Soliciting first party in communication session to maintain call when degradation of connection to second party is anticipated

A Ubiquitous Media Manager (UMM) for handling a communication session that has a first communication leg between said UMM and a first electronic device and a second communication leg between said UMM and a second electronic device, said UMM comprising:

• a session controller apparatus;
• a media proxy operatively connected to said session controller apparatus;
• and
• a code module operatively connected to said session controller apparatus and to said media proxy, wherein said code module is configured:
• to receive a media stream arriving at said UMM from said first electronic device over said first communication leg via a communication infrastructure remote to said UMM;
• to measure quality metrics information of said media stream over time;
• to use said media proxy in conjunction with said session controller and said code module to perform an analysis of said media stream by evaluating said measured quality metrics information;
• to make a determination from said analysis that quality metrics of said media stream have deteriorated continuously for a predetermined period of time;
• to generate an indication, based on said determination, that said first electronic device is about to become incapable of communicating media streams at a sufficient quality;
• and
• in response to said indication and prior to said first electronic device actually becoming incapable of communicating media streams at a sufficient quality, to generate a message that solicits a user of said second electronic device to maintain said second communication leg and
• to transmit said message to said second electronic device,
• said first communication leg established by way of a wireless communication transceiver that is configured to wirelessly receive said media stream from said first electronic device and to forward said media stream to said UMM via said communication infrastructure.

A non-transient computer readable medium, said medium including computer executable instructions which, when executed on a computing device that comprises a session controller and a media proxy operatively connected to said session controller, cause the computing device:

• to handle a communication session that has a first communication leg between a first electronic device and said computing device via a communication infrastructure and a second communication leg between said computing device and a second electronic device;
• to use said media proxy in conjunction with said session controller to perform an analysis of a media stream arriving at said computing device from said first electronic device over said first communication leg to evaluate quality of said media stream;
• to make a determination from said analysis that quality metrics of said media stream have deteriorated continuously for a period of time;
• to generate an indication, based on said determination, that said first electronic device is about to become incapable of communicating media streams at a sufficient quality;
• and
• in response to said indication and prior to said first electronic device actually becoming incapable of communicating media streams at a sufficient quality, to generate a message that solicits a user of said second electronic device to maintain said second communication leg and to transmit said message to said second electronic device,
• said first communication leg established by way of a wireless communication transceiver that is configured to wirelessly receive said media stream from said first electronic device and to forward said media stream to said UMM via said communication infrastructure.