Load balancing in a central conferencing routing server

摘要

Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. In one embodiment, the conferencing routing service may maintain a database of information or preferences associated with the conference requester and attempt to select a conference bridge based on the requester's information. Further, the conferencing routing service may receive performance information from a plurality of conference bridges that are able to conduct the collaboration conference and select a conference bridge in response to the performance information.

主权项

1. A system for selecting a conference bridge associated with a network for hosting a collaboration conference event, the system comprising:
a network interface unit configured to receive communications from users of the network to establish collaboration conferences on the network; a processing device in communication with the network interface unit; and a memory connected to the processing device configured to store information and instructions that, when executed by the processing device, performs the operations of:
maintaining a list of a plurality of conference bridges associated with the network;determining a new conference bridge associated with the network, wherein determining a new conference bridge associated with the network comprises:
determining that the new conference bridge had been temporarily removed from the network;adding the new conference bridge to the list;receiving a request to initiate a new collaboration conference event associated with the new conference bridge; anddetermining whether to add the new collaboration conference event to the new conference bridge based on a throttling rule, wherein the throttling rule comprises limiting a number of active ports of the new conference bridge for a given time frame.