Method and apparatus for simultaneously viewing multimedia content and accepting an incoming video call communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8994881-B2
Application number	US-201314021757-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2013
Priority date	May 5, 2006
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

An example method and apparatus for audio-visual communication is provided. In some examples, a method as disclosed herein may include receiving an incoming call indication comprising a conversation request from a remote party, wherein the outgoing call request is displayed in a visual communication screen area on a display; establishing a communication link with the remote party in an instance in which an answering signal has been received, the communication link enabling a multi-directional audio and visual conversation; and causing a received video of the remote party to be displayed in the visual communication screen area, wherein the display is operable to display multimedia content in a multimedia screen area simultaneously with the received video of the remote party in the visual communication screen area.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving an incoming call indication comprising a conversation request from a remote party, wherein, according to one or more auto wakeup settings, the incoming call request is at least one of displayed on a visual communication screen area on a display or sounded using an incoming call reminding sound;
establishing a communication link with the remote party in an instance in which an answering signal has been received, the comm…

Assignees

• Amtran Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shyu Fang-Yuan

Classifications

• H04N7/15

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4223

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• H04N7/14 Primary

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• H04N21/4788

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• H04N7/173

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