Server-based data management system and method for mobile communication system

• US 20100095217A1
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Ji-Hoon
• Application Number:
  US12/587,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20100095217A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2322 using timestamps
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A server-based data management system is capable of maintaining reliable data synchronization between a server and a mobile terminal is provided. The server-based data management system and method includes at least one mobile terminal that displays at least one shortcut icon and a server that stores per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon. The server based management system and method transmits a first per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon from the mobile terminal to the server. The server compares the first per-icon position information with a second per-icon position information that previously was stored in server. The server transmits the second per-icon position information that is not identical with the first per-icon position information from the server to the mobile terminal. Thereafter, a mobile terminal updates the first per-icon position information to the second per-icon position information.

Claims

1. A server-based data management method for a mobile communication system including at least one mobile terminal which displays at least one shortcut icon and a server which stores per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon, comprising:

transmitting a first per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon from the mobile terminal to the server;

receiving, by the mobile terminal, a second per-icon position information that is not identical with the first per-icon position information from the server; and

updating, at the mobile terminal, the first per-icon position information to the second per-icon position information.

2. The server-based data management method of claim 1, wherein transmitting a first per-icon position information comprises:

checking link information including the first per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon;

encoding the link information of the at least one shortcut icon; and

transmitting the encoded link information to the server.

3. The server-based data management method of claim 2, wherein transmitting the encoded link information to the server comprises:

detecting an input of a link information synchronization command; and

transmitting the encoded link information in response to the link information synchronization command.

4. The server-based management method of claim 2, wherein the link information comprises at least one of a phone number, a name of the owner of the phone number, and an email address of the owner of the phone number.

5. The server-based management method of claim 1, further comprising:

comparing, at the server, the first per-icon position information with the second per-icon position information that is previously stored in server.

6. The server-based management method of claim 1, wherein receiving comprises receiving a link information synchronization response message from the server, the link information synchronization response message including at least one of link information and at least one icon position information.

7. The server-based management method of claim 6, further comprising decoding the link information synchronization response message.

8. A server-based data management system for a mobile communication system, comprising:

a mobile terminal which displays at least one shortcut icon, transmits a first per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon, and updates the first per-icon position information to a second per-icon position information'"'"' received from outside; and

a server which stores the second per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon, compares the first per-icon position information received from the mobile terminal with the second per-icon position information, and transmits to the mobile terminal the second per-icon position information that is not identical with the first per-icon position information.

9. The server-based data management system of claim 8, wherein the mobile terminal comprises:

a display unit which displays the at least one shortcut icon;

a storage unit which stores the first per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon;

a radio frequency unit which transmitting a radio signal carrying the first per-icon position information to the server; and

a control unit which controls display of the at least one shortcut icon by means of the display unit, transmission of the first per-icon information to the server by means of the radio frequency unit, and the update of the first per-icon position information to the second per-icon position information.

10. The server-based data management system of claim 9, wherein the control unit encodes link information including the first per-icon position information and transmits the encoded link information to the server by means of the radio frequency unit.

11. The server-based data management system of claim 10, wherein the control unit detects an input of a link information synchronization request command and transmitting the first per-icon position information to the server by means of the radio frequency unit.

12. The server-base data management system of claim 10, wherein the link information comprises at least one of a phone number, a name of the owner of the phone number, and an email address of the owner of the phone number.

13. The server-base data management system of claim 8, wherein the server transmits a link information synchronization response message, the link information synchronization response message including at least one of link information and at least one icon position information.

14. The server-base data management system of claim 13, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to decode the link information synchronization response message.

15. A mobile terminal capable of communicating in a wireless communication network, the mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit which displays the at least one shortcut icon;

a storage unit which stores the first per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon;

a radio frequency unit which transmitting a radio signal carrying the first per-icon position information to the server; and

a control unit configured to control a display of the at least one shortcut icon by means of the display unit, a transmission of the first per-icon information to the server by means of the radio frequency unit, and an update of the first per-icon position information to the second per-icon position information.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to communicate with a server in the wireless communication network, the server configured to store the second per-icon position information of the at least one shortcut icon, compare the first per-icon position information received from the mobile terminal with the second per-icon position information, and transmits to the mobile terminal the second per-icon position information that is not identical with the first per-icon position information.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the control unit encodes link information including the first per-icon position information and transmits the encoded link information to the server by means of the radio frequency unit.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the control unit detects an input of a link information synchronization request command and transmitting the first per-icon position information to the server by means of the radio frequency unit.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the link information comprises at least one of a phone number, a name of the owner of the phone number, and an email address of the owner of the phone number.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the server transmits a link information synchronization response message, the link information synchronization response message including at least one of link information and at least one icon position information and wherein the mobile terminal is configured to decode the link information synchronization response message.