PEER TO PEER CONFERENCING

摘要

A peer to peer communication architecture for setting up multi-party conference connections through distributed workstations linked by a broadband backbone is described. Each workstation, whether a desktop, proxy PC or gateway to the PSTN is agent-controlled to set up and tear down conference connections without central call processing. Terminals for voice communications are associated with the workstations and call grouping to selected ones of these terminals is controlled by connection management software located in the workstations.