Video session manager and method for enabling a video communication session across geographically disparate domains

摘要

A video session manager and method for enabling, optimizing, and managing inter-domain video communication sessions, including telepresence and videoconferencing sessions. The video session manager is configured to receive and analyze a video communication session request from one or more endpoints; to determine the viability of a communication session based on one or more attributes of the session; and to connect the one or more requesting endpoints to start the session. The video session manager is further configured to connect the one or more requesting endpoints via a bridging resource, such as a multipoint control unit, based on one or more considerations such as geography and transmission channel utilization.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a video session manager, requests from at least two communication endpoints to start a video communication session in which multiple communication endpoints are to participate; evaluating, by the video session manager, a plurality of bridging resources during initialization of the session, in order to select a bridging resource in the plurality for use in the video communication session, based on i) geographic locations of the bridging resources with respect to geographic locations of at least one of the communication endpoints from which the requests have been received thus far during the initialization and ii) a point-of-presence subnetwork providing access to services for one or more enterprise networks that comprise the greatest number of communication endpoints from which the requests have been received; and connecting, by the video session manager, the at least two communication endpoints via a selected bridging resource in the plurality.