COMMUNICATION METHOD OF DATA RELAY SERVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD OF VIDEO CONFERENCE SERVER PROTECTED BY FIREWALL, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD OF VIDEO CONFERENCE CLIENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data relay server for a data conference for exchanging data of a video conference with N video conference clients.;SOLUTION: A communication method for the data relay server, which can be executed by an apparatus and/or a computer, includes the steps of receiving a request for relay of the video conference data between the video conference server protected by a firewall and the N (N1) video conference clients not protected by a firewall, and establishing a connection pool in response to the request for relay of the video conference data and receiving a plurality of first connections from the video conference server. The method further includes the steps of receiving a plurality of second connections from the N video conference clients after the connection pool is established, associating the second connections from the N video conference clients with different first connections, and relaying the video conference data between the video conference server and the N video conference clients via the first and second connections.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT