METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING GROUP SESSION

• US 20090094367A1
• Filed: 11/19/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• 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: ZHAO, Yang, TIAN, Linyi, SONG, Xuefei, PENG, Chenghui, SUN, Qian, BAO, Hongqing
• Application Number:
  US12/273,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

A method and system for establishing a group session and a service server are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring a group member list and establishing session conditions according to the information in a received group session; acquiring the various information described in the establishing session conditions; determining group members of which the various information meets the establishing session conditions; and sending a request for establishing a group session of which the various information meets the establishing session conditions, and establishing the group session. The method solves the problem that the service server cannot dynamically select the group members, according to the current statuses of the group members, to establish the session in the prior art, whose disadvantages are the session is inflexible and the communication resources are wasted.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a group session, comprising:

obtaining a group member list and session establishment conditions, according to information in a received group session request;

obtaining information indicated by the session establishment conditions;

determining a group member of which the obtained information satisfies the session establishment conditions; and

initiating a group session establishment request to the group member of which the obtained information satisfies the session establishment conditions, and establishing a group session.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the group member list and the session establishment conditions comprises:

querying a pre-created group member information file comprising group members and the session establishment conditions according to a group identifier in the group session request, to obtain the group member list corresponding to the group identifier and the session establishment conditions.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the group member list and the session establishment conditions comprises:

querying a pre-created group member information table comprising group members and a reference to the session establishment conditions corresponding to the group members according to a group identifier in the group session request;

obtaining the group member list corresponding to the group identifier; and

obtaining the session establishment conditions according to the reference to the session establishment conditions.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the current information indicated by the session establishment conditions comprises static information and/or dynamic information;

the static information is obtained through a query manner; and

the dynamic information is obtained through a subscription-and-notification manner.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining a group member of which the obtained information satisfies the session establishment conditions comprises:

if the obtained information indicated by the session establishment conditions of the group member totally satisfies the session establishment conditions, determining that the group member satisfies the session establishment conditions;

otherwise, determining that the group member does not satisfy the session establishment conditions.

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

sending to a group member not satisfying the session establishment conditions a message carrying a reason for not sending a group session establishment request to the group member.

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

determining whether to allow a group member with a changed status to join the group session or expel the group member with a changed status from the group session, according to preset group session policies and the obtained relevant information of the group member during the group session.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein:

the change on the relevant information of the group member is obtained through subscription and notification;

or

the change on the relevant information of the group member is obtained in a polling manner.

9. A system for establishing a group session, comprising a storage device, a service server and a condition determining device;

wherein;

the storage device is adapted to store a group member list and session establishment conditions;

the service server is adapted to receive a group session establishment request, obtain the group member list and the session establishment conditions from the storage device according to the session request, and establish a group session for a group member satisfying the session establishment conditions, according to a determination result on relevant information of the group member sent by the condition determining device; and

the condition determining device is adapted to obtain the information indicated by the session establishment conditions of the group member, according to the session establishment conditions, determine whether the information satisfies the session establishment conditions, and return the determination result to the service server.

10. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a client adapted to send to the service server the group session establishment request, execute operations of the group session, and send the group member list and the session establishment conditions to the storage device.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the client comprises a storage device client and a service client;

wherein;

the storage device client is adapted to create the group member list and the session establishment conditions, and send the group member list and the session establishment conditions to the storage device for storage; and

the service client is adapted to send the group session establishment request to the service server and execute the operations of the group session.

12. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a session establishment condition storage device adapted to store the session establishment conditions sent by the client, wherein the session condition storage device exists in the storage device, or exists as a separate device.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the condition determining device exists in the service server, or exists as a separate device.

14. A service server comprising:

a receiving unit adapted to receive a group session request comprising a group identifier;

a group member obtaining unit adapted to obtain a group member list, according to the group identifier;

a group session establishing unit adapted to initiate a group session establishment request to a group member and establish a group session;

wherein the service server further comprises;

a session condition obtaining unit adapted to obtain session establishment conditions corresponding to group members in the group member list; and

a group member information obtaining unit adapted to obtain information indicated by the session establishment conditions of the group members in the group member list.

15. The service server of claim 14, further comprising:

a condition determining unit adapted to determine whether the information of the group members satisfies the session establishment conditions, and send a determination result to the group session establishing unit.

16. The service server according to claim 14, further comprising:

a storage unit adapted to store the session establishment conditions corresponding to the group members.

17. The service server according to claim 16, wherein the storage unit is a database or XML Document Management Server, XDMS.