Using reachability information to facilitate peer-to-peer communications
First Claim
1. A communication terminal comprising:
- a communication interface; and
a control system associated with the communication interface and adapted to;
obtain reachability information for a destination user from a directory service, the reachability information comprising a plurality of addresses, including at least one peer-to-peer communication address and a non-peer-to-peer communication address, each associated with the destination user;
initiate a peer-to-peer communication session using the at least one peer-to-peer communication address;
determine a primary and an alternate address from the plurality of addresses;
initiate first and second communication sessions using the primary and alternate addresses;
wherein the control system is further adapted to initiate the first and second communication sessions using the at least one peer-to-peer communication address and the non-peer-to-peer communication address.
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Abstract
The present invention allows originating endpoints to obtain reachability information from a directory service, which collects contact and related information from available users. When initiating a peer-to-peer communication session to an endpoint of a destination user, the originating endpoint will access the directory service to obtain reachability information for the destination user. The reachability information may contain one or more addresses, one of which will be a peer-to-peer communication session address. From the reachability information, the originating terminal will determine an appropriate address to initiate communications with the destination user. The reachability information may identify multiple addresses, where only certain of the addresses may be peer-to-peer communication addresses and other addresses may be used to establish other types of sessions through disparate types of networks.
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1. A communication terminal comprising:
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a communication interface; and a control system associated with the communication interface and adapted to; obtain reachability information for a destination user from a directory service, the reachability information comprising a plurality of addresses, including at least one peer-to-peer communication address and a non-peer-to-peer communication address, each associated with the destination user; initiate a peer-to-peer communication session using the at least one peer-to-peer communication address; determine a primary and an alternate address from the plurality of addresses; initiate first and second communication sessions using the primary and alternate addresses; wherein the control system is further adapted to initiate the first and second communication sessions using the at least one peer-to-peer communication address and the non-peer-to-peer communication address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A communication terminal comprising:
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a communication interface; and a control system associated with the communication interface and adapted to; obtain reachability information for a destination user from a directory service, the reachability information comprising a plurality of addresses, including at least one peer-to-peer communication address associated with the destination user and selection indicia, wherein the selection indicia comprises preference information providing address selection criteria defined by the destination user, such that selecting at least one of the plurality of addresses to use for initiating a communication session with the destination user is based on the address selection criteria; initiate a peer-to-peer communication session using the at least one peer-to-peer communication address; and select at least one of the plurality of addresses to use for initiating a communication session with the destination user based on the selection indicia. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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