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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Siddharth Chitnis, Irving, TX (US);
Marcelo D. Lechner, Burlington, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device detects that a first user device is calling a second user device while the second user device is calling the first user device, and sends a notification to the first user device or the second user device indicating that the first user device and the second user device are calling one another. The device receives a response to the notification indicating that the first user device and the second user device are to be connected for a call, designates the first user device or the second user device as a call originator, and connects the first user device and the second user device for the call.