Qwest Communications International Inc.

Nokia Corporation

Katrin B Gosling

Nicholas Zambetti

Peter Riering-Czekalla

Richard Cerami

Matthew Robert Adams

Michael Gibson

Andrew Switky

Coe Leta Rayne Stafford

Jesse Tane

Martin Nicholas John Heaton

Elger Oberwelz

Afshin Frederick Mehin

Suzanne Gibbs Howard

Astrid Van Der Flier

Valentina Venza

Energy Cruse, Ii

Stephen John O'Connor

Samuli Ylinen

Aki Tamminen

Astrid Jantina Van Der Flier

Marcus Hauer

Abbe Don

Daniel Stillion

Christopher Nyffeler

Ari-Pekka Hirvonen

Andrew Daymond

Kristian Russell Thomas Simsarian

Anne Sybille Pascual

Scott Yiu-Lun Tong

Adam Glazier

Jeffrey John Cunningham

Teemu Kankaanpää

Jaana Huotari

Aki Lehto

Kalle Ojala

Marko Lindgren

Nerea Armendariz

Solutions for facilitating enhanced video calling functionality. Embodiments include functionality for handling video calling through a communications hub. According to some embodiments, the communications hub is a user supersystem having multiple clients, each with an integrated camera and display, capable of seamlessly handing off video call functionality among the clients. Other embodiments integrate other functionality of the communications hub (e.g., web browsing, multimedia, etc.) into the video call environment.

Video call handling

Solutions for providing integrated task list functionality. Some such solutions use a user supersystem as a communications hub to generate, display, and/or handle user-based tasks for a family group. For example, tasks may be assigned to one or more members of the family and associated with various types of dates, rewards, audits, etc. Family members may then interact with the tasks through the communications hub and/or through other devices (e.g., cell phones, etc.).

Multi-user integrated task list

Solutions for providing integrated media services, e.g., in the context of communications services offered through a user supersystem configured as an interactive graphical communications hub. For example, interactions with a messaging interface may provide access to media creation functionality, including doodle functionality, in the context of the messaging and/or in the context of other media. In one implementation, the communications interface allows a user to doodle in the context of an image file (e.g., a photo) while in the context of a chat application.

Doodle-in-chat-context

Solutions for providing context-driven communications mode determinations. Some such solutions use a communications hub located in a home (e.g., a user supersystem) to facilitate context-driven, multi-modal communications. For example, a tablet system may be used as a graphical communications hub in a family's home, used by the family to communicate to and from the home via multiple communications modes (e.g., family chat, family activities, user-based messaging, etc.) over one or more communications channels. Determination of an appropriate mode for communications may be driven by contextual (rather that channel-based) factors relating to the communications.

Integrated multi-modal chat

An approach is provided for providing uniform content management for a user equipment. A uniform content management platform determines new content from a plurality of content of different categories. The uniform content management platform further initiates presentation of the new content via a graphical user interface that includes: a dashboard providing a layout of the new content, a content manager that is invoked upon selection of a particular one of the new content for managing a group of content of a common category, and a content editor that is invoked upon selection of one of the content in the group for editing the selected content.

Method and apparatus for providing uniform content management

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Woodside, CA, United States of America

Katrin B Gosling