Patent ID: 8938055
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of establishing a communications session for communication of data with respect to at least two telephony user devices in a data communications network, the method comprising: receiving, at a server apparatus, call party details of a telephone call, the telephone call involving at least a calling party telephony user device and a called party telephony user device, said call party details including a calling party identity associated with said calling party telephony user device and a called party identity associated with said called party telephony user device; receiving, at the server apparatus, a client-server connection request from, and establishing a client-server connection with, at least one of said calling party telephony user device and said called party telephony user device; establishing, by the server apparatus and on the basis of said calling party identity and said called party identity received in said call party details, a separate communications session, separate from said telephone call, for the communication of data to and/or from said calling party telephony user device and said called party telephony user device; conducting, at the server apparatus, a check to determine whether said at least one of said calling party telephony user device and said called party telephony user device has pre-configured user data for a user of one other of said calling party telephony user device and said called party telephony user device stored locally, said pre-configured user data having been specified by said user prior to the establishment of said telephone call as data for receipt by other user devices during telephone calls conducted by said user; and enabling, by the server apparatus, the receipt of at least a part of said pre-configured user data by said at least one of said calling party telephony user device and said called party telephony user device via said client-server connection when said check, conducted at the server apparatus, indicates that said at least one of said calling party telephony user device and said called party telephony user device does not have at least part of said pre-configured user data for said user stored locally.