Patent ID: 7596369

Claim:
A system for cross-platform communications of a variety of media types, the system comprising: a communications bus; a user profile database communicatively coupled with the communications bus and adapted to maintain profile information for a plurality of end devices; a first end device communicatively coupled with the communications bus and adapted to send and receive common language messages via the communications bus, to translate common language messages received from the communications bus to a format specific to the end device based on the type, and to store user profile information in the user profile database; a second end device adapted to send and receive common language messages via the communications bus, to translate common language messages received from the communications bus to a format specific to the end device based on the type, and to store user profile information in the user profile database; and a client controller communicatively coupled with the communications bus and the second end device, wherein the client controller is adapted to receive from the first end device a common language message indicating a request for a communication with the second end device, wherein the common language message includes an indication of content of a first media type, to detect the first media type from the request, to determine a second media type appropriate for use by the recipient end device, to determine a service to convert the content of the first media type to content of the second media type, to submit the indication of the content of the first media type to the service, to receive an indication of the content of the second media type from the service, and to provide the content of the second media type to the recipient end device.