METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING, STORING, AND REPLAYING DIRECTIVES WITHIN A NETWORK

• US 20100311393A1
• Filed: 06/08/2009
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Swakker LLC
• Original Assignee: Swakker LLC
• Inventors: Castleman, Mark
• Application Number:
  US12/480,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20100311393A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities

Abstract

In one embodiment, a processor-readable medium stored code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to receive a directive from a first client device, store the directive at a memory location, and send the directive to a second client device. The directive includes a directive description portion and a directive content portion. The memory location is associated with the first client device. The directive is configured to cause the second client device to update a context of a display operatively coupled to the second client device in response to the directive. The context being of a directive class associated with the directive description portion, and having a value associated with the directive content portion.

Claims

1. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

detect at a first time an availability, within a network, of a communications device based on a unique identifier;

access, at a second time after the first time, a communications session invitation associated with the unique identifier, the communications session invitation associated with a communications session, the communications session being initiated before the first time;

send, after the second time, a first directive of the communications session to the communications device; and

send, after the second time, a second directive of the communications session to the communications device.

2. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, the processor-readable medium further storing code representing instruction that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

receive an association request from the communications device before the first directive is sent and before the second directive is sent, the association request including a credential; and

authenticate the communications device based on the credential.

3. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

the communications session is an inactive communications session.

4. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

the communications session is an active communications session.

5. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

the first directive is an archived directive; and

the second directive is a real-time directive.

6. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

the communications device is a first communications device;

the first directive includes a directive description portion and a directive content portion, the directive description portion of the first directive including an identifier of a first directive class, the directive content portion of the first directive including a data set defined at a second communications device; and

the second directive includes a directive description portion and a directive content portion, the directive description portion of the second directive including an identifier of a second directive class, the directive content portion of the second directive including a data set defined at the second communications device.

7. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the communications device is a first communications device, the processor-readable medium further storing code representing instruction that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

send an indication of the availability of the first communications device to a second communications device associated with the communications session.

8. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a first time, from a client device network connectivity information associated with the client device, the network connectivity information including a unique identifier associated with the client device;

accessing, at a second time after the first time, a communications session invitation list associated with the unique identifier, the communications session invitation list including a first communications session invitation and a second communications session invitation, the first communications session invitation associated with a first communications session initiated before the first time, the second communications session invitation associated with a second communications session initiated before the first time;

sending the first communications session invitation and the second communications session invitation to the client device;

receiving a communications session access request associated with the first communications session; and

associating the client device with the first communications session.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the communications session access request includes a credential associated with the unique identifier.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the first communications session is an active communications session; and

the second communications session is an inactive communication session.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first communications session is an inactive communications session including a plurality of directives, the method further comprising:

sending the plurality of directives to the client device substantially at a single time.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a communications session access request associated with the second communications session; and

sending a plurality of directives of the second communications session to the client device.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the first communications session is an active communications system having a plurality of archived directives, the method further comprising:

sending the plurality of archived directives to the client device substantially at a single time; and

sending a plurality of real-time directives to the client device after the sending the plurality of archived directives.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

authenticating the client device after the receiving a communications session access request and before the associating the client device with the first communications session.

15. A method, comprising:

detecting user input at a communications device, the communications device associated with a communications session that is configured to store a plurality of directives;

defining a first data set based and a second data set based on a parameter of the communications system, the first data set derived from a first portion of the user input, the second data set derived from a second portion of the user input;

associating a first description of the first data set with the first data set and associating a second description of the second data set with the second data set, the second description being different from the first description;

defining a first directive and a second directive, the first directive having an identifier associated with the first description within a directive description portion of the first directive, the first directive having the first data set within a directive content portion of the first directive, the second directive having an identifier associated with the second description within a directive description portion of the second directive, the second directive having the second data set within a directive content portion of the second directive; and

sending, via the communications session, the first directive and the second directive to a plurality of communications devices associated with the communications session.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving a communications session invitation associated with the communications session before the detecting; and

sending a communications session association request to the communications session before the detecting in response to the communications session invitation.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the first directive and the second directive are stored at a memory associated with the communications session such that the first directive and the second directive are accessible after the communications session is closed.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving a third directive at the communications device, the third directive including a directive description portion and a directive content portion;

selecting a processing module based on the directive description portion of the third directive; and

providing an output signal from the processing module based on the directive description portion of the third directive.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the user input includes aural signals and touch-generated signals;

the first data set represents a pattern based on the touch-generated signals; and

the second data set represents at least a portion of the aural signals.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the user input includes motion signals associated with movement of the communications device; and

the first data set represents a first pattern of the movement signals, the second data set represents a second pattern of the movement signals different from the first pattern.