Patent ID: 8797999

Claim:
A method for transitioning from a voice call to a text session between a first user and a second user, the method comprising: establishing the voice call between the first user and the second user over a first communications link; buffering a portion of the voice call; monitoring the first communications link; initiating the text session between the first user and second user over a second communications link in response to detecting a change in signal strength in the first communications link; and in response to initiating the text session: converting the buffered portion of the voice call into initial text data, wherein a first portion of the initial text data is associated with the first user and a second portion of the initial text data is associated with the second user, and displaying the initial text data at a user device associated with the first user, wherein the user device comprises a screen and the first portion of the initial text data associated with the first user and the second portion of the initial text data associated with the second user is displayed at different locations on the screen to indicate which portions of the initial text data are associated with each user.