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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephane Taine, Issaquah, WA (US);
Edward Young Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dwayne B. Mercredi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Leggett, Seattle, WA (US);
Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Henry Martinazzi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Evan Patrick Noon, Seattle, WA (US);
Duckjin Kang, Issaquah, WA (US);
John Randall Ehrhardt, Issaquah, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes sending an availability-notification a caller-user in response to an occurrence of a trigger event; establishing a call session to enable a media stream comprising media of the caller-user that is of a first type to be received by a callee-user; sending the media of the first media type to the callee-user; re-establishing the call session to enable a media stream comprising media of the callee-user that is of a second media type to be received by the caller-user; and sending the media of the second media type to the caller-user.