Method and apparatus for establishing data link based on audio connection
AssigneeApplied Invention, LLC
InventorsW. Daniel HILLIS, Dev KUMAR
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Abstract
In a communications system, after parties form a voice telephone connection, the parties respective communications devices automatically create or leverage machine readable features or content of the telephone connection to identify the parties to each other or to a rendezvous server, and thereafter the communications devices and/or the rendezvous server automatically establishes a data link between the parties.
Claims20
A communications apparatus, comprising:
- a microphone;
- at least one data interface;
- and
- coupled to the data interface, a digital data processing device programmed to perform machine-implemented operations comprising:
- capturing data relating to acoustic signals via the microphone;
- analyzing the data captured by the microphone;
- and
- submitting the result of the analysis of the data captured by the microphone to a rendezvous server over the data interface.
A computer implemented method to establish a data link between parties, each party having a computer and a telephone, the method comprising operations of:
- establishing a telephone connection between the parties over a public telephone network either directly or via a conference calling bridge;
- connecting the computers to a prescribed packet data network and automatically acquiring addresses on said prescribed packet data network;
- identifying the parties to any of the computers or a rendezvous server, the identifying operation carried out automatically by employing computational analysis of acoustical content of the telephone connection;
- using said identification of the parties to automatically establish a data link between the computers via the prescribed packet data network and said addresses on the prescribed packet data network;
- providing a respective user image for capture or receipt at each party's computer;
- and
- after the data link is established, exchanging user images over the data link with others of the computers participating in the data link.
A computer implemented method to authenticate a data link between parties, each party having a computer and a telephone, the method comprising operations of:
- establishing a telephone connection between the parties over a public telephone network either directly or via a conference calling bridge;
- connecting the computers to a prescribed packet data network;
- establishing a data link between the computers via the prescribed packet data network;
- using the telephone connection to authenticate the identity of the parties, the authentication operation carried out automatically by employing computational analysis of acoustical content of the telephone connection;
- and
- employing the established data link to exchange multimedia content representing human-readable communications between the parties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.