Television – Two-way video and voice communication – User positioning
Reexamination Certificate
1998-12-21
2001-02-27
Kuntz, Curtis A. (Department: 2743)
Television
Two-way video and voice communication
User positioning
C379S093210, C379S093240
Reexamination Certificate
active
06195117
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a video conference reservation system for holding the video conference automatically with the video conference reserved.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
Formerly, the video conference reservation system is in use for holding the video conference automatically while reserving the day and time when a conference is held beforehand at the time when the video conference is held.
In general, reservation of the video conference is implemented in such a way that there is established the day and time when a conference is held and so forth by the special purpose terminal, and the notification of holding conference is printed by the printer and so forth.
In the above-described conventional video conference reservation system, there is pointed the following problems. Namely, only the special purpose terminal can reserve the video conference when intending to reserve the video conference. For this reason, it is incapable of reserving the video conference at the place where the special purpose terminal does not exist.
Further, there is consumed time for separately distributing a conference notification widely to the participants of the video conference because there is printed the notification of holding conference for distribution.
The Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. HEI 6-141083 discloses that there is automatically formed a notification manuscript of holding conference by means of the transmission side remote conference terminal device, then transmitting the notification of holding conference to the reception side remote conference terminal device through the integrated services digital network (ISDN).
In the above-described conventional video conference reservation system, since there is automatically formed the notification manuscript of holding conference by means of the remote conference terminal device, thus transmitting the notification of holding conference to the reception side remote conference terminal device through the integrated services digital network (ISDN), it is capable of only delivering the notification of holding conference.
However, it is no change in that the reservation of video conference is implemented by means of special purpose terminal, thus it is necessary to reserve the video conference while going to established place when reserving. Further, even though there is distributed the notification of holding conference, it is incapable of satisfying demand of intending to distribute to the participants directly because there is distributed the notification of holding conference to the special purpose terminal, thus the participants are to refer the notification of holding conference while going to the established place of the special purpose terminal.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing it is an object of the present invention is to provide a video conference reservation system and storage media for storing therein video conference reservation program in which it is capable of implementing reservation of the video conference without going to the established place of special purpose terminal for the reservation, and automatically forming the notification of holding conference in accordance with the reserved establishment information, thus enabling it to be distributed automatically to the distribution destination.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a video conference reservation system in which it is capable of referring to the distributed notification of holding conference without going to the established place of the special purpose terminal.
According to one aspect of the present invention, for achieving the above-mentioned objects, there is provided a video conference reservation system in which there is established a video conference beforehand comprising a conference information establishment means for establishing the conference information of the video conference, a conference information management means for managing the conference information from the conference information establishment means, a conference notification preparation means for preparing automatically the conference notification based on the conference information established by the conference information establishment means, a distribution destination establishment means for establishing distribution destination of the conference notification prepared by the conference notification preparation means, a conference notification distribution means for distributing automatically the conference notification prepared by the conference notification preparation means to the distribution destination established by the distribution destination establishment means through an electronic mail, and a conference notification reception means for receiving the conference notification distributed by the electronic mail of the conference notification distribution means, wherein the conference information establishment means is connected to the conference information management means through circuit network.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a video conference reservation system wherein there exists a plurality of means for day and time when a conference is held.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a video conference reservation system wherein there is further provided with an electronic mail transmission means in which a conference member terminal which receives the conference notification communicates to a conference member terminal which reserves a video conference through the electronic mail, while referring to the conference notification.
According to still another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of video conference reservation comprising the steps of triggering a conference program of a video conference, a conference member terminal is automatically connected to a conference control device through a first circuit network, establishing a day which is to hold a video conference to the conference control device from key board, selecting a place where is to participate to the video conference by means of a mouse for example, to establish to the conference control device, establishing the conference participation point, connecting configuration concerning the conference to be held such as circuit speed establishment, multi place conference, broadcasting type conference or the like to the conference control device, judging whether or not a second circuit network is a leased line, such the second circuit network connecting the conference control device to the first to the n-th video conference terminals, establishing either a call originating being implemented from the conference control device to the first to the n-th video conference terminals, or a call originating being implemented from the first to the n-th video conference terminals to the conference control device, establishing start time and end time of the video conference to be reserved to the conference control device, establishing title of conference of the video conference to be held, communication destination of the subscriber and so forth, displaying a confirmation screen for implementing whether or not there is formed established content of reservation of the video conference by way of notification of the conference to be held to the conference member terminal, preparing the notification of the conference, displaying a selection screen for selecting whether there is distributed by the electronic mail or there is distributed the notification of the conference with it printed to the conference member terminal, selecting the electronic mail address of transmission destination from the electronic mail address stored in the electronic mail address storing section within the conference control device, displaying selection screen for selecting whether or not there is terminated a video conference reservation program, and terminating the reservation program of the video conference while disconnecting connection to the conference control device
Kuntz Curtis A.
NEC Corporation
Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen, LLP
Ramakrishnaiah Melur
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