公开(公告)号：AU2011253547A1

公开(公告)日：2011-12-15

申请号：AU2011253547

申请日：2011-11-21

Applicant: MICROSOFT CORP

Inventor： SEKARAN DHIGHA D ,  PIERCE SHAUN D ,  COX SHAUN D ,  SRIKANTH SHOROFF ,  PAVEL CURTIS ,  DAVID NICHOLS ,  MEHTA BIMAL K ,  VADIM EYDELMAN ,  HAMPAPUR PARTHASARATHY VIJAY KISHEN ,  ORIT LEVIN ,  GUR KIMCHI

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A computer-implemented conferencing system, comprising: a plurality of" contendd servers comprising a conferencing pool, wherein each of the plurality of frontend servers comprises at least one processing unit; a storage device that stores a 10 conference database, wherein the conference database includes information about at least one conference provisioned on at least one frontend server of the conFerencing pool, and wherein the conference database further includes presence information and registration information corresponding to the at least one provisioned conference; and at least one load balancer component that balances session load among the plurality of 15 the frontend servers comprising the conferencing pool. COMPONENT 104 MEDIA MEDIA MEDIA COMPONENT, COMPONENTS COMPONENTN 1- 106 CLIENT CLIENT, --- CLIENTm

公开(公告)号：ZA200508345B

公开(公告)日：2008-08-27

申请号：ZA200508345

申请日：2005-10-14

Applicant: MICROSOFT CORP

Inventor： ORIT LEVIN ,  RANG TIMOTHY J

IPC: G06F20090101

Abstract: A facility for providing an IM mixed mode operation by utilizing both page mode IM and session based IM jointly in the same IM conversation is provided. The facility initiates (302) an IM conversation between an originating user registered at an originating device and a remote user registered at a plurality of devices initially in page mode. Subsequent to discovering the identity of a remote device used by the remote user to initially reply to the IM conversation, the facility converts (304) the IM conversation from page mode IM to session based IM.