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US 8,300,783 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for establishing data link based on audio connection
AssigneeApplied Minds, 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.
Claims18
A communications apparatus, comprising:
- at least one voice interface;
- at least one data interface;
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- coupled to the voice interface and data interface, a digital data processing device programmed to perform machine-implemented operations of communicating with one or more remote parties over a voice network to negotiate a digital data link over a data network, where the operations comprise:
- (1) employing the voice interface to establish a voice link with said parties via the voice network;
- (2) employing the data interface to connect to a data network and establish at least one address on said data network for use by said data interface in sending data therefrom and receiving data thereto;
- (3) employing the voice interface to exchange machine-readable acoustic signals over the voice network with said remote parties, said acoustic signals containing a representation of any one or more of the following:
- (3a) data network addresses of each of said remote parties, (3b) the established address on said data network;
- (4) establishing a data link via the data network with said remote parties at addresses on the network represented by the exchanged acoustic signals;
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- (5) employing the established address on the data network to exchange digital data representing human-readable multimedia content with at least one of the remote parties.
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