Patent ID: 7848274
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A relay apparatus comprising: a videophone unit configured to communicate with a mobile telephone using a videophone protocol for sending and receiving video and audio in synchronization; a communication unit configured to communicate data with a content server, wherein the content server is configured to store a content; a memory; a processor in communication with the videophone unit, the communication unit, and the memory, and the processor is configured to dynamically select and assign a dynamic sub-address in response to receipt of a request from the content server to issue a sub-address, wherein the request includes a communication address indicating a storage location of the content, and the processor is further configured to write the dynamic sub-address selected and assigned by the processor into the memory in association with the communication address, wherein the dynamic sub-address specifies the content including at least one of a video content and an audio content; the processor is further configured, in further response to the request, to send the dynamic sub-address stored in the memory to the content server; the processor is further configured, in response to receipt by the videophone unit of a call-connect signal including the dynamic sub-address, to control the communication unit to access the content stored on the content server as a function of the communication address stored in association with the dynamic sub-address, wherein the call-connect signal is sent by the mobile telephone; and the processor is further configured, in response to receipt of the content from the content server, to send, via the videophone unit, the content received from the content server to the mobile telephone.