User interface for proximity based teleconference transfer

• US 10,440,073 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2017
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kristiansen, Ivan Marius, Norheim, Vigleik, Kvaal, Ingrid, Stai, Fredrik, Ironside, Paula
• Primary Examiner(s): Molina, Hugo
• Application Number:
  US15/484,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20180292972A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 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 Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2094 Proximity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/58 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 Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A method for transferring a teleconference between a mobile device and a conference center. The method includes identifying, by a mobile device, a candidate meeting center system for transfer of a teleconference conducted on the mobile device, and in response to identifying the candidate meeting center system, generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to facilitate transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying, by a mobile device, a candidate meeting center system for transfer of a teleconference conducted on the mobile device;

in response to identifying the candidate meeting center system, generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to facilitate transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system; and

in response to transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system, the generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to provide remote control options at the mobile device to control aspects of the teleconference hosted on the candidate meeting center system;

wherein the remote control options include at least volume control of the teleconference, termination of the teleconference, and return transfer of the teleconference from the candidate meeting center system to the mobile device;

wherein the user selectable icons comprise a move call option and a call destination icon displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the UI is configured to initiate a transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system in response to a user'"'"'s movement of the move call option in a direction of the call destination icon.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the candidate meeting center system further comprises:

receiving a proximity signal from the meeting center system, wherein the proximity signal is configured to provide confirmation that the meeting center system is proximately located to the mobile device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the proximity signal comprises an audible signal.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option is configured for selection via a user'"'"'s engagement with the call move option in an upward direction with respect to the touch screen of the mobile device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option comprises a user engagement instruction that indicates a user interaction with the touch screen to initiate the transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option comprises a user engagement image that indicates a user interaction with the touch screen to initiate the transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system.

7. A system for facilitating transfer of a teleconference from a mobile device to a candidate meeting center system, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

identifying, by a mobile device, a candidate meeting center system for transfer of a teleconference conducted on the mobile device;

in response to identifying the candidate meeting center system, generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to facilitate transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system; and

in response to transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system, the generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to provide remote control options at the mobile device to control aspects of the teleconference hosted on the candidate meeting center system;

wherein the remote control options include at least volume control of the teleconference, termination of the teleconference, and return transfer of the teleconference from the candidate meeting center system to the mobile device;

wherein the user selectable icons comprise a move call option and a call destination icon displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the UI is configured to initiate a transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system in response to a user'"'"'s movement of the move call option in a direction of the call destination icon.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein identifying the candidate meeting center system further comprises operations for:

receiving a proximity signal from the meeting center system, wherein the proximity signal is configured to provide confirmation that the meeting center system is proximately located to the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the proximity signal comprises an audible signal.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option is configured for selection via a user'"'"'s engagement with the call move option in an upward direction with respect to the touch screen of the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option comprises a user engagement instruction that indicates a user interaction with the touch screen to initiate the transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option comprises a user engagement image that indicates a user interaction with the touch screen to initiate the transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

identifying, by a mobile device, a candidate meeting center system for transfer of a teleconference conducted on the mobile device; and

in response to identifying the candidate meeting center system, generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to facilitate transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system; and

in response to transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system, the generating a user interface (UI) to provide one or more user selectable icons, the user selectable icons configured to provide remote control options at the mobile device to control aspects of the teleconference hosted on the candidate meeting center system;

wherein the remote control options include at least volume control of the teleconference, termination of the teleconference, and return transfer of the teleconference from the candidate meeting center system to the mobile device;

wherein the user selectable icons comprise a move call option and a call destination icon displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the UI is configured to initiate a transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system in response to a user'"'"'s movement of the move call option in a direction of the call destination icon.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein identifying the candidate meeting center system further comprises operations for:

receiving a proximity signal from the meeting center system, wherein the proximity signal is configured to provide confirmation that the meeting center system is proximately located to the mobile device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the proximity signal comprises an audible signal.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option is configured for selection via a user'"'"'s engagement with the call move option in an upward direction with respect to the touch screen of the mobile device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the user selectable icons comprise a call move option displayed on a touch screen of the mobile device, and

wherein the call move option comprises a user engagement instruction that indicates a user interaction with the touch screen to initiate the transfer of the teleconference from the mobile device to the candidate meeting center system.