Patent ID: 8804659

Claim:
A communication terminal, comprising: establishing means for establishing a communication session with a communication node by sending a request for establishment to the communication node; obtaining means for obtaining a first identifier from an object that is associated with an alternative communication terminal, said first identifier identifying the alternative communication terminal and said object comprising an image which represents the first identifier, wherein the obtaining means comprises: capturing means for capturing the image as image data; and converting means for converting the image data into the first identifier; redirecting means for redirecting the communication session to the alternative communication terminal by: obtaining, from the alternative communication terminal identified based on the first identifier, a first message that describes the alternative communication terminal, sending a request for redirection to the communication node, said request for redirection including the first message, receiving, from the communication node, a second message that describes capabilities and session initialization of the communication node, and sending the second message to the alternative communication terminal; and regaining means for regaining the communication session from the alternative communication terminal by sending a regaining request to the communication node.