System and method for transferring or rejoining a conference call from any device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9307373-B2
Application number	US-201213720421-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2012
Priority date	Dec 19, 2012
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

A method for establishing a connection to a sequence-accessible call includes gathering connection data for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call including a phone number dialed to access the sequence-accessible call. The method may also include storing the connection data in a database, determining a presence of a proximity link, and transmitting the connection data to an information handling system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining, at a receiving information handling system, a presence of a proximity link to a sending information handling system;
receiving connection data for establishing a connection to a sequence-accessible call from the sending information handling system connected to the sequence-accessible call, the connection data including a phone number dialed to access the sequence-accessible call;
initiating a telecommunications application at the receiving information handling system in response to receiving the connection data;
receiving, at the receiving information handling system, the sequence-accessible call transferred from a sending information handling system via a communications network;
determining whether the sequence-accessible call has been dropped;
if the sequence-accessible call has been dropped, reconnecting to the sequence-accessible call via the receiving information handling system using the connection data for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call; and
if the sequence-accessible call has not been dropped, the receiving information handling system is connected to the sequence-accessible call via the transfer from the sending information handling system,
wherein the proximity link is a near-field communication link via a near-field communication antenna.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the connection data further comprises gathered passcode data and voice responses.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the connection data further comprises a temporal gathering of a sequence of dialed numbers, a voice response, and pauses between the sequence of dialed numbers and the voice response.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying a graphical user interface prompting to rejoin the sequence-accessible call.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein reconnecting to the sequence-accessible call using the connection data reconstructs a sequence of dialed data inputs and voice responses for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the connection data received further comprises a token that indicates which telecommunications application is to be launched.

7. A method comprising:
reconnecting to a sequence-accessible call on a communications network via a receiving information handling system further comprising:
receiving, via a near-field communication antenna, connection data for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call from a sending information handling system connected to the sequence-accessible call, the connection data comprising temporal data representing dialed data including a phone number and a passcode to access the sequence-accessible call, voice data including voice responses, and pauses between dialed data and voice data;
storing the connection data in a database of the receiving information handling system;
receiving, at the receiving information handling system, the sequence-accessible call transferred from a sending information handling system via a communications network;
determining whether the sequence-accessible call has been dropped;
if the sequence-accessible call has been dropped, reconnecting the receiving information handling system to the sequence-accessible call using the connection data for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call; and
if the sequence-accessible call has not been dropped, the receiving information handling system is connected to the sequence-accessible call via the transfer from the sending information handling system.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
displaying a graphical user interface prompting to rejoin the sequence-accessible call.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving touch screen response data from the graphical user interface indicating a selection to rejoin the sequence-accessible call.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein reconnecting to the sequence-accessible call using the connection data reconstructs a sequence of dialed data inputs and voice responses for establishing the connection to the sequence-accessible call.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the connection data further comprises a temporal gathering of the pauses between sequences of dialed data.

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Sanaullah Abu Shaher
• Cox Claude Lano
• Robison Charles D
• Seibert Philip M
• Shepherd Jason A

Classifications

• H04W76/19

  Connection re-establishment · CPC title

• H04M3/58 Primary

  Arrangements for transferring received calls from one subscriber to another; Arrangements affording interim conversations between either the calling or the called party and a third party (substation line holding circuits H04M1/80) · CPC title

• H04W88/06

  adapted for operation in multiple networks {or having at least two operational modes}, e.g. multi-mode terminals · CPC title

• H04M2203/2088

  Call or conference reconnect, e.g. resulting from isdn terminal portability · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title