Device optimized transmission and reception for multi-mode, multi-media communications

• US 9,578,105 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2008
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Khasnabish, Bhumip
• Primary Examiner(s): FOUD, HICHAM B
• Application Number:
  US12/336,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20100150021A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,988 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066

Abstract

An approach is provided for receiving information from a plurality of communication services in a plurality of communication service formats and adjusting the information into another communication service format that is configured for receipt by a device and for communication to a user. A transmission session is established between a device and one of the plurality of communication services. Information from the one communication service is adjusted from a first communication service format into the another communication service format, seamlessly.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

initiating a communication session between a user device and a target device for utilizing a network communication service via the target device or in communicating with the target device, wherein the communication session is initiated via a core network;

utilizing, by the user device, the network communication service via the communication session, wherein the communication session is controlled based on one or more user profiles reflecting one or more service protocols of the user device, service protocols of the network communication service and one or more attributes for the communication session, wherein the one or more user profiles are stored in the core network remote from any user device; and

adapting transmission signaling of the communication session to be compatible with at least one of the service protocols of the user device and with the service protocols of the network communication service, and to facilitate the communication session and the utilization by the user device of the network communication service,

wherein the stored one or more user profiles include a registered user, each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session regardless of whether or not said each user device of the registered user is currently participating in the communication session, and the desired service control settings for the registered user and for said each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session including a device service profile specifying a certain time period that said each user device can be used.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

authenticating the user device for use during the communication session before establishing the transmission session.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

initiating use of an alternate device to access the network communication service via the communication session; and

adapting the transmission signaling of the communication session to be compatible with at least one of one or more service protocols of the alternate device, and to facilitate access by the alternate device to the communication session and utilization by the alternate device of the network communication service, without terminating the communication session.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

authenticating the alternate device for use during the communication session before adding the alternate device to the communication session,

wherein authenticating the alternate device is based on said each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session included with the stored one or more user profiles and requires no discovery of the alternate device by the user device conducting the communication session with the target device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

collecting billing data for one or more of use of the communication session, the user device, and the network communication service, during the communication session.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adapting the transmission signaling of the user device during the communication session from a communication service format of the user device into a communication service format that is configured for receipt by the network communication service.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing an application client associated with the user device to provide a plurality of features associated with the network communication service.

8. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,

establish a communication session between a user device and a target device for utilizing a network communication service, wherein the communication session is initiated via a core network,

utilize, by the user device, the network communication service via the communication session, wherein the communication session is controlled based on one or more user profiles reflecting one or more service protocols of the user device, service protocols of the network communication service and one or more attributes for the communication session, wherein the one or more user profiles are stored in the core network remote from any user device,

adapt transmission signaling of the communication session to be compatible with at least one of the service protocols of the user device and with the service protocols of the network communication service, and to facilitate the communication session and the utilization by the user device of the network communication service,

wherein the stored one or more user profiles include a registered user, each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session regardless of whether or not said each user device of the registered user is currently participating in the communication session, and the desired service control settings for the registered user and for said each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session including a device service profile specifying a certain time period that said each user device can be used.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one memory resides in the user device.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one memory resides in a network element of a network via which the communication session is established.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

adapt the transmission signaling of the communication session to be compatible with one or more service protocols of one or more alternate devices, and to facilitate access by the alternate devices to the communication session and utilization by the alternate devices of the network communication service.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein an alternate device initiates access to the network communication service via the communication session, and the apparatus is further caused to:

adapt the transmission signaling of the communication session to be compatible with at least one of one or more service protocols of the alternate device, and to facilitate access by the alternate device to the communication session and utilization by the alternate device of the network communication service, without terminating the communication session.

13. The apparatus of claim 12,

wherein the alternate device is authenticated for use during the communication session before adding the alternate device to the communication session, and

wherein authenticating the alternate device is based on said each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session included with the stored one or more user profiles and requires no discovery of the alternate device by the user device conducting the communication session with the target device.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the apparatus is further caused to execute an application client associated with the user device to provide a plurality of features associated with the network communication service.

15. A system comprising:

a user device circuitry configured to access one or more network communication services via communication sessions of an access network, and to utilize the network communication services via the communication sessions, wherein the communication sessions are controlled based on one or more user profiles reflecting one or more service protocols of the user device, service protocols of the network communication services and one or more attributes for the communication sessions, wherein the one or more user profiles are stored in a core network remote from any user device;

a processor configured to establish a communication session between the user device and a target device for utilizing a one of the network communication services, and to adapt transmission signaling of the one communication session to be compatible with at least one of the service protocols of the user device and with the service protocols of the one network communication service, and to facilitate the one communication session and the utilization by the user device of the one network communication service,

wherein the communication session is established via the core network, and

wherein the stored one or more user profiles include a registered user, each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session regardless of whether or not said each user device of the registered user is currently participating in the communication session, and the desired service control settings for the registered user and for said each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session including a device service profile specifying a certain time period that said each user device can be used.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

an authentication circuitry configured to authenticate the user device for use during the one communication session before establishing the one communication session.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a billing circuitry configured to collect billing data for one or more of use of the one communication session, the user device, and the one communication service.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor resides in the user device.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is provided in a remote network element of a network via which the user device accesses the one or more network communication services.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

adapt the transmission signaling of the one communication session to be compatible with one or more service protocols of one or more alternate devices,

facilitate access by the alternate devices to the communication session and utilization by the alternate devices of the one network communication service, and

authenticate the one or more alternate devices for use during the communication session before adding the one or more alternate devices to the communication session,

wherein authenticating the alternate device is based on said each user device of the registered user that can be used during the communication session included with the stored one or more user profiles and requires no discovery of the one or more alternate devices by the user device conducting the communication session with the target device.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein an alternate device initiates access to the one network communication service via the one communication session, and the processor is further configured to adapt the transmission signaling of the communication session to be compatible with at least one of one or more service protocols of the alternate device, and to facilitate access by the alternate device to the one communication session and utilization by the alternate device of the one network communication service, without terminating the one communication session.