Abstract:
The various embodiments provide a framework for using a server to create and maintain equivalence classes among applications operating on multiple devices that have registered with the server. In the various embodiments, the server may use equivalence classes to select an application on a target device (the "recipient application") that has the highest probability of being able to receive shared media from an application operating on the originator device (i.e., the "originator application") based on the recipient application's similarity to the originator application. The various embodiments further enhance privacy protections and the overall user experience by enabling the server to select an appropriate recipient application on the target device without the originator device or its user having to know anything about the target device's characteristics and functionalities.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a client device obtains a list of client devices registered in association with a particular client application, and then detects listed client device(s) as proximate via a local communications interface. One of the proximate client devices is identified as responsible for sending an aggregated registration request message for renewing their respective application registrations with a server. In another embodiment, the server receives a registration message for the client application from a client device and detects that at least one other registered client device for that client application is proximate to the requesting client device. The server attempts to preemptively renew the registrations for both the requesting client device and the at least one other registered client device based on the proximity detection.
Abstract:
A server conducts a communication session between an originating device and at least one target device via a first duplex characteristic (e.g., half-duplex, full-duplex, media share, etc.). The server monitors a set of session parameters while the communication session has the first duplex characteristic. Based on the monitoring, the server detects one or more changes to at least one session parameter in the set of session parameters. The server automatically determines to transition the communication session from the first duplex characteristic to a second duplex characteristic (e.g., half-duplex, full-duplex, media share, etc.) in response to the detection. The server transitions the communication session from the first duplex characteristic to the second duplex characteristic in response to the determination.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for setting a control zone configuration for members of a communication group. A dispatcher device establishes a geofence associated with a geographic area including one or more members of the communication group, determines the control zone configuration for members of the communication group within the geofence, and sends the control zone configuration to the one or more members of the communication group.
Abstract:
Methods and servers enable the management of a group communication session among participants. A server may determine a preemption rank for preempting a floor from a floor-holding participant based on a pre-established relational modifier or an administrative relational modifier. The pre-established relational modifier may be based on whether an individual participant has a pre-established relationship to the floor-holding participant. The administrative relational modifier may be based on an assigned relationship between the individual participant and another participant. The server may process a floor request received from a requesting participant that is not the floor-holding participant. In addition, the server may determine whether to grant the floor request based on the preemption rank of the floor-holding participant and the requesting participant. Further, the server may initiate a request response transmission in response to determining to grant the floor request.
Abstract:
Methods, systems and wireless communication devices are provided for maintaining wide area network (WAN) access information in a database accessible to a local area network (LAN) server. A processor of a wireless communication device connected to the LAN determines that the wireless communication device will enter a WAN associated with the WAN access information. The wireless communication device processor may obtain the WAN access information from the LAN accessible database accessible to the LAN server. The wireless communication device processor may use the WAN access information obtained from the LAN accessible storage device to enter the WAN from the LAN.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and devices for managing audio streams in a group communication session. A processor of a receiving communication device may send to a transmitting communication device an instruction to adjust a gain of an audio stream of the transmitting communication device via a feedback communication link. A processor of the transmitting communication device may receive the instruction and may adjust the gain of the audio stream responsive to the instruction. The processor of the transmitting communication device may transmit the audio stream using the adjusted gain.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a dual stack (DS) client device (IPv4+IPv6) configures a header of a message for transmission to include a Via header with an IPv4 address of the DS client device, and transmits the configured message to a server via an IPv6 socket for transmission to a target client device. The target client device receives a message from a server in response to the configured message that identifies the DS capability of the dual stack client device based on a Via header that includes both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. In another embodiment, a DS client device receives a message with a Via header configuration indicating IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses through which another client device can communicate, identifies the other client device as DS, IPv4-only or IPv6-only based on the Via header configuration and selects a target format for communication with the other client device based on the identification.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a target device (e.g., a server or a target client device) receives a first stream (e.g., an RTP stream) and a second stream (e.g., a probing stream) for a given communication session that originates from an application-layer client application on a source client device. The target device calculates delays of arrival times for packet payload portions in the first and second streams, and reports information indicative of a delay disparity between the first and second delays to the application-layer client application on the source client device. The application-layer client application on the source client device determines whether header compression of a given type is used for the first stream based on the received information, and selectively modifies one or more parameters (e.g., a bundling factor, etc.) of the first stream based on the determination.
Abstract:
In an embodiment, a communication device (e.g., a current floor arbitrator of the session, a proxy device, etc.) records a floor arbitration history that tracks one or more floor grants and one or more floor denials that occur while a first device is performing a floor arbitration function for the communication session with the communication group, and transmits some or all of the floor arbitration history to a second device during the communication session. The second device (e.g., a new floor arbitrator for the session, a late or re-joining participant to the communication session, etc.) participates in the communication session based at least in part upon the received floor arbitration history (e.g., by factoring the received floor arbitration history into future floor-related decisions, by selectively requesting particular missed portions of the communication session, etc.).