Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a timer, an acquisition module, a memory, and a controller. The timer measures a current time. The acquisition module acquires pieces of local time information from the terminals. The memory stores in a management table terminal IDs in association with pieces of local time information, and time differences between the pieces of local time information and the current time. The controller updates the firmware of each of the terminals sequentially, starting with a terminal with the sum of the time on the timer and the time difference is reached the update start time, based on the management table.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a conference system which is provided with a plurality of communication terminals, a communication network connecting the plurality of communication terminals thereto and forming a communication environment, and a server apparatus actualizing a conference among users by using the communication network, wherein each of the communication terminals includes a notice processor notifying an acquisition request including the fact of a request to acquire multimedia data and identification information to the server apparatus, and a storage unit storing the multimedia data, and the server apparatus includes a memory unit associating a communication terminal that is a request origin with the identification information, and storing them, an inquiry processor inquiring a possibility to become the route of the multimedia data, and a transmission processor transmitting the multimedia data to the communication terminal of the request origin via the communication terminal of the route.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus which performs a signaling process with an external apparatus through a network and a multimedia process of data, includes: first and second CPU cores each including one or more CPU cores; a first controller configured to allocate one of the signaling process and the multimedia process to the first CPU core, and the other of the signaling process and the multimedia process to the second CPU core; and a second controller configured to allocate a process which is different from the multimedia process and the signaling process to one of the first and second CPU cores, according to process states of the first and second CPU cores.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table in which the user IDs are associated with communication bands and treatable data sizes in the communication network with one another, a comparator which refers to the management table in occurring communication requests, and compares respective communication bands and data sizes of a first and a second communication terminals to be objects of the data communication control out of the plurality of communication terminals based on the reference result, and a controller which decides communication bands and data sizes to be assigned between the first and the second communication terminals based on the comparison result from the comparator, and executes a data communication connection between the first and the second communication terminals by using the decided communication bands and the data sizes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a conference system includes: plural terminals that communicate with each other through a communication network; a server that performs a call control for the terminals; and a conference unit that implements a conference among the terminals through the communication network. At least one of the terminals includes a user interface section that accepts an input operation of mode information regarding terminals to participate in the conference and a notification section that notifies the server of the specified mode. The server includes a detection section that detects a remaining amount of a resource of the conference unit necessary to implement the conference and a member determination section that determines plural members to participate in the conference from among the terminals, based on the mode notified by the notification section and the remaining amount of the resource.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a conference system which is provided with a plurality of communication terminals, a communication network connecting the plurality of communication terminals thereto and forming a communication environment, and a server apparatus actualizing a conference among users by using the communication network, wherein each of the communication terminals includes a notice processor notifying an acquisition request including the fact of a request to acquire multimedia data and identification information to the server apparatus, and a storage unit storing the multimedia data, and the server apparatus includes a memory unit associating a communication terminal that is a request origin with the identification information, and storing them, an inquiry processor inquiring a possibility to become the route of the multimedia data, and a transmission processor transmitting the multimedia data to the communication terminal of the request origin via the communication terminal of the route.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals and a server apparatus, the server apparatus includes a first memory stores a group table which correlates the connection information with the groups, a terminal ID of a first communication terminal, and a terminal ID of a second communication terminal, a notifying unit refers to the group table, notify a first communication terminal in each group of a server ID, based on the result of reference, and a first transmitter compares the terminal ID included in the acquisition request with terminal IDs in the group table, transmits adequate connection information to the first communication terminal, based on the result of comparison, and the first communication terminal includes a second memory stores the server ID, a second transmitter transmits the connection information acquisition request to the server apparatus, a controller sets the connection information in the processor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a second management table which associates telephone IDs of external telephone terminals to be connected to the external communication network with user IDs of external data terminals to be connected to the external communication network, and a controller which refers to the first and the second management tables, and executes communication connections among the data terminals to be associated with the telephone IDs of the telephone terminals and the external data terminals to be associated with the telephone IDs of the external telephone terminals based on a reference results of the first and the second management tables, when the call connections are established among the telephone terminals and the external telephone terminals in accordance with connection requests generated from the telephone terminals.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table in which the user IDs are associated with communication bands and treatable data sizes in the communication network with one another, a comparator which refers to the management table in occurring communication requests, and compares respective communication bands and data sizes of a first and a second communication terminals to be objects of the data communication control out of the plurality of communication terminals based on the reference result, and a controller which decides communication bands and data sizes to be assigned between the first and the second communication terminals based on the comparison result from the comparator, and executes a data communication connection between the first and the second communication terminals by using the decided communication bands and the data sizes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a controller which selectively executes at least one of first processing of executing communication connections among data terminals to be respectively associated with a plurality of phone IDS included in the call information event, and second processing of making the conference processing unit execute communication-connecting among the data terminals to be respectively associated with the plurality of phone IDs included in the call information event, based on prescribed conditions, when conference connections among the plurality of phone terminals are established.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a first memory which memorizes group tables respectively showing correspondence relations between groups constituted by dividing the plurality of data terminals and data IDs of data terminals belonging to these groups, a second memory which memorizes band tables respectively showing correspondence relations between combinations of the plurality of groups and bands usable among plurality of data terminals to be communication-connected, and a controller which refers to the group tables and the band tables based on data IDs associated with the phone IDs included in the call information event, when the call information event is received, and executes communication connections among data terminals corresponding to the data IDs based on the reference result to assign bands to the data terminals.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table in which the user IDs are caused to correspond to pieces of setting information representing functions/states of the data terminals, and a controller which updates the setting information of the corresponding first data terminal of said plurality of data terminals in the management table, in generation of an updating request of the setting information, and notifies a plurality of second data terminals different from the first data terminal of the updated setting information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a communication management memory which stores a communication management table, in which the data IDs are associated with state information showing communication connection states among the plurality of data terminals, when the communication connections among the plurality of the data terminals are established, a determining unit to refer the communication management table, based on the data IDs associated with the telephone IDs included in the call information event in receiving the call information event and determine presence/absence of a change in the communication connection states among data terminals corresponding to the data IDs based on the reference result, and a controller to update state information corresponding to the data IDs in the communication management table and execute communication connections/disconnections among the relevant data terminals based on the updated state information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a detector which detects a failure of communication between the telephone exchange apparatus and the server apparatus, a restoring unit which restores a connection between the telephone exchange apparatus and the server apparatus by recovering the failure based on a detection result of the detector, an acquiring unit which acquires state information regarding an operation of the plurality of telephone terminals from the telephone exchange apparatus, after the connection between the telephone exchange apparatus and the server apparatus is restored, and a controller which performs data communication between first and second data terminals associated with first and second telephone terminals between which a call is made, based on the state information acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table indicating a correspondence relation between the terminal IDs contained in a call information event from the telephone exchange apparatus and status information indicating the call connected status of the telephone terminals, when the call connection is established between telephone terminals, a decision unit to refer to the management table based on terminal IDs contained in the received call information event and decides the presence or absence of a change in the call connected status of telephone terminals corresponding to the terminal IDs, and a controller which updates the status information corresponding to the terminal IDs in the management table, when the decision by the decision unit is presence, and establishes a data communication connection between data terminals associated with the terminal IDs of telephone terminals to be connected, based on the updated status information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table indicating a correspondence relation between the terminal IDs and the connection IDs contained in a call information event and state information representing a call connection state between the plurality of telephone terminals, when the call connection is established between the plurality of telephone terminals, a determination unit to determine whether a call connection state between telephone terminals corresponding to the connection IDs is changed by referring to the management table based on the connection IDs contained in the call information event, when the call information event is received, and a controller which updates state information corresponding to the connection IDs in the management table, and performs a data communication connection between data terminals associated with the terminal IDs of the plurality of telephone terminals to be connected, based on the updated status information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores information indicating permission/non-permission of associations with the data terminals by associating with the telephone IDs, a reader which reads out permission information corresponding to a telephone ID of the first telephone terminal included in information for authentication from the memory, when the information for the authentication including the telephone ID of the first telephone terminal arrived from the first data terminal, to request an association with the first telephone terminal, and a controller which records a user ID of the first data terminal in the management table by associating a user ID of the first data terminal with the telephone ID of the first telephone terminal based on the permission information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores information indicating a presence or absence of setting of a mode to omit the node IDs and stores the node IDs at every telephone exchange apparatus, and a controller which refers the information indicating the presence or absence corresponding to telephone exchange apparatuses at request origins when connection requests are generated, and connects data terminals corresponding to each of the plurality of the telephone terminals to be connected, based on the terminal IDs included in the call information and the node IDs stored in the memory, when the information indicates presence.

Abstract: A VC server 1 has a call management unit 14 which detects a line connection state of telephone terminals based on an event signal received from an exchange 3 and registers the line connection state in a call information DB 11, a client information DB 10 in which telephone numbers of the telephone terminals and IDs of VC clients are stored in correspondence, a client connection information DB 12 in which session states between VC clients are stored, and a client session controller 15 which, when a change in line state between the telephone terminals is detected in the call information DB 11, refers to the client information DB 10, specifies a pair of corresponding VC clients, and instructs to establish or terminate a session between the VC clients according to the change in line state.