Patent ID: 8958784
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04M,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of telephone call co-processing in a mobile telephony environment, the method comprising: monitoring a resource state of a selected mobile telephone; detecting weakness of the resource state sufficient to inhibit maintenance of a telephone call in the selected mobile telephone with a called party over a cellular communications network; and, responsive to detecting weakness of the resource state, identifying a different mobile telephone proximate to the selected mobile telephone and utilizing the different mobile telephone to process a telephone call by establishing a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) session between the selected mobile telephone and the different mobile telephone in a data communications network, by initiating a telephone call between the different mobile telephone and the called party over the cellular communications network, and bridging the telephone call from the selected mobile telephone through the different mobile telephone to the called party by passing over the VoIP session to the selected mobile telephone, voice data received between the different telephone and the called party.