Patent ID: 8223189

Claim:
A system for supporting a call between a video-capable communications device and a non-video-capable communications system, comprising: an audio call handler operative to establish an audio call connection for an audio call with the non-video-capable communications system; a video call handler operative to establish a video call connection for a video call with the video-capable communications device, and to handle a video stream for the video call; a video access component operative to access one or more video content items from a video server; a call connection component communicably coupled to the audio call handler, the video call handler, and the video access component, the call connection component being operative to complete the call between the video-capable communications device and the non-video-capable communications system over the respective audio and video call connections; and a controller operative, in response to at least one command from the non-video-capable communications system for selecting at least one of the video content items from the video server, to control, during the call between the video-capable communications device and the non-video-capable communications system: (i) the access of the at least one selected video content item from the video server; and (ii) the video stream for the video call using the at least one selected video content item from the video server wherein the controller is further operative, in response to at least one second command from the video-capable communications device for selecting at least a second one of the video content items from the video server, to control, during the call between the video-capable communications device and the non-video-capable communications system: (i) the access of the selected second one of the video content items from the video server; and (ii) the video stream for the video call using the selected second one of the video content items from the video server.