Patent ID: 9699413
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for allocating a video conferencing task within a computer network, wherein the computer network comprises a plurality of Local Area Networks (LANs) interconnected by a Wide Area Network (WAN), wherein the video conferencing task relates to a video conference, wherein the computer network comprises a plurality of endpoints intended to participate in the video conference and a plurality of candidate processing devices, wherein the participating endpoints and the candidate processing devices are located in the LANs, and wherein at least one candidate processing device is one of the endpoints of the computer network, the method comprising: for each of the candidate processing devices: for each candidate processing device within at least a subset of the candidate processing devices: detecting that a processing device of the computer network to which a video conferencing task relating to a video conference was allocated is not able to continue performing the video conferencing task, selecting a preferred processing device among the candidate processing devices other than the processing device which is not able to continue performing the video conferencing task as a function of the topological scores and of the availability scores, and re-allocating the video conferencing task for the video conference between the pair of participating endpoints to the preferred processing device.