Natural Microsystems Corporation

Livewire Mobile, Inc.

Nms Communications Corporation

Michael Katz

R Brough Turner

Paul R Kerr

Wendell E Bishop

Julius Rothschild

Dan Daly

Rupa Rao

Anupama Hegde

Adam Machalek

Gary Jaspersohn

Jawad Ayaz

Andrea Basso

Conventional video call attempts encountering a device inoperable according to a desired capability will fail if the receiving device is unable to complete the call at the desired service level (i.e. video). In addition to frustrating the communication attempts between users, another issue is that resources consumed in the attempted but failed exchange are not recoverable, since the call never completed. Accordingly, configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by providing a fallback mechanism that identifies a service level operable by both the initiating device and the receiving device, and completes the call at a lower service level operable by both devices. The disclosed approach allows a call to complete at an alternate service level (i.e. voice instead of video) rather than failing the call completely, resulting in a source of lost revenue to the service provider (operator).

Fallback mobile communication

A system for connecting telephony equipment to computer network equipment includes a telephony interface module adapted to accept at least one telephony connection from a telephony network. A computer network interface module is adapted to accept at least one data connection from a computer network. A signal processing module is adapted to alter data to be transferred between the computer network interface module and the telephony interface module. A bypass mechanism is adapted to transfer data between the telephony interface module, the computer network interface module, and the signal processing module while bypassing a host processor connected to the telephony interface module, the computer network interface module, and the signal processing module.

Global packet-switched computer network telephony server

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Westford, MA, United States of America

Michael Katz