Virtual conference room service
MyVoipApp Support Team
support@myvoipapp.com
Index
1. Description
In enterprise daily work, we often need to participate in various meetings to discuss with several peoples. Sometimes, all peoples can be arranged in the same meeting room to discuss face to face.But in sometimes, we have to make conference calls to complete our work since some people are in different locations.
A "Conference call" is a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than two called parties listen in to the audio portion of the call. The conference calls can allow the called party to participate during the call. The participants are usually able to call into the conference call themselves by dialing into a special telephone number that connects to a "viratul conference room".
2 miniSipServer virtual conference room
miniSipServer version 3.0 or higher can provide "virtual conference room" feature to support conference calls.
User can create virtual conference room dynamically or through GUI. Once the conference room is created, participants can attend the meeting by dialing special telephone number prefix *400* with room ID and PIN information. No more than 3 participants can be included in the same conference room. MSS can support several simultaneous meetings at the same time.
In following sections, we will describe details about miniSipServer conference call.
2.1 Create conference room
MSS stores conference configurations in MySQL database. So it is necessary to configure MSS to work with MySQL database before we create conference room.
2.1.1 Configure system information
Please install MySQL database firstly. Once MySQL is ready, we can configure MSS to work with MySQL.
In MSS, please click menu "Data / System information / Remote database". In the pop-up dialog, please fill your MySQL database information there. Then, please restart MSS to enable it.
Once MSS works well with MySQL, MSS will create tables in MySQL automatically when MSS is start-up. Then, we can continue our configurations.
2.1.3 Create conference room through GUI
Please click menu "Service / Conference room" and click "Add" button to add a conference room as following:
|
Item |
Description |
Room ID |
Room number. When participants attend the meeting, they must indicate which room they want to enter.The valid value shoule between 1 and 200. |
PIN |
Personal identification number. When participants dial the special number to attend the meeting, they need dial the PIN together for authorization. If the PIN is invalid, they will be rejected to enter the conference room. |
Duration (minutes) |
It is used to limit the conference duration. When it is expired, the conference will be released. |
Creator |
It is optional parameter to indicate who create this conference room. If this parameter is not configured, everyone can be able to delete the conference room, otherwise, only the creator can delete the conference room. |
2.1.3 Create conference room dynamically
Local users (extensions) can dial special number prefix *401* to create conference room dynamically. The format shoule be *401*room id*PIN*duration. If "duration" is not indicated, the default value will be 60 minutes.
For example, the local user can dial *401*1*1234 which means:
The user wants to create a conference room whose room id is 1 and PIN is 1234. The conference duration is 60 minutes. The default creator will be the user itself.
For another example, the local user can dial *401*2*5678*120 which means:
The user wants to create a conference room whose room id is 2, PIN is 5678 and duration is 120 minutes. Of course, the default creator is the user itself.
2.2 Using conference room
The participants can dial special number prefix *400* to attend the meeting. The format shoule be *400*room id* PIN. When the first participant enters the room, he/she will hear waiting music until another participant enters the same room.
For example, the local user can dial *400*1*1234 to enter the conference room 1 and dial *400*2*5678 to enter the conference room 2.
If the PIN is wrong, the user will be rejected and cannot attend the conference.
2.3 Delete conference room
"Delete conference room" means delete configurations data from database.
When a conference room is deleted but the conference room is still active, no new participants can attend the meeting and previous participants can still be kept in the conference.
Using GUI, it is very easy to delete a conference room. Typically, the local users can also dial special number prefix *402* to delete a conference room dynamically. The format is *402*room id*PIN. Of course, only when the PIN is right, the conference room could be able to be deleted.
Please pay attention to the conference creator. If the conference room is created with "Creator", that means only the creator can delete the conference room dynamically and other users will be rejected to deletet such conference rooms.
Local user "100" dials *401*1*1234 to create a conference room. He/she can dial *402*1*1234 to delete the conference room. Local user "101" can not delete such conference room even he/she dial *402*1*1234 rightly since he/she is not the creator.
In another way, if all participants in the conference room exited the active conference, the conference room will be deleted automatically.