Automated integration of content from multiple information stores using a mobile communication device

• US 20060174017A1
• Filed: 01/31/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Robertson, Ian
• Granted Patent: US 8,532,622 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A system and method for merging information from a plurality of enterprise information stores on a network using a mobile communication device capable of accessing the network. Using the mobile communication device, communication or contact information is requested from the enterprise information stores, and merged with the content of a personal information store resident in the mobile communication device to create a merged data set for uploading to an enterprise information store on the network. In creating the merged data set, the value of a principal identifier in the requested communication information is used to query the personal information store in order to locate data in the personal information store having a value matching the principal identifier.

Claims

1. A system for merging information, at least a portion of the information being contained in at least one of a plurality of enterprise information stores available on a network for storing communication information, the system comprising a mobile communication device for accessing the network and comprising a personal information store used in carrying out the communication function of the mobile communication device, the system comprising program code operative to:

request communication information from the plurality of enterprise information stores as part of the communication function of the mobile communication device and, upon receipt of the requested information,

merge the received communication information with related information present in the personal information store in the mobile communication device to create a merged data set comprising at least one record of communication information; and

provide the merged data set to the network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises program code operative to merge the merged data set provided to the network with at least one of the plurality of enterprise information stores.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein records of information in at least one of the plurality of enterprise information stores are stored in association with a principal identifier, records of information in the personal information store are stored in association with the principal identifier, and the program code is further operative to:

on receipt by the mobile communication device of communication information having an associated principal identifier value from the plurality of information stores, query the personal information store for a record containing a value matching the associated principal identifier value, and

merge the received communication information with the record in the personal information store containing a value matching the associated principal identifier value to create a merged data record.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the system further comprises program code operative to:

merge the merged data set provided to the network with at least one of the plurality of enterprise information stores, by querying the at least one of the plurality of enterprise information stores for a record containing a value matching the value of the principal identifier stored in association with the merged data record, and merging the merged data record with said record in the at least one of the plurality of enterprise information stores.

5. A method for merging contact information, comprising the steps of:

providing a mobile communication device configured to provide communication functions and capable of accessing enterprise information stores on a network,

providing on the mobile communication device a personal contact information store for use in association with the communication functions or the device,

requesting, using the mobile communication device, contact information from an enterprise information store as part of the communication functions of the mobile communication device,

receiving, using the mobile communication device, the requested contact information,

merging, using the mobile communication device, the received contact information with related information present in the personal contact information store in the mobile communication device to create a merged data set; and

uploading, using the mobile communication device, the merged data set to the an enterprise information store.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of providing a plurality of enterprise information stores on a network.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of merging the received contact information with related information present in the personal contact information store further comprises the steps of:

identifying a first principal identifier having a first value, the first principal identifier being associated with the received contact information and with the personal contact information store, and

querying the personal contact information store for a principal identifier having a value matching the first value.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of merging the merged data set with an enterprise information store.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of merging the merged data set with an enterprise information store, said step further comprising the steps of:

identifying a second principal identifier having a first value, the second principal identifier being associated with the merged data set and with the enterprise information store, and

querying the enterprise information store for a principal identifier having a value matching the first value.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the first principal identifier and the second principal identifier are the same.

13. A machine readable medium comprising computer code means executable on a mobile communications device for implementing the method of claim 5.

11. A method for merging contact information from disparate enterprise information stores on a network using a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device being configured to provide a communication function and comprising a personal contact information store for use in association with the communication function, the method comprising the steps of:

requesting, using the mobile communication device, contact information from at least one of the disparate enterprise information stores,

receiving, using the mobile communication device, the requested contact information,

merging, using the mobile communication device, the received contact information with related information present in the personal contact information store in the mobile communication device to create a merged data set; and

uploading, using the mobile communication device, the merged data set to at least one of the disparate enterprise information stores.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the steps of:

identifying a principal identifier with a first value, the principal identifier being associated with the received contact information and with the personal contact information store, and

prior to the step of merging, querying the personal contact information store for a principal identifier having a value matching the first value.