Over-the-top (OTT) video/voice configuration

• US 9,025,525 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Aksu, Arda, Kotecha, Lalit R., Chang, Patricia R., Kakadia, Deepak, Haynes, Thomas W., Rados, Steven R., Shamsunder, Sanyogita
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bokhari, Syed M
• Application Number:
  US13/612,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20140071889A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/335, 370/230, 370/252, 370/389, 370/401, 709205-206, 709/224, 709/238, 455/436
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1046 Call controllers; Call servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles

Abstract

A user equipment (UE) provides for display, to a user, information identifying available over-the-top (OTT) services provided via voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), and receives, from the user, a selection of a particular OTT service of the available OTT services. The UE receives, from the user, information identifying a selected contact associated with the particular OTT service, and determines whether a particular UE associated with the selected contact is a VoLTE capable device or a non-VoLTE capable device. The UE provides a call to the particular UE, via a LTE network and an Internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, when the particular UE is a VoLTE capable device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, by a device and for display to a user, information identifying available over-the-top (OTT) services provided via voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE);

receiving, by the device and from the user, a selection of a particular OTT service of the available OTT services;

receiving, by the device and from the user, information identifying a selected contact associated with the particular OTT service;

retrieving, by the device, information associated with capabilities of user equipment (UE) capable of communicating with the device via the particular OTT service;

determining, by the device and based on the retrieved capabilities information, network capabilities of a particular user equipment (UE) associated with the selected contact; and

selectively providing, by the device, a call to the particular UE,

the call being provided, in a first format, to the particular UE via an LTE network and an Internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network when the network capabilities of the particular UE indicate that the particular UE is VoLTE capable, and

the call being provided in the first format to the LTE network, transcoded to create a second format, and provided to the UE in the second format when the network capabilities of the particular UE indicate that the particular UE is not VoLTE capable.

2. The method of claim 1, where the call is provided, in the second format, to the particular UE via a gateway and an access network.

3. The method of claim 2, where the gateway performs transcoding and control plane mapping on the call so that call is routed to and processed by the particular UE.

4. The method of claim 1, where the device comprises a user equipment (UE).

5. The method of claim 1, where the OTT services include OTT video and voice services.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, for display to the user, a list of contacts associated with the particular OTT service; and

receiving, from the user, the information identifying the selected contact based on the list of contacts associated with the particular OTT service.

7. The method of claim 1, where the call includes an OTT video and voice call.

8. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor to execute the instructions to;

provide, for display to a user, information identifying available over-the-top (OTT) services provided via voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE);

receive, from the user, a selection of a particular OTT service of the available OTT services;

receive, from the user, information identifying a selected contact associated with the particular OTT service;

determine whether a particular user equipment (UE) associated with the selected contact is a VoLTE capable device or a non-VoLTE capable device;

selectively provide a call to the particular UE,

the call being provided, in a first format, to the particular UE via an LTE network and an Internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network when the particular UE is a VoLTE capable device, and

the call being provided in the first format to the LTE network, transcoded to create a second format, and provided to the UE in the second format when the particular UE is a non-VoLTE capable device.

9. The device of claim 8, where the call is provided, in the second format, to the particular UE via a gateway and an access network.

10. The device of claim 9, where the gateway performs transcoding and control plane mapping on the call so that call is routed to and processed by the particular UE.

11. The device of claim 8, where the device comprises a user equipment (UE).

12. The device of claim 8, where the OTT services include OTT video and voice services.

13. The device of claim 8, where the processor is further to:

provide, for display to the user, a list of contacts associated with the particular OTT service, and

receive, from the user, the information identifying the selected contact based on the list of contacts associated with the particular OTT service.

14. The device of claim 8, where the call includes an OTT video and voice call.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by a processor of a device, cause the processor to;

provide, for display to a user, information identifying available over-the-top (OTT) services provided via voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE);

receive, from the user, a selection of a particular OTT service of the available OTT services;

receive, from the user, information identifying a selected contact associated with the particular OTT service;

determine whether a particular user equipment (UE) associated with the selected contact is a VoLTE capable device or a non-VoLTE capable device; and

selectively provide a call to the particular UE,

the call being provided, in a first format, to the particular UE via an LTE network and an Internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network when the particular UE is a VoLTE capable device, and

the call being provided in the first format to the LTE network, transcoded to create a second format, and provided to the UE in the second format when the particular UE is a non-VoLTE capable device.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the call is provided, in the second format, to the particular UE via a gateway and an access network.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, where the gateway performs transcoding and control plane mapping on the call so that call is routed to and processed by the particular UE.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

provide, for display to the user, a list of contacts associated with the particular OTT service, and

receive, from the user, the information identifying the selected contact based on the list of contacts associated with the particular OTT service.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the call includes an OTT video and voice call.

20. A method comprising:

receiving, by a device, an over-the-top (OTT) video and voice call from a voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) enabled user equipment (UE);

performing, by the device and when the OTT video and voice call is destined for a non-VoLTE enabled UE, control plane mapping on the OTT video and voice call to route the OTT video and voice call to an access network associated with the non-VoLTE enabled UE;

performing, by the device, transcoding on the OTT video and voice call so that the OTT video and voice call is capable of being processed by the non-VoLTE enabled UE; and

routing, by the device and based on the control plane mapping, the transcoded OTT video and voice call to the non-VoLTE enabled UE via the access network,

the OTT video and voice call being routed, when the OTT video and voice call is destined for a VoLTE enabled UE, to the VoLTE enabled UE without transcoding the OTT video and voice call.