Multimedia conversation transfer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9544253-B2
Application number	US-201414530403-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2014
Priority date	Jul 9, 2014
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

A method performed by a first computing device to transfer a multimedia conversation to the first computing device includes sending, to a first service node, a request to transfer a first communication session to the first computing device, the first communication session using a first type of protocol, the first communication session being between a second computing device and a first endpoint, and sending, to a second service node, a request to transfer a second communication session to the first computing device, the second communication session using a second type of protocol that is different from the first type of protocol, the second communication session being between the second computing device and a second endpoint. The multimedia conversation comprises the first communication session and the second communication session.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a first computing device to transfer a multimedia conversation to the first computing device, the method comprising:
sending, to a first service node, a request to transfer a first communication session to the first computing device, the first communication session using a first type of protocol, the first communication session being between a second computing device and a first endpoint; and
sending, to a second service node, a request to transfer a second communication session to the first computing device, the second communication session using a second type of protocol that is different from the first type of protocol, the second communication session being between the second computing device and a second endpoint;
wherein the multimedia conversation comprises the first communication session and the second communication session.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first service node is configured to terminate the first communication session between the second computing device and the first endpoint after the first communication session has been transferred to the first computing device.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second service node is configured to terminate the second communication session between the second computing device and the second endpoint after the second communication session has been transferred to the first computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first endpoint comprises a conference bridge.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first protocol type is Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein a media transferred over the first communication session comprises at least one of: audio and video.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second endpoint comprises a server.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the second protocol type is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein a media transferred over the second communication session comprises at least one of: file sharing and screen sharing.

10. A first computing device comprising:
a processor; and
a memory comprising machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the device to:
send a first signal to a first service node, the first signal requesting a transfer of a first communication session from a second computing device to the first computing device, the first communication session being part of a multimedia conversation;
send a second signal to a second service node, the second signal requesting transfer of a second communication session from the second computing device to the first computing device, the second communication session being part of the multimedia conversation.

11. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the first communication session is of a first protocol type and the second communication session is of a second protocol type, the second protocol type being different than the first protocol type.

12. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the device is further to receive a third signal from the first endpoint, the third signal establishing the first communication session between the first computing device and the first endpoint.

13. The computing device of claim 12 , wherein the first computing device is further to receive a fourth signal from the second endpoint, the fourth signal establishing the second communication session between the first computing device and the second endpoint.

14. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the first service node is configured to validate whether the first computing device is authorized for the transfer of the first communication session.

15. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the second service node is configured to validate whether the first computing device is authorized for the transfer of the second communication session.

16. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein both the first computing device and the second computing device are registered to a same user.

17. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the first computing device is further to send a third signal to a third service node, the third signal requesting transfer of a third communication session to the first computing device, the third communication session currently being associated with the second computing device.

18. A method performed by a first computing device, the method comprising:
sending a first signal to a first service node, the first signal requesting a transfer of a first communication session to the first computing device, the first communication session currently being between a second computing device and a first endpoint, the first communication session being of a first protocol type, the first communication session being part of a multimedia conversation;
resuming the first communication session between the first computing device and the first endpoint;
sending a second signal to a second service node, the second signal requesting transfer of a second communication session to the first computing device, the second communication session currently being between the second computing device and a second endpoint, the second communication session being of a second protocol type, the second communication session being part of the multimedia conversation; and
resuming the second communication session between the first computing device and the second endpoint.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising, passing a first media type over the first communication session using the first protocol type and passing a second media type over the second communication session using the second protocol type.

20. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, notifying a conversation manager associated with the first communication session and the second communication session that the first communication session and the second communication session have been transferred from the second computing device to the first computing device.

Assignees

• Genband Us Llc

Inventors

• Cholkar Arjun
• Jones Anthony
• Dogru Ibrahim
• Gilchrist Don
• Sylvain Dany

Classifications

• H04L65/403

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L65/1093

  by adding participants; by removing participants · CPC title

• H04L65/1089

  by adding media; by removing media · CPC title

• H04L65/1006

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/10 Primary

  Multimedia information · CPC title