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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
May. 16, 2006
Emil Hansson, Melmö, SE;
Emil Hansson, Melmö, SE;
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and an electronic equipment for reducing the set-up time required to establish video calls between handheld communication devices, wherein the method comprises the steps of detecting (, S) a signal to establish a video call via a communication link, determining () the party to which the video call has to be established, searching, in a data base (), for information indicating the capability of the party with respect to the video call, defining, for the electronic equipment (), specifications for the video call based on the information, and initialling the electronic equipment () according to the specifications. By storing the negotiated result of a previous video call between communication devices, no further negotiation is necessary in the following video calls. The calling device can start its camera () and load its codecs during the calling phase and the called device can do it after receiving the set-up message from the network.