Proximity session mobility extension

• US 10,277,641 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2016
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
• Inventors: Trinh, Trung (Tim), Michaud, Alain
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh, John B
• Application Number:
  US15/154,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20160261654A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A system and method for seamless exchange and interaction of multimedia content between communication devices are disclosed. The method can include the discovery and identification of devices within proximity of a sending device. The found devices can be authenticated through unique identifiers established during registration. The sender can seamlessly establish a connection with the found devices using the connection requirements. The sending device can share or serve as a remote control to redirect, navigate or draw content, with a simple action or a gesture command, to the found device. The shared multimedia content, can either reside on the sender'"'"'s mobile device or on a remote server within a connected network. Contextual telephony integration such as pulling in personal contacts from a device to a conference call can be provided. White boarding techniques facilitated among multiple users within a conference and a WiFi® end point or access point are described.

Claims

1. A method of bringing at least one contact into a conference through an identity module, the method comprising:

registering a receiving device with an identity module;

using the identity module, assigning a unique identifier to said receiving device;

providing said unique identifier to said receiving device;

discovering said receiving device by the sending device;

receiving said unique identifier of said receiving device at said sending device;

validating the receiving device with information on the identity module;

providing connection requirements to said sending device by said identity module;

using said identity module, initiating a background operation to link said receiving device and said sending device via a communication channel for sharing exchanged content between said receiving device and said sending device;

using said sending device, establishing a sharing connection with the receiving device;

collecting information from the sending device for at least one contact; and

providing the information for the at least one contact to the receiving device through the identity module to add the at least one contact to the conference using the receiving device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising intercepting a dialing process on the sending device to the at least one contact;

and determining whether to add the at least one contact into the conference by a user of the sending device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a plurality of contacts to add into the conference on the sending device and receiving a user selection for the at least one contact.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein displaying the plurality of contacts comprises presenting at least one of local contacts, cloud based contacts, enterprise contacts and combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein adding the at least one contact to the conference comprises proxy dialing the at least one contact with the information.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising providing a context of the conference to the at least one contact.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the context comprises one or more of caller identification, meeting participants, meeting topic, and current discussion point.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one contact is automatically added to the conference after being authorized by a user of the sending device.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising synchronizing at least one file with the device.