REMOTE CALL CONTROL AND CONFERENCING USING PAIRED DEVICES

• US 20090327426A1
• Filed: 06/25/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sheth, Sachin, Parameswar, Sriram, Basu, Pradipta Kumar, Krantz, Anton, Deshpande, Vinit, Ramanathan, Rajesh, Tandon, Ankit, Houchen, Stephen, Potra, Adrian
• Granted Patent: US 8,250,147 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• 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

Abstract

In one embodiment, a user paired controller communication device may pair with a user paired server communication device. The user paired controller communication device may direct the user paired server communication device to execute a first mode communication session of a multimodal conversation, such as a voice session. The user paired controller communication may execute a second mode communication session of the multimodal conversation, such as an instant messaging session.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method for a multimodal conversation, comprising:

pairing a user paired controller communication device and a user paired server communication device;

directing the user paired server communication device to execute a first mode communication session of the multimodal conversation; and

executing a second mode communication session of the multimodal conversation on the user paired controller communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from a user in the user paired controller communication device a request to establish the first mode communication session.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second mode communication session is a video communication session.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

directing the user paired server communication device to conference a conferences paired server communication device into the first mode communication session with a partner paired server communication device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

merging the first mode communication session with an external first mode communication session to create a conference communication session.

6. A user paired controller communication device, comprising:

a communication interface to pair with a user paired server communication device and to direct the user paired server communication device to execute a first mode communication session of a multimodal conversation; and

a processor to execute a second mode communication session of the multimodal conversation.

7. The user paired controller communication device of claim 6, further comprising:

a user input device to receive a user request to establish the first mode communication session.

8. The user paired controller communication device of claim 6, wherein the communication interface is at least one of a universal serial bus port, an Ethernet connection creating a peer-to-peer connection, or a Bluetooth®

connection.

9. The user paired controller communication device of claim 6, wherein the communication interface pairs with a user paired ancillary communication device.

10. The user paired controller communication device of claim 6, further comprising:

a user output device to display a state of the first mode communication session based on a status update message received from the user paired server communication device.

11. The user paired controller communication device of claim 6, wherein the communication interface directs the user paired server communication device to merge the first mode communication session with an external first mode communication session to create a conference communication session.

12. The user paired controller communication device of claim 11, wherein the communication interface places the conference communication session on hold.

13. The user paired controller communication device of claim 6, wherein the processor executes a first controller point of presence to execute the second mode communication session and a second controller point of presence to execute a third mode communication session of the multimodal conversation.

14. A user paired server communication device, comprising:

a processor to execute a first mode communication session of a multimodal conversation; and

a communication interface to pair with a user paired controller communication device executing a second mode communication session of the multimodal conversation.

15. The user paired server communication device of claim 14, wherein the communication interface receives from the user paired controller communication device a user request to establish the first mode communication session.

16. The user paired server communication device of claim 14, wherein the communication interface is at least one of a universal serial bus port, an Ethernet connection creating a peer-to-peer connection, or a Bluetooth®

connection.

17. The user paired server communication device of claim 14, wherein the communication interface pairs with a user paired ancillary communication device.

18. The user paired server communication device of claim 14, wherein the communication interface sends a status update message to the user paired controller communication device.

19. The user paired server communication device of claim 14, wherein the communication interface merges the first mode communication session with an external first mode communication session to create a conference communication session.

20. The user paired server communication device of claim 14, wherein the processor executes a first server point of presence to execute the first mode communication session and a second server point of presence to execute a third mode communication session of the multimodal conversation.