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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/20 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 65/4015 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 69/24 (2013.01);
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.


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