VIRTUAL WEB REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS (WEBRTC) GATEWAYS, AND RELATED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA

• US 20150006610A1
• Filed: 06/30/2013
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Inventors: Johnston, Alan B., Yoakum, John H.
• Application Number:
  US13/931,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20150006610A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Virtual Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) gateways, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for providing a virtual WebRTC gateway comprises instantiating a virtual WebRTC agent corresponding to a WebRTC client, and instantiating a virtual non-WebRTC agent corresponding to a non-WebRTC client. The method further comprises establishing a WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual WebRTC agent and the WebRTC client, and establishing a non-WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual non-WebRTC agent and the non-WebRTC client. The method also comprises directing a content of the WebRTC interactive flow to the non-WebRTC interactive flow, and a content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow to the WebRTC interactive flow, via the virtual WebRTC agent and the virtual non-WebRTC agent. In this manner, the virtual WebRTC gateway may provide interoperability between otherwise-incompatible WebRTC clients and non-WebRTC clients.

Claims

1. A method for providing a virtual Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) gateway, comprising:

instantiating, by a virtual WebRTC gateway executing on a computing device, a virtual WebRTC agent corresponding to a WebRTC client;

instantiating a virtual non-WebRTC agent corresponding to a non-WebRTC client;

establishing a WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual WebRTC agent and the WebRTC client;

establishing a non-WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual non-WebRTC agent and the non-WebRTC client; and

directing a content of the WebRTC interactive flow to the non-WebRTC interactive flow, and a content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow to the WebRTC interactive flow, via the virtual WebRTC agent and the virtual non-WebRTC agent.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-WebRTC interactive flow comprises a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interactive flow, an H.323 interactive flow, a Jingle interactive flow, or a session-centric interactive flow.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising instantiating the virtual WebRTC agent and instantiating the virtual non-WebRTC agent responsive to receiving an outbound request from the WebRTC client to interact with the non-WebRTC client.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the outbound request comprises a selection of a non-WebRTC protocol by the WebRTC client from a plurality of non-WebRTC protocols supported by the virtual WebRTC gateway;

and

wherein instantiating the virtual non-WebRTC agent comprises instantiating the virtual non-WebRTC agent corresponding to the non-WebRTC protocol.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising:

instantiating the virtual non-WebRTC agent responsive to determining that the WebRTC client is active; and

instantiating the virtual WebRTC agent and establishing the WebRTC interactive flow responsive to receiving, by the virtual non-WebRTC agent, an inbound request from the non-WebRTC client to interact with the WebRTC client.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a client type or a client version, or a combination thereof, of the WebRTC client based on a WebRTC offer/answer exchange, a query/response exchange between the virtual WebRTC gateway and the WebRTC client, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header data, or a combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording the content of the WebRTC interactive flow or the content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow, or a combination thereof.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising transforming the content of the WebRTC interactive flow or the content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow, or a combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising extracting the content from the WebRTC interactive flow or the non-WebRTC interactive flow, or a combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising injecting content into the WebRTC interactive flow or the non-WebRTC interactive flow, or a combination thereof.

11. A system for providing a virtual Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) gateway, comprising:

at least one communications interface; and

an interactive flow server associated with the at least one communications interface, the interactive flow server comprising a virtual WebRTC gateway configured to;

instantiate a virtual WebRTC agent corresponding to a WebRTC client;

instantiate a virtual non-WebRTC agent corresponding to a non-WebRTC client;

establish a WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual WebRTC agent and the WebRTC client;

establish a non-WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual non-WebRTC agent and the non-WebRTC client; and

direct a content of the WebRTC interactive flow to the non-WebRTC interactive flow, and a content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow to the WebRTC interactive flow, via the virtual WebRTC agent and the virtual non-WebRTC agent.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the virtual WebRTC gateway is configured to establish the non-WebRTC interactive flow comprising a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interactive flow, an H.323 interactive flow, a Jingle interactive flow, or a session-centric interactive flow.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the virtual WebRTC gateway is configured to instantiate the virtual WebRTC agent and instantiate the virtual non-WebRTC agent responsive to receiving an outbound request from the WebRTC client to interact with the non-WebRTC client.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the virtual WebRTC gateway is configured to:

instantiate the virtual non-WebRTC agent responsive to determining that the WebRTC client is active; and

instantiate the virtual WebRTC agent and establish the WebRTC interactive flow responsive to receiving an inbound request from the non-WebRTC client to interact with the WebRTC client.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause a processor to implement a method, comprising:

instantiating a virtual Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) agent corresponding to a WebRTC client;

instantiating a virtual non-WebRTC agent corresponding to a non-WebRTC client;

establishing a WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual WebRTC agent and the WebRTC client;

establishing a non-WebRTC interactive flow between the virtual non-WebRTC agent and the non-WebRTC client; and

directing a content of the WebRTC interactive flow to the non-WebRTC interactive flow, and a content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow to the WebRTC interactive flow, via the virtual WebRTC agent and the virtual non-WebRTC agent.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 having stored thereon the computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to implement the method, wherein the non-WebRTC interactive flow comprises a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interactive flow, an H.323 interactive flow, a Jingle interactive flow, or a session-centric interactive flow.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 having stored thereon the computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to implement the method, comprising instantiating the virtual WebRTC agent and instantiating the virtual non-WebRTC agent responsive to receiving an outbound request from the WebRTC client to interact with the non-WebRTC client.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 having stored thereon the computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to implement the method, comprising:

instantiating the virtual non-WebRTC agent responsive to determining that the WebRTC client is active; and

instantiating the virtual WebRTC agent and establishing the WebRTC interactive flow responsive to receiving, by the virtual non-WebRTC agent, an inbound request from the non-WebRTC client to interact with the WebRTC client.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 having stored thereon the computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to implement the method, further comprising determining a client type or a client version, or a combination thereof, of the WebRTC client based on a WebRTC offer/answer exchange, a query/response exchange between the virtual WebRTC gateway and the WebRTC client, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header data, or a combination thereof.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 having stored thereon the computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to implement the method, further comprising recording the content of the WebRTC interactive flow or the content of the non-WebRTC interactive flow, or a combination thereof.