SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FEDERATED MESSAGINGS

• US 20100262667A1
• Filed: 12/16/2008
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Briand, Olivier, Courval, Lionel, Foucher, Agnès
• Granted Patent: US 9,832,146 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for managing messagings comprising a plurality of messagings and adapted for receiving and storing messages intended for at least one user furnished with a plurality of terminals for accessing said messagings. Such a system furthermore comprises: means for centralized management of any event specific to any message stored with said respective messagings; means for processing messages stored by at least one of said messagings to render said messages compatible with at least one second messaging of said plurality of messagings.

Claims

1. A system for managing messaging services comprising a plurality of messaging services suitable for receiving and storing messages intended for at least one user having a plurality of terminals for accessing said messaging services, said system comprising means for:

centrally managing any event specific to any message stored with said respective messaging services;

processing messages stored by at least one of said messaging services to make said messages compatible with at least a second messaging service of said plurality of messaging services.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processing means are means of translating a new message received in a first format compatible with a first of said messaging services into the form of at least one translated message in a predetermined second format compatible with at least a second of said messaging services.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprising means of notifying any event relating to any new message received by one of said messaging services, addressed to all of said other messaging services.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprising means of notifying any event relating to a message stored in a memory space of one of said messaging services, addressed to all of said other messaging services.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second predetermined format is a generic format, called pivot format, compatible with the largest number of message formats accepted by said messaging services of said plurality of messaging services.

6. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said centralized management means comprise at least one referencing database for all the messages received by each of said messaging services, said database being able to collaborate with said translation means.

7. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said referencing database comprises, for each referenced message:

a unique identifier of said referenced message;

an access pointer to said message stored with one of said messaging services.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising means of managing user accounts allocated to the various messaging services, each of said messaging services on which a given user has a messaging service account being referenced in a messaging service profile defined for said given user.

9. A messaging service management platform, comprising a multimedia messaging service management system as claimed in claim 1.

10. A method for managing a messaging system comprising a plurality of messaging services suitable for receiving and storing messages intended for at least one user having a plurality of terminals for accessing said messaging service, said method comprising steps for:

for centrally managing any event specific to any message stored with said respective messaging services;

for processing messages stored by at least one of said messaging services to make said messages compatible with at least one second messaging service of said plurality of messaging services.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said processing step is a step for translating a new message received in a first format compatible with a first of said messaging services, into the form of at least one translated message in a predetermined second format compatible with at least a second of said messaging services.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, comprising a step for notifying any event relating to any new message received by one of said messaging services, addressed to all of said other messaging services.

13. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory information medium that can be executed by a microprocessor, comprising code instructions for executing a method for managing a system of messaging services as claimed in claim 10, when it is executed on a computer terminal.