Communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software

• US 20060224640A1
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Original Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Inventors: Huang, Chi-Yuan, Hsin, Chih-Hao, Yuan, Chia-Shang
• Granted Patent: US 7,512,640 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 Version management

Abstract

A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software includes performing data description communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to negotiate an acceptable data format; and performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to complete a data processing operation according to the data format.

Claims

1. A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software, comprising:

performing data description communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to negotiate an acceptable data format; and

performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to complete a data processing operation according to the data format.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the step of performing data description communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software comprises sending out a description request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software to perform a data description request;

and

responding a description response data packet to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus according to the description request data packet so as to perform a data description response.

3. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein the data description request is to request for data of packet type of a software module of the electronic apparatus.

4. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein the data description response is to respond a transmission descriptor corresponding to the packet type and a plurality of field descriptors corresponding to a plurality of fields in the packet type.

5. The communication method according to claim 4, wherein the transmission descriptor comprises a transmission mode, a transmission data amount, and a field number, and each field descriptor comprises an element type, a data type, a data size and a field topic.

6. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software according to the data format comprises sending out an operation request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software according to the data format so as to perform a data operation request;

and responding an operation response data packet to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus so as to perform a data operation response.

7. The communication method according to claim 6, wherein the data operation request has a format of an application interface including an operation code, an operation module type, an operation packet type, and a parameter, and the parameter is generated according to the data description response.

8. The communication method according to claim 6, wherein the synchronization software decodes the data operation response to complete the data processing operation according to the data description response.

9. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein the data format is a format of the data description response.

10. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein the synchronization software is used in a computer, and the synchronization software checks if the data inputted to the electronic apparatus from the computer are correct according to the data description response.

11. A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software, comprising:

sending out a description request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software, wherein the description request data packet has a data description request format comprising a module type and a packet type;

responding a description response data packet having a data description response format to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus according to the module type and the packet type, wherein the data description response format comprises a transmission description response corresponding to the packet type and a plurality of field description responses corresponding to a plurality of fields in the packet type;

sending out an operation request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software so as to perform a data operation request; and

responding an operation response data packet to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus so as to perform a data operation response.

12. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile phone, the module type comprises a phonebook, a ring, and an ID photo, and the packet type comprises a phonebook record and a caller group.

13. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the transmission description response comprises a transmission mode, a transmission data amount and a field number, and each of the field description response comprises an element type, a data type, a data size, and a field topic.

14. The communication method according to claim 13, wherein the electronic apparatus informs the synchronization software about the data transmission way of the electronic apparatus via the transmission description response, and the transmission data amount is a permitted maximum data transmission amount of the electronic apparatus.

15. The communication method according to claim 13, wherein the transmission mode comprises a non-string mode, the element type comprises a character element, and the data type comprises strings, figures 0 to 9, symbols *, #, and letters A to Z.

16. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the data operation request has a format of an application interface including an operation code, an operation module type, an operation packet type and a parameter, and the parameter is generated according to the data description response format.

17. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the synchronization software decodes content of the data operation response to complete a data processing operation according to data description response.

18. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the synchronization software is used in a computer, and the synchronization software checks if the data inputted to the electronic apparatus from the computer are correct according to the data description response.