Method of managing a token in a telecommunications network

• US 20050066170A1
• Filed: 09/21/2004
• Published: 03/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Queau, Guylaine, Thiebaut, Laurent
• Application Number:
  US10/944,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20050066170A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/172
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1881 with schedule organisation, e.g. priority, sequence management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/566 relating to a participants right to speak arrangements for multi-party communication with floor control, e.g. for conferences, H04L65/4038, H04L65/4046, H04L65/4053

Abstract

A method of managing a token in a telecommunications network to allocate an exclusive right to one user out of a group of users who can request simultaneously to benefit from the same service; the method consisting in:

• • a requesting user (EU_A) sending (1) a token request to an application server (AS); the application server (AS) then allocating (2) a single token to a requesting user; the requesting user who has received the token then sending (3) data to a media server (MS) suitable for transporting the data;
  • said user (EU_A) sending (4) a token-release request to the application server (AS); and
  • finally said application server (AS) broadcasting (5) a message to all of the users (EU_A, . . . , EU_D) indicating that the token is available.

Claims

1. A method of managing a token in a telecommunications network to allocate an exclusive right to one user out of a group of users who can request simultaneously to benefit from the same service;

the method being characterized in that it consists in;

a requesting user (EU_A) sending (1) a token request to an application server (AS);

the application server (AS) then allocating (2) a single token to a requesting user;

the requesting user who has received the token then sending (3) data to a media server (MS) suitable for transporting the data;

said user (EU_A) sending (4) a token-release request to the application server (AS); and

finally said application server (AS) broadcasting (5) a message to all of the users (EU_A, . . . , EU_D) indicating that the token is available.

2. An application server for implementing the method of claim 1, characterized in that it comprises means:

for receiving (1) a token request as sent by a requesting user terminal (EU_A);

then for enabling said application server (AS) to allocate (2) a single token to said requesting user terminal;

for receiving (4) a token-release request from a user terminal (EU_A); and

finally for broadcasting (5) a message indicating that the token is available to all of the user terminals (EU_A, . . . , EU_D).

3. A telecommunications terminal for implementing the method of claim 1, characterized in that it comprises means:

for sending (1) a token request to an application server (AS);

for receiving (2) a token allocated thereto by the application server (AS);

for sending (3) data to a media server (MS) suitable for transporting the data;

for subsequently sending (4) a token-release request to said application server (AS); and

for receiving (5) a message broadcast by the application server (AS) indicating that the token is available.