Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving profile data for electronic devices

• US 10,049,146 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Osborne, John, Russell, David W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ajayi, Joel
• Application Number:
  US14/547,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081631A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• Field of Search: 4554121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/553 Data upload
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Apparatuses for storing, transmitting, and identifying changes in relation to, data are provided. One of these apparatuses is a server which includes a processor-implemented controller that receives data from a first electronic device external to the server, determines whether a user identification corresponding to a second electronic device external to the server matches a specified user identification, and transmits at least one portion of the data to the second electronic device based at least in part on a determination that the user identification matches the specified user identification.

Claims

1. A portable communication device comprising:

communication circuitry;

memory to store a first user identification corresponding to the portable communication device; and

a processor-implemented controller adapted to;

identify a change including an addition, a modification or a deletion with respect to multimedia data stored in the memory;

establish, using the communication circuitry, a back-channel communication link with a server through a SyncML protocol based at least in part on the identifying of the change; and

transmit at least one portion of the multimedia data updated according to the change to the server via the back-channel communication link, the at least one portion of the multimedia data to be transmitted from the server to an electronic device external to the portable communication device based at least in part on an indication that a second user identification corresponding to the electronic device is associated with a same user billing account as the first user identification,

wherein the at least one portion of the multimedia data is encrypted.

2. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

perform the establishing of the back-channel communication link without presenting an indication indicating the back-channel communication link to a user.

3. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

receive other multimedia data from the electronic device via the server.

4. The portable communication device of claim 3, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

update the other multimedia data received from the electronic device according to a change in relation with the other multimedia data in the electronic device.

8. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein, in response to the transmitting the at least one portion of the multimedia data to the server, the at least one portion of the multimedia data is automatically transmitted from the server to the electronic device.

9. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the first user identification and the second user identification comprise a password.

10. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data includes one or more images to be shared by the portable communication device and the electronic device, and wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

detect the change with respect to at least one image of the one or more images stored in the memory.

11. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data includes one or more images, and wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

detect, as at least part of the change, an addition of another image to the multimedia data.

12. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the back-channel communication link comprises a communication service provided in relation with a third generation partnership project (3GPP).

13. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the background communication channel comprises a channel capable of communicating data packets.

14. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

perform the transmitting based at least in part on a determination that a data type of the at least one portion of the multimedia data corresponds to an image.

5. A server comprising:

a processor-implemented controller adapted to;

receive multimedia data from a first electronic device external to the server and associated with a first user identification, wherein receiving the multimedia data includes establishing a back-channel communication link with the first electronic device through a SyncML protocol based at least in part on a change including an addition, a modification or a deletion with respect to the multimedia data stored in the first electronic device;

determine whether a second user identification corresponding to a second electronic device external to the server is associated with a same user billing account as the first user identification; and

transmit at least one portion of the multimedia data to the second electronic device based at least in part on a determination that the second user identification is associated with the same user billing account as the first user identification,

wherein the multimedia data is encrypted.

6. The server of claim 5, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to update the multimedia data stored in the server according to the change in the first electronic device.

15. The server of claim 5, wherein the multimedia data comprises an image.

16. The server of claim 5, wherein the multimedia data includes one or more images, and wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

perform the receiving or transmitting based at least in part on an addition of another image to the multimedia data.

17. The server of claim 5, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

perform the receiving or transmitting based at least in part on a determination that a data type of the at least one portion of the multimedia data corresponds to an image.

7. A portable communication device comprising:

memory to store a first user identification corresponding to the portable communication device, and first multimedia data; and

a processor-implemented controller adapted to;

receive, via a server, second multimedia data transmitted from an electronic device external to the portable communication device based at least in part on an indication that the first user identification is associated with a same user billing account as a second user identification corresponding to the electronic device, the receiving including establishing a back-channel communication link with the server through a SyncML protocol based at least in part on a change including an addition, a modification or a deletion with respect to the second multimedia data in the electronic device; and

update the first multimedia data using at least a portion of the second multimedia data,

wherein the first and second multimedia data are encrypted.

18. The portable communication device of claim 7, wherein the first or second multimedia data includes one or more images, and wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

perform the receiving based at least in part on an addition of another image to the second multimedia data.

19. The portable communication device of claim 7, wherein the back-channel communication link comprises a communication channel communicating data including the first or second multimedia data without indicating the communicating of the data to a user.

20. The portable communication device of claim 7, wherein the processor-implemented controller is adapted to:

perform the receiving based at least in part on a determination that a data type of the at least one portion of the multimedia data corresponds to an image.