METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REALIZING GROUP-SENDING MESSAGE SERVICE

• US 20080270558A1
• Filed: 06/20/2008
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: MA, Yubao
• Application Number:
  US12/143,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270558A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

A method for realizing a group-sending message service of the present invention is provided. The address information of a plurality of recipients assigned by a user is carried in a message body, and then a message application server finishes analyzing a group-sending flow directed to a plurality of users. The present invention further provides an apparatus for realizing the method and a system thereof. Since it needs performing communication between terminals and the server merely once, the network resource is saved. Because the group-sending address list is edited into the message body, it is more flexible for a user to assign destination recipients without being limited by the forms and numbers of recipients, and enriches the function of group-sending message service. Further, a provider can even supply a group-sending message to customers as a separate service, thus having a desirable commercial value.

Claims

1. A method for realizing a group-sending message service, comprising:

receiving a message from a user equipment (UE);

determining a message body of the massage containing address information of a plurality of recipients according to the destination address of the message;

analyzing the message to obtain addresses of all common users in the recipients; and

constructing messages according to the addresses of all common users, and sending the messages individually.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of determining a message body of the massage containing address information of a plurality of recipients according to the destination address of the message comprises:

detecting the destination address of the message, if the destination address of the message is a specific uniform resource identifier (URI), the message body of the massage containing address information of a plurality of recipients.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of analyzing the message to obtain addresses of all common users in the recipients comprise:

analyzing the message to obtain addresses of individual recipients from the message body, wherein the addresses of individual recipients comprise addresses of common users and/or addresses of remote groups;

if the addresses of individual recipients comprise the addresses of the remote groups, further analyzing the addresses of the remote groups to obtain the addresses of common users in the remote groups.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of editing address information of a plurality of recipients assigned by a user into a message body of a message comprises:

forming, the addresses of the plurality of recipients assigned by the user into a group-sending address list; and

editing the group-sending address list into the message body.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the group-sending address list comprises an address of common user and/or an address of remote group.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the process of forming the addresses of the plurality of recipients assigned by the user into a group-sending address list comprises:

adding the address of common user into the group-sending address list directly if the recipient assigned by the user is common user;

adding the address of remote group into the group-sending address list directly if the recipient assigned by the user is the remote group;

extracting the address of common user or the address of the remote group in a local group and adding the address thereof into the group-sending address list if the recipient assigned by the user is the local group.

4. A method for realizing a group-sending message service, comprising:

editing a message content to be sent to a plurality of recipients assigned by a user and address information of the plurality of recipients into a message body of a message;

setting a destination address of the message as a specific uniform resource identifier (URI), and

sending the constructed message to a message application server.

15. The method according to claim 4, wherein the process of editing address information of a plurality of recipients assigned by a user into a message body of a message comprises:

forming, the addresses of the plurality of recipients assigned by the user into a group-sending address list; and

editing the group-sending address list into the message body.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the group-sending address list comprises an address of common user and/or an address of remote group.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the process of forming the addresses of the plurality of recipients assigned by the user into a group-sending address list comprises:

adding the address of common user into the group-sending address list directly if the recipient assigned by the user is common user;

adding the address of remote group into the group-sending address list directly if the recipient assigned by the user is the remote group;

extracting the address of common user or the address of the remote group in a local group and adding the address thereof into the group-sending address list if the recipient assigned by the user is the local group.

8. A device for realizing a group-sending message service, comprising:

a message sending and receiving unit adapted to receive and send a message, wherein a message body of the message contains message content and address information of recipients assigned by a user;

a message address detecting unit adapted to detect whether a destination address of a message received by the message sending and receiving unit is a specific uniform resource identifier (URI) or not;

a message destination address analyzing unit adapted to extract an address of each recipient from the message body when the destination address of the message detected by the message address detecting unit is a specific URI; and

a message destination address reconstruction unit adapted to construct messages to be sent to common user based on the address of each recipient extracted by the message destination address analyzing unit, and transmit the constructed message to the message sending and receiving unit.

9. The device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a group serving unit communicated with the message address detecting unit and the message destination address analyzing unit, adapted to store remote group information of the user, and extract addresses of common users in the remote group and return the addresses of common users to the message destination address analyzing unit when an address of remote group exists in the address information of the recipients assigned by the user.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the group serving unit returns the extracted addresses of common users to the message destination address analyzing unit in a format of an extensible markup language (XML) text.

11. A system for realizing a group-sending message service, comprising:

a URI-list server and a message application server communicated with a user equipment (UE), wherein,

the UE is adapted to edit message content to be sent to a plurality of recipients and address information of a plurality of recipients assigned by a user into a message body of a message, set a destination address of the message as a specific uniform resource identifier (URI), and send the message to the message application server;

the message application server is adapted to receive a message from the user equipment (UE), detect whether the destination address of the received message is a specific URI or not, and obtain addresses of all common users according to addresses information of recipients when the destination address of the message is a specific URI, construct messages according to the addresses of common users, and send the messages.

the URI-list server is adapted to analyze the message body of the message to obtain addresses information of recipients for being used by the message AS.

12. The system according to claim 11, further comprising:

a group application server adapted to store remote group information of the user, interact with the message application server, extract an address of each common users contained in the address of remote group and return the addresses to the message application server when address of remote group exist in the addresses information of recipients assigned by the user.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the group application server and the message application server interact with each other via an extensible markup language (XML) configuration access protocol (XCAP).

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the URI-list server is integrated with the message AS.