Server Apparatus and Message Transmission Method

• US 20100273455A1
• Filed: 12/24/2008
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsukada, Chikako, Tamura, Motoshi, Yabusaki, Masami
• Granted Patent: US 8,467,771 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/835 Time or frequency of notifications, e.g. Advice of Charge [AoC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/84 Types of notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/844 Message, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/85 characterised by the type of condition triggering a notification
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2044 Group features, e.g. closed user group
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/651 Text message transmission triggered by call
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42374 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53366 Message disposing or creating aspects

Abstract

There are provided a server apparatus capable of transmitting any message in a flexible manner at various timings of communication service states, and a message transmission method thereof. When a communication trigger detector 103 of an IMS 100 detects a trigger point, a determination portion 104 determines a massage to be transmitted based upon at least one of a type of the communication service state, a transmission destination of the message, presence information, and an instruction input. A message transmitter 105 give an instruction to an information storage device 300 to transmit the message to be transmitted that has been determined, and the information storage device 300 transmits the message to the transmission destination.

Claims

1. A service apparatus comprising:

a storage device that stores a message;

a communication trigger detector that detects a generation of a communication service state that is an opportunity of message transmission in the course of call processing;

a determination portion that determines, when the generation of the communication service state is detected by the communication trigger detector, a message to be transmitted based upon at least one of a type of the communication service state that has been detected, a transmission destination of the message, presence information representing a state of one of a caller and a communication counterpart of the caller, and an instruction input from one of the caller and the communication counterpart of the caller; and

a message transmitter that transmits the message to be transmitted that has been determined by the determination portion from the storage device.

2. The service apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a message transmission condition memory portion that stores a determination condition for determining the message to be transmitted based upon at least one of the type of the communication service state, the transmission destination of the message, and the presence information,

wherein the determination portion determines the message to be transmitted based upon the determination condition stored in the message transmission condition memory portion.

3. The service apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transmission destination group memory portion that stores a group identifier for identifying a group in association with either a plurality of user identifiers or a plurality of terminal identifiers for identifying communication terminals,

wherein information input by the instruction input includes a message identifier for identifying the message to be transmitted and the group identifier, and

wherein the message transmitter transmits the message to a communication terminal identified by either a user identifier or a terminal identifier, which are stored in the transmission destination group memory portion in association with the group identifier included in the information input by the instruction input.

4. The service apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the information input by the instruction input includes either at least one user identifier or at least one terminal identifier that has been designated by a user, as a transmission destination, and

wherein the message transmitter transmits the message to the communication terminal identified by either the user identifier or the terminal identifier.

5. The service apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication service state that is the opportunity of the message transmission is a state where the communication terminal of the caller and the communication terminal of the communication counterpart of the caller are communicating with each other.

6. The service apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication service state that is the opportunity of the message transmission is a state where the communication terminal of the communication counterpart of the caller answers a telephone call from the communication terminal of the caller.

7. The service apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication service state that is the opportunity of the message transmission is a state where the communication between the communication terminal of the caller and the communication terminal of the communication counterpart of the caller is disconnected.

8. The service apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission destination of the message is the communication terminal of the communication counterpart of the caller.

9. A message transmission method comprising:

detecting by a server apparatus a generation of a communication service state that is an opportunity of message transmission in the course of call processing;

when the generation of the communication service state is detected in the detecting, determining by the server apparatus a message to be transmitted based upon at least one of a type of the communication service state that has been detected, a transmission destination of the message, presence information representing a state of one of a caller and a communication counterpart of the caller, and an instruction input from one of the caller and the communication counterpart of the caller; and

transmitting by the server apparatus the message to be transmitted that has been determined by the determining, from a storage device.