CN113872778B

CN113872778B - Device connection method, device and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN113872778B
Application number: CN202111203249.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘俊启
Original assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-10-15
Filing date: 2021-10-15
Publication date: 2023-07-14
Anticipated expiration: 2041-10-15
Also published as: CN113872778A

Abstract

The disclosure provides a device connection method, a device and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to the fields of Internet of things, network communication and the like. The specific implementation scheme is as follows: determining a meeting mode of each meeting participant; respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and conference room equipment; communication connections between other participant devices and the conference room device are triggered in parallel based on the relationship between the respective participant mode and the conference room device. Through the device connection method, the device, the equipment and the storage medium, various different types of meeting modes are integrated, and the conference room equipment and other meeting equipment are automatically bound and controlled so as to realize data sharing for meeting participants in different meeting modes.

Description

Device connection method, device and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to the fields of internet of things, network communications, and the like.

Background

With the development of multimedia technology and the like, online conferences are becoming more common in daily work. Establishing a communication connection between devices required for an online conference is a precondition for implementing an online conference.

Disclosure of Invention

The present disclosure provides a device connection method, apparatus, device, and storage medium.

According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a device connection method, including:

determining a meeting mode of each meeting participant;

respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and conference room equipment; the relation is used for indicating whether the participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in a meeting room, wherein the meeting room is a meeting room where the meeting room equipment is located;

based on the relation between the respective participation mode and the conference room device, communication connection between other participation devices and the conference room device is triggered in parallel, and the other participation devices represent the participation devices except the conference room device.

According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a device connection apparatus comprising:

the first determining module is used for determining the participation mode of each participant; respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and conference room equipment; the relation is used for indicating whether the participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in a meeting room, wherein the meeting room is a meeting room where the meeting room equipment is located;

and the connection module is used for parallelly triggering communication connection between other meeting equipment and the meeting room equipment based on the relation between each meeting mode and the meeting room equipment, and the other meeting equipment represents the meeting equipment except the meeting room equipment.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein,,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the method of the first aspect.

According to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions for causing the computer to perform the method according to the first aspect.

According to a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer program product comprising a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the method according to the first aspect.

The conference room equipment and other conference equipment can be automatically bound and controlled by integrating a plurality of different types of conference modes, so that data sharing of participants in different conference modes is realized.

It should be understood that the description in this section is not intended to identify key or critical features of the embodiments of the disclosure, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following specification.

Drawings

The drawings are for a better understanding of the present solution and are not to be construed as limiting the present disclosure. Wherein:

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a device connection method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is another flow chart of a device connection method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is yet another flow chart of a device connection method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a device connection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is another schematic structural view of a device connection apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of still another construction of a device connection apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of still another construction of the device connection apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of an electronic device for implementing a device connection method of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which include various details of the embodiments of the present disclosure to facilitate understanding, and should be considered as merely exemplary. Accordingly, one of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. Also, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted in the following description for clarity and conciseness.

In the related art, a plurality of parties participating in a conference use conference system terminals to participate in the conference at different geographic positions at the same time, so as to perform voice and video interaction. Each conference room equipped with a participant terminal has a special manager to make a pre-call each time a conference system is entered, at a pre-determined time, the participants of the conference need to reach the pre-determined conference room on-time. This approach requires the participants to concentrate on several conference rooms equipped with participant terminals.

However, in some cases, there is no way for all participants to focus on several meeting rooms to conduct a meeting, i.e., other ways to participate in the meeting are required in addition to the way the meeting room is. For example, there are 2 colleagues in Beijing conference room, shanghai conference room and Shenzhen conference room, respectively, at home office, one colleague can be connected with the network, the network signal of the other colleague is bad, and telephone access is needed.

According to the embodiment of the disclosure, according to the situation of a multi-place conference, different modes of calling and content sharing are performed through the selection of participants, so that the conference equipment corresponding to different modes of the conference is triggered concurrently, automatic processing of voice and content fast sharing is performed, the conference host saves the time of pre-conference preparation, and meanwhile, the integrated distribution of the online multi-party conference audio and video contents is realized. The device connection method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is described in detail below.

The device connection method provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can be applied to electronic devices, such as servers, terminals and the like, and the electronic devices can be electronic devices corresponding to conference sponsors. Or, the device connection method provided by the embodiment of the disclosure may be applied to a conference system, where the conference system includes an electronic device corresponding to a conference initiator, and so on.

The embodiment of the disclosure provides a device connection method, which comprises the following steps:

determining a meeting mode of each meeting participant;

respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and conference room equipment; the relation is used for indicating whether the participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in a meeting room, wherein the meeting room is a meeting room where meeting room equipment is located;

based on the relation between the respective conference mode and the conference room device, communication connections between other conference devices and the conference room device are triggered in parallel, the other conference devices representing the conference devices other than the conference room device.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, various different types of meeting modes can be integrated, and the conference room equipment and other meeting equipment can be automatically bound and controlled so as to realize data sharing for meeting participants of different meeting modes.

In one mode, the links and shares can be sequentially linked in sequence in a one-way mode. Every meeting, the meeting rooms of the opposite sides are sequentially connected, instant communication equipment is connected, a call is made, screen throwing sharing is carried out, the process of equipment debugging is required to take a few minutes, the original meeting of one hour is almost one tenth of the time for debugging equipment.

In order to enable a colleague not in a conference room to participate in the conference, the connection between conference room equipment is established firstly after the conference time is up in a one-way mode, and then, for the colleague with a network, the terminal of the colleague is connected with the conference room equipment in an instant communication mode; for colleagues who need telephone access to access by dialing a telephone. It can be seen that the conference organizer needs to sequentially make multiple voice outbound and screen sharing actions, so that the device access time is too long in the conference preparation process, and the device debugging time can be understood to be too long.

According to the embodiment of the disclosure, the communication connection between other participant devices and the conference room device is triggered in parallel, so that the participant devices corresponding to different participant modes can be triggered concurrently, the device debugging efficiency is improved, the conference preparation time is shortened, and the like.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a device connection method provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a device connection method, which may include:

s101, determining the participation mode of each participant.

In one mode, the participation modes of the participants can be predetermined, the participation modes of the participants are stored, and the stored participation modes of the participants are directly acquired when the conference begins.

For example, a meeting may be reserved with participants (meeting time contracted, etc.) prior to the meeting, and the manner in which the meeting is to be attended may be determined.

As shown in fig. 2, the device connection method provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure further includes:

s201, receiving a conference initiation request.

The meeting initiation request includes meeting time, meeting topic, meeting personnel (inviting meeting personnel), meeting location, and the like.

When a conference initiator initiates a conference, the conference initiator determines conference personnel and determines a conference place.

S202, sending meeting invitations to a plurality of persons contained in the meeting initiating request.

The conference initiator triggers a conference initiation request, and after receiving the conference initiation request, the electronic equipment or the conference system sends conference invitations to a plurality of personnel contained in the conference initiation request.

For example, a meeting invitation may be sent to relevant people (multiple people involved in a meeting initiation request) via a meeting invitation module, including meeting time, meeting topic, meeting people (inviting meeting people), meeting location, and so forth.

S203, receiving the participation modes sent by the participants.

The attendees are ones of a plurality of people.

The person responding to the meeting invitation is referred to as a meeting participant, who may be all of the plurality of people. In another implementation, it is possible that the attendees are part of the plurality of people, considering that some people do not respond to the meeting invitation (e.g., do not send a meeting).

After receiving the meeting invitation, a plurality of people can choose whether to participate in the meeting or not, and meanwhile, a meeting mode can be chosen. The confirmation of whether to participate in the conference and the selected participation mode may be transmitted to the electronic device or the conference system, for example, the confirmation of whether to participate in the conference and the selected participation mode may be transmitted through the invited confirmation module. In this manner, the electronic device or conference system may receive the manner of participation selected by the individual participants.

The participants may select a participant form of participation, such as meeting room participation, remote access (e.g., IM (InstantMessaging) instant messaging access), telephone access, and the like.

After receiving the meeting mode sent by each participant, the meeting mode selected by each participant can be saved, so that when the meeting starts, S101 can include directly acquiring the saved meeting mode of each participant.

The method can directly acquire the predetermined participation mode of each participant, saves time required for determining after the conference starts, and saves conference preparation time.

In another mode, the meeting mode of the meeting participants can be determined in real time when the meeting starts.

For example, a meeting participant may be determined and a meeting may be reserved with the participant prior to the meeting. And when the conference starts, the participation mode of the participants is determined.

The manner in which the participants are determined in real time at the start of the conference may be as shown in fig. 2.

S102, respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and the conference room equipment.

The relation is used for indicating whether the participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in a meeting room, and the meeting room is a meeting room where meeting room equipment is located.

And S103, triggering communication connection between other participant devices and the conference room device in parallel based on the relation between each participant mode and the conference room device.

Other participant devices represent participant devices other than conference room devices.

It is also understood that the connection modes corresponding to the different participation modes are used to trigger the participation devices corresponding to the different participation modes concurrently.

If the meeting participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in the meeting room, the equipment of the meeting participants participating in the meeting is meeting room equipment. If the meeting participants corresponding to the meeting mode are not located in the meeting room, the devices of the meeting participants participating in the meeting are other meeting devices. In this way, it may be determined, based on the relationship between the respective manner of participation and the conference room device, that the device of the participant participating in the conference is the conference room device or another participant device, and the communication connection between the other participant device and the conference room device is triggered in parallel.

In one implementation, there are multiple other participant devices, each of which may be triggered in parallel to establish a communication connection between each other participant device and the conference room device.

In one scenario, some of the participants in the multiparty conference can go to the conference room for participation, but the other part cannot go to the conference room for participation, and some of the participants cannot go to the conference room for participation can communicate instantly, and some networks cannot be connected and can only communicate by telephone. In this scenario, the participation method may include: meeting room participation, telephone access, and instant messaging access.

S103 may include:

in response to receiving a meeting sharing request of a meeting initiator, the meeting equipment of the meeting participants using instant messaging access and the meeting equipment of the meeting participants using telephone call access are triggered to be respectively in communication connection with the meeting room equipment in parallel.

For example, the conference room device can be triggered to be started, the participants using the instant communication client to call the participants using the instant communication access and the participants using the telephone call to access can be triggered simultaneously, and communication connection between the participant using the instant communication access and the participant using the telephone call to access and the conference room device can be established.

In one implementation, a conference room may be reserved, after which a communication connection with conference room equipment may be established.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, various different types of meeting modes can be integrated, for example, meeting room meeting, telephone access and instant messaging access in an actual application scene are integrated, and meeting room equipment and other meeting equipment are automatically bound and controlled so as to realize data sharing for meeting participants of different meeting modes. And the method can trigger the meeting equipment corresponding to different meeting modes concurrently, improve the equipment debugging efficiency, shorten the meeting preparation time and the like.

According to the needs of meeting sponsors and the real meeting states of meeting participants, meeting participants access in different modes, and meanwhile meeting room equipment is automatically bound for quick linking and sharing. The original single-path sequential linking and sharing method is optimized as follows: the automatic concurrent linking and sharing are extremely good pre-meeting preparation experience, and the meeting organization mode effectively improves the efficiency of multi-path equipment joint debugging in the early period of a meeting.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the device connection method provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure may further include:

s301, determining authority request information.

The rights request information includes meeting sponsor information and/or participant information of the participant.

The meeting sponsor information may include the name, job number, etc. of the meeting sponsor. Similarly, the attendee information may include the name, job number, etc. of the attendee.

S302, based on meeting sponsor information and/or meeting attendee information, whether meeting attendees have permission to use meeting room equipment or not is confirmed.

The conference room equipment authorization module can be used for confirming whether the participants have permission to use the conference room equipment. Namely, through the conference room equipment authorization module, whether the conference room is authorized to be used or not is determined according to information of conference sponsors and/or information of participants.

Different persons can have different rights of using the conference room equipment, and the rights of each person can be predetermined and stored, so that after the rights request information is determined, the rights of each person which are predetermined and stored are searched based on meeting initiator information and/or meeting participant information of the meeting participants in the rights request information, so as to determine whether the meeting participants have rights to use the conference room equipment.

In addition, it may also be possible to determine that the meeting attendees have no rights to use the meeting room device in connection with the use of the meeting room device, e.g., that the meeting room device is being used.

In one implementation, when the participant is authorized to use the conference room equipment, communication connection between other participant equipment and the conference room equipment can be established based on the relation between each participant mode and the conference room equipment. And if the meeting participants are confirmed to have no authority to use the conference room equipment, other conference room equipment which the meeting participants have authority to use can be searched for to replace the conference room equipment.

Therefore, the use of the conference room equipment can be controlled, and the conflict of the use of the conference room equipment is avoided.

In an optional embodiment, the device connection method provided in the embodiment of the disclosure may further include:

receiving voice data of participants; the voice data is distributed to a first participant device that includes participant devices other than the participant device used by the participant.

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving video data of participants; and distributing video data to a second participant device, wherein the second participant device comprises participant devices except for participant devices used by participants and participant devices corresponding to participant modes using telephone access.

After the communication connection is established, synchronization of audio and video data and the like can be performed.

Voice data may be distributed through VoIP.

VoIP is a voice call method for achieving voice call and multimedia conference via Internet Protocol (IP), i.e., communication via the internet. Other informal names are IP phone (IP telephone), internet phone (Internet telephony), broadband phone (broadband telephony), and broadband phone service (broadband phone service).

The synchronization of audio and video data can be realized by a screen projection mode. Wherein, can throw the screen according to the wireless screen agreement of throwing. Wireless screening protocols include Miracast, airPlay and digital living NETWORK ALLIANCE (DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE, DLNA).

The Miracast is applied to Android equipment, and if the equipment supports the function, the equipment is usually displayed as identifiers such as wireless display or wireless screen throwing, miracast and the like in the setting.

The AirPlay is applied to apple equipment, and uses the AirPlay protocol for transmission, and can be connected with a projection screen without the assistance of other software.

The DLNA is applied to Windows equipment, and generally, screen projection is completed by means of third-party software, and the DLNA can also be applied to Android equipment supporting a DLNA protocol, and generally, only videos and pictures can be projected.

Specifically, synchronization of audio and video data may be performed based on an audio and video transmission protocol. In particular, the distribution of audio data and/or video data may be performed based on an audio-video transmission protocol.

The audio video transmission protocol may include: real-time messaging protocol (Real Time Messaging Protocol, RTMP), real-time streaming protocol (Real Time Streaming Protocol, RTSP), hypertext transfer protocol (HyperText Transfer Protocol, HTTP) and session initiation protocol (Session Initiation Protocol, SIP).

RTMP is based on the transmission control protocol (Transmission Control Protocol, TCP) and is a family of protocols including the RTMP base protocol and the varieties RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE. RTMP is a network protocol for real-time data communication, and is mainly used for audio-video and data communication between Flash/AIR platform and streaming media/interactive server supporting RTMP protocol.

The RTSP protocol is an application layer protocol in the TCP/IP protocol architecture. The protocol defines how one-to-many applications efficiently transmit multimedia data over an IP network. RTSP is architecturally located above the Real-time transport protocol (Real-time Transport Protocol, RTP) and RTP control protocol (Real-time Transport Protocol Control Protocol, RTCP) and uses TCP or user datagram protocol (User Datagram Protocol, UDP) to complete data transmission. HTTP, in contrast to RTSP, an HTTP request is issued by a client and the server responds; with RTSP, both the client and the server may make requests, i.e. RTSP may be bi-directional. RTSP is a multimedia streaming protocol for controlling audio or video and allows simultaneous control of multiple streaming demands, and the network protocol used in transmission is not within its definition, and the server may choose to use TCP or UDP to transmit streaming content itself, its syntax and operation are similar to HTTP1.1, but time synchronization is not emphasized, so that network delay is tolerated. The above-mentioned method allows multiple stream demand control (Multicast) at the same time, which can reduce the network usage of the server side and further support the multiparty Video Conference (Video Conference). Since the Proxy server (Proxy) operates in a similar manner to HTTP1.1, the Proxy Cache is also applicable to RTSP, and the server providing service can be switched according to the actual load condition because RTSP has a redirect function, so as to avoid delay caused by excessive load concentrated on the same server.

HTTP is a standard (TCP) for client and server side requests and responses. Using a web browser, web crawler, or other tool, a client may refer to a client as a user agent by initiating an HTTP request to a designated port on a server (default port 80). The response server stores resources such as hypertext markup language (Hyper Text Markup Language) files and images, and is called an origin server (origin server). There may be multiple "middle layers" between the user agent and the origin server, such as proxy servers, gateways, or tunnels.

SIP is used to create, modify, and release sessions for one or more participants. These sessions may be Internet (network) multimedia conferences, IP phones or multimedia distribution. Participants to a session may communicate through multicast (multicast), mesh unicast (unicast), or a mixture of both.

Thus, the synchronization of data such as voice, video and screen sharing among different devices such as participants, conference room devices such as televisions, projectors, voice over IP (Voice over Internet Protocol, voIP) devices and the like and telephones is realized.

In a specific example, users B, C, D are located at location 1M1 (which may be understood as meeting room 1), user E is located at location 2M2 (which may be understood as meeting room 2), user F selects to be at home (online access), for example instant messaging access, user G is inconvenient to use IM communication, needs telephone contact, selects telephone access, and the meeting time is 2021, 8 months, 8 days.

User a (conference initiator) gives, to, six co-workers of user B, user C, user D, user E, user F, and user G an invite, specifically, user a triggers a conference initiation request, and the electronic device or the conference system may receive the conference initiation request sent by user a, where the conference initiation request may include a conference place, a conference time, a conference theme, and conference personnel (personnel to be invited). User B, user C, user D, user E, user F, user G confirms participation in the meeting and the manner of the meeting.

When it is time up, for example, by 8.8.8.2021, a conference sharing is initiated, specifically, a triggers a conference sharing request, which the electronic device or conference system can receive, at which time, the voice device (or video device) of the M1, M2 conference room is called out simultaneously, the voice device (or video device) of the M2 conference room is called out F using IM office software, and the voice device (or video device) of the M1, M2 conference room is called out G using the telephone device (or VOIP), and communication connection between the devices used by F and the devices used by G is established. The voice devices (or video devices) of the meeting rooms M1 and M2 can be understood as meeting room devices, the devices used by F are i.e. the participant devices of the participants accessed by instant messaging, the devices used by G can be understood as other participant devices, i.e. the participant devices of the participants accessed by telephone using telephone calls, and the devices used by F and the devices used by G can be understood as other participant devices.

Wherein the meeting rooms of M1, M2 are reserved by users of A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and the meeting is accepted. The conference system uses the identity of the conference subscriber for conference room data communications. Assuming that B subscribes to M1 (the same time as the invited meeting) and that B is referring back to the meeting of organization a, then B and a can be considered to be the same meeting and the same meeting room.

In particular, the screen, i.e., the screen throwing data, may be shared. The method can be directly put into a screen throwing device of a conference room or a video stream of an IM, and a participant device accessed by a telephone does not share a screen.

The conference voice and content data synchronization is realized by a multipath data integration module.

For example, user A speaks, speech data is generated, and the electronic device or conference system receives the speech data and distributes it to M1, M2, user F (IM), user G (telephone), and if A is at M1, then distributes it to M2, user F (IM), user G (telephone).

User a shares a screen, generates video data, receives the video data by the electronic device or conference system, distributes to M1, M2, user F (IM), if a is M1, then distributes to M2, user F (IM).

In the embodiment of the disclosure, according to the needs of conference sponsors and the real participation states of participants, the participants access in different modes, and meanwhile, conference room equipment is automatically bound for quick linking and sharing. The original single-path sequential linking and sharing method is optimized as follows: the automatic concurrent linking and sharing are extremely good pre-meeting preparation experience, and the meeting organization mode effectively improves the efficiency of multi-path equipment joint debugging in the early period of a meeting. The method has the advantages that the experience is optimized, meanwhile, the overall waiting cost of the team is saved, the overall conference efficiency of the team is improved, the frequent conference access mode is realized along with the multi-mode conference access mode, and the business value of office business on any equipment can be finally improved by pushing product landing or patent protection.

The embodiment of the disclosure also provides a device connection apparatus, as shown in fig. 4, which may include:

a first determining module 401, configured to determine a participation mode of each participant; respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and conference room equipment; the relation is used for indicating whether the participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in a meeting room, wherein the meeting room is a meeting room where meeting room equipment is located;

a connection module 402, configured to trigger, in parallel, a communication connection between other participant devices and the conference room device based on a relationship between each participant mode and the conference room device, where the other participant devices represent participant devices other than the conference room device.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 5, the apparatus further includes:

a first receiving module 501, configured to receive a conference initiation request;

a sending module 502, configured to send a meeting invitation to a plurality of people included in the meeting initiation request;

the second receiving module 503 is configured to receive a meeting mode sent by each meeting participant, where the meeting participant is a person in the plurality of persons.

Optionally, the reference mode includes: meeting room meeting, telephone access and instant messaging access;

the connection module 402 is specifically configured to trigger, in response to receiving a meeting sharing request of a meeting initiator, communication connection between a meeting device of a meeting participant using instant messaging access and a meeting device of a meeting participant using telephone call using telephone access, respectively, and the meeting room device in parallel.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 6, the apparatus further includes:

a second determining module 601, configured to determine rights request information, where the rights request information includes meeting initiator information and/or participant information of a participant;

a confirmation module 602, configured to confirm whether the participant has permission to use the conference room device based on the conference initiator information and/or the participant information.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 7, the apparatus further includes:

a third receiving module 701, configured to receive voice data of a participant;

a first distribution module 702 for distributing voice data to a first participant device, the first participant device comprising participant devices other than participant devices used by participants;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

a fourth receiving module 703, configured to receive video data of a participant;

a second distributing module 704, configured to distribute video data to a second participant device, where the second participant device includes participant devices except for participant devices used by participants and participant devices corresponding to participant modes using telephone access.

In the technical scheme of the disclosure, the related processes of collecting, storing, using, processing, transmitting, providing, disclosing and the like of the personal information of the user accord with the regulations of related laws and regulations, and the public order colloquial is not violated.

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the present disclosure also provides an electronic device, a readable storage medium and a computer program product.

Fig. 8 illustrates a schematic block diagram of an example electronic device 800 that may be used to implement embodiments of the present disclosure. Electronic devices are intended to represent various forms of digital computers, such as laptops, desktops, workstations, personal digital assistants, servers, blade servers, mainframes, and other appropriate computers. The electronic device may also represent various forms of mobile devices, such as personal digital processing, cellular telephones, smartphones, wearable devices, and other similar computing devices. The components shown herein, their connections and relationships, and their functions, are meant to be exemplary only, and are not meant to limit implementations of the disclosure described and/or claimed herein.

As shown in fig. 8, the apparatus 800 includes a computing unit 801 that can perform various appropriate actions and processes according to a computer program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM) 802 or a computer program loaded from a storage unit 808 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 803. In the RAM 803, various programs and data required for the operation of the device 800 can also be stored. The computing unit 801, the ROM 802, and the RAM 803 are connected to each other by a bus 804. An input/output (I/O) interface 805 is also connected to the bus 804.

Various components in device 800 are connected to I/O interface 805, including: an input unit 806 such as a keyboard, mouse, etc.; an output unit 807 such as various types of displays, speakers, and the like; a storage unit 808, such as a magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.; and a communication unit 809, such as a network card, modem, wireless communication transceiver, or the like. The communication unit 809 allows the device 800 to exchange information/data with other devices via a computer network such as the internet and/or various telecommunication networks.

The computing unit 801 may be a variety of general and/or special purpose processing components having processing and computing capabilities. Some examples of computing unit 801 include, but are not limited to, a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), various specialized Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing chips, various computing units running machine learning model algorithms, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), and any suitable processor, controller, microcontroller, etc. The computing unit 801 performs the respective methods and processes described above, for example, the device connection method. For example, in some embodiments, the device connection method may be implemented as a computer software program tangibly embodied on a machine-readable medium, such as the storage unit 808. In some embodiments, part or all of the computer program may be loaded and/or installed onto device 800 via ROM 802 and/or communication unit 809. When a computer program is loaded into RAM 803 and executed by computing unit 801, one or more steps of the device connection method described above may be performed. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the computing unit 801 may be configured to perform the device connection method by any other suitable means (e.g., by means of firmware).

Various implementations of the systems and techniques described here above may be implemented in digital electronic circuitry, integrated circuit systems, field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), systems On Chip (SOCs), load programmable logic devices (CPLDs), computer hardware, firmware, software, and/or combinations thereof. These various embodiments may include: implemented in one or more computer programs, the one or more computer programs may be executed and/or interpreted on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor, which may be a special purpose or general-purpose programmable processor, that may receive data and instructions from, and transmit data and instructions to, a storage system, at least one input device, and at least one output device.

Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. These program code may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus such that the program code, when executed by the processor or controller, causes the functions/operations specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram to be implemented. The program code may execute entirely on the machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.

In the context of this disclosure, a machine-readable medium may be a tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. The machine-readable medium may be a machine-readable signal medium or a machine-readable storage medium. The machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of a machine-readable storage medium would include an electrical connection based on one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

To provide for interaction with a user, the systems and techniques described here can be implemented on a computer having: a display device (e.g., a CRT (cathode ray tube) or LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor) for displaying information to a user; and a keyboard and pointing device (e.g., a mouse or trackball) by which a user can provide input to the computer. Other kinds of devices may also be used to provide for interaction with a user; for example, feedback provided to the user may be any form of sensory feedback (e.g., visual feedback, auditory feedback, or tactile feedback); and input from the user may be received in any form, including acoustic input, speech input, or tactile input.

The systems and techniques described here can be implemented in a computing system that includes a background component (e.g., as a data server), or that includes a middleware component (e.g., an application server), or that includes a front-end component (e.g., a user computer having a graphical user interface or a web browser through which a user can interact with an implementation of the systems and techniques described here), or any combination of such background, middleware, or front-end components. The components of the system can be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication (e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networks include: local Area Networks (LANs), wide Area Networks (WANs), and the internet.

The computer system may include a client and a server. The client and server are typically remote from each other and typically interact through a communication network. The relationship of client and server arises by virtue of computer programs running on the respective computers and having a client-server relationship to each other. The server may be a cloud server, a server of a distributed system, or a server incorporating a blockchain.

It should be appreciated that various forms of the flows shown above may be used to reorder, add, or delete steps. For example, the steps recited in the present disclosure may be performed in parallel or sequentially or in a different order, provided that the desired results of the technical solutions of the present disclosure are achieved, and are not limited herein.

The above detailed description should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present disclosure. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications, combinations, sub-combinations and alternatives are possible, depending on design requirements and other factors. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure are intended to be included within the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A device connection method, comprising:

determining a meeting mode of each meeting participant; the participation modes comprise: meeting room meeting, telephone access and instant messaging access;

triggering communication connection between other meeting equipment and the meeting room equipment in parallel based on the relation between each meeting mode and the meeting room equipment, wherein the other meeting equipment represents the meeting equipment except the meeting room equipment;

the method for triggering communication connection between other participant devices and the conference room device in parallel based on the relation between each participant mode and the conference room device comprises the following steps:

in response to receiving a meeting sharing request of a meeting initiator, parallelly triggering meeting equipment of a meeting participant using instant messaging access and meeting equipment of the meeting participant using telephone access by telephone calling to be respectively in communication connection with the meeting room equipment so as to synchronize audio and video data among the meeting room equipment, the meeting equipment of the meeting participant using instant messaging access and the meeting equipment of the meeting participant using telephone access;

the method further comprises the steps of:

determining authority request information, wherein the authority request information comprises meeting sponsor information and/or meeting personnel information of the meeting personnel;

and based on the conference initiator information and/or the participant information, confirming whether the participant has permission to use the conference room equipment.

2. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving a conference initiation request;

sending meeting invitations to a plurality of people contained in the meeting initiating request;

and receiving the participation modes sent by the participants.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving voice data of participants; distributing the voice data to a first participant device, the first participant device comprising participant devices other than those used by the participant;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

receiving video data of participants; and distributing the video data to a second participant device, wherein the second participant device comprises participant devices except for participant devices used by the participants and participant devices corresponding to participant modes using telephone access.

4. A device connection apparatus, comprising:

the first determining module is used for determining the participation mode of each participant; the participation modes comprise: meeting room meeting, telephone access and instant messaging access; respectively determining the relation between each participation mode and conference room equipment; the relation is used for indicating whether the participants corresponding to the meeting mode are located in a meeting room, wherein the meeting room is a meeting room where the meeting room equipment is located;

the connection module is used for parallelly triggering communication connection between other meeting equipment and the meeting room equipment based on the relation between each meeting mode and the meeting room equipment, and the other meeting equipment represents the meeting equipment except the meeting room equipment;

the connection module is specifically configured to trigger, in response to receiving a conference sharing request of a conference initiator, a conference device of a participant using instant messaging access and a conference device of a participant using telephone access in parallel to be respectively connected with the conference room device in a communication manner, so that audio and video data synchronization is performed among the conference room device, the conference device of the participant using instant messaging access and the conference device of the participant using telephone access;

the apparatus further comprises:

the second determining module is used for determining authority request information, wherein the authority request information comprises meeting initiator information and/or meeting participant information of the meeting participants;

and the confirmation module is used for confirming whether the meeting participants have permission to use the meeting room equipment or not based on the meeting initiator information and/or the meeting participant information.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, the apparatus further comprising:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a conference initiation request;

a sending module, configured to send a meeting invitation to a plurality of people included in the meeting initiation request;

the second receiving module is used for receiving the participation modes sent by the participants.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

the third receiving module is used for receiving voice data of participants;

a first distribution module for distributing the voice data to a first participant device, the first participant device including participant devices other than participant devices used by the participant;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

the fourth receiving module is used for receiving video data of participants;

and the second distribution module is used for distributing the video data to a second participant device, and the second participant device comprises participant devices except for participant devices used by the participants and participant devices corresponding to participant modes using telephone access.

7. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein,,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the method of any one of claims 1-3.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions for causing the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-3.