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Systems and methods for providing unified multimedia communication services

  • US 6,782,412 B2
  • Filed: 08/24/1999
  • Issued: 08/24/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for allowing a customer to control their participation in a communications event, comprising:

  • identifying a communications event associated with the customer, the communications event being established between at least one party and one or more hardware devices used by the customer, providing for that customer a session object capable of maintaining state information representative of status of the communications event associated with that customer, providing a plurality of service objects each capable of providing a communications service for supporting the communications event, each of the service objects being responsive to the state information maintained within the session object, said session object operating as a control point for said service objects allowing the customer to selectively configure support for the communications event, and allowing the customer to adjust the state information during the communications event to dynamically switch the one or more hardware devices being used by the customer during the communications event without affecting the communications event.

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