Patent ID: 10715344

Abstract:
The invention relates, but is not limited, to mobile communications technology. The invention enables a user to use two separately operating electronic communications devices to communicate with one or more other electronic data processing and/or communication devices, where a first of the two communications devices associated with the user is configured to handle, e.g. receive and/or transmit, media of a different type to the media handled by a second of the two devices associated with said user. The method comprises establishing electronic communication of a first media type between a first electronic communication device of said user and a data processing device and establishing electronic communication of a second, different media type between a second electronic communication device of said same user and said data processing device. The data processing device may comprise a server such as a cloud based server. The first and second communications devices of a user may be associated with a same user log in account or different log in accounts of the same user. In one embodiment, the first electronic communication device of the user is used by said user for a video conference session and the second electronic communication device is used by said user for transmitting and/or receiving discrete media files such as, but not limited to, still images, text documents, SMS messages, etc. within the same video conference session. The invention allows discrete media data to be transmitted in parallel with video conferencing data within the same video conference session such that participants in the video conference session have access to both the video conferencing images and the discrete media files provided by one or more of the participants.