METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF DATA TO THE FIXED IP NETWORK ENVIRONMENT BY MEANS OF A MEDIA DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION

• US 20080188255A1
• Filed: 02/04/2008
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile International AG (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile International AG (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: BLICKER, Stephan
• Application Number:
  US12/025,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20080188255A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/518
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0884 by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity vis-à-vis an authentication entity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

A method and a system for distributing data (media distribution function, MDF). Interfaces to the fixed IP network environment are provided, user data and signal data being transmitted via a network element which is designated specifically for this purpose.

Claims

1. A method for the preparation of interfaces to a fixed IP network realm, whereby user and signal data are transmitted via a specially designed network component, the method comprising:

designing said network component with media distribution function (MDF);

connecting said MDF via suitable interfaces with a push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) server, a PoC presence server, and a PoC XML document management server Server (XDMS), as well as with an email system, a conference system, an application/games server and a data transmission portal; and

said MDF selectively transmitting between all of the said applications and application servers.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said network component selectively authenticates a client application with respect to an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network and authenticates a user with respect to a client application.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said network component comprises means for transmitting from RTP media via a PoC server to a terminal.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein said network component comprises means for transmitting from RTP media via a PoC server to a terminal.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said network component comprises means to conduct XDMS operations for retrieving and placing lists and data from and to said XMDS PoC server.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein said network component comprises means to conduct XDMS operations for retrieving and placing lists and data from and to said XMDS PoC server.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said network component comprises means to conduct presence operations of a client application in connection with said PoC presence server.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein said network component comprises means to conduct presence operations of a client application in connection with said PoC presence server.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said network component comprises means to conduct mail operations.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein said network component comprises means to conduct mail operations.

11. A system for the connection of at least two units of a mobile communications network for carrying out the procedure according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the system components in the form of a media distribution function (MDF), is configured to interconnect said applications and servers with each other.

12. A system for the connection of at least two units of a mobile communications network for carrying out the procedure according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the system components in the form of a media distribution function (MDF), is configured to interconnect said applications and servers with each other.

13. A system according to claim 11, wherein said at least one system component is selectively connected via suitable interfaces to said PoC server, to said PoC presence server and to said PoC XDMS server.

14. A system according to claim 12, wherein said at least one system component is selectively connected via suitable interfaces to said PoC server, to said PoC presence server and to said PoC XDMS server.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein said at least one system component is selectively connected to said email system, said conference system, said application/games server, as well as to said data transmission portal.

16. The system according to claim 13, wherein said at least one system component is selectively connected to said email system, said conference system, said application/games server, as well as to said data transmission portal.