of Embodiment 1 of the video conference call method of the present invention, the video conference call method provided by this embodiment can be executed by a video conference call device, and the device can be set in a video conference AS (Application Server), the video conference call The means can be a software program or a combination of hardware and software programs. In the IMS architecture, the AS is an application server for providing various value-added services. The AS in the embodiment of the present invention may be a conference AS. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention are applicable to scenarios where enterprises or individuals have a demand for video conferencing, and the video conference call method provided in the embodiments of the present invention can be regarded as a cloud conference, that is, the AS completes all aspects of the video conference. According to this processing strategy, on the user side, there is no need to set up related equipment supporting video teleconferencing as in the prior art. Generally speaking, users only need to install a video conference application (client) in their own mobile terminal equipment. Can.

As shown in Figure 1, the method includes the following steps:

Step 101, acquire the user ID of the user to be called.

In practical applications, video conferencing is generally used in enterprises. The creator of the video conference can directly select the names of the people participating in a certain video conference in the corporate address book. The user, optionally, the selected persons may form a call list, and in this list, the user identifier of the user to be called in this embodiment may refer to the user's name.

In a practical application, video conferences can be reserved. For example, if the conference creator wants to initiate a video conference at a certain time on a certain day, he can create a list of the above-mentioned participants in the conference and set the time of the video conference in advance. . When the time of the video conference arrives, the video conference server is triggered to obtain a list of persons corresponding to the time, so as to obtain the user identifier of the user to be called.

Step 102: Obtain a call identity set corresponding to the user identity, where the call identity set includes at least two call identities.

In this embodiment, the video conference server side may pre-store a set of call identifiers corresponding to each user. The call ID set corresponding to each user may include a variety of call IDs that can call the user for a video call, such as a video conference application ID. In this embodiment, in order to ensure that the video conference call has a higher probability of success, the call ID The set also includes other call identities, that is, includes at least two kinds of call identities, for example, includes the video conference application ID and also includes the user's mobile phone number (Mobile Subscriber International ISDN/PSTN number, MSISDN).

Of course, the above two call identifiers are only examples. In practical applications, other communication accounts of the user to be called may also be used as the call identifiers in the call identifier set.

Firstly, it is worth noting that the video conferencing application identifier may be set for each user when the user registers the video conferencing application, and the video conferencing application identifiers corresponding to each user are different. The video conferencing application logo can be a custom number sequence or a combination of numbers, letters, and symbols, or it can be composed of a mobile phone number plus a prefix or suffix. The prefix or suffix can be several digits and letters, or it can be a mobile phone number plus The composition of the domain name.

Mobile phone numbers can be obtained in advance by establishing an address book, so that when creating a video conference and selecting a user to be called, these numbers of the user to be called are directly obtained.

That is to say, in an optional implementation manner, the correspondence between the user name, the mobile phone number, and the video conference application identifier may be stored in the address book in advance, and based on the correspondence, the calling identifier of the user to be called can be obtained gather.

Secondly, it is worth noting that, due to the various call identities exemplified above, in actual communication applications, the corresponding communication modes often use different communication networks. Among them, communication methods such as video conferencing applications are often used under wifi networks and are more sensitive to network signal quality. If the network signal quality is poor, the possibility of video conference call failure is often very high. Therefore, in this embodiment, in order to reduce the situation that it is easy to fail to call the user to be called by using these call methods that are very sensitive to the network signal quality in a scene with poor network signal quality, the call identifier set of each user In particular, the call identifier of the subscriber's mobile phone number is included.

Step 103, according to the priority setting information of at least two call identities, call the user to be called through the call id with high priority.

In this embodiment, since the call identification set corresponding to the user to be called includes at least two types of call identifications, when performing a video conference call, which call identification is used to call the user to be called may be based on the at least two call identifications Priority setting information for . That is, the priority of each call ID can be set in advance, that is, the priority of various optional call modes can be configured.

The call mode corresponding to each call ID can be comprehensively considered from the perspectives of ensuring the success of the video conference call, better communication quality, etc., so as to determine the priority of various call IDs. For example, in most video conferencing scenarios, a video conferencing application is often installed in each user's terminal device. Therefore, the call ID set corresponding to the user to be called often includes its video conference application ID. At this time, It can be set that the video conferencing application ID has the highest priority. In addition, considering that if the failure reason of the call failure is identified through the video conferencing application, one of the possible reasons may be that the current network signal quality is poor, so at this time, you can set other calling methods that are different from the communication method and communication network to the video conferencing application The corresponding call ID has a higher priority. For example, the mobile phone number of the user to be called is set to have a priority second only to the video conference application ID. At this time, the user to be called can be called by first calling the video conference application corresponding to the video conference application identifier, and if the call to the video conference application fails, the call is made through the mobile phone number of the user to be called.

The reason for the call failure may be, for example, that the network signal quality is poor, the terminal device of the user to be called is not currently installed with the video conference application, for example, the video conference application may be uninstalled, and so on.

The specific manner of making a call through the mobile phone number will be described in detail in subsequent embodiments.

It is worth noting that, in this embodiment, it is mainly emphasized that various call identifiers corresponding to each user are pre-stored for the user to make a video conference call, so that when a certain high-priority video conference call After the method fails, another video conference call method can be used to conduct a video conference call again based on a certain strategy.

In this embodiment, after the video conferencing service side obtains the user identifier of the user to be called, such as the user name, it can obtain the set of call identifiers corresponding to the user to be called from the local database, which is different from the prior art that only uses the video conference application to call For the user, in this solution, the call identifier set corresponding to the user to be called includes at least two call identifiers, so that the method of calling the user is not limited to the method of calling through the video conference application. Moreover, a variety of call identities have different call priority distributions, so that users can be called in a more priority way to ensure high-quality and reliable video conference calls. By expanding the video conference calling method for users, when the calling method through the video conference application fails, it can also call through other methods based on other call identifiers, thereby improving the success of the video conference call and ensuring the user's joining needs .

Fig. 2 is the flow chart of the second embodiment of the video conference calling method of the present invention, as shown in Fig. 2, the method includes the following steps:

Step 201, acquire the user ID of the user to be called.

For the process of acquiring the user ID of the user to be called in this embodiment, reference may be made to the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , and details are not repeated here.

Step 202: According to the pre-established correspondence between the user ID and the video conference application ID, determine the video conference application ID corresponding to the user ID of the user to be called, analyze the determined video conference application ID, and obtain the mobile phone number of the user to be called .

In this embodiment, an enterprise is taken as an example. It is assumed that each user in the enterprise has a video conferencing application installed in the terminal device, so each user has a unique video conferencing application identifier. In addition, in an optional encoding implementation manner of the video conference application identifier, it may be encoded by a combination of the user's mobile phone number plus a prefix or a suffix.

At this time, the video conferencing server can pre-store the correspondence between the user ID of each user and the video conference application ID, so that after the video conference creator triggers a video conference and forms a user list of users to be called, the video conference server can Based on the user IDs of the users to be called included in the list, the video conference application ID corresponding to each user to be called can be obtained, and then according to the coding rules, each video conference application ID can be parsed to obtain the corresponding mobile phone number, thereby forming each user to be called The call identification set corresponding to the calling user, the set corresponding to each user to be called includes the video conference application identification and mobile phone number of the user to be called, and the priority of the video conference application identification can be set higher than that of the mobile phone number.

Step 203: Call the user to be called by calling the video conference application corresponding to the video conference application identifier.

Step 204, if calling the video conference application fails, initiate a video call to the user to be called through the mobile phone number.

Step 205, if the video call fails, initiate a voice call to the user to be called through the mobile phone number.

In this embodiment, the calling mode of the video conference application is prior to the calling mode of the mobile phone number. Therefore, the user to be called is preferentially called through the video conference application identification of the user to be called. If the user to be called has already If the call fails due to the uninstallation of the video conferencing application, etc., then use the mobile phone number to call.

In this embodiment, when the user to be called is called through the mobile phone number calling method, the video call method is preferred to call the user, and if it fails, the traditional voice call method is used to call the user. Among them, the reasons for the failure of the video call call may include that the user to be called has not signed a video service, the terminal device of the user to be called does not support video calls, the user to be called refuses to accept the video call, and the network condition is poor.

It can be understood that the reason why the user is preferentially called through the video call is to satisfy the "video" call effect in the video conference, because the "video" effect is not available in the traditional voice call method. In this embodiment, even if there is no video effect in the traditional voice call mode, it is obviously more practical to be able to call the user than the failure of communication caused by the inability to call the user.

In this embodiment, each user to be called corresponds to a video conference application identification and a mobile phone number. When calling the user through the video conference application based on the video conference application identification fails, the mobile phone number can then be called by phone. Call users in different ways, thus improving the success probability of video conference calls. In addition, when calling a user through a telephone call, the user is first called through a video call, and if the call fails, the user is called through a traditional voice call, thereby firstly ensuring the specific demand for "video" effects in video conferencing .

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 1 of the video conference call device of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 3, the device is located on the side of the video conference server, and may specifically include: a first acquisition module 11, a second acquisition module 12, and a call processing module 13 .

The first acquiring module 11 is configured to acquire the user identification of the user to be called.

The second acquiring module 12 is configured to acquire a call identifier set corresponding to the user identifier, and the call identifier set includes at least two kinds of call identifiers.

The call processing module 13 is configured to call the user to be called through the call ID with high priority according to the priority setting information of the at least two call IDs.

Optionally, the call identifier set includes the mobile phone number and the video conference application identifier of the user to be called, and the call processing module 13 includes: a first calling unit 131 and a second calling unit 132 .

The first calling unit 131 is configured to call the user to be called by calling the video conference application corresponding to the video conference application identifier;

The second calling unit 132 is configured to call the user to be called through the mobile phone number if the first calling unit 131 fails to call the video conference application.

The device shown in FIG. 3 can execute the method of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , and the implementation principles and technical effects refer to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , and details are not repeated here.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 2 of the video conference calling device of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 4, optionally, the second calling unit 132 is specifically configured to initiate a video call to the user to be called through the mobile phone number calling; if the video call fails, initiate a voice call to the user to be called through the mobile phone number.

Optionally, the second acquiring module 12 includes: a determining unit 121 and an analyzing unit 122 .

The determining unit 121 is configured to determine the video conference application ID corresponding to the user ID according to the pre-established correspondence between the user ID and the video conference application ID.

The parsing unit 122 is configured to parse the determined video conference application identifier to obtain the mobile phone number.

The device shown in FIG. 4 can execute the method of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 . For the implementation principle and technical effect, refer to the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 , which will not be repeated here.

The device embodiments described above are only illustrative, and the units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components shown as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in One place, or it can be distributed to multiple network elements. Part or all of the modules can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment. It can be understood and implemented by those skilled in the art without any creative effort.

Through the above description of the implementations, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that each implementation can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general-purpose hardware platform, and of course also by hardware. Based on this understanding, the essence of the above technical solution or the part that contributes to the prior art can be embodied in the form of software products, and the computer software products can be stored in computer-readable storage media, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic Discs, optical discs, etc., include several instructions to make a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) execute the methods described in various embodiments or some parts of the embodiments.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, rather than to limit them; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that: it can still be Modifications are made to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalent replacements are made to some of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the various embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. A video conference call method, characterized in that, comprising: Obtain the user ID of the user to be called; Obtain a call identity set corresponding to the user identity, where the call identity set includes at least two call identities; According to the priority setting information of the at least two call identities, the user to be called is called through the high priority call identities. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the call ID set includes the mobile phone number and the video conferencing application ID of the user to be called, and calling the user to be called through a high-priority call ID Call users, including: calling the user to be called by calling the video conference application corresponding to the video conference application identifier; If calling the video conference application fails, calling the user to be called through the mobile phone number. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein calling the user to be called through the mobile phone number comprises: initiate a video call call to the user to be called through the mobile phone number; If the video call fails, a voice call is initiated to the user to be called through the mobile phone number. 4. The method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein said obtaining the call identification set corresponding to the user identification comprises: Determine the video conference application ID corresponding to the user ID according to the pre-established correspondence between the user ID and the video conference application ID; Analyzing the determined video conferencing application identifier to obtain the mobile phone number. 5. A video conference calling device, characterized in that, comprising: The first obtaining module is used to obtain the user identification of the user to be called; A second acquiring module, configured to acquire a call identifier set corresponding to the user identifier, where the call identifier set includes at least two call identifiers; A call processing module, configured to call the user to be called through a high-priority call ID according to the priority setting information of the at least two call IDs. 6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the call identifier set includes the mobile phone number and the video conference application identifier of the user to be called, and the call processing module includes: a first calling unit, configured to call the user to be called by calling the video conference application corresponding to the video conference application identifier; The second calling unit is configured to call the user to be called through the mobile phone number if the first calling unit fails to call the video conference application. 7. The device of claim 6, wherein the The second calling unit is specifically configured to: initiate a video call to the user to be called through the mobile phone number; If the video call fails, a voice call is initiated to the user to be called through the mobile phone number. 8. The device according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the second acquiring module comprises: A determining unit, configured to determine the video conference application ID corresponding to the user ID according to the pre-established correspondence between the user ID and the video conference application ID; The parsing unit is configured to parse the determined video conference application identifier to obtain the mobile phone number.