Abstract:
When a line for communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. The IP addresses are required for communicating image data by first and second terminal adapters associated with the first and second portable-telephone devices respectively through an OCN. Image data is then transmitted to the IP addresses received in the communication through the OCN. To put it concretely, an image of the user of the first portable-telephone device is transmitted by the first terminal adapter through the OCN to the IP address of the second terminal adapter to be displayed by a second television receiver associated with the second terminal adapter. By the same token, an image of the user of the second portable-telephone device is transmitted by the second terminal adapter through the OCN to the IP address of the first terminal adapter to be displayed by a first television receiver associated with the first terminal adapter. Thus, by merely taking a portable-telephone device to a place like a store selling home electrical appliances including a television.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform communications of IP addresses using a secondary channel, and perform point-to-point communications. SOLUTION: A first device uses a secondary communication channel to transmit its public IP address to a second device to set up point-to-point communication over a primary communication channel such as a public computer network. The secondary channel includes a public switched telephone network, a circuit-switched voice channel in a cellular network, a packet-switched voice channel in a cellular network, a conventional VoIP service, a text or multimedia channel in a cellular network, a data channel in a cable television or a satellite television network, or a radio frequency channel. When the connection over the pubic computer network has been established, the first and the second devices exchange data packets carrying text, voice, video, or other data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect and control an overload state in a telephone conference system. SOLUTION: The telephone conference system with a network includes a plurality of nodes such as terminals which communicate with one another through the network. Audio streams of live talk are transmitted from the terminals to constitute a conference. Each terminal can detect the overload state. In the overload state, the number of audio streams of live talk transmitted from a plurality of terminals which exist simultaneously is over a predetermined value. Each terminal, together with other terminals, controls the number of audio streams transmitted simultaneously so that the overload state is finished. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for providing a multimedia content to a calling party device. SOLUTION: Specifically, the method comprises receiving a multimedia ringback service request in response to a connection request for establishing a connection between the calling party device and a called party device, determining an address associated with the calling party device in response to the multimedia ringback service request, identifying the multimedia content associated with the multimedia ringback service request, and establishing at least one multimedia session with the calling party device using the address where the at least one multimedia session is operable so as to provide the multimedia content towards the calling party device contemporaneously with establishing the connection. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To connect terminals in a desired communication mode without generating unneeded traffics, even if the user of a communication source terminal does not recognize the condition, corresponding to the communication mode of a connection destination terminal in advance or does not register it in advance. SOLUTION: The communication control unit 50 of a communication system, corresponding to a plurality of communication modes, is connected to a database 60 for storing conditions corresponding to the communication mode of each cellular phone terminal 10, refers to the database 60, when a connection request is received from the connection source to the connection destination; recognizes the conditions corresponding to the communication mode of the connection source and destination; and reports a plurality of communication modes common to both of them to a cellular phone terminal 10A of the connection source, before making connection to a cellular phone terminal 10B of the connection destination, when there are a plurality of communication modes common to both of them. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of cooperatively providing voice service(s), carried over a circuit-switched ("CS") type network, with multimedia service(s), carried over a packet-switched ("PS") type network to a wireless unit. SOLUTION: The method involves communication between a calling-from-party and a calling-to-party. The method includes the steps of receiving an initiation signal from the calling-from-party for identifying the calling-to-party. In response to verifying the identity of the calling-to-party as a service subscriber in a database, the method selects multimedia contents to be transmitted to the calling-from-party. A voice link may then be established to the calling-to-party in response to the initiation signal from the calling-from-party. Thereafter, the initiation signal may be bridged with the established voice link to establish a voice link between the calling-from-party and the calling-to-party. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable for a server component and a calling party which play a video with one or more cellular phones to choose a type of content reproduced with a cellular phone during holding, in relation with regenerating of the video in the cellular phone, and specifically, in relation with regenerating of the video in the cellular phone. SOLUTION: There are provided one or more video server components of an instrument which plays one or more videos with one or more cellular phones while one or more telephony calls relevant to one or more cellular phones are held. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI