Patent ID: 8718255

Claim:
A method of switching from a first telephony device to a second telephony device during a first call between the first telephony device and a third telephony device, said method comprising: determining that a characteristic of the first call has fallen below a predetermined threshold; and when it is determined that the characteristic of the first call has fallen below the predetermined threshold, initiating a seamless device switch from the first telephony device to the second telephony device by: outputting a device switch request from the first telephony device, the device switch request not specifying the second telephony device; maintaining the first call between the first and third telephony devices while waiting for the first call to be conferenced with a second call to the second telephony device in response to the second telephone device having been answered; and after the first call and the second call have been conferenced, disconnecting the first call conditioned on further input to drop the first telephony device from the conferenced calls.