Method for providing service of multimedia mail box to support user mobility

• US 20050089040A1
• Filed: 10/28/2004
• Published: 04/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CS Technology
• Original Assignee: CS Technology
• Inventors: Kim, Hyo-Soeng
• Application Number:
  US10/976,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20050089040A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/395.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/104 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/20 hybrid systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5307 for recording messages comprising any combination of audio and non-audio components

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for providing service of a multimedia mail box in VOIP service. A service providing method applied to a terminal that processes a multimedia message, comprises the steps of: (a) being in a state in which a terminal at a receiving side cannot make a response to a request from a transmitting side; (b) receiving a call setup request from the transmitting side when a user of the terminal at the receiving side is absent; (c) receiving the call setup request from the transmission side when the user of the terminal at the receiving side is in a busy state; and (d) performing a connection to a location information server and a multimedia mail box according to the presence of a response, from the terminal at the receiving side, to the request from the transmitting side at the steps (a), (b) and (c).

Claims

1. A service providing method applied to a terminal that processes a multimedia message, comprising the steps of:

(a) being in a state in which a terminal at a receiving side cannot make a response to a request from a transmitting side;

(b) receiving a call setup request from the transmitting side when a user of the terminal at the receiving side is absent;

(c) receiving the call setup request from the transmission side when the user of the terminal at the receiving side is in a busy state; and

(d) performing a connection to a location information server and a multimedia mail box according to the presence of a response, from the terminal at the receiving side, to the request from the transmitting side at the steps (a), (b) and (c).

2. The service providing method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

(e) after the step (a) is performed, by a location information server, notifying the transmitting side of state information associated with the terminal at the receiving side and connecting a terminal at the transmitting side to the multimedia mail box.

3. The service providing method of claim 2, further comprising the step of:

(f) when the terminal at the transmitting side is connected to the multimedia mail box, providing state information associated with the terminals at the transmitting and receiving sides and storing a multimedia message to be sent to the receiving side in the multimedia mail box.

4. The service providing method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

(g) after the step (b) is performed, storing a multimedia message to be sent to the receiving side in a multimedia mail box embedded in the terminal at the receiving side in a state in which the terminal at the transmitting side is not connected to a special multimedia mail box.

5. The service providing method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

(h) after the step (c) is performed, storing a multimedia message to be sent to the receiving side in a multimedia mail box embedded in the terminal at the receiving side in a state in which the terminal at the transmitting side is not connected to a special multimedia mail box.

6. A service providing method applied to a mail box storing a multimedia message, comprising the steps of:

storing user state information associated with terminals at transmitting and receiving sides; and

classifying and storing at least one multimedia message that the terminal at the transmitting side desires to send, according to text, images, voice and video.

7. A service providing method applied to a service system for providing location and state information of a terminal, comprising the steps of:

(a) registering the terminal in the service system;

(b) correcting registration information of the terminal in the service system;

(c) canceling the terminal'"'"'s registration in the service system; and

(d) varying information registered in a location information server according to a state of the terminal at the steps (a), (b) and (c).

8. The service providing method of claim 7, wherein the step (a) comprises the step of:

allowing a user to register, in the location information server, one or more terminals capable of immediately giving a response among the user'"'"'s terminals; and

to periodically exchange terminal state information with the location information server through communication.

9. The service providing method of claim 7, wherein the step (b) comprises the step of:

allowing a user to change information of the terminal registered in the location information server and to periodically exchange terminal state information with the location information server through communication.

10. The service providing method of claim 7, wherein the step (c) comprises the step of:

allowing a user to delete information of all terminals registered in the location information server and to provide information indicating that a terminal capable of giving a response is not present.