Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Jeffrey Lewis

Michael Patrick Connelly

Bhagabati Maharana

Louis Rubin

Michael J Cook

James Tobin

Richard Vetter

Sharma Kanchinadham

Bavani Subramaniam

A user device may join an ongoing communication of another user device by sending a request to the other user device to join the ongoing communication. The other user device may provide an option for the user of the other device to accept the request. Alternatively, the other user device may automatically add the user device to the ongoing communication or decline to the add the user device to the ongoing communication.

Joining ongoing communications

A local network call handling device is configured to establish multiple concurrent call sessions between local network end devices and an external network. When a prioritized end device attempts to establish a call session, the call handling device may initially determine if a first call session identifier is available. If so, the call session can be established using that first identifier. If the first identifier is in use for a call session of another end device, the call handling device may either use a different call session identifier for the prioritized end device session or may drop a pre-existing call session to free an identifier for use in connection with the prioritized end device.

Prioritized call sessions

Users receiving incoming messages may provide their preferences for how they wish to be notified of the incoming messages. A plurality of user devices may be caused to output indicators of the incoming messages, and at least one of the user devices may also provide an acknowledgement of the notification, and the indicators may be cleared.

Notifications of incoming messages

A profile-based system is employed to manage user identities and preferences, devices, content and/or other aspects of service delivery. The user profiles may be maintained in one or more servers or other elements located in an external network access via a customer premises equipment (CPE) gateway of a local network. The profiles can be used to map users to identities, devices, services, and other features that affect the manner in which a particular user communicates with (or through) the external network.

Identity management and service access for local user group based on network-resident user profiles

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing notification summaries to users. Users may have accounts for many different services. The notification summaries may contain information about notifications for various services.

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Jeffrey Lewis