Method and apparatus for establishing a data link based on a pots connection
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1. A computer implemented method to establish a data link between parties, each party having a computer and a dial up telephone, the method comprising operations of:
- using the telephones, the parties establishing a dial up telephone connection over a public telephone network either directly or via a conference calling bridge;
the computers connecting to a prescribed packet data network and automatically acquiring addresses on said prescribed packet data network;
any of the computers, the telephones, or the conference calling bridge identifying the parties to any of the computers or a rendezvous server, the identifying operation carried out automatically by employing computational analysis of acoustical content of the telephone connection;
any of the computers or the rendezvous server using said identification of the parties to automatically establish a data link between the computers via the prescribed packet data network and said addresses on the prescribed packet data network without introducing machine-readable acoustic signals into said dial up telephone connection; and
the computers employing the established data link to exchange multimedia content representing human-readable communications between the parties.
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Abstract
In a communications system, after parties form a dial up voice telephone connection, the parties respective communications devices automatically create or leverage machine readable features or content of the telephone connection to identify the parties to each other or to a rendezvous server, and thereafter the communications devices and/or the rendezvous server automatically establishes a data link between the parties.
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1. A computer implemented method to establish a data link between parties, each party having a computer and a dial up telephone, the method comprising operations of:
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using the telephones, the parties establishing a dial up telephone connection over a public telephone network either directly or via a conference calling bridge; the computers connecting to a prescribed packet data network and automatically acquiring addresses on said prescribed packet data network; any of the computers, the telephones, or the conference calling bridge identifying the parties to any of the computers or a rendezvous server, the identifying operation carried out automatically by employing computational analysis of acoustical content of the telephone connection; any of the computers or the rendezvous server using said identification of the parties to automatically establish a data link between the computers via the prescribed packet data network and said addresses on the prescribed packet data network without introducing machine-readable acoustic signals into said dial up telephone connection; and the computers employing the established data link to exchange multimedia content representing human-readable communications between the parties. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer implemented method to establish a data link between parties, each party having a computer and a dial up telephone, the method comprising the steps of:
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a step for, using the telephones, the parties establishing a dial up telephone connection over a public telephone network either directly or via a conference calling bridge; a step for the computers connecting to a prescribed packet data network and automatically acquiring addresses on said prescribed packet data network; a step for any of the computers, the telephones, or the conference calling bridge identifying the parties to any of the computers or a rendezvous server, the identifying operation carried out automatically by employing computational analysis of acoustical content of the telephone connection; a step for any of the computers or the rendezvous server using said identification of the parties to automatically establish a data link between the computers via the prescribed packet data network and said addresses on the prescribed packet data network without introducing machine-readable acoustic signals into said dial up telephone connection; and a step for the computers employing the established data link to exchange multimedia content representing human-readable communications between the parties.
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