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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2012
Dhigha Sekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepak P. Rao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sankaran Narayanan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dhigha Sekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepak P. Rao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sankaran Narayanan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and architecture for providing a conference system that effectively achieves high availability conferencing is provided. The conference system architecture provides a conference system that comprises a set of stateless conference servers and a shared conference store to provide highly available conferencing to its users. The conference servers serve (host) conferences (meetings) that allow users to conduct distributed conferences. Each conference server generally performs conference provisioning operations and conference control operations. The shared conference store provides for the storage of conference state information, thus allowing the conference servers in the conference server pool to be stateless by maintaining conference state information on the shared conference store. A stateless conference server may also locally maintain, for example, in cache memory, some of the conference state information that is maintained on the shared conference store.