Patent ID: 7979065

Claim:
A method of facilitating multi-media communications between a first communicator and a second communicator, the method comprising: initiating a communication event over a network between the first communicator, operating a first communications device, and the second communicator, operating a second communications device, via a first communications medium; the network being operatively, electrically coupled with an intermediary computing device; transmitting information between said first communications device and said second communications device only on the first communications medium; determining that said communications event should transition from the first communications medium to the second communications medium; terminating the transmission of information between said first communications device and said second communications device on the first communications medium; transitioning said communications event from said first communications medium to a second communications medium, different from said first communications medium, using the intermediary computing device; at least one of the first communications medium or second communications medium being, on its own, a stateless medium; and transmitting information between said first communications device and said second communications device only on the second communications medium; wherein said intermediary computing device maintains said communications event as a continuous, stateful event over: (i) delays between the transmission of information between the first communications device and the second device; and (ii) the transition between the first communications medium and the second communications medium.