Audio conferencing system and method

摘要

In a preferred embodiment, the system of the present invention comprises two or more bridge servers; one or more conferencing servers, each of which is configured to communicate with at least one of said bridge servers; and a transaction server, in communication with each conferencing server. The transaction server is configured to manage conferencing resources among the conferencing servers. Each conferencing server is preferably configured to monitor bridge status for each bridge assigned to it and to provide bridge status information to the transaction server. The transaction server and conferencing servers are preferably further configured such that bridge servers assigned to a first conferencing server are subsequently assigned to a second conferencing server by the transaction server if the first conferencing server fails.