Skype Limited

Wire Swiss Gmbh

Priidu Zilmer

Duncan Lamb

Torsten Rehberg

Simon Tickner

Dmytro Izotov

Taavet Hinrikus

Gareth O'Loughlin

Jonathan Christensen

Malthe Sigurdsson

Mike Bartlett

Michael Bevin

Panayiotis Lipiridis

Jaak Parik

Erik Laansoo

Bettina Sutter

Tiago Manuel Ventura Loureiro

Dusan Stevanovic

Tymofii Zadorozhny Of Serhii

Tyson Chihaya

Håkon Bø

Robert Kortenoeven

Bjørn Nordbø

Alan Duric

Oliver Reitalu

Angel Sergio Palomo Pascual

Michael John Winston Bartlett

A unified communication framework in which multiple users communicate using multiple modes. Conversations are kept consistent across users' devices. A backend maintains the true and authoritative version of the conversation within the communication framework.

Unified and consistent multimodal communication framework

A method of sorting communication events at a user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client arranged to be operable by a user is provided. The method comprises storing an event list comprising a list of identifiers, each identifier having information relating to at least one previously received communication event associated therewith, wherein the identifier identifies the initiator of the associated at least one previously received communication event and each identifier is listed only once in the list of identifiers. The event list is displayed in a user interface of the communication client. The method further comprises receiving an incoming communication event at the user terminal from an initiating user over the communication network and determining whether the initiating user is present in the list of identifiers stored in the event list. In the case that the initiating user is present in the list of identifiers, the event list is amended by adding information relating to the incoming communication event to the information relating to the at least one previously received communication event associated with the identifier of the initiating user. In the case that the initiating user is not present in the list of identifiers, a new entry is created at the top of the event list comprising an identifier for the initiating user and having information relating to the incoming communication event associated therewith. The display of the event list is updated in the user interface of the communication client.

Communication method and apparatus

A method of searching for a data item in a stored chronological sequence of communication events relating to a user of a user terminal is provided. The method comprises: querying a communication event database comprising individually accessible records of each of the communication events, each record being associated with an event time at which the communication event occurred, wherein the step of querying locates a target event comprising the data item and having an event time earlier than a predetermined first time instance; loading the target event into a storage means; displaying the contents of the target event to the user in a user interface; and loading communication events occurring in a time period between the event time and the first time instance of the target event into the storage means and updating the display to include the contents of the communication events occurring in the time period.

Searching method and apparatus

A wireless handset for use in a peer-to-peer voice communications system comprising: a display; a keyboard comprising multifunctional keys capable of entering numeric or alphabetic characters depending on a number of key presses, said keyboard being arranged to enter contact information into a user interface displayed on said display, select contacts on the user interface, and initiate a packet data voice call with a contact; a microprocessor arranged to execute embedded client software, wherein the client software is arranged to establish a packet data voice call over the network and encode speech information as individually addressed packets; and a radio communication device arranged to transmit said individually addressed packets as radio signals from said wireless handset to a network.

Wireless device for voice communication

User interface icon for a portion of a display screen

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Tallinn, Estonia

Priidu Zilmer