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AssigneeVoxer IP LLC
InventorsThomas E. Katis, James T. Panttaja, Mary G. Panttaja, Matthew J. Ranney
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A communication device capable of participating in a conversation over a network. The communication device includes an encoder to receive and encode media locally created using the communication device and associated with the conversation and a transmitter to transmit over the network the locally created media to one or more participants of the conversation. The communication device also includes a receiver to receive media from the one or more participants of the conversation over the network and a time-shifting buffer to store in a time-based format both the media received over the communication network and the locally created media. The time-shifting buffer enables the communication device to either (i) render the media received over the network in a near real-time mode or (ii) render both the media received over the network and the locally created media in a time-shifted mode by retrieving the stored media from the time-shifting buffer. A conversation management system enables the communication device to transition rendering of the media of the conversation between the time-shifted mode and the near real-time mode without interrupting the ongoing storage of the media of the conversation received at the communication device over the network into the time-shifting buffer. By associating the locally created media and the media received over the network, the conversation is constituted.
A computer readable application embedded in a non-transitory computer readable medium and intended to run on a first communication device, the application comprising:
A first communication device, comprising:
A method performed on a first communication device, comprising:
The method of 47, further comprising selectively engaging on the first communication device in both synchronous and asynchronous communication with the second communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.