阅读说明：本技术 一种会议控制的方法和装置 (Conference control method and device ) 是由 杨传坤 沈军 周新海 王艳辉 于 2019-09-03 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明实施例提供了一种会议控制的方法和装置,所述方法包括响应于检索操作,从视联网会议的多个参会终端中确定目标终端；其中,每个参会终端具有身份信息,所述检索操作包括针对所述身份信息的首字母检索、汉字检索、全名检索、模糊匹配中任一项；响应于对所述目标终端预组会操作,建立组会模式；检测当前会议进度,并在所述当前会议进度满足预设切换条件时,确定所述当前会议进度对应的目标组会模式；展示所述目标组会模式对应的提示信息,并响应于对所述目标组会模式的确认操作,切换至所述目标组会模式。通过本发明实施例,实现了在视联网会议中快速切换组会模式,并能够快速检索参会终端,提高了会控的操作速度,且避免了会控的误操作。(The embodiment of the invention provides a conference control method and a conference control device, wherein the method comprises the steps of responding to retrieval operation, and determining a target terminal from a plurality of conference terminals of a video network conference; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information; responding to the pre-grouping operation of the target terminal, and establishing a grouping mode; detecting a current conference progress, and determining a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition; and displaying prompt information corresponding to the target group conference mode, and responding to the confirmation operation of the target group conference mode, and switching to the target group conference mode. By the embodiment of the invention, the conference group mode can be quickly switched in the video networking conference, the participant terminals can be quickly searched, the conference control operation speed is improved, and the conference control misoperation is avoided.)

1. A conference control method is applied to a video network, and the method comprises the following steps:

responding to the retrieval operation, and determining a target terminal from a plurality of participant terminals of the video networking conference; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information;

responding to the pre-grouping operation of the target terminal, and establishing a grouping mode; wherein the group conference mode at least comprises indication information for conference speaking terminals;

detecting a current conference progress, and determining a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition;

and displaying prompt information corresponding to the target group conference mode, and responding to the confirmation operation of the target group conference mode, and switching to the target group conference mode.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the current conference progress comprises a current conference duration, and the step of determining the target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition comprises:

when the current conference time length is greater than a preset time length, determining a conference time length range to which the current conference time length belongs; wherein each group meeting mode corresponds to a meeting duration range;

and determining the group meeting mode corresponding to the meeting time range as a target group meeting mode.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the step of switching to the target team meeting mode in response to the confirmation operation of the target team meeting mode comprises:

generating a group conference mode switching instruction by adopting target indication information corresponding to the target group conference mode;

sending the conference mode switching instruction to a video network master control server to switch to the target conference mode; the video network master control server is used for sending the group conference mode switching instruction to a video network server so as to respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to the plurality of participant terminals through the video network server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the group conference mode further comprises indication information for a chairman terminal and/or a carousel terminal.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identity information comprises unit information to which the participant terminal belongs and/or name information corresponding to the participant terminal.

6. A conference-controlled apparatus, for use in a video network, the apparatus comprising:

the retrieval operation response module is used for responding to the retrieval operation and determining a target terminal from a plurality of participant terminals of the video network conference; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information;

the pre-group conference operation response module is used for responding to the pre-group conference operation of the target terminal and establishing a group conference mode; wherein the group conference mode at least comprises indication information for conference speaking terminals;

the target group meeting mode determining module is used for detecting the current meeting progress and determining a target group meeting mode corresponding to the current meeting progress when the current meeting progress meets a preset switching condition;

and the target group conference mode switching module is used for displaying prompt information corresponding to the target group conference mode and responding to the confirmation operation of the target group conference mode to switch to the target group conference mode.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the current meeting schedule comprises a current meeting duration, and wherein the target group meeting mode determination module comprises:

the conference time range determining submodule is used for determining a conference time range to which the current conference time belongs when the current conference time is longer than a preset time; wherein each group meeting mode corresponds to a meeting duration range;

and the time length determining conference mode submodule is used for determining that the group conference mode corresponding to the conference time length range is the target group conference mode.

8. The apparatus of claim 6 or 7, wherein the target team meeting mode switching module comprises:

the conference mode switching instruction production submodule is used for generating a conference mode switching instruction by adopting target indication information corresponding to the target conference mode;

the conference mode switching instruction sending submodule is used for sending the conference mode switching instruction to a video network main control server so as to switch to the target conference mode; the video network master control server is used for sending the group conference mode switching instruction to a video network server so as to respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to the plurality of participant terminals through the video network server.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the group conference mode further comprises indication information for a chairman terminal and/or a carousel terminal.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the identity information comprises unit information to which the participant terminal belongs, and/or name information corresponding to the participant terminal.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of video networking, in particular to a conference control method and device.

Background

With the development of scientific technology, the video networking technology is widely applied to various technical fields, and in life, work and study, users can adopt the video networking to carry out video communication such as video conferences and video teaching, so that high-fidelity and high-definition video communication experience is brought to the users.

In the video networking conference, switching of a speaking party, a chairman, a carousel party and the like is usually involved, and due to the fact that the number of participants is large and conference processes are compact, workers perform real-time manual switching in the conference process, the timeliness of switching is difficult to guarantee, and misoperation is easy to occur.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present invention has been made to provide a conference control method and apparatus that overcomes or at least partially solves the above problems, including:

a conference control method is applied to a video network, and comprises the following steps:

responding to the retrieval operation, and determining a target terminal from a plurality of participant terminals of the video networking conference; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information;

responding to the pre-grouping operation of the target terminal, and establishing a grouping mode; wherein the group conference mode at least comprises indication information for conference speaking terminals;

detecting a current conference progress, and determining a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition;

and displaying prompt information corresponding to the target group conference mode, and responding to the confirmation operation of the target group conference mode, and switching to the target group conference mode.

Optionally, the step of determining the target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition includes:

when the current conference time length is greater than a preset time length, determining a conference time length range to which the current conference time length belongs; wherein each group meeting mode corresponds to a meeting duration range;

and determining the group meeting mode corresponding to the meeting time range as a target group meeting mode.

Optionally, the step of switching to the target conference mode in response to the confirmation operation of the target conference mode includes:

generating a group conference mode switching instruction by adopting target indication information corresponding to the target group conference mode;

sending the conference mode switching instruction to a video network master control server to switch to the target conference mode; the video network master control server is used for sending the group conference mode switching instruction to a video network server so as to respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to the plurality of participant terminals through the video network server.

Optionally, the group conference mode further includes indication information for a chairman terminal of the conference and/or a carousel terminal of the conference.

Optionally, the identity information includes unit information to which the participating terminal belongs, and/or name information corresponding to the participating terminal.

A conference controlled device applied to a video network, the device comprising:

the retrieval operation response module is used for responding to the retrieval operation and determining a target terminal from a plurality of participant terminals of the video network conference; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information;

the pre-group conference operation response module is used for responding to the pre-group conference operation of the target terminal and establishing a group conference mode; wherein the group conference mode at least comprises indication information for conference speaking terminals;

the target group meeting mode determining module is used for detecting the current meeting progress and determining a target group meeting mode corresponding to the current meeting progress when the current meeting progress meets a preset switching condition;

and the target group conference mode switching module is used for displaying prompt information corresponding to the target group conference mode and responding to the confirmation operation of the target group conference mode to switch to the target group conference mode.

Optionally, the current conference schedule includes a current conference duration, and the target group conference mode determining module includes:

the conference time range determining submodule is used for determining a conference time range to which the current conference time belongs when the current conference time is longer than a preset time; wherein each group meeting mode corresponds to a meeting duration range;

and the time length determining conference mode submodule is used for determining that the group conference mode corresponding to the conference time length range is the target group conference mode.

Optionally, the target group conference mode switching module includes:

the conference mode switching instruction production submodule is used for generating a conference mode switching instruction by adopting target indication information corresponding to the target conference mode;

the conference mode switching instruction sending submodule is used for sending the conference mode switching instruction to a video network main control server so as to switch to the target conference mode; the video network master control server is used for sending the group conference mode switching instruction to a video network server so as to respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to the plurality of participant terminals through the video network server.

Optionally, the group conference mode further includes indication information for a chairman terminal of the conference and/or a carousel terminal of the conference.

Optionally, the identity information includes unit information to which the participating terminal belongs, and/or name information corresponding to the participating terminal.

The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:

in the embodiment of the invention, a target terminal is determined from a plurality of participant terminals of the video network conference by responding to retrieval operation, each participant terminal has identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information; responding to the pre-grouping operation of the target terminal, and establishing a grouping mode; detecting the current conference progress, and determining a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition; the prompt message corresponding to the target group meeting mode is displayed, the target group meeting mode is switched to the target group meeting mode in response to the confirmation operation of the target group meeting mode, the group meeting mode can be quickly switched in the video networking conference, the participant terminal can be quickly searched, the conference control operation speed is improved, and the conference control misoperation is avoided.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic networking diagram of a video network according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of a node server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an access switch according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an ethernet protocol conversion gateway according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for conference control according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a block diagram of a conference control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below. It is to be understood that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The video networking is an important milestone for network development, is a real-time network, can realize high-definition video real-time transmission, and pushes a plurality of internet applications to high-definition video, and high-definition faces each other.

The video networking adopts a real-time high-definition video exchange technology, can integrate required services such as dozens of services of video, voice, pictures, characters, communication, data and the like on a system platform on a network platform, such as high-definition video conference, video monitoring, intelligent monitoring analysis, emergency command, digital broadcast television, delayed television, network teaching, live broadcast, VOD on demand, television mail, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), intranet (self-office) channels, intelligent video broadcast control, information distribution and the like, and realizes high-definition quality video broadcast through a television or a computer.

To better understand the embodiments of the present invention, the following description refers to the internet of view:

some of the technologies applied in the video networking are as follows:

network Technology (Network Technology)

Network technology innovation in video networking has improved over traditional Ethernet (Ethernet) to face the potentially enormous video traffic on the network. Unlike pure network Packet Switching (Packet Switching) or network circuit Switching (circuit Switching), the Packet Switching is adopted by the technology of the video networking to meet the Streaming requirement. The video networking technology has the advantages of flexibility, simplicity and low price of packet switching, and simultaneously has the quality and safety guarantee of circuit switching, thereby realizing the seamless connection of the whole network switching type virtual circuit and the data format.

Switching Technology (Switching Technology)

The video network adopts two advantages of asynchronism and packet switching of the Ethernet, eliminates the defects of the Ethernet on the premise of full compatibility, has end-to-end seamless connection of the whole network, is directly communicated with a user terminal, and directly bears an IP data packet. The user data does not require any format conversion across the entire network. The video networking is a higher-level form of the Ethernet, is a real-time exchange platform, can realize the real-time transmission of the whole-network large-scale high-definition video which cannot be realized by the existing Internet, and pushes a plurality of network video applications to high-definition and unification.

Server Technology (Server Technology)

The server technology on the video networking and unified video platform is different from the traditional server, the streaming media transmission of the video networking and unified video platform is established on the basis of connection orientation, the data processing capacity of the video networking and unified video platform is independent of flow and communication time, and a single network layer can contain signaling and data transmission. For voice and video services, the complexity of video networking and unified video platform streaming media processing is much simpler than that of data processing, and the efficiency is greatly improved by more than one hundred times compared with that of a traditional server.

Storage Technology (Storage Technology)

The super-high speed storage technology of the unified video platform adopts the most advanced real-time operating system in order to adapt to the media content with super-large capacity and super-large flow, the program information in the server instruction is mapped to the specific hard disk space, the media content is not passed through the server any more, and is directly sent to the user terminal instantly, and the general waiting time of the user is less than 0.2 second. The optimized sector distribution greatly reduces the mechanical motion of the magnetic head track seeking of the hard disk, the resource consumption only accounts for 20% of that of the IP internet of the same grade, but concurrent flow which is 3 times larger than that of the traditional hard disk array is generated, and the comprehensive efficiency is improved by more than 10 times.

Network Security Technology (Network Security Technology)

The structural design of the video network completely eliminates the network security problem troubling the internet structurally by the modes of independent service permission control each time, complete isolation of equipment and user data and the like, generally does not need antivirus programs and firewalls, avoids the attack of hackers and viruses, and provides a structural carefree security network for users.

Service Innovation Technology (Service Innovation Technology)

The unified video platform integrates services and transmission, and is not only automatically connected once whether a single user, a private network user or a network aggregate. The user terminal, the set-top box or the PC are directly connected to the unified video platform to obtain various multimedia video services in various forms. The unified video platform adopts a menu type configuration table mode to replace the traditional complex application programming, can realize complex application by using very few codes, and realizes infinite new service innovation.

Networking of the video network is as follows:

the video network is a centralized control network structure, and the network can be a tree network, a star network, a ring network and the like, but on the basis of the centralized control node, the whole network is controlled by the centralized control node in the network.

As shown in fig. 1, the video network is divided into an access network and a metropolitan network.

The devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access switch, terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding boards, memories, etc.). The node server is connected to an access switch, which may be connected to a plurality of terminals and may be connected to an ethernet network.

The node server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the access network and can control the access switch and the terminal. The node server can be directly connected with the access switch or directly connected with the terminal.

Similarly, devices of the metropolitan network portion may also be classified into 3 types: a metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server. The metro server is connected to a node switch, which may be connected to a plurality of node servers.

The node server is a node server of the access network part, namely the node server belongs to both the access network part and the metropolitan area network part.

The metropolitan area server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the metropolitan area network and can control a node switch and a node server. The metropolitan area server can be directly connected with the node switch or directly connected with the node server.

Therefore, the whole video network is a network structure with layered centralized control, and the network controlled by the node server and the metropolitan area server can be in various structures such as tree, star and ring.

The access network part can form a unified video platform (the part in the dotted circle), and a plurality of unified video platforms can form a video network; each unified video platform may be interconnected via metropolitan area and wide area video networking.

1. Video networking device classification

1.1 devices in the video network of the embodiment of the present invention can be mainly classified into 3 types: server, exchanger (including Ethernet protocol conversion gateway), terminal (including various set-top boxes, code board, memory, etc.). The video network as a whole can be divided into a metropolitan area network (or national network, global network, etc.) and an access network.

1.2 wherein the devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access exchanger (including Ethernet protocol conversion gateway), terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding board, memory, etc.).

The specific hardware structure of each access network device is as follows:

a node server:

as shown in fig. 2, the system mainly includes a network interface module 201, a switching engine module 202, a CPU module 203, and a disk array module 204;

the network interface module 201, the CPU module 203, and the disk array module 204 all enter the switching engine module 202; the switching engine module 202 performs an operation of looking up the address table 205 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; and stores the packet in a queue of the corresponding packet buffer 206 based on the packet's steering information; if the queue of the packet buffer 206 is nearly full, it is discarded; the switching engine module 202 polls all packet buffer queues for forwarding if the following conditions are met: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero. The disk array module 204 mainly implements control over the hard disk, including initialization, read-write, and other operations on the hard disk; the CPU module 203 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with an access switch and a terminal (not shown in the figure), configuring an address table 205 (including a downlink protocol packet address table, an uplink protocol packet address table, and a data packet address table), and configuring the disk array module 204.

The access switch:

as shown in fig. 3, the network interface module mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 301 and an uplink network interface module 302), a switching engine module 303 and a CPU module 304;

wherein, the packet (uplink data) coming from the downlink network interface module 301 enters the packet detection module 305; the packet detection module 305 detects whether the Destination Address (DA), the Source Address (SA), the packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id) and enters the switching engine module 303, otherwise, discards the stream identifier; the packet (downstream data) coming from the upstream network interface module 302 enters the switching engine module 303; the incoming data packet of the CPU module 304 enters the switching engine module 303; the switching engine module 303 performs an operation of looking up the address table 306 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is from the downstream network interface to the upstream network interface, the packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 in association with the stream-id; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the data packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 according to the guiding information of the packet; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded.

The switching engine module 303 polls all packet buffer queues, which in this embodiment of the present invention is divided into two cases:

if the queue is from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queued packet counter is greater than zero; 3) obtaining a token generated by a code rate control module;

if the queue is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero.

The rate control module 308 is configured by the CPU module 304, and generates tokens for packet buffer queues from all downstream network interfaces to upstream network interfaces at programmable intervals to control the rate of upstream forwarding.

The CPU module 304 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with the node server, configuration of the address table 306, and configuration of the code rate control module 308.

Ethernet protocol conversion gateway：

As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 401 and an uplink network interface module 402), a switching engine module 403, a CPU module 404, a packet detection module 405, a rate control module 408, an address table 406, a packet buffer 407, a MAC adding module 409, and a MAC deleting module 410.

Wherein, the data packet coming from the downlink network interface module 401 enters the packet detection module 405; the packet detection module 405 detects whether the ethernet MAC DA, the ethernet MAC SA, the ethernet length or frame type, the video network destination address DA, the video network source address SA, the video network packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id); then, the MAC deletion module 410 subtracts MAC DA, MAC SA, length or frame type (2byte) and enters the corresponding receiving buffer, otherwise, discards it;

the downlink network interface module 401 detects the sending buffer of the port, and if there is a packet, obtains the ethernet MAC DA of the corresponding terminal according to the destination address DA of the packet, adds the ethernet MAC DA of the terminal, the MACSA of the ethernet coordination gateway, and the ethernet length or frame type, and sends the packet.

The other modules in the ethernet protocol gateway function similarly to the access switch.

A terminal:

the system mainly comprises a network interface module, a service processing module and a CPU module; for example, the set-top box mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding and decoding engine module and a CPU module; the coding board mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding engine module and a CPU module; the memory mainly comprises a network interface module, a CPU module and a disk array module.

1.3 devices of the metropolitan area network part can be mainly classified into 2 types: node server, node exchanger, metropolitan area server. The node switch mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module; the metropolitan area server mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module.

2. Video networking packet definition

2.1 Access network packet definition

The data packet of the access network mainly comprises the following parts: destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), reserved bytes, payload (pdu), CRC.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the access network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

Payload

CRC

wherein:

the Destination Address (DA) is composed of 8 bytes (byte), the first byte represents the type of the data packet (such as various protocol packets, multicast data packets, unicast data packets, etc.), there are 256 possibilities at most, the second byte to the sixth byte are metropolitan area network addresses, and the seventh byte and the eighth byte are access network addresses;

the Source Address (SA) is also composed of 8 bytes (byte), defined as the same as the Destination Address (DA);

the reserved byte consists of 2 bytes;

the payload part has different lengths according to different types of datagrams, and is 64 bytes if the datagram is various types of protocol packets, and is 32+1024 or 1056 bytes if the datagram is a unicast packet, of course, the length is not limited to the above 2 types;

the CRC consists of 4 bytes and is calculated in accordance with the standard ethernet CRC algorithm.

2.2 metropolitan area network packet definition

The topology of a metropolitan area network is a graph and there may be 2, or even more than 2, connections between two devices, i.e., there may be more than 2 connections between a node switch and a node server, a node switch and a node switch, and a node switch and a node server. However, the metro network address of the metro network device is unique, and in order to accurately describe the connection relationship between the metro network devices, parameters are introduced in the embodiment of the present invention: a label to uniquely describe a metropolitan area network device.

In this specification, the definition of the Label is similar to that of the Label of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switch), and assuming that there are two connections between the device a and the device B, there are 2 labels for the packet from the device a to the device B, and 2 labels for the packet from the device B to the device a. The label is classified into an incoming label and an outgoing label, and assuming that the label (incoming label) of the packet entering the device a is 0x0000, the label (outgoing label) of the packet leaving the device a may become 0x 0001. The network access process of the metro network is a network access process under centralized control, that is, address allocation and label allocation of the metro network are both dominated by the metro server, and the node switch and the node server are both passively executed, which is different from label allocation of MPLS, and label allocation of MPLS is a result of mutual negotiation between the switch and the server.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the metro network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

label (R)

Payload

CRC

Namely Destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), Reserved byte (Reserved), tag, payload (pdu), CRC. The format of the tag may be defined by reference to the following: the tag is 32 bits with the upper 16 bits reserved and only the lower 16 bits used, and its position is between the reserved bytes and payload of the packet.

Referring to fig. 5, a flowchart illustrating steps of a conference control method according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown, where the method is applied to a video network, such as a conference control terminal in the video network, and specifically includes the following steps:

step 501, responding to retrieval operation, determining a target terminal from a plurality of participant terminals of the video network conference; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information;

as an example, the identity information may include unit information to which the participant terminal belongs, and/or name information corresponding to the participant terminal.

After the video networking conference is started, a plurality of participant terminals can exist, the participant terminals can be video networking terminals, each participant terminal can have identity information and a terminal identifier (such as a video networking number), when the participant terminals are more, a target terminal is difficult to search according to the terminal identifiers, then the retrieval operation aiming at the identity information can be carried out in the conference control terminal, and particularly, any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching can be adopted to retrieve the identity information, so that the target terminal can be retrieved quickly.

Step 502, responding to the pre-grouping operation of the target terminal, and establishing a grouping mode; wherein the group conference mode at least comprises indication information for conference speaking terminals;

as an example, the group conference mode may further include indication information for the chairman terminal of the conference and/or the carousel terminal of the conference, where the indication information is a conference role used for indicating the target terminal in the conference, such as a conference speaking terminal, a chairman terminal of the conference, a carousel terminal of the conference, and the like.

After the target terminal is searched, pre-group meeting operation can be carried out on the target terminal, the conference role of the target terminal in the video networking conference is set, a group meeting mode is further established, and the group meeting mode is stored.

For example, if the target terminals include terminal a and terminal B, it may be determined that the first group conference mode is that terminal a is a conference speaking terminal and terminal B is a conference chairman terminal, and the second group conference mode is that terminal B is a conference speaking terminal and terminal a is a conference chairman terminal through the pre-group conference operation.

Step 503, detecting a current conference progress, and determining a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition;

in the process of conference proceeding, different group meeting modes can be adopted in each conference stage, the conference control terminal can detect the current conference progress in real time, and when the current conference progress meets the preset switching condition, the target group meeting mode corresponding to the current conference progress is determined.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the current conference schedule may include a current conference duration, that is, a duration of the conference, and then step 503 may include the following sub-steps:

when the current conference time length is greater than a preset time length, determining a conference time length range to which the current conference time length belongs; and determining the group meeting mode corresponding to the meeting time range as a target group meeting mode.

Wherein each group conference mode may correspond to a range of conference durations.

If the current conference time length is detected to be larger than the preset time length, the conference time length range to which the current conference time length belongs can be determined, and then the group meeting mode corresponding to the conference time length range is determined to be the target group meeting mode.

For example, if the preset time duration is 30 minutes, the first group meeting mode corresponds to 0-30 minutes, and the second group meeting mode corresponds to 30-60 minutes, and if the current meeting time duration is 31 minutes, which is greater than the preset time duration by 30 minutes, it may be determined that the current meeting time duration of 31 minutes belongs to 30-60 minutes, and if the current meeting time duration corresponds to the second group meeting mode, it may be determined that the second meeting mode is the target group meeting mode.

Step 504, displaying a prompt message corresponding to the target group conference mode, and responding to the confirmation operation of the target group conference mode, and switching to the target group conference mode.

After the target group conference mode is determined, the control terminal may display a prompt message corresponding to the target group conference mode to the user, where if the target group conference mode is the second group conference mode, the prompt message is "whether to switch to the second group conference mode? "in response to a confirmation operation for the target group conference mode, the video conferencing system may be controlled to switch to the target group conference mode.

In an embodiment of the present invention, step 504 may include the following sub-steps:

generating a group conference mode switching instruction by adopting target indication information corresponding to the target group conference mode; sending the conference mode switching instruction to a video network master control server to switch to the target conference mode; the video network master control server is used for sending the group conference mode switching instruction to a video network server so as to respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to the plurality of participant terminals through the video network server.

In the process of switching the group conference mode, the conference control terminal can adopt target indication information corresponding to the target group conference mode, a group conference mode switching instruction is generated, if the indication indicates which terminal is set as a conference speaking terminal and which terminal is set as a conference chairman terminal, then the group conference mode switching instruction can be sent to the video network main control server, the video network main control server can send the group conference mode switching instruction to the video network server, the video network server can respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to a plurality of participant terminals, and then switching of the group conference mode is realized.

In the embodiment of the invention, a target terminal is determined from a plurality of participant terminals of the video network conference by responding to retrieval operation, each participant terminal has identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information; responding to the pre-grouping operation of the target terminal, and establishing a grouping mode; detecting the current conference progress, and determining a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition; the prompt message corresponding to the target group meeting mode is displayed, the target group meeting mode is switched to the target group meeting mode in response to the confirmation operation of the target group meeting mode, the group meeting mode can be quickly switched in the video networking conference, the participant terminal can be quickly searched, the conference control operation speed is improved, and the conference control misoperation is avoided.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the illustrated order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required to implement the invention.

Referring to fig. 6, a block diagram of a conference control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown, and is applied to a video network, and specifically includes the following modules:

a retrieval operation response module 601, configured to determine a target terminal from a plurality of participant terminals of the video network conference in response to a retrieval operation; each participant terminal is provided with identity information, and the retrieval operation comprises any one of initial retrieval, Chinese character retrieval, full name retrieval and fuzzy matching aiming at the identity information;

a pre-group conference operation response module 602, configured to respond to a pre-group conference operation on the target terminal and establish a group conference mode; wherein the group conference mode at least comprises indication information for conference speaking terminals;

a target group conference mode determining module 603, configured to detect a current conference progress, and determine a target group conference mode corresponding to the current conference progress when the current conference progress meets a preset switching condition;

a target group conference mode switching module 604, configured to display a prompt message corresponding to the target group conference mode, and switch to the target group conference mode in response to a confirmation operation on the target group conference mode.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the current conference schedule includes a current conference duration, and the target group conference mode determining module 603 includes:

the conference time range determining submodule is used for determining a conference time range to which the current conference time belongs when the current conference time is longer than a preset time; wherein each group meeting mode corresponds to a meeting duration range;

and the time length determining conference mode submodule is used for determining that the group conference mode corresponding to the conference time length range is the target group conference mode.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the target set conference mode switching module 604 includes:

the conference mode switching instruction production submodule is used for generating a conference mode switching instruction by adopting target indication information corresponding to the target conference mode;

the conference mode switching instruction sending submodule is used for sending the conference mode switching instruction to a video network main control server so as to switch to the target conference mode; the video network master control server is used for sending the group conference mode switching instruction to a video network server so as to respectively send the group conference mode switching instruction to the plurality of participant terminals through the video network server.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the group conference mode further includes indication information for a chairman terminal of the conference and/or a carousel terminal of the conference.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the identity information includes unit information to which the participant terminal belongs, and/or name information corresponding to the participant terminal.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides an electronic device, which may include a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the above conference control method.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, realizes the steps of the above method for controlling a conference.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.

The method and the device for controlling a conference provided by the present invention are introduced in detail, and a specific example is applied in the text to explain the principle and the implementation of the present invention, and the description of the above embodiment is only used to help understanding the method and the core idea of the present invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.