Systems and methods for providing one-way video calls

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a transceiver of a recipient user equipment (UE), a first signal from a sender UE requesting to establish a two-way video call, the first signal comprising a first set of parameters;

displaying, on a display of the recipient UE, a multi-way video graphical user interface (GUI) including at least a one-way video-in button, a one-way video-out button, or an audio-only button;

determining, with a processor of the recipient UE, that the two-way video call is to be downgraded; and

sending, with the transceiver, a second signal with a second set of parameters to the sender UE, the second set of parameters indicating the two-way video call is to be downgraded to one of a one-way video-in call or a one-way video-out call.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the two-way video call is to be downgraded comprises determining that a camera on the recipient UE is inoperable.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the two-way video call is to be downgraded comprises determining that a battery on the recipient UE is below a predetermined charge level.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the two-way video call is to be downgraded comprises receiving, at the GUI, a selection of the one-way video-in button or the one-way video-out button.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the two-way video call is to be downgraded comprises receiving, at the transceiver, a third signal from a network entity to downgrade the two-way video call.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, at the transceiver, a third signal from the sender UE acknowledging the second set of parameters; and

sending, by the transceiver, a fourth signal to the sender UE initiating a downgraded call.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

determining, at the processor of the recipient UE, that the downgraded call is to be upgraded to a two-way video call; and

sending, by the transceiver, a fifth signal to the sender UE to upgrade the downgraded call to the two-way video call;

wherein the fifth signal comprises the first set of parameters.

8. A sender UE comprising:

a display including a call initiation graphical user interface (GUI);

a transceiver to send and receive at least one of wired or wireless transmissions;

memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

a processor in communication with at least the transceiver and the memory, the computer-executable instructions causing the processor to:

receive, at the call initiation GUI, a first input including a first contact or a first phone number;

receive, at the call initiation GUI, a second input to initiate a two-way video call to a recipient UE associated with the first contact or first phone number;

send, with the transceiver, a first signal to the recipient UE including a first set of parameters and requesting the two-way video call; and

receive, with the transceiver, a second signal from the recipient UE including a second set of parameters and requesting to downgrade the two-way video call to a first downgraded call;

wherein the second set of parameters indicating the two-way video call is to be downgraded to one of a one-way video-in call or a one-way video-out call.

9. The sender UE of claim 8 , the computer-executable instructions further causing the processor to:

present, on the display, a call modification GUI including data associated with the first downgraded call in response to the second signal;

receive, at the call modification GUI, a third input in response to the first downgraded call; and either:

send, with the transceiver, a third signal to the recipient UE, the third signal including an acknowledgement of the first downgraded call and the second set of parameters; or

send, with the transceiver, a fourth signal to the recipient UE, the fourth signal including a second downgraded call and a third set of parameters; or

send, with the transceiver, a fifth signal declining the first downgraded call;

wherein the second downgraded call is another of the one-way video-in call, the one-way video-out call, or an audio-only call.

10. The sender UE of claim 9 , wherein the second downgraded call comprises the audio-only call; and

wherein the transceiver sends the fifth signal declining the first downgraded call.

11. The sender UE of claim 9 , the computer-executable instructions further causing the processor to:

receive, at the call initiation GUI, a third input including a second contact or a second phone number;

receive, at the call initiation GUI, a fourth input to initiate a one-way video call to the recipient UE associated with the second contact or second phone number;

send, with the transceiver, a third signal to the recipient UE including a third set of parameters and requesting the one-way video call; and

receive, with the transceiver, a fourth signal from the recipient UE acknowledging the third set of parameters and initiating the one-way video call.

12. The sender UE of claim 11 , wherein the one-way video call is a one-way video-in call comprising video from the recipient UE to the sender UE only.

13. The sender UE of claim 11 , wherein the one-way video call is a one-way video-out call comprising video from the sender UE to the recipient UE only.

14. A recipient user equipment (UE) comprising:

a display including a call modification graphical user interface (GUI);

a transceiver to send and receive at least one of wired or wireless transmissions;

memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

a processor in communication with at least the transceiver and the memory, the computer-executable instructions causing the processor to:

receive, with the transceiver, a first signal from a sender UE requesting a two-way video call;

display, on the call modification GUI, data associated with the two-way video call and a first set of inputs associated with two-way video calls;

receive, at the call modification GUI, a first input from the first set of inputs in response to the two-way video call; and

send, with the transceiver, a second signal requesting to down-grade the two-way video call to a one-way video call in response to the first input, the second signal including a set of parameters indicating the one-way video call is to be one of a one-way video-in call or a one-way video-out call.

15. The recipient UE of claim 14 , wherein the set of parameters indicate the one-way video call is to be a one-way video-in call.

16. The recipient UE of claim 15 , the computer-executable instructions further causing the processor to:

receive, with the transceiver, a third signal from the sender UE requesting to further downgrade to an audio-only call; and

display, on the call modification GUI, updated data associated with the audio-only call and a second set of inputs associated with audio-only calls.

17. The recipient UE of claim 16 , the computer-executable instructions further causing the processor to:

receive, via the call modification GUI, a second input from the second set of inputs in response to the audio-only call; and either:

send, with the transceiver, a fourth signal to the recipient UE acknowledging the audio-only call in response to the second input; or

send, with the transceiver, a fifth signal to decline the audio-only call in response to the second input.

18. The recipient UE of claim 14 , wherein the set of parameters indicate the one-way video call is to be a one-way video-out call.

19. The recipient UE of claim 14 , the computer-executable instructions further causing the processor to:

receive, with the transceiver, a third signal from another sender UE requesting another two-way video call;

display, on the call modification GUI, data associated with the other two-way video call and the first set of inputs associated with two-way video calls;

receive, at the call modification GUI, a second input from the first set of inputs in response to the other two-way video call; and

send, with the transceiver, a fourth signal to the other sender UE acknowledging the other two-way video call in response to the second input.

20. The recipient UE of claim 14 , the computer-executable instructions further causing the processor to:

receive, with the transceiver, a third signal from the sender UE declining the downgraded one-way video call.