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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2012
Arda Aksu, Martinez, CA (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Patricia R. Chang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Deepak Kakadia, Union City, CA (US);
Thomas W. Haynes, San Ramon, CA (US);
Steven R. Rados, Danville, CA (US);
Sanyogita Shamsunder, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Arda Aksu, Martinez, CA (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Patricia R. Chang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Deepak Kakadia, Union City, CA (US);
Thomas W. Haynes, San Ramon, CA (US);
Steven R. Rados, Danville, CA (US);
Sanyogita Shamsunder, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) provides for display, to a user, information identifying available over-the-top (OTT) services provided via voice-over-Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), and receives, from the user, a selection of a particular OTT service of the available OTT services. The UE receives, from the user, information identifying a selected contact associated with the particular OTT service, and determines whether a particular UE associated with the selected contact is a VoLTE capable device or a non-VoLTE capable device. The UE provides a call to the particular UE, via a LTE network and an Internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, when the particular UE is a VoLTE capable device.