Patent ID: 8561149
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of managing communications services, comprising: maintaining, by a communications services framework of a communications platform, a conference call having a communications session; receiving, at a unified communications and collaboration platform component of the communications platform, a request from a communications device, with which the communications platform is maintaining the communication session, for a communications service to be provided to the communications device by a source other than the communications platform; determining, by the unified communications and collaboration platform component, an authorization of the communications device to receive the communications service, the authorization comprising a permission of the communications device to receive the communications service during a lifetime of the communications session maintained with the communications device; and in accordance with the authorization, authorizing, at the unified communications and collaboration platform component, delivery of the communications service to the communications device during the lifetime of the communications session.