CHAT PREAUTHORIZATION

• US 20150189230A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tonn Investments, LLC
• Original Assignee: OnCam, Inc.
• Inventors: Shapiro, Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 9,264,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/808 User-type aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

There is disclosed a system and a method of initiating a one-click video chat session. The method includes accessing a database to determine whether the target chat participant has pre-authorized the source chat participant to initiate a chat without requiring acceptance of the chat request, a source chat participant sending a chat request requesting a chat session with a target chat participant while a computing device associated with the target chat participant is not generating any audio component nor any video component, and causing the computing device associated with the target chat participant to begin providing at least one of an audio component and a video component to the source chat participant without any action on the part of the target chat participant.

Claims

1. A method for chat preauthorization, comprising:

a source chat participant sending a chat request requesting a chat session with a target chat participant while a computing device associated with the target chat participant is not generating any audio component nor any video component;

accessing a database to determine whether a target chat participant has pre-authorized a source chat participant to initiate a chat without requiring acceptance of a chat request; and

automatically causing the computing device associated with the target chat participant to begin providing at least one of an audio component and a video component to the source chat participant without any action on the part of the target chat participant.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the chat includes a video component from the source chat participant and wherein the source chat participant'"'"'s video component is encoded into a video stream and combined into a master video stream.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the target chat participant has configured a Do-Not-Disturb period, and wherein the target chat participant'"'"'s video stream is not transmitted to the source chat participant'"'"'s device while the Do-Not-Disturb period is on.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the Do-Not-Disturb period is based on a schedule pre-determined by the target chat participant.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the chat includes an audio component from the source chat participant and wherein the source chat participant'"'"'s audio component is encoded into an audio stream and transmitted to the target chat participant'"'"'s device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the chat includes an audio component from the contact and wherein the contact'"'"'s audio component is encoded into an audio stream and combined into a master audio stream along with the user'"'"'s audio stream.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising

dynamically allocating one of a plurality of servers in a server cluster for use in the chat, the chat including a video component from the target chat participant and a video component from the source chat participant;

and

encoding the target chat participant'"'"'s video component and the source chat participant'"'"'s video component into a video stream, wherein the encoding is performed by using at least one graphical processing unit.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein

a second source chat participant requesting to join the chat session with the target chat participant and the source chat participant

accessing a database to determine whether the target chat participant has pre-authorized the second source chat participant to initiate a chat without requiring acceptance of the chat request;

and

automatically causing the computing device associated with the target chat participant to begin providing at least one of an audio component and a video component to the second source chat participant without any action on the part of the target chat participant.

9. A system for chat preauthorization comprising

a computing device associated with a target chat participant, wherein the computing device comprises a processor and memory for

receiving a chat request requesting a chat session with the target chat participant while the computing device associated with the target chat participant is not generating any audio component nor any video component

accessing a database to determine whether the target chat participant has pre-authorized the source chat participant to initiate a chat without requiring acceptance of the chat request;

and

automatically causing the computing device associated with the target chat participant to begin providing at least one of an audio component and a video component to the source chat participant without any action on the part of the target chat participant.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the chat includes a video component from the source chat participant and wherein the source chat participant'"'"'s video component is encoded into a video stream and combined into a master video stream.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the target chat participant has configured a Do-Not-Disturb period, and wherein the target chat participant'"'"'s video stream is not transmitted to the second device until the Do-Not-Disturb period is over.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the Do-Not-Disturb period is based on a schedule predetermined by the target chat participant.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the chat includes an audio component from the target chat participant and wherein the target chat participant'"'"'s audio component is encoded into an audio stream and transmitted to the source chat participant'"'"'s device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the chat includes an audio component from the source chat participant and wherein the source chat participant'"'"'s audio component is encoded into an audio stream and combined into a master audio stream along with the target chat participant'"'"'s audio stream.

15. The system of claim 9, further comprising

a server cluster, including a plurality of servers, each of the plurality of servers incorporating at least one graphical processing unit, for

encoding the target chat participant'"'"'s video component into a video stream, using the at least one graphical processing unit, and

automatically transmitting the video stream to a device associated with the source chat participant.

16. A method for chat preauthorization, comprising:

a source chat participant sending a chat request requesting a chat session with a target chat participant while a computing device associated with the target chat participant is not generating any audio component nor any video component;

accessing a database to determine whether the source chat participant has pre-authorized the target chat participant to access at least one of an audio component or a video component of the source chat participant, when the source chat participant initiates a chat session request with the target chat participant; and

automatically causing the computing device associated with the source chat participant to begin providing at least one of an audio component and a video component to the target chat participant without any action on the part of the target chat participant.