Patent ID: 8725880
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for assisting in establishing an online communication session between client computing devices, comprising: receiving from an initiating client computing device, an invite request message for an online communication session, the invite request message including connection data of the initiating computing device and an online communication session endpoint identifier selected from a plurality of online communication session endpoint identifiers for an intended recipient; determining a set of one or more push tokens that are associated with the online communication session endpoint identifier, wherein each push token in the set of push tokens uniquely identifies and validates a trusted client computing device, and wherein each client computing device is automatically registered for online communications via an SMS (short message service) transit device, the registration of the client computing device comprising associating a device specific push token with one or more online session endpoint identifiers, the SMS transit device having transmitted an IP (Internet Protocol) message to a registration server, the IP message including the device specific push token, and one or more online communication session endpoint identifiers; transmitting an invite message for the online communication session that includes the connection data of the initiating client computing device to a set of one or more intended recipient client computing devices that correspond with the set of one or more push tokens; receiving an invite accepted message from at least one device of the set of intended recipient client computing devices, the message including connection data of that accepting computing device; and transmitting the received one or more invite accepted messages to the initiating computing device, to allow the initiating computing device and each accepting computing device to establish a direct peer-to-peer online communication session.