US 11,924,493 B2
Hybrid server for providing videophone service and method of operating the same
Jea Bong Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to MEDIARAK SYSTEM INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by Mediarak System Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/949,804.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0010634 (KR), filed on Jan. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0291951 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2668 (2013.01) [H04N 21/2343 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hybrid server for providing a videophone service, the hybrid server comprising:
a first server configured to separately receive individual video media streams of an audience from audience terminals as uploads, mix the received individual video media streams as one or more group video media streams, and forward the group video media streams as downloads; and
a second server configured to receive the group video media streams from the first server as uploads and receive a video media stream of a performer from a performance terminal as an upload, wherein
the second server selects any one of the group video media streams and the video media stream of the performer or combines the group video media streams and the video media stream of the performer and forwards the selected video stream or the combined video streams to the audience terminals and an audience screen terminal that the hybrid server provides a high-definition video stream in real time while minimizing a loading load of the second server,
the audience screen terminal configured to lay out and display videos of audience members,
the second server forwards the group video media streams to the audience screen terminal, and
the first server is a multi-point control unit (MCU) server, and the second server is a selective forward unit (SFU) server.