System and method for initiating telecommunications sessions through an electronic mail address

US9854003B2 · kind B2 · utility

Inventors

• Garry M. Paxinos · Pompano Beach, US
• Anastasios Nicholas Kyriakides, II · Sunrise, US
• Kenneth Hosfeld · Coral Springs, US
• Oscar Aparicio · Pembroke Pines, US
• Prashant G. Mehta · Urbana, US
• William Escudero · Miami, US
• Daniel Delgado · Plaisance-du-Touch, FR
• Marcelo Gabriel Matews · Boca Raton, US
• Alain Gonzalez · Castelginest, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: May 26, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L65/1069
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method of establishing and controlling a telecommunications or multimedia communications sessions over a conventional call signaling protocol is employed to enable such a communications session to the initiated and managed between participants through translated resource identifiers. The method of establishing and controlling a telecommunications or multimedia communications sessions over a conventional call signaling protocol is employed in one embodiment through the provision of a database which includes resource records linked together by user which include an email address and corresponding URIs, the retrieval of a corresponding URI upon the generation of a session invitation which identifies its target recipient by email address, the transmitting of the session invitation to the retrieved URI, and notifying the target recipient by sending a message to the email address used to generate the session invitation.