Patent ID: 8159518

Claim:
A video device, comprising: a communications interface configured to communicate with one or more networks; a short range wireless communications interface configured to communicate with an address book maintaining device separate from the video device, wherein the address book maintaining device includes a corresponding short range wireless communications interface; and logic configured to: capture video data, receive address book entries corresponding to a plurality of receiving terminals from the address book maintaining device via the short range wireless communications interface; display the received address book entries via a user interface associated with the video device; receive a user selection of a particular receiving terminal from the plurality of receiving terminals via the user interface; transmit a video session invitation to the particular receiving terminal via the one or more networks; receive a video session invitation acceptance message from the particular receiving terminal when the particular receiving terminal determines that at least a predetermined minimum amount of storage is available in a memory of the particular receiving terminal; and stream the video data to the particular receiving terminal via the communications interface in substantially real-time.