US 10,771,737 B2 · Transitioning a telephone network phone call to a video call

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for transitioning phone calls to video calls. Specifically, one or more embodiments allow users to transition from an active phone call over a telephone network to a video call. One or more embodiments determine a first user identifier for a first user and a second user identifier for a second user. Additionally, the systems and methods identify user client devices actively performing the phone call based on the user identifiers and provide an option to the identified client devices to switch the phone call to the video call. Transitioning the phone call to a video call involves generating a null connection prior to selection of the option to transition to the video call and then streaming media between the client devices using the generated null connection in response to selection of the option.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

determining, by an electronic communication system, that a first user using a first client device is on a phone call over a telephone network with a second user using a second client device;
determining, by the electronic communication system, a first user identifier associated with the first user and a second user identifier associated with the second user;
identifying, by the electronic communication system, the first client device and the second client device;
generating, during the phone call, a null video call connection between the first user device and the second user device;
and
providing, to the first client device after establishing the null video call connection, an option to switch the phone call to a video call.

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A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
determine that a first user using a first client device is on a phone call over a telephone network with a second user using a second client device;
determine a first user identifier associated with the first user and a second user identifier associated with the second user;
identify the first client device and the second client device;
generate, during the phone call, a null video call connection between the first user device and the second user device;
and
provide, to the first client device after establishing the null video call connection, an option to switch the phone call to a video call.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Transitioning a telephone network phone call to a video call

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Abstract

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