Share your own and view your friends locations in your Skype contact list. TL;DR "Find My Friends", before Apple made it.

Share your TV picture, camcorder feed or DVD during a Skype video call — picture-in-picture screen sharing from the living room.

A sibling of US10524091B2 covering the same idea — location in the Skype contact list — with a different claim scope. The earlier filing that got the ball rolling.

A sole-inventor patent covering location-aware call logs — organising communication history by where you were when each call or message occurred.

See what TV channel your Skype contacts are watching and tune in to the same thing. TL;DR social TV, before anyone called it that.

A contact list that adapts — select a group and the avatars automatically resize to fill the available space. Designed for ten-foot TV interfaces where every pixel counts.

Auto-set your Skype status from your calendar and tell contacts when you'll be free. TL;DR the "in a meeting until 3 pm" status message, automated.

Capture a frame from live TV and use it as your Skype avatar, a one-button profile pic from your telly.

Run Skype on a television and intelligently manage incoming call notifications based on what you're watching. TL;DR "do not disturb", but your TV decides when to tap you on the shoulder.

Move a Skype call from your phone to your TV — or the other way — mid-conversation, without hanging up or redialling. TL;DR seamless device handoff, years before Apple called it Continuity.