Cloud Based Elastic Load Allocation for Multi-media Conferencing

摘要

Disclosed herein is a technique for providing cloud based scaleable videoconferencing infrastructure in a variety of ways. A combination of hardware based conferencing and software emulation of hardware conferencing equipment is disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods include load balancing algorithms and a software control architecture to allow for flexible and elastic scaling of each component individually or as a group. The disclosed systems and methods are also agnostic to the underlying hardware infrastructure utilized for any given conference.

主权项

1. A method for policy based adaptive proportional cloud resource allocation to support a multi-media conference, the method comprising:
receiving information from a plurality of broker agents at a resource management module, the information concerning availability of cloud compute resources, multi-media session management, availability of configured cloud based soft multi-media control units (MCUs), and user access information; coordinating availability and connectivity of a plurality of soft MCUs supporting a scaleable video conference for a plurality of users at a plurality of endpoints by utilizing user access information to manage the allocation of the plurality of soft MCUs.