System and method for establishing calls
AssigneeTextnow, Inc.
InventorKai Yip Leung
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Abstract
An example method includes: receiving, from an initiating device, a call destined for a target account; establishing, at a server, a central call session for the call and connecting the initiating device to the central call session; sending a central call session notification to a target device associated with the target account, the central call session notification to prompt the target device to initiate a request to join the central call session; receiving, from the target device, a response to the central call session notification; and when the response comprises the request to join the central call session, connecting the target device to the central call session to establish the call.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, from an initiating device, a call destined for a target account;
- establishing, at a server, a central call session for the call and connecting the initiating device to the central call session;
- sending a central call session notification to a target device associated with the target account, the central call session notification to prompt the target device to initiate a request to join the central call session;
- receiving, from the target device, a response to the central call session notification;
- and
- when the response comprises the request to join the central call session, connecting the target device to the central call session to establish the call, wherein the request is processed at the target device as an outgoing call to the central call session.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a target device, a central call session notification from a server, the central call session notification indicating a call;
- signaling the central call session notification to prompt a response to the central call session notification;
- and
- when the response comprises an acceptance of the call, sending a request to join a central call session identified in the central call session notification to the server to accept the call, wherein the request is processed at the target device as an outgoing call to the central call session.
A server comprising:
- a memory and a communications interface;
- a processor interconnected with the memory and the communications interface, the processor configured to:
- receive, from an initiating device, a call destined for a target account;
- establish a central call session for the call and connecting the initiating device to the central call session;
- send a central call session notification to a target device associated with the target account, the central call session notification to prompt the target device to initiate a request to join the central call session;
- receive, from the target device, a response to the central call session notification;
- and
- when the response comprises the outgoing call request to join the central call session, connect the target device to the central call session to establish the call, wherein the request is processed at the target device as an outgoing call to the central call session.
A computing device comprising:
- a memory and a communications interface;
- and
- a processor interconnected with the memory and the communications interface, the processor configured to:
- receive, at a target device, a central call session notification from a server, the central call session notification indicating a call;
- signal the central call session notification to prompt a response to the central call session notification;
- and
- when the response comprises an acceptance of the call, send a request to join the central call session to the server to accept the call, wherein the request is processed at the target device as an outgoing call to the central call session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.