Device and/or line event awareness and smart synchronization

• US 10,356,745 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Karimli, Yasmin, Nimbavikar, Gunjan
• Primary Examiner(s): Miah, Liton
• Application Number:
  US15/247,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20170359799A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24564 Applying rules; Deductive queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• 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 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/765 Linked or grouped accounts, e.g. of users or devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/002 Mutual synchronization
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

Device and/or line event awareness and smart synchronization is described. In at least one example, a related device of a group of related devices may receive a communication notification representative of a communication event. Such communication notifications may enable event awareness for each of the devices in the group of related devices. In an example, the related device may compare data items (e.g., participants, timestamps, etc.) associated with the communication notification with data items associated with entries stored in a local data store. The entries may correspond to communication events associated with at least the related device. Based at least in part on comparing the data items, the related device may determine whether a new entry associated with the communication notification should be added to a local data store or the communication notification should be disregarded as a duplication.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a related device of a group of related devices, a communication notification representative of a first communication event, the group of related devices being related based on at least one of utilizing a same communication address for sending and receiving at least communications via a network or being associated with a same subscriber account associated with a telecommunications service provider, the first communication event originating at an originating device and being addressed to the same communication address or the same subscriber account;

accessing, by the related device and from a local activity database associated with the related device, an entry corresponding to a second communication event associated with the related device;

accessing, by the related device, a first data item associated with the communication notification, the first data item being associated with first content associated with the first communication event;

accessing, by the related device, a second data item associated with the entry, the second data item being associated with second content associated with the second communication event;

comparing, by the related device, the first data item and the second data item;

determining, by the related device and based at least in part on comparing the first data item and the second data item, that the first data item is similar to the second data item based at least in part on;

processing the first content and the second content based at least in part on performing semantic analysis or image recognition analysis on the first content and the second content; and

determining, based at least in part on results of the semantic analysis or the image recognition analysis, that an extent to which the first content differs from the second content is less than a threshold;

determining, by the related device and based at least in part on the first data item being similar to the second data item, that the communication notification and the entry correspond to a same communication event; and

refraining, by the related device, from adding the communication notification to the local activity database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the same communication event is an incoming call answered by the related device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the originating device is the related device and the same communication event is an outgoing call from the related device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the same communication event is an incoming message opened by the related device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the originating device is the related device and the same communication event is an outgoing message sent from the related device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first data item corresponds to at least one of first communication addresses or first subscriber accounts associated with first participants in the first communication event;

the second data item corresponds to at least one of second communication addresses or second subscriber accounts associated with second participants in the second communication event; and

determining that the first data item is similar to the second data item is based at least in part on determining that at least one of the first communication addresses and the second communication addresses or the first subscriber accounts and the second subscriber accounts match.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data item and the second data item are associated with a start time of a call, an end time of the call, or a duration of the call.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data item and the second data item are associated with a send time of a message, a received time of the message, or a read time of the message.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first data item is associated with a first timestamp associated with the first communication event;

the second data item is associated with a second timestamp associated with the second communication event; and

determining that the first data item is similar to the second data item is based at least in part on;

determining an amount of time between the first timestamp and the second timestamp; and

determining that the amount of time is less than a threshold amount of time.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first data item is associated with a first identifier of the first communication event;

the second data item is associated with a second identifier of the second communication event; and

determining that the first data item is similar to the second data item is based at least in part on determining that the first identifier matches the second identifier.

11. A mobile device comprising:

an activity database storing a plurality of entries corresponding to first communication events associated with a group of related devices that at least one of utilize a same communication address as the mobile device for sending and receiving at least communications via a network or are associated with a same subscriber account as the mobile device, the same subscriber account being associated with a telecommunications service provider;

one or more processors;

memory; and

a plurality of programming instructions stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving a communication notification representative of at least one second communication event associated with at least one related device of the group of related devices;

accessing first data items associated with individual entries of the entries that are stored in the activity database, the first data items being associated with the first communication events;

comparing the first data items with second data items associated with the communication notification, the second data items being associated with the at least one second communication event, where comparing the first data items with the second data items comprises;

processing the first data items with the second data items based at least in part on performing semantic analysis or image recognition analysis on at least one of the first data items and at least one of the second data items; and

determining, based at least in part on results of the semantic analysis or the image recognition analysis, whether an extent to which the first data items differ from the second data items is less than a threshold; and

based at least in part on comparing the first data items with the second data items, determining whether the communication notification corresponds to any of the entries.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein:

a first data item of the first data items corresponds to at least one of first communication addresses or first subscriber accounts associated with first participants of the first communication event;

a first data item of the second data items corresponds to at least one of second communication addresses or second subscriber accounts associated with second participants of the at least one second communication event; and

the operations further comprise determining that at least one of the first communication addresses and the second communication addresses or the first subscriber accounts and the second subscriber accounts match.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein comparing the first data items with the second data items comprises:

comparing a second data item of the first data items with a second data item of the second data items, the second data item of the first data items corresponding to the second data item of the second data items;

determining that the second data item of the first data items is similar to the second data item of the second data items, the second data item of the first data items being similar to the second data item of the second data items based at least in part on (i) the second data item of the first data items matching the second data item of the second data items or (ii) the second data item of the first data items differing from the second data item of the second data items by an extent that is less than the threshold; and

refraining from adding the communication notification to the activity database.

14. The mobile device of claim 11, further comprising:

determining that the communication notification does not correspond to any of the entries; and

adding a new entry to the activity database, the new entry corresponding to the at least one second communication event.

15. The mobile device of claim 14, further comprising:

determining a change to a presence of the mobile device from offline to online;

sending presence data to a presence server to indicate that the mobile device is online and capable of receiving communication notifications, the presence server being associated with the one or more server computing devices; and

receiving the communication notification responsive to sending the presence data to the presence server.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, further comprising receiving additional communication notifications representative of third communication events associated with the group of related devices that occurred while the mobile device was offline.

17. The mobile device of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

determining a third communication event prior to receiving the communication notification, the third communication event corresponding to a call that was missed by the mobile device or a message that was not opened by the mobile device;

adding an entry of the entries to the activity database, the entry corresponding to the third communication event and including an indication that the third communication event was missed or not opened;

determining that the at least one second communication event corresponds to the third communication event;

determining, based at least in part on a third data item associated with the communication notification, which related device of the group of related devices answered the call or opened the message; and

updating the entry to indicate that the other related device answered the call or opened the message.

18. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the second communication event originates from an originating device and is addressed to the same communication address or the same subscriber account, and the second communication event is received, by the at least one related device and one or more other related devices of the group of related devices, at a substantially same time.

19. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein comparing the first data items with second data items associated with the communication notification comprises determining that the extent is less than the threshold,

wherein determining whether the communication notification corresponds to any of the entries comprises determining that the communication notification corresponds to at least one of the entries, and

wherein the operations further comprise refraining from adding the communication notification to the activity database.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

a plurality of programming instructions stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

determining a first communication event associated with at least one related device of a group of related devices, the first communication event originating from an originating device and being intended for the group of related devices having with the same communication address or being associated with the same subscriber account, the first communication event being associated with first content;

accessing an activity database storing an existing entry corresponding to a second communication event associated with the group of related devices, the second communication event being associated with second content;

determining the first communication event is different from the second communication event;

processing the first content with second content based at least in part on performing semantic analysis or image recognition analysis on the first content and the second content; and

determining, based at least in part on results of the semantic analysis or the image recognition analysis, an extent to which the first content differs from the second content is not less than a threshold; and

causing a new entry corresponding to the first communication event to be added to the activity database.