Patent ID: 8103215

Claim:
A method of communicating between a first wireless phone (A) and a second wireless phone (B) in an audio/video intercom mode, each of said first and second wireless phones comprising a wireless transceiver for exchanging data using a signaling protocol, said method comprising the steps of: initiating a direct communication between the two wireless phone via a first stimulus on the first wireless phone and a second stimulus on the second wireless phone, wherein the first stimulus is not identical to the second stimulus; configuring the first wireless phone with a first predefined IP address (IP_A) and a first signaling protocol identifier (SIP_A) according to a first configuration, and the second wireless phone with a second predefined IP address and a second signaling protocol identifier (SIP_B) according to a second configuration, wherein the first and second predefined IP addresses and signaling protocol identifiers are fixed and known, the first, respectively second, phone knowing the second, respectively first, IP address, the second, respectively first, signaling protocol identifier and a predefined wireless network identifier (SSID), wherein the predefined wireless network, identifier comprises a single fixed and known SSID identifier attributed to both the first and second wireless phones, and wherein the first configuration is not identical to the second configuration; and establishing a direct communication between the two wireless phones using (a) their wireless transceivers and (b) the signaling protocol (c) on the basis of (c)(i) the first and second predefined IP addresses, (c)(ii) the first and second predefined signaling protocol identifiers and (c)(iii) the predefined wireless network identifier, wherein after a start of the audio/video intercom mode, both the first wireless phone (A) and the second wireless phone (B) are forced to use the predefined wireless network identifier (SSID), to establish video and voice calls between the two wireless phones using the signaling protocol without a network, wireless base station, or signaling protocol server.