Method and apparatus for establishing a data link based on a pots connection

US8542807B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Applied Minds, LLC · US

Inventors

• W. Daniel Hillis · Calabasas, US
• Neal E. Chapman · Los Angeles, US
• Russel Howe · La Cañada Flintridge, US
• Dev Kumar · San Jose, US
• Randall Adam Yates · Ventura, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M3/56
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In a communications system, after parties form a dial up voice telephone connection, the parties respective communications devices automatically create or leverage machine readable features or content of the telephone connection to identify the parties to each other or to a rendezvous server, and thereafter the communications devices and/or the rendezvous server automatically establishes a data link between the parties.