Patent ID: 9742712
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. An application, embedded in a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium, the application configured to run on a mobile client communication device and to support live video messaging, the application including: a messaging module that creates a video message in response to an input to create and send video to a recipient using identification information associated with the recipient, the identification information uniquely identifying the recipient among a community of users, wherein the messaging module is further arranged to at least partially process separately the identification information and the video media of the video message by communicating the identification information, to a server node on a communication network, before creation of the video media of the video message is complete, wherein the messaging module is further configured to start streaming of the video media of the video message, as the video media is created using the mobile client communication device, without having to wait for an end-to-end connection to be established over the communication network with a communication device associated with the recipient, wherein the server node uses the identification information, before creation of the video media is complete, to determine a delivery route to the communication device associated with the recipient so that the video media can be routed to and rendered by the communication device as the video media is streamed by the mobile client communication device.