Patent ID: 9578491
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A transmission management system comprising: a memory configured to store status information indicating a communication status between one of transmission terminals and another one of the transmission terminals, for each of the transmission terminals; a receiver configured to receive a communication initiating request from a first transmission terminal of the transmission terminals to a second transmission terminal of the transmission terminals; one or more processors, wherein when the communication initiating request is received by the receiver, the processors determine whether each of first status information of the first transmission terminal stored in the memory and second status information of the second transmission terminal stored in the memory indicates a status in which a corresponding one of the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal does not communicate with other transmission terminals, and when the processors determine that each of the first status information of the first transmission terminal and the second status information of the second transmission terminal indicates a status in which a corresponding one of the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal does not communicate with other transmission terminals, the processors select a desired one of relay devices configured to relay content data transmitted between the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal; and a transmitter configured to transmit connection information to each of the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal for connecting a corresponding one of the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal to the relay device selected by the processors, wherein the memory stores a piece of operating status information indicating that each transmission terminal is online or offline, for each of the transmission terminals, the operating status information differing from the communication status indicating a status of communications performed by the corresponding transmission terminal with other transmission terminals, and wherein the transmitter transmits the respective operating status information pieces of the transmission terminals serving as the destination candidates for the first transmission terminal to cause display of the transmitted operation status information pieces on a screen of the first transmission terminal, in response to the first transmission terminal that has logged in the transmission management system.