System and method for integrating VoIP client for conferencing
View Patent ↗Aspects of the present disclosure disclose system, apparatus and methods for providing an integrated web conferencing. In various aspects, the disclosure is directed to integrating a VoIP client for audio conferencing with a web client. In particular, the system provides for integrating a web portion of a web conference with an audio portion of the web conference. More specifically, the system, apparatus and methods provide for connecting a VoIP client to an audio conferencing portion of the system to facilitate communications between client and server.
1. A method performed by a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client for connecting to a conference, the method comprising:
(i) sending a registration request to join the conference to a first registration device associated with a network;
(ii) receiving registration information associated with the conference from the first registration device, the registration information comprising VoIP client registration status and a conference identifier temporarily associated with the conference and the VoIP client, wherein the conference identifier is a hash value that is generated by the first registration device to be unique to the conference; and
(iii) sending information to a web client, wherein the information comprises at least some of the registration information and one of the group consisting of registration profile data, call setup success information, manual hang-up information and call disconnect information, wherein in response to the sending step (iii), the VoIP client is allowed to access the conference.