Whirlpool Corporation

Qwest Communications International Inc.

Suzanne Gibbs Howard

Peter Riering-Czekalla

Elger Oberwelz

Nicholas Zambetti

Richard Cerami

Matthew Robert Adams

Martin Kay

Michael Gibson

Andrew Deakin

Andrew Switky

Casey J Tubman

Afshin Frederick Mehin

Katrin B Gosling

Astrid Van Der Flier

Jesse Tane

Coe Leta Rayne Stafford

Martin Nicholas John Heaton

Scott J Ceru

Valentina Venza

Altay J Sendil

Jamesina Anne Fitzgerald

Alice Jean Michels

Daniel Stillion

Jennifer M Devine

Russell L Speiller

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

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Under-sink waste processing appliance

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

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Suzanne Gibbs Howard