CLOUD VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL COMMUNICATION SUBSTITUTE FOR CHANNEL RADIO BASED COMMUNICATION

• US 20150304370A1
• Filed: 12/19/2012
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: MAYTAL, Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US14/441,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20150304370A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 12/185 with management of multicast group membership
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/40 for selective distribution or broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data

Abstract

Technologies and implementations for facilitating channel-based communication via VOIP are generally disclosed. Example methods may include receiving a communication preference from the plurality Receive a Communication Preference from a Number of Mobile Devices of mobile devices, receiving a status identifier from the plurality of mobile devices and designating one or more of the plurality of mobile devices as belonging to a communication group based at least in part on the received communication preferences and the received Receive a Status Identifier from the Mobile Devices status identifiers.

Claims

1. A method to facilitate communication between a plurality of mobile devices, the method comprising:

receiving a communication preference from each of the plurality of mobile devices;

receiving a status identifier from the each of the plurality of mobile devices; and

designating one or more of the plurality of mobile devices as belonging to a communication group based at least in part on the received communication preferences and the received status identifiers.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing a voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) conference call; and

sending a request to join the VOIP conference call to the mobile devices designated as belonging to the communication group.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an updated status identifier from at least one of the plurality of mobile devices; and

updating the designation of mobile devices belonging to the communication group based at least in part on the received updated status identifier.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the updating the designation of mobile devices belonging to the communication group causes one of the plurality of mobile devices to no longer be designated as belonging to the communication group, the method further comprising sending a request to exit the VOIP conference call to the one of the plurality of mobile devices.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the updating the designation of mobile devices belonging to the communication group causes one of the plurality of mobile devices to be newly designated as belonging to the first communication group, the method further comprising sending a request to join the VOIP conference call to the one of the plurality of mobile devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication preference includes at least one of a communication class or a communication distance.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the status identifier includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically bifurcating the communication group into a first communication group and a second communication group based at least in part on the received communication preferences and the received status identifiers.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an updated status identifier from at least one of the plurality of mobile devices, wherein the automatically bifurcating the communication group into a first communication group and second communication group is based at least in part on the received updated status identifier.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the automatically bifurcating the communication group into a first communication group and a second communication group comprises:

designating at least one of the plurality mobile devices as belonging to the first communication group based at least in part on the received status identifiers and the received updated status identifier;

designating at least one of the plurality mobile devices as belonging to the second communication group based at least in part on the received status identifiers and the received updated status identifier; and

designating at least one of the plurality of mobile devices as belonging to both the first communication group and the second communication group based at least in part on the received status identifiers and the received updated status identifier.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

establishing a voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) conference call for the ones of the plurality of mobile devices designated as belong to the communication group; and

bifurcating the VOIP conference call into a first VOIP conference call for the ones of the plurality of mobile devices designated as belonging to the first communication group and a second VOIP conference call for the ones of the plurality of mobile devices designated as belonging to the second communication group.

7. (canceled)

13. A method to facilitate communication between a plurality of mobile devices, the method comprising:

at a mobile device, receiving a communication preference;

providing, by the mobile device, the received communication preference and a status identifier to a communication server; and

receiving, by the mobile device, a request to join a first voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) conference call from the communication server, wherein the request to join the first VOIP conference call is based at least in part on the provided communication preference and the provided status identifier.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing an updated status identifier to the communication server;

receiving a request to exit the first VOIP conference call; and

receiving a request to join a second VOIP conference call.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the communication preference includes at least one of a communication class or a communication distance.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the status identifier includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate.

16. (canceled)

18-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A system comprising:

a communication module; and

a machine readable non-transitory medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the communication module to;

receive a communication preference from each of a plurality of mobile devices,

receive a status identifiers from the each of the plurality of mobile devices, and

designate one or more of the plurality of mobile devices as belonging to a communication group based at least in part on the received communication preferences and the received status identifiers.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the stored instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, further operatively enable the communication module to:

establish a voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) conference call; and

send a requesting to join the VOIP conference call to the mobile devices designated as belonging to the communication group.

33. The system of claim 31, wherein the stored instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, further operatively enable the communication module to:

receive an updated status identifiers from at least one of the plurality of mobile devices; and

update the designation of mobile devices belonging to the communication group based at least in part on the updated status identifiers.

34. The system of claim 33, wherein the updating the designation of mobile devices belonging to the communication group causes one of the plurality of mobile devices to no longer be designated as belonging to the communication group, the stored instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, further operatively enable the communication module to send a request to exit the VOIP conference call to the one of the plurality of mobile devices.

35. The system of claim 33 wherein the updating the designation of mobile devices belonging to the first communication group causes one of the plurality of mobile devices to newly be designated as belonging to the communication group, the stored instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, further operatively enable the communication module to send a request to join the VOIP conference call to the one of the plurality of mobile devices.

36. The system of claim 31, wherein the communication preference includes at least one of a communication class or a communication distance.

38. The system of claim 31, wherein the status identifier includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate.

37. (canceled)

39. A system comprising:

a mobile device; and

a machine readable non-transitory medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, operatively enable the mobile device to;

receive a communication preference;

provide the received communication preference and a status identifier to a communication server; and

receive a request to join a voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) conference call from the communication serve, wherein the request to join the VOIP conference call is based at least in part on the provided communication preference and the provided status identifier.

40. The system of claim 39, wherein the stored instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, further operatively enable the mobile device to:

provide an updated status identifier to the communication server;

receive a request to exit the first VOIP conference call; and

receive a request to join a second VOIP conference call.

41. The system of claim 40, wherein the communication preference includes at least one of a communication class or a communication distance.

43. The system of claim 40, wherein the status identifier includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate.

42. (canceled)