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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2021
Pexip As, Oslo, NO;
Benjamin John Hockley, Reading, GB;
Pexip AS, Oslo, NO;
Abstract
The present invention includes a method and a system providing balancing of work items required to be completed as a whole over the available computing systems in a video conference node cluster, in addition to providing sufficient redundancy among conference nodes by means of consistent hash functions. Consistent hashing is based on mapping each object or work item to a point on a virtual circle. The system maps each available machine or node to many pseudo-randomly distributed points on the same circle. The present invention can be used for example in monitoring calendar servers for scheduled video conferences and providing a user interface icon to endpoints participating in a scheduled video conference through which the endpoints enter the video conference, or monitoring dial-ins from an endpoint participating in a scheduled video conference and dialing out to the other endpoints participating in the scheduled video conference.