Patent ID: 8339437
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for video communication, comprising: playing a video to only one of a calling party and a called party by an Integrated Media Resource Server (IMRS) during an audio conversation between the calling party and the called party; wherein the playing the video to only one of the calling party and the called party by the IMRS comprises: initiating, by the calling party, a video phone call request to the called party; establishing an audio channel and a video channel between the calling party and the called party; keeping, by the only one of the calling party and the called party, the video channel open for receiving a video transmitted by an opposite party, and closing the video channel for transmitting a video to the opposite party; establishing, by the IMRS, a video channel with the opposite party that cannot receive a video of the only one of the calling party and the called party that closed the video channel for transmitting a video; and transmitting, by the IMRS, a video to the opposite party that cannot receive the video of the only one of the calling party and the called party which closed the video channel for transmitting a video during an audio conversation between the calling party and the called party.