Method and system for delivering a message in a communication network

• US 20070133594A1
• Filed: 12/07/2005
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pazhyannur, Rajesh, Venkitaraman, Narayanan, Vasudevan, Venugopal, Mysore, Jayanth, Haneef, Anwar, Almaula, Jay
• Application Number:
  US11/296,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20070133594A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/465
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A method for delivering a message to a user in a communication network (100) is disclosed. The method includes monitoring (402) an environment of the user. The method further includes delivering (404) the message to the user in a plurality of stages. The plurality of stages is determined based on the environment of the user.

Claims

1. A method for delivering a message to a user in a communication network, the method comprising:

monitoring an environment of the user; and

delivering the message to the user in a plurality of stages, the plurality of stages being determined based on the environment of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the environment comprises monitoring at least one of:

a device characteristic, a device capability, a network bandwidth, a user location and a change in user availability.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein delivering the message to the user comprises determining a content of the message to be delivered at each of the plurality of stages.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein delivering the message to the user comprises determining the devices to be used in each of the plurality of stages.

5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising maintaining a policy profile of the user.

6. The method according to claim 1 further comprising transforming the message from a first form to a second form based on the environment of the user.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating an identification for each stage of the message.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein creating the identification comprises attaching a unique identification with each of the plurality of instances of the message.

9. The method according to claim 1 further comprising maintaining a list of devices to which the plurality of instances of the message is delivered.

10. The method according to claim 1 further comprising delaying the delivering of the message based on the environment of the user.

11. The method according to claim 10 further comprising notifying the user about delaying the delivering of the message.

12. A method for deleting a message from at least one device from the plurality of devices in a communication network, the method comprising:

receiving instruction from a user to delete the message from the at least one device;

receiving an identification of the message;

retrieving a list of devices associated with the identification; and

sending an instruction to delete the message along with the identification to the at least one device.

13. A system for delivering a message to a user in a communication network, the system comprising:

a user state manager capable of monitoring an environment of the user in the communication network; and

a messaging server capable of delivering the message to the user in a plurality of stages.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the messaging server comprises a staging module capable of determining the number of stages into which a message should be delivered.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the messaging server further comprises a message converter capable of transforming the message.

16. The system according to claim 13, wherein the messaging server further comprises a tracking module capable of maintaining a list of devices to which instances of the message are delivered.

17. The system according to claim 13 further comprising a policy manager for maintaining a policy profile for the user.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the policy manager comprises a rules engine for determining rules for delivering the message.

19. The system according to claim 13 further comprising a deletion module capable of signaling the messaging server to delete a message.

20. The system according to claim 13 further comprising a client state manager for communicating the environment of the user to the user state manager.

21. The system according to claim 13, wherein the environment comprises at least one of a device characteristic, a device capability, a network bandwidth, a user location and a change in user availability.