Patent ID: 9294455
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, executed by one or more processors at a transferee endpoint, for seamlessly transferring a communication session from a transferor endpoint via close-range communication connection, the method comprising: receiving, by a transferee endpoint via a close-range communication connection, a request to confirm that the transferee endpoint is linked to a user account associated with a communication session; sending, from the transferee endpoint to a transferor endpoint, a response to said request that the transferee endpoint is linked to the user account associated with the communication session; receiving, by the transferee endpoint via the close-range communication connection, serialized communication session data from the transferor endpoint; deserializing, at the transferee endpoint, the serialized communication session data received from the transferor endpoint; transmitting, from the transferee endpoint to a communication session server, communication session identifiers and a request to continue the communication session on the transferee device; receiving, at the transferee endpoint from the communication session server, a request to authenticate the user account associated with the communication session; and transmitting, from the transferee endpoint to the communication session server, data necessary to authenticate the user account associated with the communication session.