Patent ID: 7609659
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A processor-implemented method for facilitating communication over a plurality of communication mediums for a plurality of interlocutors, wherein the plurality of interlocutors communicate in a first communication over a first communication medium, comprising: receiving an indication at a mobile device to facilitate a second communication over a second communication medium for the first communication over the first communication medium; identifying, at the mobile device, interlocutors in the first communication over the first communicating medium in response to the indication; accessing contact data on the mobile device that includes communication contact data corresponding to the plurality of communication mediums and the plurality of interlocutors; determining, based on the contact data on the mobile device, whether the interlocutors identified have an associated communication capability over the second communication medium; establishing at the mobile device the second communication between the interlocutors determined to have the associated communication capability over the second communication medium; and sending a communication exclusion notification from the mobile device during the first communication to an interlocutor at a second mobile device determined not to have the associated communication capability over the second communication medium, the communication exclusion notification including communication contact data for the second communication medium that enables the interlocutor determined not to have the associated communication capability to establish a communication with the mobile device over the second communication medium.