A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.
H04L 65/401 - Prise en charge des services ou des applications dans laquelle les services impliquent une session principale en temps réel et une ou plusieurs sessions parallèles additionnelles en temps réel ou sensibles au temps, p. ex. accès partagé à un tableau blanc ou mise en place d’une sous-conférence
H04L 65/403 - Dispositions pour la communication multipartite, p. ex. pour les conférences
H04L 65/80 - Dispositions, protocoles ou services dans les réseaux de communication de paquets de données pour prendre en charge les applications en temps réel en répondant à la qualité des services [QoS]
H04L 67/54 - Gestion de la présence, p. ex. surveillance ou enregistrement pour la réception des informations de connexion des utilisateurs ou état de connexion des utilisateurs
2.
TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS
A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communicationsand that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrentlyor simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.
H04L 65/401 - Prise en charge des services ou des applications dans laquelle les services impliquent une session principale en temps réel et une ou plusieurs sessions parallèles additionnelles en temps réel ou sensibles au temps, p. ex. accès partagé à un tableau blanc ou mise en place d’une sous-conférence
H04L 65/403 - Dispositions pour la communication multipartite, p. ex. pour les conférences
H04L 65/80 - Dispositions, protocoles ou services dans les réseaux de communication de paquets de données pour prendre en charge les applications en temps réel en répondant à la qualité des services [QoS]
H04L 67/54 - Gestion de la présence, p. ex. surveillance ou enregistrement pour la réception des informations de connexion des utilisateurs ou état de connexion des utilisateurs
3.
EMAIL CLIENT CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING NEAR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION AND METHODS FOR USING THE ADDRESSING, PROTOCOLS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF EMAIL TO SUPPORT NEAR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION
An email client capable of supporting real-time communication of time-based media. The email client includes a session element configured to establish a session with a server when an email address addressing a recipient within a domain is defined. As soon as the email address is defined, a transmitting element of the email client is configured to progressively and simultaneously transmit time-based media as the time-based media is being created to the recipient via a route at least partially discovered by a lookup of the domain of the email address. By at least partially discovering the route to the recipient as soon as the email address of the recipient is defined, the transmitting element may progressively deliver the time-based media to the recipient.
H04L 51/00 - Messagerie d'utilisateur à utilisateur dans des réseaux à commutation de paquets, transmise selon des protocoles de stockage et de retransmission ou en temps réel, p. ex. courriel
H04L 51/066 - Adaptation de format, p. ex. conversion de format ou compression
H04L 61/30 - Gestion des noms de réseau, p. ex. utilisation d'alias ou de surnoms
H04L 61/4511 - Répertoires de réseauCorrespondance nom-adresse en utilisant des répertoires normalisésRépertoires de réseauCorrespondance nom-adresse en utilisant des protocoles normalisés d'accès aux répertoires en utilisant le système de noms de domaine [DNS]
H04L 65/1069 - Établissement ou terminaison d'une session
4.
TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS
A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.
H04L 65/401 - Prise en charge des services ou des applications dans laquelle les services impliquent une session principale en temps réel et une ou plusieurs sessions parallèles additionnelles en temps réel ou sensibles au temps, p. ex. accès partagé à un tableau blanc ou mise en place d’une sous-conférence
H04L 65/403 - Dispositions pour la communication multipartite, p. ex. pour les conférences
H04L 65/80 - Dispositions, protocoles ou services dans les réseaux de communication de paquets de données pour prendre en charge les applications en temps réel en répondant à la qualité des services [QoS]
H04L 67/54 - Gestion de la présence, p. ex. surveillance ou enregistrement pour la réception des informations de connexion des utilisateurs ou état de connexion des utilisateurs
H04M 3/42 - Systèmes fournissant des fonctions ou des services particuliers aux abonnés
Methods and systems for progressive synchronization in real-time of stored copies of media transmitted between nodes on a network. The methods and systems include progressively transmitting available indexed media from a sending node to a receiving node with a packet size and packetization interval sufficient to enable the near real-time rendering of the indexed media, wherein the near real-time rendering of the indexed media provides a recipient with an experience of reviewing the transmitted media live. At the receiving node, the transmitted indexed media is progressively receive and any indexed- media that is not already locally stored at the receiving node is noted. The methods and systems also include the real-time synchronization of the media of a conversation between two communication devices over the network by requesting missing media from the sending node. As voice or other media is created at either communication device, the copies of the media are synchronized in real-time across the network. The methods and systems also include optimized routing protocols that are simple to implement and decrease network traffic and latency.
H04L 1/00 - Dispositions pour détecter ou empêcher les erreurs dans l'information reçue
H04L 51/04 - Messagerie en temps réel ou quasi en temps réel, p. ex. messagerie instantanée [IM]
H04L 65/80 - Dispositions, protocoles ou services dans les réseaux de communication de paquets de données pour prendre en charge les applications en temps réel en répondant à la qualité des services [QoS]
6.
TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS
A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.
H04N 21/80 - Génération ou traitement de contenu ou de données additionnelles par un créateur de contenu, indépendamment du processus de distributionContenu en soi
7.
TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS
A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.
H04L 65/401 - Prise en charge des services ou des applications dans laquelle les services impliquent une session principale en temps réel et une ou plusieurs sessions parallèles additionnelles en temps réel ou sensibles au temps, p. ex. accès partagé à un tableau blanc ou mise en place d’une sous-conférence
H04L 65/403 - Dispositions pour la communication multipartite, p. ex. pour les conférences
H04L 65/80 - Dispositions, protocoles ou services dans les réseaux de communication de paquets de données pour prendre en charge les applications en temps réel en répondant à la qualité des services [QoS]
H04L 67/54 - Gestion de la présence, p. ex. surveillance ou enregistrement pour la réception des informations de connexion des utilisateurs ou état de connexion des utilisateurs
H04M 3/42 - Systèmes fournissant des fonctions ou des services particuliers aux abonnés
brevets
