58 results about "Multimedia telephony" patented technology

In one implementation, an apparatus includes a detector of capabilities of each of heterogeneous computing systems, the capabilities including a model, existence of a microphone, video controls, specifications of a camera, a processor speed, a bus speed, an amount of cache memory, an amount of non-cache memory, a telecom carrier and an operating system, a determiner of the minimum sufficiency of the capabilities of the each of the heterogeneous computing systems; the determiner being operably coupled to the detector, the determiner being operable to set a state in a memory location indicating an affirmative or a negative state of the minimum sufficiency of the capabilities of the each of the heterogeneous computing systems, and an initiator of a multimedia teleconference between the heterogeneous computing systems, the initiator being operably coupled to the determiner, the initiator being operable to initiate the multimedia teleconference in reference to the memory location indicating an affirmative or a negative state of the minimum sufficiency of the capabilities of the each of the heterogeneous computing systems.

A method and apparatus for performing backoff in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) identifies a prioritized access, receives a backoff parameter from a network, and determines whether or not to apply the received backoff parameter according to the prioritized access. The prioritized access corresponds to one of emergency access, high priority access, control element / information in media access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC) or packet data convergence protocol (PDCP), data radio bearer (DRB) for voice / video service, signaling radio bearer (SRB) 0, SRB 1, SRB 2, multimedia telephony service (MMTEL)-voice, MMTEL-video, and voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE).

A method establishes a video telephone connection in a data network that includes a telephone network and an IP network based on the internet protocol. The expression video telephony connection is to be taken generally in this context and encompasses multimedia telephony in addition to pure video telephony.

In a multimedia communications system (100) that supports conference calls that include an audio portion and a video portion, a primary video image is selected from a plurality of video images based on an amount of audio data generated. The amount of audio data is determined by counting a number of audio packets or by counting an amount of audio samples in audio packets (204). A dominant audio participant is selected if the difference in the amount of audio exceeds a predetermined threshold (206). If the difference in the amount of audio does not exceed the predetermined threshold (206), the dominant audio participant may be determined by comparing the loudness or volume for each audio participant (207 212). The primary video image is selected to correspond to the dominant audio participant (208, 214). The primary video image remains constant for a predetermined period of time before the possibility to change (210, 216).

The invention relates to a remote video monitoring system and a remote video monitoring method based on public switched telephone network-Internet protocol (PSTN-IP) double-network cooperation. The system comprises a plurality of multimedia telephone terminals and one or more network video camera devices communicating with at least one of the terminals, wherein the terminals are in audio / non-audio communication with one another respectively through the PSTN / IP network; the non-audio communication is triggered by PSTN telephone dialing; telephone numbers are used as positioning identifiers of the terminals; IP addressing among the terminals is finished by using a mapping relation between a telephone number maintained in an IP network server and an IP address, so that the non-audio communication connection based on the IP network is established; and a calling terminal sends a control instruction to the network video camera device connected to a called terminal through the non-audio communication connection and acquires video data acquired by the network camera device. By the system and the method, the requirement of family remote video monitoring can be met better; furthermore, the system and the method have flexibility and security, are convenient to operate and are convenient for realizing server network management.

A method and apparatus for scheduling uplink (UL) transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a backoff parameter from a network, and determines whether or not to apply the received backoff parameter before transmitting a scheduling request (SR) to the network via a dedicated channel. Whether or not to apply the received backoff parameter is determined according to a prioritized access, and the prioritized access corresponds to one of emergency access, high priority access, control element / information in media access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC) or packet data convergence protocol (PDCP), data radio bearer (DRB) for voice / video service, signaling radio bearer (SRB) 0, SRB 1, SRB 2, multimedia telephony service (MMTEL)-voice, MMTEL-video, and voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE).

The invention discloses an electronic memo pad for realizing multiple prompting modes in a telephone set, wherein different mode including present day, each week and each day can be configured, multiple prompting items can also be facilitated for the user, a data base index method is employed for realizing high speed search, convenient editing, initialization, and seeking for memo items. The invention also provides a memo prompting function.

The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring and evaluating multimedia telephonic and computer-communication interactions. The multimedia quality monitoring system may include an event manager, which may receive a notification associated with a VoIP communication between an agent and a customer and recording servers, which record data associated with the VoIP communication.

The invention discloses a method and a system for acquiring the terminal communication state in an IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) and an application server, and relates to the technical field of IMS applications. The method comprises the steps that a terminal communication state acquisition platform sends a target terminal state subscription request to a multimedia telephone application server; the multimedia telephone application server acts as a terminal communication state information source and sends current communication state information of a target terminal to the terminal communication state acquisition platform; and the target terminal communication state changes, and the multimedia telephone application server sends target terminal communication state update information to the terminal communication state acquisition platform, thereby realizing that the terminal communication state acquisition platform acquires continuous communication state change information of the target terminal from the multimedia telephone application server in real time.

The invention relates to a peer-to-peer (P2P) stream media broadcast method for a multimedia telephone. The method comprises a step of: establishing an application layer multicast tree serving as a main broadcast route from one media source to a plurality of multimedia telephone terminals, wherein the media source is a root node of the multicast tree; partial or all tree nodes of the multicast tree are super tree nodes; the super tree nodes and one or more nodes which are the same as an internal network of the super tree nodes form a partnership; and nodes in the partnership communicate with one another in the partnership by adopting a P2P mode. The terminal which requests service is preferentially added into the partnership of the super tree node which is the same as the internal networkof the terminal or preferentially constructs a new partnership with a tree node which is the same as the internal network of the terminal and serves as the super tree node; and a system based on the method provides a support for implementing the method in software and hardware aspects. By adopting the method or the system, the network routing efficiency can be improved and the pressure on a backbone network can be relieved; and the method is a feasible P2P multimedia broadcast scheme which has high economy and high comprehensive broadcast performance and is easy to popularize and apply.

The invention relates to a Time division-synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) / IP double network cooperation multimedia telephone, a system and a communication method thereof. A TD-SCDMA chipset module is used to perform channel access on a multimedia telephone terminal so that voice accesses to a TD-SCDMA network through a circuit domain channel of the TD-SCDMA chipset module and video or multimedia digit information accesses to an IP network through a packet domain channel of the TD-SCDMA chipset module. A terminal telephone number is taken as positioning identification. Network addressing and exchange of the terminal can be realized through the cooperation of an IP Internet server system so that non audio frequency communication between the terminals based on the IP network can be realized. The voice and the video are synchronously restored after reaching the opposite terminal. In the invention, fusion of the double network communication can be realized. Low latency and high quality of the voice communication can be guaranteed and a large information amount video communication requirement of a high-definition large display screen can be satisfied. And on-demand flexible expansion of the service can be effectively realized.

A method of performing lawful interception of a multimedia call between two or more terminals. The method comprises detecting the initiation of said call at monitoring equipment located in the call path, and forwarding from the monitoring equipment to a gateway, parameters defining at least one of the forward and reverse channels of said call. At least one multimedia call is set up from said gateway to a monitoring terminal in dependence upon the received parameters. Following the setting up of the first mentioned multimedia call, forward and / or reverse channel data is intercepted at said monitoring equipment, the intercepted data routed to said gateway, and the data transmitted to the monitoring terminal over the forward channel of the or each second mentioned multimedia call.

The invention discloses a method for an intelligent multimedia telephone terminal to process voice services and the terminal. Key operation information is matched with a preset first service configuration rule; when the key operation information is successfully matched with key numbers or a combination of the key numbers in the first service configuration rule, the corresponding service is set according to a key subsequently operated by a user. In this way, the intelligent multimedia telephone terminal receives key information of the user through an input device, voice service setting and service flow setting are performed on a database system in a multimedia telephone terminal system, individualized demands of different user groups are met, and the flexibility and diversity of the intelligent multimedia telephone terminal in processing the voice services are improved.

A telecommunications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an instant messaging (IM) server and a VoIP server; and a plurality of system clients having both VoIP and IM sub-clients. The system clients can log on to their respective servers in parallel. The IM server and the VoIP server can communicate lists of common participants and allow for IM conferences among at least subsets of the system clients while an audio or video teleconference is ongoing.

Methods and apparatus for allowing a caller on a telephone network to establish an internet co-socket. In a first embodiment, a protocol stack establishes an Internet connection over a public switched telephone network (PSTN) link and then operates and maintains the Internet connection on a second link. Internet socket establishment is initiated with a caller-ID packet so the distant end may pick up with an Internet form instead of a interactive voice response system (IVR). This allows the caller to interact with a graphical form instead of a voice prompt, and provides new methods of operation for web call-back systems for call centers. The invention also enables mixed PSTN / internet multimedia telephone calls. In an exemplary embodiment, when a point-to-point telephone PSTN connection is established, a screen of information automatically appears at both ends via the Internet. This allows users who have computers connected to an internet to easily mix PSTN calling with internet services.

The invention provides a multimedia meeting service charging method. A multimedia telephone application server generates a corresponding service request according to user equipment and sends charging request (ACR) information to a charging data function (CDF) unit; the CDF unit generates the corresponding charging data results (CDR) and sends the generated CDR to a charging gateway function (CGF) unit; and the CGF unit generates a CDR file and sends the CFR file to a charging center according to the preset rule to generate corresponding tickets. The ACR information and the CDR file contain a meeting identifying number field and an on-line meeting member quantity field. The invention also provides a multimedia meeting service charging system. The multimedia meeting service charging method and the multimedia meeting service charging system generate the CDR containing the meeting identifying number field and the on-line meeting member quantity field according to each member and enhance the precision and the accuracy of the multimedia meeting service charging.

The invention discloses fusion equipment supporting multimedia telephone, a communication method and user equipment, and relates to the technical field of communications. The method disclosed by the invention comprises the steps that the fusion equipment receives a media description query request sent by UE, and returns the media description information of the fusion equipment to the UE according to the media description query request; when the UE uses a multimedia function of the fusion equipment to communicate with remote equipment, the fusion equipment acquires multimedia stream of the UE by using the multimedia function and transmits the acquired multimedia stream to the remote equipment; and the fusion equipment receives the multimedia stream of the remote equipment and plays the multimedia stream to a user by using the multimedia function. The invention further discloses fusion equipment supporting multimedia telephone. By adopting the technical scheme in the invention, TVs, projectors and other large-screen equipment can be applied to video calls. The video calls on large screens can be switched between mobile phone screens.

The invention discloses a media gateway, a media gateway controller, a multimedia telephone intercommunication method and a system, which relate to the field of communication technology and are invented for solving the problem of not dynamically adjusting the communication quality during the intercommunication of an IMS multimedia telephone and a CS multimedia telephone in the prior art. The multimedia telephone intercommunication method provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps under the scene of the intercommunication of the IMS multimedia telephone and the CSmultimedia telephone: the media gateway receives quality messages fed back by an IMS side multimedia telephone terminal; and the media gateway dynamically adjusts the communication quality accordingto the quality messages. The invention is suitable to the intercommunication of the multimedia telephones, and improves the communication quality of the intercommunication of the multimedia telephones.

The invention belongs to the field of a blockchain and specifically relates to a communication method and system based on the blockchain. The method at least comprises the steps that a calling side mobile switching center queries an operator subordination relationship of a number portability user terminal corresponding to a called number, and queries whether the user terminal is a group user or nor / whether the user terminal and the number portability user terminal are located in the same group private network or not, to a business control point node in a preset block chain; a call is triggeredby the mobile switching center to a multimedia telephone service application server corresponding to the called number; a call session control function entity in an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) domain queries a session resource identity of the called number, to a home location register node, through utilization of a call session control function entity node in the preset block chain, and sends acall invite message to the called side call session control function entity and the called side business control point application server; and the called side business control point application server queries a location of the number portability user terminal of a called user. Normal communication of a number portability WVPN (Wireless Virtual Private Network) user can be effectively ensured.

The invention discloses a key configurable system and method in an MMtel (MultiMedia Telephony) application server. The key configurable system is based on an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) network architecture, and structurally comprises a home subscriber server (HSS), an MMtel application server and a serving-call session control function (S-CSCF) node which are sequentially connected, wherein the MMtel application server is internally configured with a heterogeneous acceleration card, and the heterogeneous acceleration card is used for performing encryption on registered user data in the IMS network architecture. Compared with the prior art, the key configurable system and method in the MMtel application server apply the heterogeneous acceleration card to the MMtel application server, a value range of a key handle is set in a background database on the MMtel, the flexible adaptability of generation of the key handle is ensured, and thus the randomness of generation of the key handle is guaranteed, thereby being high in practicability, wide in application range and easy to popularize.

Telephony application services are provided through use of a service delivery platform (SDP) and by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based approach. Various "widgets" of telephony functionality are selected, each widget providing functionality such as call forwarding, call blocking, conferencing, etc. These widgets provide not only call manipulation, but can provide the logic used to process a call. An application or application service thus can combine and / or compose these widgets as needed to provide telephony functionality.

The invention relates to a switching control method for public switched telephone network (PSTN)-Internet protocol (IP) network cooperative communication. The method is used for non-audio communication control between PSTN-IP network cooperative multimedia telephone terminals. Communication connection is initiated by PSTN telephone dialing, telephone numbers are taken as positioning identifiers of the multimedia telephone terminals, PSTN circuit auxiliary authentication, dynamic IP addressing and switching are performed by utilizing a server system of an IP network, IP-network-based non-audio communication connection is finally established, and non-audio communication is realized between the multimedia telephone terminals. An IP-network-based non-audio communication connection protocol is taken as a core, and a login / logout control protocol, a charging information acquisition protocol and a security control protocol are also involved. By the method, a complete non-audio communication protocol is provided, the separate transmission of audios and videos is realized by a PSTN circuit switching network and the IP network, and the short delay of audio communication and the high quality of video communication are ensured at the same time.

The invention relates to a method and system for controlling data and audio transmission and a third party service platform. The method comprises the steps that an incoming call from a circuit switching domain is responded, and a calling notification interface is used for receiving information related to the incoming call of the circuit switching domain and sent by a multimedia phone application server; whether a called user carries out packet switching domain communication with the third party service platform right now or not is judged; if the called user carries out the packet switching domain communication with the third party service platform right now, the called user is inquired about whether the incoming call from the circuit switching domain is switched on or not through a packet switching domain, and if not, the incoming call from the circuit switching domain is directly switched on for the called user; information fed back by the called user is received; whether the incoming call from the circuit switching domain is switched on or not is determined according to the information fed back by the called user. The problem of data and audio simultaneous transmission conflicts can be solved through the third party service platform.

The invention relates to a multimedia telephone program ranked broadcast downloading method and a system for implementing the method. In the method, two file pushing and starting mechanisms are adopted simultaneously, and the method comprises the following steps that: (1) a multimedia telephone terminal actively and regularly inquires newly delivered files from a file server; and (2) the file server informs the multimedia telephone terminal of requesting for downloading a corresponding file from the file server for updating when acquiring a file to be delivered, and downloads the file by adopting a file downloading service equipment priority level of other updated multimedia telephone terminals first and the file server second. The system comprises the multimedia telephone terminal, the file server, a service foreground computer, an exchange server, and a terminal and a server software module which run on the multimedia telephone terminal and the file server respectively. By the method and the system, efficient file service management for advertisement pushing and version upgrading can be realized; and requirements for the instantaneity of multimedia program pushing and the timeliness of terminal version upgrading can be met effectively.

The invention discloses an incoming call message management system and an incoming call message management method for a networking protocol television. Based on technology of networking protocol television and telecommunication network service control, functions for allowing a networking protocol television user to execute incoming call message management through television equipment, such as functions of forwarding, rejection and transmitting a program pause and recording instruction to a video service system of the networking protocol television during response, are provided by interconnecting a software functional module with a set-top box of the networking protocol television and a service control assembly of a telecommunication network and by utilizing a service control point of a public exchange telephone network or a mobile communication system or a multi-media telephony application server of an internet protocol (IP) multi-media subsystem.

The invention discloses an advertising multimedia telephone, which comprises a liquid crystal display wherein at least one region in the liquid crystal display broadcasts the practicable information, and at least one region broadcasts the advertising information, and a manual hand-operated information starting device which can control and examine all practicable information, wherein the region on the display which broadcasts the practicable information displays the practicable information which is demanded by the user and the region in the display which broadcasts the advertising information displays the advertising information when the user starts the device to examine the practicable information. The invention further discloses a process of broadcasting advertisement of the advertising multimedia telephone in places such as restaurants and the like and the application. The advertising multimedia telephone of the invention can provide a large amount of the practicable information, displays the advertising information when the user uses the practicable information which is provided by the invention, is convenient for user to receive the advertisement playing, obtains the satisfactions of operators of public places and customers, expands the coverage of the advertisement at high-grade public places such as hotels, inns and clubs and the like, and promotes the popularization development of the advertising multimedia telephone.

A method and apparatus for performing backoff in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) identifies a prioritized access, receives a backoff parameter from a network, and determines whether or not to apply the received backoff parameter according to the prioritized access. The prioritized access corresponds to one of emergency access, high priority access, control element / information in media access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC) or packet data convergence protocol (PDCP), data radio bearer (DRB) for voice / video service, signaling radio bearer (SRB) 0, SRB 1, SRB 2, multimedia telephony service (MMTEL)-voice, MMTEL-video, and voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE).

The invention provides a resource sharing processing method, an apparatus and a P-CSCF. The method comprises the following steps of receiving a concurrent relationship information which is used for identifying two or more than two session services held by UE and is sent by a multimedia telephone application server MMTEL AS and / or the user equipment UE; according to the received concurrent relationship information, processing resource sharing among the two or more than two session services held by the UE. In the invention, a problem that the resources are wasted because there are a plurality of services, but only one service is activated and other resources are not released in a correlation technology is solved; therefore, effects of accurately triggering session service resource sharing and greatly increasing a network resource utilization rate are reached.

The invention relates to a multimedia telephone terminal, which comprises a liquid crystal display panel, a touch panel input device, a central processing unit, a power conversion and management module, an audio acquisition module, an audio playing module, a telephone communication module and an Ethernet module, wherein the liquid crystal display panel, the touch panel input device, the audio acquisition module, the audio playing module, the telephone communication module and the Ethernet module are all connected with the central processing unit; and the Ethernet module is connected with a local server and the Internet to realize data transmission. The terminal and a matched technical scheme can replace the currently generally-used building visual intercom scheme, combine a telephone, a monitoring terminal and an interphone together, and solve a problem of data transmission through a network.