Patent ID: 8509408

Claim:
A system comprising: a device to: receive a voice call from a calling party device intended for a called party device; detect, based on receiving the voice call, a current status of the called party on a text messaging system, the current status including active or inactive; establish a communication session between the calling party device, the called party device, and one or more other called party devices via the text messaging system when the current status of the called party is active, the one or more other called party devices being different than the called party device; receive, during the communication session, speech, associated with the voice call, from the calling party device; translate, during the communication session, the speech from the calling party device to text; deliver, to the called party device and the one or more other called party devices, the text on the text messaging system; receive, during the communication session, text from the called party device; translate, during the communication session, the text from the called party device to speech; deliver, to the calling party device, the speech; and deliver, to the one or more other called party devices, the text from the called party device.