Patent ID: 8041013

Claim:
A method comprising: initiating a call between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, the call comprising a primary dialog and a secondary dialog; establishing the primary dialog of the call between the first endpoint and a third endpoint after transferring the primary dialog from the second endpoint to the third endpoint; determining that the primary dialog has reached a predetermined state; sending a message to the third endpoint, the message indicating a media type of the secondary dialog; determining whether the third endpoint is operable to accept the secondary dialog of the call from the first endpoint; establishing the secondary dialog of the call between the first endpoint and the third endpoint if the third endpoint is operable to accept the secondary dialog; and communicating information between the first endpoint and the third endpoint using the primary dialog and the secondary dialog, the primary dialog comprising a first element chosen from a group comprising a voice dialog, a multimedia dialog, and a video dialog, the secondary dialog comprising a second element chosen from the group, the second element different from the first element.