Patent ID: 7490125

Claim:
A multimodal device to coordinate a plurality of multimodal sessions associated with a corresponding plurality of clients, the multimodal device comprising: a capability module configured to discover multimodal capability between at least one client and the device where the device or the at least one client, or combinations thereof, are configured to initiate a first sub-session corresponding to the discovered multimodal capability; a registration server configured to register the discovered multimodal capability; an initiation module configured to initiate a second sub-session responsive to the discovered multimodal capability; an integration module configured to integrate the at least one client with an application server running an application; an association module configured to associate the first and second sub-sessions via, at least in part, a session identifier provided from the at least one client where the session identifier identifies independent sub-sessions of at least one multimodal session; and a synchronization module adapted to synchronize the the first and second sub-sessions with the independent sub-sessions of the at least one multimodal session.