METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE SERVICE DATA

• US 20090086725A1
• Filed: 12/08/2008
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• 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: LAI, Hao, SHI, Youzhu, CHENG, Hua
• Application Number:
  US12/329,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20090086725A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/10 adapted for application session management, e.g. SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] connection management H04W76/00; arrangements for session management H04L67/14

Abstract

This invention discloses a method for transmitting message service data, which includes: adding, at a message sender, the message service data into a Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message, and transmitting the message service data to a message receiver through the Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message. The invention also discloses a system for transmitting message service data, which includes a message service data processing module, including a message adding module and a transmitting module. Different types of message service data can be transmitted according to the invention.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting message service data, comprising:

adding, at a message sender, the message service data into a Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message; and

transmitting the message service data to a message receiver through the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of adding the message service data into the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message comprises:

encapsulating, at the message sender, the message service data into a message body of the Session Initiation Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein a format of the message service data comprises at least one of:

a message service format of a Global System for Mobile Communications network, a message service format of a Code Division Multiple Access network, a message service format of a Public Switched Telephone Network, and a message service format of Email.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

encapsulating the message service data into a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions body in the message body, and indicating a format of the message service data by a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions media type or a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions body field or a header parameter in the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message.

5. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

encapsulating the message service data into a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions body in the message body, and indicating a format of the message service data by a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions media type or a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions body field or a header parameter in the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of adding the message service data into the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message comprises:

mapping, at the message sender, the message service data into a message header and/or a message body of the Session Initiation Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the process of mapping the message service data into the message header and/or the message body of the Session Initiation Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message comprises:

carrying a message service control parameter in the message header of the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message and/or in a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions body in the message body of the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message; and

carrying message service contents in a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions body in the message body of the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

executing message service format conversion when a message service format supported by the message sender is different from a message service format supported by the message receiver.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the process of executing the message service format conversion comprises converting a message service control parameter and/or message service contents.

10. A system for transmitting message service data, comprising a message service data processing module wherein the message service data processing module comprises:

a message adding module, adapted to add the message service data to be transmitted into a message header and/or a message body of a Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message; and

a transmitting module communicated with the message adding module, adapted to transmit the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message being added with the message service data to a message receiver.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the message service data processing module further comprises:

a receiving module, adapted to receive a Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message from another message service data processing module in the system; and

a message extracting module communicated with the receiving module, adapted to extract message service data from the Session Initiated Protocol message or the Message Session Relay Protocol message received by the receiving module.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein a device where the message service data processing module is located communicates with a device where a service data processing module is located over a Session Initiated Protocol domain network, or communicates with a circuit domain network or another IP network through the Session Initiated Protocol domain network.

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

a message format converting module, adapted to execute message service format conversion when a message service format supported by the message sender is different from a message service format supported by the message receiver.

14. The system according to claim 13, further comprising:

a message format determining module, adapted to determine a source message service format and a destination message service format.

15. A system for transmitting message service data, comprising:

a message data adding module, adapted to add message service data into a first message and to transmit the first message to a network element of a message receiver,

wherein the first message is a Session Initiated Protocol domain message carrying the message service data or a traditional circuit domain message carrying the message service data;

the message service data is traditional message service data, or message information carried in a message body of a Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message; and

the Session Initiated Protocol domain message carrying the message service data is a Session Initiation Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message, and the traditional circuit domain message carrying the message service data is a Mobile Application Part message or a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol message or a Hypertext Transfer Protocol message;

a message data extracting module, adapted to receive a second message from a network element of a message sender and to extract message service data carried in the second message;

wherein the second message is a Session Initiated Protocol domain message carrying the message service data or a circuit domain message carrying the message service data; and

a message format converting module, adapted to execute message service format conversion when a message service format supported by the first message is different from a message service format supported by the second message.

16. The system according to claim 15, further comprising:

a message format determining module, adapted to determine the message service format of the first message and the message service format of the second message.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the message format determining module comprises at least one of:

a network type determining sub-module, adapted to determine, in accordance with message service data in the first message, a type of a network to which the message service data receiver belongs;

a network interface type determining sub-module, adapted to determine, in accordance with the message service data in the first message, an interface type of the network;

a terminal capability determining sub-module, adapted to determine, in accordance with the network to which the message receiver belongs and/or a terminal capability of the message receiver, a format of message service data supported by the message receiver; and

a message service type determining sub-module, adapted to determine, in accordance with the first message, a format of the message service data carried in the first message.