Patent ID: 8890924

Claim:
A video conference control method, comprising: receiving multi-video information including videos of two or more conference sites; displaying at least a portion of the videos of the two or more conferences sites on a display screen including a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area; displaying, in the main video display area, a first video of a first conference site, wherein the first video is included in the multi-video information; displaying, in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least a second video of a second conference site included in the multi-video information; and performing, according to a received conference control operation request, a previewing conference control operation that includes; sending an update request to a multipoint processing server so that the multipoint processing server updates the multi-video information to include at least a third video of a third conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area, and displaying, in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least the third video; wherein the received conference control operation request includes a request to display a video of a conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area.