Architecture framework to realize push-to-X services using cloudbased storage services
First Claim
1. A system for providing communications services in a wireless communications network, the system comprising:
- one or more messaging servers interfacing with the wireless communications networks to provide the communications services to a plurality of mobile units, wherein the plurality of mobile units communicate in a Push-to-Talk (PTT) system, wherein the communications services comprise Push-to-X communications, and wherein the Push-to-X communications comprise a multi-media messaging service (MMS);
wherein the one or more messaging servers transmits a first control message for a first Push-to-X communication to a first mobile unit of the plurality of mobile units over the communications network;
wherein attachments for the Push-to-X communications are stored on one or more storage servers, the one or more storage servers being connected to the wireless communications networks;
wherein a Quality-of-Service for transfer of the attachments for the Push-to-X communications is treated differently from other traffic in the wireless communications network; and
wherein the first control message identifies a location for retrieving a first attachment for the first Push-to-X communication stored on the one or more storage servers.
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Abstract
An architecture framework to realize Push-to-X services using cloud-based storage services. Push-to-X messages are transmitted between mobile units by messaging servers. The Push-to-X message may include a short text message contained wholly within the Push-to-X message, or the Push-to-X message may include one or more attachments that comprise multimedia contents, files, or location information, which are stored on storage servers, wherein the Push-to-X message identifies a location for retrieving the attachments from the storage servers. The Push-to-X messages may be sent to a single mobile unit identified by a Mobile Directory Number (MDN) or a group of mobile units identified by a list of MDNs or a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
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22 Claims
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1. A system for providing communications services in a wireless communications network, the system comprising:
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one or more messaging servers interfacing with the wireless communications networks to provide the communications services to a plurality of mobile units, wherein the plurality of mobile units communicate in a Push-to-Talk (PTT) system, wherein the communications services comprise Push-to-X communications, and wherein the Push-to-X communications comprise a multi-media messaging service (MMS); wherein the one or more messaging servers transmits a first control message for a first Push-to-X communication to a first mobile unit of the plurality of mobile units over the communications network; wherein attachments for the Push-to-X communications are stored on one or more storage servers, the one or more storage servers being connected to the wireless communications networks; wherein a Quality-of-Service for transfer of the attachments for the Push-to-X communications is treated differently from other traffic in the wireless communications network; and wherein the first control message identifies a location for retrieving a first attachment for the first Push-to-X communication stored on the one or more storage servers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of providing communications services in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
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interfacing, by one or more messaging servers, with the wireless communications networks to provide the communications services to a plurality of mobile units, wherein the communications services comprise Push-to-X communications, wherein the Push-to-X communications comprise a multi-media messaging service, and wherein the plurality of mobile units communicate in a Push-to-Talk system; transmitting, by the one or more messaging servers, a first control message for a first Push-to-X communication to a first mobile unit of the plurality of mobile units over the communications network; wherein attachments for the Push-to-X communications are stored on one or more storage servers, and wherein the one or more storage servers being connected to the wireless communications networks; wherein a Quality-of-Service for transfer of the attachments for the Push-to-X communications is treated differently from other traffic in the wireless communications network; and wherein the first control message identifies a location for retrieving a first attachment for the first Push-to-X communication stored on the one or more storage servers.
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19. A method comprising:
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communicating, by a first mobile unit of a plurality of mobile units, with one or more messaging servers, wherein the plurality of mobile units communicate in a Push-to-Talk (PTT) system, wherein the one or more messaging servers provides Push-to-X communications services to the plurality of mobile units over a wireless communications network, wherein the Push-to-X communications comprise a multi-media messaging service, and wherein attachments for the Push-to-X communications are stored on one or more storage servers connected to the wireless communications network; receiving, by the first mobile unit, a control message for a first Push-to-X communication of the Push-to-X communications from the one or more messaging servers, wherein the control message identifies a location for retrieving a first attachment for the first Push-to-X communication; and retrieving, by the first mobile unit, the first attachment from the one or more storage servers, wherein a Quality-of-Service for transfer of the first attachments for the first Push-to-X communication is treated differently from other traffic for the first Push-to-X communication in the wireless communications network. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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