US 8,386,567 B2Granted

Method and apparatus for coordinating internet multi-media content with telephone and audio communications

AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.

InventorsPasha Roberts, Firdaus Bhathena, Francis A. Honoré

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Abstract

Internet content is coordinated with audio communications, such that two or more parties can view the same media content on the Internet while simultaneously communicating over a traditional telephony network or via voice over network. A user computer displays shared content that corresponds to a second computer's display, such that both parties view the same content on their browsers. Either of the parties is allowed to update the visual content of their browsers. Updates in the visual content are transmitted to the other parties so that all parties view the same, shared content. The shared content can include web pages, forms, applications, images, conferences, and files among other information.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

transmitting, by a server, to a user computer, a selectively generated application configured to establish a first communications link between the user computer and the server and to interface with a second communications link established between the server and a second computer;
wherein the selectively generated application comprises a subset of functionalities that are required for the user computer to visually and bi-directionally communicate with the second computer, and to display and modify data shared between the user computer and the second computer using a user computer view;
in response to receiving a first trigger indicating that the user computer needs additional functionality to visually communicate with the second computer, dynamically generating and transmitting to the user computer a first extension to the selectively generated application to enable the additional functionality between the user computer and the second computer;
in response to receiving a second trigger indicating that the user computer needs to audibly communicate with the second computer, dynamically generating and transmitting to the user computer a second extension to the selectively generated application to enable audio communications between the user computer and the second computer;
wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.

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An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;
a memory, encoded with one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed cause the one or more processors to perform:
transmitting, by a server, to a user computer, a selectively generated application configured to establish a first communications link between the user computer and the server and to interface with a second communications link established between the server and a second computer;
wherein the selectively generated application comprises a subset of functionalities that are required for the user computer to visually and bi-directionally communicate with the second computer, and to display and modify data shared between the user computer and the second computer using a user computer view;
in response to receiving a first trigger indicating that the user computer needs additional functionality to visually communicate with the second computer, dynamically generating and transmitting to the user computer a first extension to the selectively generated application to enable the additional functionality between the user computer and the second computer;
in response to receiving a second trigger indicating that the user computer needs to audibly communicate with the second computer, dynamically generating and transmitting to the user computer a second extension to the selectively generated application to enable audio communications between the user computer and the second computer.

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A method comprising:

receiving, at a user computer, from a server, a selectively generated application configured to establish a first communications link between the user computer and the server and to interface with a second communications link established between the server and a second computer;
wherein the selectively generated application comprises a subset of functionalities that are required for the user computer to visually and bi-directionally communicate with the second computer, and to display and modify data shared between the user computer and the second computer using a user computer view;
in response to sending a first trigger indicating that the user computer needs additional functionality to visually communicate with the second computer, receiving, at the user computer, a dynamically generated first extension to the selectively generated application to enable the additional functionality between the user computer and the second computer;
in response to sending a second trigger indicating that the user computer needs to audibly communicate with the second computer, receiving, at the user computer, a dynamically generated second extension to the selectively generated application to enable audio communications between the user computer and the second computer;
wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.

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An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;
a memory, encoded with one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform:
receiving, at a user computer, from a server, a selectively generated application configured to establish a first communications link between the user computer and the server and to interface with a second communications link established between the server and a second computer;
wherein the selectively generated application comprises a subset of functionalities that are required for the user computer to visually and bi-directionally communicate with the second computer, and to display and modify data shared between the user computer and the second computer using a user computer view;
in response to sending a first trigger indicating that the user computer needs additional functionality to visually communicate with the second computer, receiving, at the user computer, a dynamically generated first extension to the selectively generated application to enable the additional functionality between the user computer and the second computer;
in response to sending a second trigger indicating that the user computer needs to audibly communicate with the second computer, receiving, at the user computer, a dynamically generated second extension to the selectively generated application to enable audio communications between the user computer and the second computer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/784,236Filed 20 May 2010 · continuation
Priority: 7 May 1996
Published: US 2010/0296509 A125 Nov 2010
Granted: 26 Feb 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

G06F 9/44526
Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading: plug-ins; Add-ons
H04L 12/6418
Hybrid switching systems: hybrid transport
H04L 65/1083
Session management: in-session procedures
H04L 65/401
Support for services or applications: wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time…

Family

Application60/017,027Us provisional application · filed 7 May 1996
Application08/852,764Parent of this continuation · filed 7 May 1997
Application09/919,568Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Aug 2001
Application10/846,365Parent of this continuation · filed 14 May 2004
US 2010/0296509 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Nov 2010
US 7,725,540 B2Parent of this continuation
US 6,754,693 B1Parent of this continuation
US 6,295,551 B1Parent of this continuation
US 2005/0004977 A1Published application
US 8,386,567 B2This patent

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