An apparatus and mechanism to manage multi-modal real-time or quasi real-time sessions such as voice, video, instant messaging, or web-conferencing across multiple devices through a simple subscription to a session management service. A user can subscribe to the service from many devices (e.g. mobile device, desk phone, personal computer, internet appliance, internet TV, communication terminal, etc.) and through the service seamlessly move sessions back and forth between subscribed devices. In a preferred embodiment, a user utilizes a “virtual slider” in a simple “two touch” procedure to effectuate the movement of a communication session from one device to another device via the service.

This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for establishing network-based data communications (e.g., voice calls, video calls, etc.) between a user device of a user and a remote device of another user, and transitioning the data communications to a different user device of the user based on various types of information. In some examples, the user devices may be located in one or more environments of the user, and the data communications may be transitioned between the user devices based, at least in part, on a location of the user in the environment(s) relative to the multiple devices. For instance, if a user device is performing data communications with the remote device, but it is determined that the user has moved into a closer proximity to another user device, the performance of the data communications may be transitioned to the other user device to which the user is in closer proximity.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for device selection and modified output upon receiving notifications. In one embodiment of the disclosed technique for selecting an output device for notifications, systems and methods receive an electronic notification which indicate an originator of the electronic notification. An output range is determined for each electronic device in a plurality of electronic devices. The system selects the electronic device with the smallest of determined output ranges from the plurality of electronic devices. The system determines from the indication whether the originator of the electronic notification is on a stored list of originators. If so, the system transmits the electronic notification to the selected electronic device for output.

An automated registration service supported on an application server that interoperates with an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) core network is configured to dynamically register and deregister devices that are all associated with one or more commonly-utilized phone numbers. The service may assign the phone number to registered devices and, in contrast, un-assign the phone number from deregistered devices. The registration and deregistration of the devices may occur based on the amount of interaction with the device and other real-time contextual information. Furthermore, the automated registration service intelligently determines which registered devices to forward incoming video and/or audio calls to based on various contextual information, including the capabilities of device, identified location of a user, user preferences, etc. By intelligently selecting which devices should receive an incoming call, unnecessary use of bandwidth, data, and resources (e.g., battery power) can be reduced.

An automated registration service supported on an application server that interoperates with an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) core network is configured to dynamically register and deregister devices that are all associated with one or more commonly-utilized phone numbers. The service may assign the phone number to registered devices and, in contrast, un-assign the phone number from deregistered devices. The registration and deregistration of the devices may occur based on the amount of interaction with the device and other real-time contextual information. Furthermore, the automated registration service intelligently determines which registered devices to forward incoming video and/or audio calls to based on various contextual information, including the capabilities of device, identified location of a user, user preferences, etc. By intelligently selecting which devices should receive an incoming call, unnecessary use of bandwidth, data, and resources (e.g., battery power) can be reduced.

In an example embodiment, a cloud-based unified communications solution and collaboration platform is provided that includes private branch exchange (PBX) business phone service, among other services, in one interface. Furthermore, in an example embodiment, this cloud-based unified communications solution enables a feature called “call flip,” which allows a user to transfer an active phone call from one device of the user to another device of the same user, without disconnecting the phone call, and despite both devices sharing a common extension or phone number. More particularly, the system is able to detect that a user wishes to perform a “call flip”, identify the device from which the user is attempting to perform the call flip, identify the other devices associated with the user, and then ring only the other devices and not the device from which the user is attempting to perform the call flip.

A voice call transfer method includes when a target device receives an incoming voice call as a called party, displaying, on a call application interface, a device identifier of a first device that can perform voice call transfer, receiving a selection operation performed on the device identifier, triggering the target device to enter a voice call transfer mode, and sending first voice data from a calling party device to the first device when it is determined that the target device performs a voice call with the calling party device and is in the voice call transfer mode, so that the first device plays the first voice data.

A communications system according to certain embodiments includes a mobile device and a second type of communications system, such as a landline telephone system, that share usage information. The shared information can include call logs of in-coming and out-going calls, missed calls, text messages, address book information, GPS data, internet browsing data, and the like.

There are provided systems and methods for contact lookup operations during inoperability of mobile devices. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide additional services for secure contact lookup when a computing device of a user is nonoperational or unavailable. The user may establish a contact identifier and authentication mechanism with the service provider and allow access to the user's contacts. Once established, when the user's device is unable to access contacts and/or communication with other devices, the user may utilize the service provider for contact access through a contact lookup system. The user may utilize a different device to access a communication system or application and retrieve a data structure representing the user's contacts. The data structure may then be passed to the corresponding communication system or application interface system, which may then be output to the user.

Providing multi-device services using a network application programming interface. The server obtains the accessibility in-ormation which indicates the plurality of devices and their capabilities. The plurality of devices have a same user identity. In this way, the server can take control on devices of participate for MuD services.