Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Koji Shima

Nobuyuki Takeda

Shigeru Fukazawa

Yasumasa Sasaki

Norimasa Niiya

Fumikazu Matsukawa

Yoichi Naito

According to one embodiment, a conference system which is provided with a plurality of communication terminals, a communication network connecting the plurality of communication terminals thereto and forming a communication environment, and a server apparatus actualizing a conference among users by using the communication network, wherein each of the communication terminals includes a notice processor notifying an acquisition request including the fact of a request to acquire multimedia data and identification information to the server apparatus, and a storage unit storing the multimedia data, and the server apparatus includes a memory unit associating a communication terminal that is a request origin with the identification information, and storing them, an inquiry processor inquiring a possibility to become the route of the multimedia data, and a transmission processor transmitting the multimedia data to the communication terminal of the request origin via the communication terminal of the route.

Conference system and its multimedia data storage method

According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a control table respectively showing correspondence relations between user ID of the first data terminal and listener information indicating that the first data terminal is in operation in a pseudo manner, when the first data terminal contained in the call information event is out of operation, and a controller which refers the control table based on the user ID of the first data terminal, when the first data terminal which is out of operation is started, and establishes a communication connection between the first data terminal and the second data terminal based on a reference result.

Server apparatus

According to one embodiment, an apparatus accommodates a telephone terminal and an emergency call terminal, wherein the telephone terminal is associated with the first video camera and a first display, the emergency call terminal is associated with a second video camera and a second display, and the apparatus further includes a determination processor determines whether or not a call generated from the telephone terminal is an emergency call, a visual link former forms an image communication link between the first video camera and the second display to display an image captured by the first video camera on the second display if the determination processor determines the call is the emergency call, and a voice link former forms a voice communication link between the telephone terminal and the emergency call terminal when the emergency call terminal performs a response to the call after the image communication link is formed.

Visual communication system and its main apparatus

A telephone exchanging apparatuscomprises a joined terminal tablea joined terminal table operating portionand a reception side designating portionThe joined terminal tablestores terminal identification information that identifies a telephone terminalthat will join a conference. The joined terminal table operating portionoperates the joined terminal tablecorresponding to joined terminal table operation commanding information. The reception side designating portiondesignates the reception side of a speech packet transmitted from the telephone terminalSince the joined terminal tableis operated by the joined terminal table operating portioneven if the number of people who join a conference increases, they can be easily added or deleted.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Koji Shima