| 摘要 |
Solutions for distributing telepresence content to users and devices that are not direct participants in the telepresence session in which the content is created. For example, in some cases, a collector device might receive telepresence content from a dedicated telepresence endpoint and/or transmit that content, through a firewall, to a system that is outside the firewall and therefore is accessible from the Internet. In an aspect, such embodiments might employ a protocol that does not require any incoming connection from the outside system and therefore does not require any modification of the firewall policies in order to provide such content. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of providing access to content from a private telepresence session comprising a private teleconference between two or more parties, each of the two or more parties participating in the telepresence session via a dedicated telepresence video endpoint, each telepresence endpoint being situated on a private network isolated from the Internet by a firewall, the method comprising:
establishing the telepresence session between two or more telepresence endpoints, each of the two or more telepresence endpoints respectively associated with each of the two or more parties; transmitting telepresence content directly between the two or more telepresence endpoints; accessing, via a high-definition multimedia interface (“HDMI”) connection, a first telepresence endpoint of the two or more telepresence endpoints with a collector device, the first telepresence endpoint and the collector device being situated behind a firewall that restricts inbound traffic; retrieving, with the collector device, a first set of real-time telepresence content, comprising live audio and live video content transmitted from and received by the first telepresence endpoint, from the first telepresence endpoint, via the HDMI connection with the first telepresence endpoint, the first set of real-time telepresence content representing the private teleconference between the two or more parties as it is conducted in real-time and meeting a specified quality of service requirement; transmitting, using a secure hypertext transfer protocol (“HTTPS”) connection that does not require any inbound traffic through the firewall, the telepresence content from the collector device, through the firewall, to a cloud computing system that is outside the firewall and accessible from the Internet, in real-time; establishing, in the cloud computing system, a plurality of tenants, the plurality of tenants comprising:
a first tenant for hosting real-time telepresence content distributed in real-time by a first entity associated with at least one of the two or more parties; anda second tenant for hosting real-time telepresence content distributed by a second entity that is unaffiliated with the first entity;wherein each of the plurality of tenants has specific authentication and authorization criteria separate from each other of the plurality of tenants; hosting, at the first tenant in the cloud computing system, the first set of real-time telepresence content; receiving, at the first tenant and via the Internet, a plurality of incoming requests from a plurality of user devices, including a first user device operated by a first user, to access the first set of real-time telepresence content; authenticating and authorizing each of the users of the plurality of user devices, including the first user, against the specific authentication criteria of the first tenant; and streaming the first set of real-time telepresence content from the cloud computing system to the plurality of user devices, including the first user device, over the Internet, based on the authentication and authorization of each of the plurality of users, each of the plurality of users being a non-participant to the private teleconference between the two or more parties. |
