Patent ID: 9049342
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic conference system comprising a configuration in which through a network, a first exchange system to which a terminal of a conference organizer who organizes a conference is connected and a second exchange system to which are connected terminals used by conference participants who participate in the conference held straddling different bases by the conference organizer are connected, wherein when the terminals of the plurality of conference participants who participate in the conference of the conference organizer are connected to the same exchange system as the second exchange system of the conference participant side, in a mixing device included in the second exchange system, conference communication information from the terminals of the plurality of conference participants is previously mixed to be edited into one conference communication information, and the one conference communication information is transmitted to the mixing device included in the first exchange system of the conference organizer side, in order to discriminate whether or not the terminals of the plurality of conference participants who participate in the conference of the conference organizer are connected in the same exchange system as the second exchange system of the conference participant side, in the first exchange system of the conference organizer side, at least a database for previously registering as a participant list an address to uniquely specify the second exchange system to which the terminals of the conference participants who are going to participate in the conference is included, when it is detected that identical addresses have been registered in the participant list as the addresses to specify the second exchange system of the conference participant side in the first exchange system of the conference organizer side, a mixing request is transmitted from the first exchange system to the appropriate second exchange system side, the mixing request requesting to previously mix conference communication information from the terminals of the plurality of conference participants, edit into one conference communication information, and transmit the one conference communication information to the first exchange system side.