Backing up of heterogeneous terminal user information in (internet protocol) IP terminal

• US 20080201387A1
• Filed: 02/21/2008
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Yong-Sung, Park, Young-June
• Granted Patent: US 7,899,790 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/201
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

An apparatus to back up heterogeneous terminal user information in an IP terminal includes a terminal connection interface, a temporary synchronization storage unit, a synchronization controller, and a data converter. The terminal connection interface connects to a heterogeneous terminal. In the apparatus and its method, the temporary synchronization storage unit temporarily stores phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal. Upon connecting to the heterogeneous terminal, the synchronization controller sets synchronization with the heterogeneous terminal and stores phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal. The data converter performs data conversion between the stored phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal and stored phone number information of the IP terminal.

Claims

1. An apparatus of backing up heterogeneous terminal user information in an Internet Protocol (IP) terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a terminal connection interface to connect to a heterogeneous terminal;

a temporary synchronization storage unit to temporarily store phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal connected and synchronized;

a synchronization controller to set synchronization with the heterogeneous terminal and concurrently, storing phone number information of the connected heterogeneous terminal in the temporary synchronization storage unit, upon connecting to the heterogeneous terminal through the terminal connection interface; and

a data converter to perform data conversion between the phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal stored in the temporary synchronization storage unit and phone number information of the IP terminal stored in a data storage unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface to display phone number information stored in the temporary synchronization storage unit or the data storage unit for a user and to allow the user to select the displayed phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data converter converts only a database format of phone number information selected through the user interface and updates the temporary synchronization storage unit by the converted phone number information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a database format storage unit to store database format information of itself and at least one heterogeneous terminal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the data converter identifies a database format of the heterogeneous terminal stored in the database format storage unit using information of the heterogeneous terminal that is, upon synchronization, detected by the synchronization controller, and then compares the identified database format with its own database format, and then performs data conversion.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, in the absence of phone number information for conversion, the data converter converts data into a null value.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the data converter applies the null value to a small size number of phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal for conversion.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous terminal is any one of an IP terminal, a mobile communication terminal, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) terminal, and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the terminal connection interface comprises any one of an infrared communication protocol, a wired/wireless IP protocol, and a Host Signal Processing (HSP) protocol.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization controller temporarily stores each of phone number information of the heterogeneous terminals in the temporary synchronization storage unit, upon connecting with one or more heterogeneous terminals concurrently or respectively.

11. A method of backing up heterogeneous terminal user information in a selective synchronization method of an IP terminal, the method comprising:

connecting and synchronizing with a heterogeneous terminal;

temporarily storing phone number information of the synchronized heterogeneous terminal;

converting a database format of phone number information stored in a data storage unit and updating the temporarily stored phone number information by the converted database format; and

synchronizing and transmitting the temporarily stored phone number information to the heterogeneous terminal.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising converting a database format of the temporarily stored phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal and storing the converted database format in the data storage unit.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the converting of the database format and updating of the temporarily stored phone number information comprises:

displaying phone number information stored in the temporary synchronization storage unit or the data storage unit for a user; and

allowing the user to select the displayed phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein connecting and synchronizing with the heterogeneous terminal comprises:

identifying the database format of the heterogeneous terminal stored in a database format storage unit, using information of the heterogeneous terminal that is detected through the database format storage unit storing database format information of itself and at least one heterogeneous terminal.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the converting of the database format of the phone number information and updating of the temporarily stored phone number information converts data into a null value in the absence of phone number information for conversion.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the converting of the database format of the phone number information and updating the temporarily stored phone number information applies the null value to a small size number of phone number information of the heterogeneous terminal for conversion.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the heterogeneous terminal is any one of an IP terminal, a mobile communication terminal, a PDA terminal, and a WLAN terminal.

18. The method according to claim 12, wherein a method of connection to the heterogeneous terminal comprises any one of an infrared communication protocol, a wired/wireless IP protocol, and a Host Signal Processing (HSP) protocol.