WO2012083606A1

WO2012083606A1 - Method and system for audio and video conversations

Info

Publication number: WO2012083606A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/071146
Authority: WO
Inventors: 彭磊
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-12-23
Filing date: 2011-02-21
Publication date: 2012-06-28
Also published as: CN102036048A

Abstract

A method and system for audio and video conversations are disclosed in the present invention, which includes the following steps that: association relations between audio call terminals and Set Top Boxes (STBs) are set; after receiving an audio conversation request, a video sharing service server acquires, according to the association relations between the audio call terminals and the STBs, the STB associated with the audio call terminals of calling and called parties; and a video conversation between the calling and called parties is established via the STBs associated with the audio call terminals of said calling and called parties. A system for audio and video conversations is also disclosed. The present invention realizes audio and video conversations by merely utilizing existing devices, thus reducing audio and video conversations cost, and providing convenience for general users during audio and video conversations.

Description

Method and system for voice and video call

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and system for voice and video calls. Background technique

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is a network TV, which is a new service generated by the integration of Internet services and traditional TV services. Simply put, IPTV is a service that uses broadband networks to provide multimedia services to users. Its main features are interactivity and real-time. Through IPTV services, users can get high-quality digital media services, and they can freely choose broadband IP networks. Video programming also makes it easy to combine TV services with Internet browsing, email delivery, and a variety of online information consulting, entertainment, education, and business functions.

The so-called video call is to provide users with audio and video call services. Simply put, it is to add visual services to the phone service, that is, during the call, in addition to listening to the other party's voice, you can also see the other party's image, so that the user Have the feeling of face-to-face conversation.

The current telephone service generally only provides voice call services. Generally, special equipment is required for video call classes. Such devices are expensive, and ordinary users cannot afford them. For ordinary telephone terminals supporting video calls, there are some problems to be solved, such as battery power consumption and video transmission, and the price of such terminals is also high. It is difficult to promote the video communication service based on the above various reasons.

Now, the IPTV set-top box can realize the collection of local video images, that is, the video images collected by the local camera can be sent to another set-top box on the remote end of the IPTV network through the camera and the IPTV set-top box, and the television set is externally connected through the set-top box. The device can receive the image, that is, the video images of the two set-top boxes can be viewed from each other, but the disadvantage is that most of the set-top boxes currently used can only collect video images, but cannot collect voices, so such transmissions only I can see the image and I can't hear the sound. If you use a professional audio and video collection peripheral to connect to the set-top box, the same peripherals also have the problem of high cost. Summary of the invention

The main technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a voice and video calling method and system, which are used to solve the problem that the prior art can only use a professional device for a language video call, which cannot be used by ordinary users.

To solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method for voice and video call, the method comprising the steps of: setting an association relationship between a voice call terminal and a set top box; after receiving the voice call request, the video sharing service server The relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box is obtained, and the set top box associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party is obtained; the video call of the calling party is established by the set top box associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party.

Further, the video sharing service server is deployed in an IMS network domain.

Further, the set top box is registered as a SIP terminal to register to the IMS network, and the set top box is simultaneously registered to the core network when the device is powered on.

Further, an association relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box is set on the video sharing service server.

Further, the video sharing service server is associated with the call session control function CSCF, and the CSCF receives the voice call request information of the calling party and forwards the information to the video sharing service server, where the video sharing service server sends the voice call. Request information is sent to the called party.

Further, after receiving the confirmation information of the voice call request information by the calling party and the called party, the video sharing service server separately sends the video call request information to the set top box associated with the calling party voice call terminal.

Further, the video sharing service server establishes a video call of the calling party and the called party after receiving the confirmation message of the video call request information sent by the set top box associated with the calling party voice call terminal. Further, after the established primary and called party video call is interrupted, it is initiated by either party of the calling party or the called party.

Further, the set-top box initiated by the calling party and the called party (including the called party) to initiate the video call initiates a video call request, and the called party (or the calling party) confirms to establish a video call.

The present invention further provides a system for voice and video calls, the system comprising: an association relationship setting unit, configured to set an association relationship between a voice call terminal and a set top box; and a set top box acquisition unit, configured to receive the video sharing service server After the voice call request, acquiring, according to the association relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box, a set top box associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party; the video call establishing unit, configured to use the voice call terminal with the calling party and the called party The associated set top box establishes a video call between the calling party and the called party.

The invention has the beneficial effects that the common video equipment, such as the existing language calling terminal and the IPTV set top box, can conveniently implement the voice and video call, which greatly reduces the cost of the user for the voice video call. DRAWINGS

1 is a structural diagram of each network element involved in an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a logic flow diagram of establishing a voice call according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a signaling flowchart of establishing a voice call according to an embodiment of the present invention; detailed description

The present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) network is taken as an example in this embodiment. The video sharing service server is deployed in the IMS network area, and the voice is set on the video sharing service server. The relationship between the calling terminal and the set top box. The video sharing service server performs service triggering by using the ISC (Server Control) and the CSCF (Call Session Control Function). After receiving the voice call request sent by the calling party, the CSCF forwards the voice call request to the video sharing service server, and the video sharing is performed. After receiving the voice call request, the service server acquires set-top box information associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party and the set-top box, and then establishes between the calling party and the called party through the set-top box according to the relationship between the voice call terminal and the set-top box. Video call, the set top box information includes media description information of video communication. The IMS network user performs service triggering through the video sharing service server. The set top box (STB) is registered as a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) terminal in the IMS network system, and the video sharing service server is subscribed, and the CSCF is also registered as a third party to the video sharing service server. The Next Generation Network (NGN) network users and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network users are taken as examples to illustrate how different network users are connected in the IMS network structure. For example, an NGN network user, such as a public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone subscription video sharing service server, an NGN network user initiates a voice call request through a video sharing service server, and the video sharing service server assists The server SS routes the request information of the voice call request to the media gateway control control function (MGCF) in the IMS network domain, and then the MGCF forwards the information to the CSCF to implement service triggering, and pre-plugs the access code in the request information. Route the session to the NGN network. Taking the CDMA network user as an example, the CDMA network user subscribes to the video sharing service server (AS), first triggers the anchoring service in the CDMA network domain, and anchors the video sharing service server AS, and adds the prefix N1 to the called user to place the call. The request information is routed to the MGCF of the IMS domain, and then the service is triggered by the CSCF. After the processing is completed, the called user is called by the IMS network. After the IPTV set-top box subscribes to the video sharing service server, the corresponding data is modified in the core network, and the IPTV set-top box is registered to the core network after being powered on, and the CSCF is registered as a third party to the video sharing service server, wherein the core network is used to implement the computer network and Interworking of communication networks. The following specifically describes how to automatically establish a video call after the voice call is established during the actual call, and how to initiate a video call again after the party actively interrupts the video call.

First, the logic flow for establishing a voice call is explained. Please refer to Figure 2:

Step 201: Start establishing a voice call;

Step 202: Determine whether the main called user has the video companion service capability, that is, whether there is an IPTV set top box for making a video call, if yes, execute step 203, otherwise, go to step 212; Step 203: Call the calling user by the video sharing service server Set top box

Step 204: Determine whether the video sharing service server calls the calling user is successful, if successful, proceed to step 205, otherwise, go to step 212;

Step 205: Calling the called user set-top box by the video sharing service server;

Step 206: Determine whether the video sharing service server calls the called user set-top box is successful, if successful, perform step 207, otherwise, go to step 212;

Step 207: Establish a voice call between the calling party and the called party.

Step 208: Ending the call by either the calling party or the called party;

Step 209: Determine whether there is a video session at this time, if otherwise, jump to step 211;

Step 210: Release the video session;

Step 211: Release the voice call;

Step 212: End the voice call.

The following describes the signaling flow in the process of establishing a voice and video call. Referring to FIG. 3, the set top box corresponding to the telephone terminal A is the set top box A, and the set top box corresponding to the telephone terminal B is the set top box B: Step 301: The telephone terminal A is directed to the telephone terminal B initiates a voice call request, and the request information of the voice call request is sent to the video sharing service server AS through the core network;

Step 302: After the video sharing service server AS performs authentication and the like on the received voice call request, the voice call request information is sent to the phone terminal B through the core network. Step 303: After the phone terminal B answers, Video sharing service server AS returns voice communication 200 OK response information of the request message;

Step 304: The video sharing service server AS sends a 200 OK response message of the telephone terminal B to the language call request information to the telephone terminal A;

Step 305: After receiving the 200 OK response information of the voice call request information by the telephone terminal B, the telephone terminal A returns an ACK information acknowledged by the 200 OK response to the video sharing service server AS.

Step 306: The telephone terminal B returns an ACK response to the 200 OK response confirmation to the video sharing service server AS.

At this step, the telephone terminal A and the telephone terminal B have established a voice call through the video sharing service , AS AS, and the signaling flow for automatically establishing a video call after the telephone terminal A establishes a voice call with the telephone terminal B will be described below:

Step 307: The video sharing service server AS sends information about establishing a video call request to the set top box A through the core network.

Step 308: The set top box STB A returns a 200 OK response to the video sharing service server AS to establish video call request information.

Step 309: The video sharing service server AS returns an acknowledgement ACK message to the set top box A for responding to the 200 OK;

Step 310: The video sharing service server AS sends information about establishing a video call request to the set top box B through the core network.

Step 311: The set top box B returns a 200 OK response to the video sharing request information to the video sharing service server AS.

Step 312: The video sharing service server AS returns an acknowledgement ACK message to the set top box B for responding to the 200 OK;

At this step, the telephone terminal A and the telephone terminal B have established a video call through their respective set top boxes. The signaling flow of releasing the voice and video call after one party hangs up is described below: Step 313: The telephone terminal A hangs up and sends the request information for leaving the call to the video sharing service server AS.

Step 314: The video sharing service server AS returns a 200 OK response to the leaving call request information to the telephone terminal A.

Step 315: The video sharing service server AS sends a message to the telephone terminal B notifying that it left the call;

Step 316: The telephone terminal B returns to the video sharing service server AS a 200 OK response notifying that it left the call message;

At this point, the voice call ends.

Step 317: The video sharing service server AS sends a message to the set top box A to notify it to leave; Step 318: The set top box A returns a 200 OK response to the video sharing service server AS notifying the leaving message;

Step 319: The video sharing service server AS sends a message to the set top box B notifying that it left; Step 320: The set top box B returns a 200 OK response notifying the leaving message to the video sharing service server AS.

At this point, the video call ends.

All of the above signaling procedures describe that the telephone terminal A and the telephone terminal B establish a voice call, and then the set-top box A and the set-top box B corresponding to the telephone terminal A and the telephone terminal B respectively automatically establish a video call, and release the voice call machine after one party hangs up. The overall flow of video calls. The following is a detailed description of the process of initiating a video call after interrupting the video call for FIG. 4 .

Figure 4 is a logic flow diagram for initiating a video call after interrupting a video call:

Step 401: The voice call remains unblocked, and the video call is interrupted;

Step 402: The user of the telephone terminal A and the user of the telephone terminal B need to establish a video call again; Step 403: The user of the telephone terminal A (or the user of the telephone terminal B) performs a corresponding operation on the associated set top box A (or the set top box B), and initiates a request for establishing a video call to the set top box B (or the set top box A);

Step 404: After receiving the request for establishing a video call, the set top box B (or the set top box A) confirms that the video call request is established;

Step 405: Establish a video call through the video sharing service server.

For the specific process of establishing a video call, please refer to the above process, and details are not described here.

To implement the voice and video call method provided by the present invention, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for voice video call, where the system includes:

An association relationship setting unit, configured to set an association relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box; the set top box acquiring unit, configured to: after the video sharing service server receives the voice call request, according to the association between the voice call terminal and the set top box Relationship, obtaining set top box information associated with a voice call terminal of the calling party;

A video call establishing unit is configured to establish a video call of the calling party and the called party through a set top box associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party.

The modules of the system provided by the embodiment of the present invention are all configured to implement the steps of the voice video calling method proposed by the present invention, and the functions thereof can be directly derived from the steps in the foregoing method embodiments, so as to save space, I won't go into details here.

The system provided by the invention breaks the limitation of using the professional device to perform video call in the prior art, and provides great convenience for the ordinary user to realize the video call.

The above is a further detailed description of the present invention in connection with the specific embodiments, and the specific embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the description. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

Claim

A method for voice and video call, the method comprising the steps of: setting an association relationship between a voice call terminal and a set top box;

After receiving the voice call request, the video sharing service server acquires, according to the association relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box, the set top associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party and the voice call terminal of the calling party and the called party. The associated set top box establishes a video call between the calling party and the called party.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the video sharing service server is deployed in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network domain.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the set top box is registered as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) terminal to the IMS network, and the set top box is simultaneously registered to the core network when the device is powered on.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein an association relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box is set on the video sharing service server.

The method according to claim 1, wherein the video sharing service server is associated with a call session control function (CSCF), and the CSCF forwards the voice call request information of the calling party to the video sharing service. The server sends the voice call request information to the called party by the video sharing service server.

The method according to claim 5, wherein, after receiving the confirmation information of the voice call request information by the calling party and the called party, the video sharing service server separately reports the voice to the calling party and the called party. The set top box associated with the calling terminal sends video call request information.

The method according to claim 6, wherein the video sharing service server receives the confirmation information of the video call request information sent by the set top box associated with the main called party voice call terminal, and then establishes the main being Call the party's video call.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein, after the established primary and called party video calls are interrupted, the primary called party initiates a video call again.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the calling party that initiates the video call by the calling party and the calling party (or the called party) operates to initiate a video call request, the called party (or The calling party) establishes a video call after confirmation.

A system for voice and video calls, the system comprising: an association relationship setting unit, configured to set an association relationship between a voice call terminal and a set top box; and a set top box acquisition unit, configured to be in a video sharing service server After receiving the voice call request, acquiring, according to the association relationship between the voice call terminal and the set top box, the set top box information associated with the voice call terminal of the calling party and the called party;