Video-communication in mobile networks
AssigneeTelecom Italia S.p.A.
InventorsDaniele Franceschini, Nicola Pio Magnani, Andrea Calvi
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Abstract
A video-communication service in which a separation in different components of the video-communication is caused at the telephone equipment of the users, e.g., a separation in a video and in a voice component. The different components are transmitted on different connections between the telephone equipment of the users. The users have the possibility of selectively dropping any one of the different connections.
Claims36
A method of performing a double component communication between a first user and a second user in a communication network, the first and the second users being provided with respective first and second telephone equipment, both said first and second telephone equipment being adapted to manage two separate components and two separate end-to-end connections of said communication, comprising:
- generating, at the first telephone equipment, at least a first and a second component of said communication;
- establishing a first end-to-end connection between said first and said second telephone equipment;
- establishing a second end-to-end connection between said first and said second telephone equipment;
- transmitting on said first end-to-end connection said first component and on said second end-to-end connection said second component of said double communication;
- receiving, at the second telephone equipment, said first and said second components;
- providing said first and said second telephone equipment with a respective user interface;
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- allowing selective dropping of said first or of said second end-to-end connection to the first or the second user by means of the respective user interface.
Telephone equipment for performing a double component communication in a communication network, said telephone equipment being adapted to manage two separate components of said communication and two separate end-to-end connections, said telephone equipment comprising:
- a coding/decoding unit adapted for generating at least a first and a second component of said communication;
- a transmitting/receiving module adapted for establishing a first and a second end-to-end connection to further telephone equipment;
- a user interface adapted for allowing a user of the telephone equipment to selectively drop said first or said second end-to-end connection;
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- wherein said coding/decoding unit is associated with said transmitting/receiving module, so that said first component of said communication is transmitted/received on said first end-to-end connection and said second component of said communication is transmitted/received on said second end-to-end connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.