METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR TRANSFERRING A COLLABORATION SESSION

摘要

A method for transferring a collaboration session from a handheld device to a multimedia endpoint by encoding session data for the collaboration session and/or instructions into an optically machine-readable representation of data, displaying the data on a display of the handheld device, and optically providing the data to a multimedia endpoint the collaboration session is to be transferred to. The multimedia endpoint may send a message to a server upon detecting the data, causing the server to transfer the collaboration session, based on the session data in the message. Alternatively, the multimedia endpoint establishes a session with another multimedia endpoint based on the instructions and/or session data.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a collaboration server, a session request from a first multimedia endpoint addressed to a user; establishing a first session between said first multimedia endpoint and a handheld device associated with said user in a user database; providing session data associated with the first session to a second multimedia endpoint by
encoding the session data into a barcode image,displaying the barcode image on a display of the handheld device, andretrieving and decoding the barcode image at the second multimedia endpoint using a camera associated with the second multimedia endpoint; receiving, at the collaboration server, a barcode image detection message from the second multimedia endpoint; and in response to said receiving of the barcode image detection message, transferring the first session to the second multimedia endpoint, based on the session data associated with the first session and an address of the second multimedia endpoint included in the barcode image detection message.