Patent ID: 11943186
Assignee: VOXER IP LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for conducting a multi-media conversation over a network, comprising:
establishing a network session between a sending device and a network infrastructure located on the network;
identifying, at the sending device, one or more recipients for participation in the multi-media conversation;
receiving, at the network infrastructure, information from the sending device indicative of the one or more recipients for participation in the multi-media conversation;
receiving, at the network infrastructure, video media as the video media is transmitted by the sending device,
wherein the video media is received at the network infrastructure either concurrent with or after receipt of the information, but not before the information;
discovering, by the network infrastructure, one or more delivery route(s) over the network to one or more receiving devices associated with the one or more recipients, the one or more delivery route(s):
(a) discovered using the information indicative of the one or more recipients for participation in the conversation; and
(b) occurring before the transmission of the video media by the sending device is complete;

selectively forwarding the video media to the one or more receiving devices over the one or more discovered delivery route(s) so that the one or more recipients can selectively render at least portions of the video media in a real-time mode:
(c) without having to first establish an end-to-end connection over the network between the sending device and any of the one or more receiving devices respectively; and
(d) before the transmitting of the video media by the sending device is complete;
(e) enabling the one or more participants, or a conversation initiator, to add one or more other messages associated with the video media to the multi-media conversation, the one or more other messages containing one or more types of media;
(f) linking together the one or more other messages associating the video media to construct the multi-media conversation; and
(g) enabling the conversation initiator, and any of the one or more participants, to selectively engage in the multi-media conversation by one of:
(iii) rendering the video media in the real-time mode;
(iv) rendering the one or more other messages that are linked together; or
(v) add a Previously Presented message that is added to the one or more other messages that are linked together.