Patent ID: 9178918
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A telecommunications network comprising: a plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers comprising a master conferencing routing server executing a master control engine application and at least one non-master conferencing routing server, wherein each of the plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers comprises a database configured to store a state of at least one initiated collaboration conference on the telecommunications network; and a plurality of conference bridges configured to host the at least one collaboration conference connected to the plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers; wherein the master control engine is configured to perform the operations of: wherein the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server of the plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers determines a number of the plurality of conference bridges to which the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server is locally connected and stores the number of locally connected conference bridges in the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server database; wherein the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server of the plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers performs the operations of: a master control engine determination module configured to designate the master conferencing routing server from the plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers; wherein the master control engine determination module is further configured to retrieve the identification number of the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server, the number of the plurality of conference bridges the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server is locally connected to and the total number of locally connected conference bridges for the plurality of collaboration conferencing routing servers from the database of the at least one collaboration conferencing routing server.