Patent ID: 8300082
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer instructions which, responsive to being executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: initiating a voice call over an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network between a mobile communication device and at least one device of a group of communication devices associated with a user; determining video conferencing capability of each device of the group of communication devices using a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) exchange to identify a group of video conferencing capable devices of the group of communication devices, wherein the determination of the video conferencing capability is performed in temporal proximity with the initiating of the voice call; receiving over one of the IMS network or an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network a request for video conferencing from one of the mobile communication device or the group of communication devices; determining a presence of the user at a set-top box, wherein the set top box is one of the group of video conferencing capable devices; adjusting and transmitting the request over the other of the IMS network or the IPTV network to the set-top box responsive to the determined presence; receiving an acceptance of the request from the set-top box; initiating a video conference between the mobile communication device and the set top box; and receiving and adjusting a format of video streams of the video conference for transmission between the IMS network and the IPTV network, wherein the video streams comprise video content captured by the mobile communication device and the set top box.