Patent ID: 9332226
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a video session manager, requests from at least two communication endpoints to start a video communication session in which multiple communication endpoints are to participate; evaluating, by the video session manager, a plurality of bridging resources during initialization of the session, to select a bridging resource in the plurality for use in the video communication session, based on geographic locations of the bridging resources with respect to the geographic locations of at least one of the communication endpoints from which the requests have been received thus far during the initialization; and connecting, by the video session manager, the at least two communication endpoints via a selected bridging resource in the plurality, wherein the connecting is based on predetermined commencement criteria having been met, wherein the commencement criteria is related to the at least two communication endpoints and is based on requests having been received from at least i) a host endpoint of the video communication session and ii) at least one endpoint other than the host endpoint.