Patent ID: 8218532
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: during set-up of a communications session with a first communication device that is able to communicate via communications having a first characteristic but is unable to communicate via communications having a second characteristic different from the first characteristic, substituting an indication of ability to communicate via communications having the first characteristic and via communications having the second characteristic for an indication by the first device of ability to communicate via communications having the first characteristic but not the second characteristic; monitoring the communications session established for communicating in a first medium with the first device; detecting in the communications session a communication directed to the first device and having the second characteristic; and in response to the detecting, diverting the communication directed to the first device and having the second characteristic from the first device to a second communication device that is associated with the first communication device and that is able to communicate via the communications having the second characteristic.