Patent ID: 8848023

Claim:
A method for controlling a conference including a telepresence conference site and a plurality of additional conference sites, the method comprising: receiving attribute information of the telepresence conference site sent by the telepresence conference site, wherein the telepresence conference site comprises at least two video areas; delivering the attribute information of each of the plurality of additional conference sites to the telepresence conference site; and performing conference control according to the received attribute information of the telepresence conference site; wherein the attribute information of the telepresence conference site comprises one or any combination of the following items: a type of a conference site, video area information of the conference site, a stream attribute corresponding to a video area of the conference site, a conference site terminal number corresponding to the video area of the conference site, the video area of the conference site, a corresponding relationship between a stream and a conference site terminal, a corresponding relationship between the video area and a stream of the conference site and telepresence conference site interworking, and a corresponding relationship between the video area and the stream of the local conference site and common conference site interworking.