MANAGING THE PLACEMENT OF AN OUTGOING CALL

• Main Authors: CINAR, Onur, CHANDRASEKARAN, Vijay, CHASTNEY, Daniel James
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.03.2019
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A user terminal associated with a first user, the user terminal comprising a communication client application for managing communications with at least one further user terminal over a first network, the communication client application being configured to: determine information associated with at least one further communication client application installed on the user terminal, the at least one further communication client application for managing communications with the at least one further user over a second network; determine with respect to at least one outgoing call whether a further user terminal at the call end point comprises the communication client application; and manage the placement of the call based on the determination of whether the further user terminal at the call end point comprises the communication client application, such that the communication client application is configured to manage the placement of the call using the communication client application over the first network when the further user terminal at the call end point comprises the communication client application and hand off the placement of the call to the to the at least one further communication client application otherwise.