Mobile terminal control of the establishment of multimedia sessions

• US 20040253957A1
• Filed: 06/13/2003
• Published: 12/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Charu Verma, Kamal K. Verma, Karla Rae Hunter, Mariana Benitez Pelaez, Ronald Bruce Martin
• Original Assignee: Charu Verma, Kamal K. Verma, Karla Rae Hunter, Mariana Benitez Pelaez, Ronald Bruce Martin
• Inventors: Hunter, Karla Rae, Martin, Ronald Bruce, Pelaez, Mariana Benitez, Verma, Kamal K., Verma, Charu
• Application Number:
  US10/461,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20040253957A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/20 Manipulation of established connections

Abstract

This invention relates to methods and apparatus for allowing an end user terminal in a multimedia network to provide various options for handling a session request including accepting the request, redirecting the session, releasing the session based on user input or predefined attributes stored in the originating device and/or the terminating device.

Claims

1. In a multimedia telecommunications network, a method of establishing a telecommunications session comprising the steps of:

sending a first session request message from an originating terminal to a call session control, said session request message comprising data for identifying a second terminal and treatment and/or media attributes of the telecommunications session;

transmitting a second session request message comprising data of said session request message to said second telecommunications terminal;

said second terminal transmitting a response message to said call session control for establishing a telecommunications session having said treatment and/or media attributes with a terminating terminal selected by data of said response message;

said call session control establishing a call session in conformance with data of said response message.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said treatment and/or media attributes are stored in a database accessible by an end user device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said second terminal is not a participant in said telecommunications session.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of establishing a call session comprises the step of establishing a call session involving more than two terminals.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said response message is a redirect message.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said response message requests a multimedia session.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said originating terminal is a wireless station.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said originating terminal is a multimedia device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said originating terminal is a mobile computer.

10. In a multimedia telecommunications network, apparatus for establishing a telecommunications session comprising:

means for sending a first session request message from an originating terminal to a call session control, said session request message comprising data for identifying a second terminal and treatment and/or media attributes of the telecommunications session;

means for transmitting a second session request message comprising data of said session request message to said second telecommunications terminal;

means for transmitting a response message from said second terminal to said call session control for establishing a telecommunications session having said treatment and/or media attributes with a terminating terminal selected by data of said response message;

in said call session control, means for establishing a call session in conformance with data of said response message.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said treatment and/or media attributes are stored in a database accessible by an end user device.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said second terminal is not a participant in said telecommunications session.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the means for establishing a call session comprises means for establishing a call session involving more than two terminals.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said response message is a redirect message.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said response message requests a multimedia session.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said originating terminal is a wireless station.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said originating terminal is a multimedia device.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said originating terminal is a mobile computer.