Patent ID: 9516268
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for maintaining an audio-video conference, the method comprising: a computing device receiving session description protocol information including network parameters and supported compression-decompression formats, from a plurality of client devices participating in an audio-video conference hosted by a primary conference host; the computing device determining whether at least one of the plurality of client devices participating in the audio-video conference is properly configured to perform audio-video mixing at an acceptable rate of streaming for the audio-video conference; the computing device selecting a client device as a secondary conference host from the plurality of client devices participating in the audio-video conference; in response to receiving the session description protocol information from the plurality of client devices, the computing device sending a reply, including network parameter information identifying the secondary conference host, to the plurality of client devices participating in the audio-video conference and the network parameters and supported compression-decompression formats of the plurality of client devices participating in the audio-video conference to the client device selected as the secondary conference host; the computing device determining a failure of the primary conference host affecting the audio-video conference, wherein the failure is based, at least in part, on a violation of a threshold limit of a transmission rate of the primary conference host; and in response to determining the failure, the computing device sending information associated with activating the secondary conference host as a host of the audio-video conference, to the plurality of client devices participating in the audio-video conference.