Patent ID: 8311201

Claim:
A conference control method, comprising: controlling, by an Application Server (AS), a conference session according to a digit collection result reported by a Media Resource Server (MRS), wherein the digit collection result is obtained by the MRS by detecting and collecting dialing operations of a participant on the conference session according to a digit collection template set by the AS, wherein the digit collection template is a default digit collection template for the conference session set by the AS when the conference session is created; and the MRS detects and collects dialing operations of all participants on the conference session according to the default digit collection template for the conference session; setting, by the AS, a new digit collection template for the conference session for a participant when the participant is joining the conference or after the participant joins the conference; so that the MRS detects and collects dialing operations of the participant during the conference session according to the new digit collection template for the conference session after the new digit collection template for the conference session is set.