METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADDING A MEDIA COMPONENT TO AN ESTABLISHED MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION SESSION

摘要

A multimedia collaboration system that facilitates more efficient, free-flowing collaboration sessions. In order to make addition of new participants, media components, and or network access device to a collaboration session more efficient, client devices associated with each participant can store endpoint address information that can be automatically obtained by the multimedia collaboration system. The endpoint address information can then be used to add the new participants, media components, and or network access device.

主权项

1. A system for facilitating a multimedia collaboration session between a plurality of participants, comprising a plurality of client devices associated with each of the plurality of participants, each of the plurality of client devices configured to store endpoint address information, the system configured to:
automatically obtain the endpoint address information from each of the plurality of client devices; associate a plurality of endpoint addresses associated with a participant of the plurality of participants with a network and with a media type; select an appropriate endpoint address of the plurality of endpoint addresses assigned to the participant from the participant's client device in response to a request to join the multimedia collaboration session, the network and the media type, the plurality endpoint addresses being assigned priorities; and automatically attempt to connect to at least one client device and an associated endpoint at the selected end point address based on a priority assigned to the end point, wherein the endpoint address information is automatically obtained at same time that the multimedia collaboration system automatically attempts to connect to the at least one client device and the associated endpoint.