Method and apparatus for facilitating a communication session
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsJerome O. Vogedes, Dean E. Thorson, Mark Lemke
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Abstract
When a first user is leaving a voicemail while a second user is attempting to call the first user back, the first user is given the option to ignore the second caller, delete the voicemail and connect with the second user, or hold while the second user reviews the voicemail. The voicemail may or may not be complete. This may avoid the need for the first user to repeat the information contained in the voicemail. In one embodiment, the voicemail message is played on the second user's device as a ring-back tone.
Claims15
1-12. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device and from a first device, a request to connect with a second device;
- and
- responsive to determining, by the computing device, that a user of the second device is leaving a voicemail message for a user of the first device at the time the request is received:
- initiating, by the computing device, a communication session between the first device and a voicemail server on which the voicemail message is being left;
- and
- responsive to determining, by the computing device, that the first device has retrieved the voicemail message, facilitating, by the computing device, the initiation of a communication session between the first device and the second device.
An apparatus comprising a proxy configured to perform operations comprising:
- responsive to determining that a user of a first device is leaving a voicemail message for a user of a second device while the second device is attempting to connect to the first device, proxying one or more session initiation messages between the second device and a voicemail server on which the voicemail message is stored;
- and
- responsive to detecting that the second device has retrieved the voicemail from the voicemail server, proxying one or more session initiation messages between the first device and the second device.
A method comprising:
- determining, by a computing device, that a first device is sending a voicemail message to a second device via a voicemail server;
- receiving, by the computing device and from the second device, a request to communicate with the first device while the first device is sending the voicemail message to the second device;
- sending, by the computing device, a message to the voicemail server, the message indicating that the voicemail message is to be deleted;
- and
- initiating, by the computing device, a communication session between the first device and the second device.
A method comprising:
- responsive to determining, by a computing device, that a user of a first device is leaving a voicemail message for a user of a second device while the second device is attempting to connect to the first device, transmitting, by the computing device and to the second device, a message that includes the voicemail message, wherein the voicemail message is playable by the second device as a ring-back tone;
- and
- initiating, by the computing device, a communication session between the first device and the second device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.