The spread of ubiquitous communications is dramatically changing the way of daily work. Office workers can now deepen mutual understanding by using a telephone and a PC concurrently [1]. In this paper, we present an ad-hoc endpoint pairing method that enables a user to easily establish a pair of endpoints, such as an IP-hard phone (fixed or mobile IP-phone) and a PC-based soft phone, simply by simultaneously clicking a GUI button on the display screen of each endpoint. Using the endpoint pairing information, the user can easily launch a PC-to-PC web/data conferencing application during a phone-to-phone audio conversation. It can thus promote deeper mutual understanding between users.
Index Terms:
Endpoint Pairing, Device Pairing, Ubiquitous Communications
Citation:
Takashi Oshiba, Kazuaki Nakajima, Hideaki Nebayashi, "Ad-Hoc Endpoint Pairing Based on Simultaneous Clicking for Ubiquitous Communications," saint, pp.467-470, 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 2008