Patent ID: 9680883
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G08C,G10L,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. At least one machine-readable non-transitory medium for responding to voice commands within an existing telephony call between two or more end user communication devices mediated by the IP based communications server, the at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium comprising a set of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device cause the computing device to: mediate a telephony call among the two or more end user communication devices, each end user communication device with its own communication link to the IP based communications server; detect a user initiated trigger event within the existing telephony call from one of the end user communication devices; upon detecting the user initiated trigger event: (i) causing the end user communication device that generated the trigger event to enter a temporary mute mode with respect to the existing telephony call; and (ii) receive voice input over the communication link from the end user communication device that generated the user initiated trigger event; parse the received voice input into one or more voice commands; and cause the one or more voice commands to be executed.