Patent ID: 9674349
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for obtaining collaboration services offered by multiple autonomous networks at a user device, the method comprising: communicating with a controller of a first autonomous network to connect to a call with at least one other device through said first autonomous network, the first autonomous network comprising a public network; during said call, communicating with a controller of the second autonomous network to register the user device with the controller of the second autonomous network, the second autonomous network comprising a private network; sending said controller of the second autonomous network information to join said controller of said second autonomous network to said call while said user device continues to communicate with said controller of said first autonomous network; simultaneously receiving first collaboration services from said controller of said first autonomous network and second collaboration services from said controller of said second autonomous network; wherein said first collaboration services include associations, roles, availability and features provided by said controller of said first autonomous network, and wherein said second collaboration services include associations, roles, availability and features provided by said controller of said second autonomous network; merging on said user device said associations, roles, availability and features provided by said controller of said first autonomous network and said controller of said second autonomous network; and displaying, in a graphical user interface on a display device of the user device, the merged associations, roles, availability and features; wherein said features include presence and availability information of persons in at least one of said roles from said first autonomous network and said second autonomous network.