PROVIDING PEER-TO-PEER MEDIA

• US 20090282155A1
• Filed: 05/09/2008
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ali, Rashad Mohammad
• Application Number:
  US12/118,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20090282155A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/10 adapted for application session management, e.g. SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] connection management H04W76/00; arrangements for session management H04L67/14

Abstract

This disclosure provides a system and method for providing peer-to-peer multimedia. In some embodiments, a method includes identifying media devices based, at least in part, on a call session between communication devices. Peer-to-peer multimedia is provided between the identified media devices.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying media devices based, at least in part, on a call session between communication devices; and

providing peer-to-peer multimedia between the identified media devices.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying media devices comprising identifying location information associated with the media devices based, at least in part, on the call session between the communication devices.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving information identifying capabilities of the media devices.

6. The method of claim 1, the radio cellular technology comprising Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), the media routed independent of the UMA Network Controller (UNC).

3. A method, comprising:

identifying a first location of a first communication device and a second location of a second communication devices based, at least in part, on a call session between the first and second communication device; and

providing peer-to-peer multimedia between media devices using the first location and the second location.

5. A method, comprising:

identifying location information associated with a first and second mobile device based, at least in part, on a radio cellular technology; and

directly routing media between a first and second media device using the location information and independent of the radio cellular technology.

7. A method, comprising:

receiving a call initiation request for a first communication device from a second communication device;

identifying location information associated with the second communication device based, at least in part, on the call initiation request;

directly routing media to a media device associated with the second communication device based, at least in part, on the location information.

8. The method of claim 7, the call initiation request comprising a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request or a GSM request.

9. The method of claim 7, the media device comprising a first media device, the method further comprising:

receiving a request from the second communication device to transmit media to the first media device media device;

identifying a second media device storing the requested media and associated with the first communication device; and

transmitting information identifying capabilities of the second media device.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving information identifying capabilities of the first communication device.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising translating the media to a form compatible with the first communication device based, at least in part, on the capabilities information.

12. A method, comprising:

identifying location information of a first and second media device using a communication technology;

exchanging communication information associated with the first and second media devices for establishing an Internet Protocol (IP) tunnel; and

providing media through the IP tunnel between the first and second media devices independent of the communication technology.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising exchanging security parameters for securing the IP tunnel between the first and second media devices.

14. A method, comprising:

exchanging location information and communication information using out-of-band signaling; and

providing peer-to-peer multimedia using the location information and the communication between media devices.

15. The method of claim 14, the communication information comprising information regarding sessions supported by the media devices and characteristics of the media devices.

16. A method, comprising:

identifying a first media device using a communication technology associated with a communication device;

receiving media from the identified media device independent of the communication technology; and

translating the media to a format compatible with a media device.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising exchanging information with a network element directly coupled to the first media device for establishing an IP tunnel between the first and the second media device.

18. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to establish a call with a communication device using a communication technology;

identifying location information associated with the communication device based, at least in part, on the communication technology;

receiving a request to transmit media to a media device associated with the communication device; and

transmitting the requested media to the media device using the location information and independent of the communication technology.

19. The method of claim 18, the media device comprising a first media device, the method further comprising:

receiving a response to the call request from a second communication device; and

transmitting to a second media device a request for the media.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising translating the media to a form compatible with the first communication device based, at least in part, on the capabilities information.