Inter-server multimodal user communications

• US 20070115931A1
• Filed: 11/18/2005
• Published: 05/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Anderson, David, Denny, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/282,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20070115931A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/20 with means for interrupting existing connections; with means for breaking-in on conversations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/2281 Call monitoring, e.g. for law enforcement purposes; Call tracing; Detection or prevention of malicious calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/123 where the packet-switched network is an Internet Protocol Multimedia System-type network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1235 where one of the core networks is a wireless network

Abstract

Included is a first communications device that includes a communications interface configured to receive session information related to a communications session established between a second communications device and a third communications device. Also included in this embodiment is logic configured to communicate information related to the first communications device with at least one communications network and logic configured to resume the communications session from the second communications device using at least a portion of the session information.

Claims

1. A first communications device, comprising:

a communications interface configured to receive session information related to a communications session established between a second communications device and a third communications device, wherein the third communications device is to be replaced in the communications session with the first communications device;

logic configured to communicate information related to the first communications device with at least one communications network; and

logic configured to resume the communications session with the second communications device using at least a portion of the session information.

2. The first communications device of claim 1, further comprising:

logic configured to receive a user indication to resume the communications session with the first communications device; and

logic configured to communicate a session resume request to at least one communications network.

3. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the communications interface is configured to receive the information related to the communications session from a session storage device.

4. The communications device of claim 3, wherein the session storage device includes at least one of the following:

network storage logic, device storage logic, and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card.

5. The communications device of claim 1, further comprising logic configured to facilitate a communications session mode change while maintaining the communications session.

6. The communications device of claim 1, further comprising logic configured to communicate session information with a multimodal protocol network.

7. The communications device of claim 6, wherein the multimodal protocol network includes an Extensible Markup Language (XML) framework.

8. A first communications device, comprising:

logic configured to establish a communications session with a second communications device;

logic configured to receive session information related to the established communications session;

logic configured to store at least a portion of session information; and

logic configured to facilitate communication of at least a portion of the session information to the third communications device,

wherein the first communications device is configured to disconnect communications with the second communications device while maintaining the established communications session such that the communications session can be resumed by a third communications device.

9. The communications device of claim 8, further comprising a communications interface configured to communicate at least a portion of the session information to a removable session storage device.

10. The communications device of claim 8, further comprising a user input configured to indicate that the first device is disconnecting from the communications session, for resumption by a third communications device.

11. The communications device of claim 8, further comprising logic configured to facilitate a mode change while maintaining the communications session.

12. The communications device of claim 11, wherein the logic configured to facilitate the mode change is configured to determine whether the first device supports the desired mode change.

13. The communications device of claim 11, wherein the logic configured to facilitate the mode change is configured to determine whether the second communications device supports the desired mode change.

14. The communications device of claim 8, further comprising a session storage device interface configured to communicate at least a portion of the session information to a session storage device.

15. A session storage device, comprising:

logic configured to receive session information from a first communications device;

logic configured to store at least a portion of the session information received from the first communications device; and

logic configured to communicate at least a portion of the session information to a second communications device,

wherein the session storage device is configured to facilitate a device change from the first communications device to the second communications device while maintaining a communications session established with a third communications device.

16. The session storage device of claim 15, wherein the session storage device is configured to communicate with the first communications device via at least one of the following:

an electrical connection and a physical connection.

17. The session storage device of claim 15, wherein the session storage device is configured to communicate with the second communications device via at least one of the following:

an electrical connection and a physical connection.

18. The session storage device of claim 15, wherein the session storage device is configured to be removable from a communications device.

19. The session storage device of claim 18, wherein the session storage device includes at least one of the following:

network data storage logic, device storage logic, and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card.

20. The session storage device of claim 15, further comprising logic configured to facilitate communication of information via a multimodal protocol.

21. The session storage device of claim 15, further comprising logic configured to facilitate mediation with at least a portion of the session information.

22. A first communications device configured to maintain session information for a communications session with a second communications device while performing a mode change, the first communications device comprising:

logic configured to send session information to a communications network;

logic configured to send a mode change request to the communications network from the first communications device;

logic configured to receive an indication regarding whether the second communication device supports the device change; and

logic configured to facilitate the mode change while maintaining the communications session.

23. The communications device of claim 22, wherein at least a portion of the session information includes data in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) framework.

24. The communications device of claim 22, wherein the mode change includes at least one of the following:

a device change, a device functionality change, and a service provider change.

25. The communications device of claim 22, wherein the session information includes at least one of the following:

data related to the first device, data related to the second device, data related to the third device, data related to at least one service provider, and data related to session length.

26. The communications device of claim 22, further comprising logic configured to receive a mode change request from the second communications device.