Patent ID: 8631098

Claim:
A resource configuration method, comprising: automatically updating, by a server, resource configuration information of the server according to resource registration information reported by each of network equipments in a network wherein the resource registration information is resorted s b each of network equipments in the network when a reporting period or time point for the resource registration information set in the network equipment is reached; and performing a resource configuration on one of the network equipments according to a resource requirement request of the network equipment and the updated resource configuration information, wherein the resource configuration information comprises the resource registration information reported by each of the network equipments in the network, the resource registration information comprises a resource type, a resource availability, and an equipment ID of the network equipment containing resources, and the resource type includes at least one of the following: sound, fax, conference, video and picture, wherein the performing the resource configuration on the network equipment according to the resource requirement request of the network equipment and the updated resource configuration information comprises: looking up the currently stored updated resource configuration information to determine whether a network equipment in the network possesses resources requested by a first network equipment according to a received resource requirement request sent by the first network equipment; and sending to network equipment a configuration control message indicating the network equipment to send the resources requested directly to the first network equipment if the network equipment possessing the resources requested exists in the network wherein the resources are packetized with a compression algorithm and the packetized resources are sent through a standard voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) protocol communication in the form of IP data packets; and sending a request failed message to the first network equipment if the network equipment possessing the resources requested does not exist in the network.