METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR ENRICHING A CALL

• US 20150058398A1
• Filed: 08/26/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Moncomble, Ghislain, Meurisse, Jean-Sebastien
• Granted Patent: US 10,491,681 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• 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 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/752 adapting media to network capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device

Abstract

A method and a device are provided for enriching a call that is set up between at least a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal. The method includes a step of the receiver terminal receiving at least one item of enriching information. The enriching method acts as a function of at least one parameter relating to the call to determine at least one playback model for the enriching information. The determined playback model enables the enriching information and a visual stream of the call to be positioned on a display device associated with the receiver terminal. The enriching information and the visual stream of the call are then played back on the receiver terminal in application of the determined playback model.

Claims

1. A method of enriching a call set up between at least a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal, the method comprising:

the receiver terminal receiving at least one item of enriching information,

obtaining at least one parameter relating to the call;

determining as a function of the obtained parameter relating to the call, at least one playback model enabling at least said enriching information and a visual information of the call to be positioned on a display device associated with the receiver terminal; and

playing back said enriching information and the visual information of the call on the display device associated with the receiver terminal in application of the determined playback model.

2. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1 wherein, when the visual information of the call is a video stream of the call and when the parameter relating to the call corresponds to an addition of an enriching video stream to the call, the determined playback model corresponds to a playback model enabling to playback the visual information of the call in the form of an image from the stream of the video stream of the call or in the form of an image of a user of the transmitter terminal.

3. A method of enriching a call according to claim 2 wherein, when the playback of the added enriching video stream finishes, the determining of a playback model is iterated in order to determine a new playback model enabling to playback the visual information of the call in the form of a video stream.

4. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1, wherein the determined playback model includes a time parameter associated with said enriching information.

5. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1, wherein that the playback model is determined by a predetermined time interval or until occurrence of a triggering event that triggers an iteration of the step of determining the playback model.

6. A method of enriching a call according to claim 5, wherein the event triggering an iteration of determining a playback model corresponds to detecting a modification to at least one parameter relating to the call.

7. A method of enriching a call according to claim 5, wherein the event triggering an iteration of determining a playback model corresponds to a user interaction performed on the receiver terminal.

8. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1, wherein the playback model is determined by selecting a playback model from a group of previously-determined playback models, said selection being performed as a function of the enriching information or as a function of capacities of the receiver terminal.

9. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1, wherein the enriching information that is received is defined as a function of the determined playback model.

10. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1, wherein the playback model is determined by the transmitter terminal.

11. A method of enriching a call according to claim 1, wherein the method includes sending data representative of the determined playback model to the receiver terminal.

12. A terminal including a device for enriching a call that is set up between at least a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal, the device comprising:

a communication module configured to receive at least one item of enriching information,

a data processor module configured to obtain a parameter relating to the call and acting as a function of the parameter relating to the call to determine a playback model enabling said enriching information and a visual information of the call to be positioned on a display device associated with the receiver terminal; and

a display module configured to play back said enriching information and the visual information of the call in application of the determined playback model.

13. A method comprising:

generating a message for a receiver terminal by a transmitter terminal,

transmitting the message from the transmitter terminal to the receiver terminal during a call that is set up between the receiver terminal and at least one transmitter terminal, the receiver terminal receiving at least one item of enriching information for the call, wherein the message comprises at least data representative of a playback model determined as a function of a parameter relating to the call and enabling said enriching information and a visual information of the call to be positioned on a display device associated with the receiver terminal, said enriching information and the visual information of the call being played back in application of the determined playback model on the display device associated with the receiver terminal.