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

• US 20100313249A1
• 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:
  US12/480,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20100313249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

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 method, comprising:

receiving from a first mobile device at a first time a first directive;

receiving from the first mobile device at a second time after the first time a second directive, the second time separated from the first time by a period;

storing the first directive and the second directive at a memory associated with a communications session, the first directive and the second directive associated with the communications session;

closing the communications session at a third time;

sending the first directive to a second mobile device at a fourth time after the third time; and

sending the second directive the second mobile device at a fifth time after the third time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the period is a first period;

the fifth time separated from the fourth time by a second period; and

the second period has a duration that is substantially the same as a duration of the first period.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the period is a first period;

the fifth time separated from the fourth time by a second period; and

the second period has a duration that is less than a duration of the first period.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, before the sending the first directive, a communications session access request including an access credential from a mobile device;

determining, before the sending the first directive, that the mobile device is authorized to access the communications session based on the access credential; and

altering, before the sending the second directive, a directive replay rate in response to the communications session access request.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, after the first time and before the third time, the first directive; and

sending, after the second time and before the third time, the second directive.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first directive includes a directive description portion and a directive content portion; and

the second directive includes a directive description portion and a directive content portion.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first directive includes a directive description portion including an identifier of a first directive class and a directive content portion; and

the second directive includes a directive description portion including an identifier of a second directive class different from the first directive class and a directive content portion.

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

receive a request for access to a communications session;

access a first directive and a second directive of the communications session at a memory associated with the communications session in response to the request for access to the communications session;

send the first directive at a first time, the first directive associated with a first directive class; and

send the second directive at a second time after the first time, the second directive associated with a second directive class different from the first directive class.

9. The processor-readable medium of claim 8, wherein:

the communications session is inactive at the first time.

10. The processor-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the communications session is active at the first time, a first plurality of directives are stored at the memory, the first plurality of directives received during a first time period having a duration, the processor-readable medium further storing code representing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

send the first plurality of directives during a second time period after the first time period, the second time period having a duration less than the duration of the first time period.

11. The processor-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the communications session is active at the first time, a first plurality of directives are stored at the memory, the first plurality of directives received during a first time period having a duration, the processor-readable medium further storing code representing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

send the first plurality of directives during a second time period after the first time period, the second time period having a duration greater than half the duration of the first time period.

12. The processor-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the communications session is active at the first time, a first plurality of directives are stored at the memory, the first plurality of directives received during a first time period having a duration, the code further comprising code to:

send the first plurality of directives during a second time period after the first time period, the second time period having a duration less than the duration of the first time period;

receive a third directive and a fourth directive during a third time period having a duration; and

send the third directive and the fourth directive during a fourth time period having a duration substantially equal to the duration of the third time period.

13. The processor-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the communications session is active at the first time, the memory is a first memory a first plurality of directives are stored at the first memory, the first plurality of directives received during a first time period having a duration, the processor-readable medium further storing code representing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

send the first plurality of directives during a second time period after the first time period, the second time period having a duration less than the duration of the first time period;

send a third directive and a fourth directive stored at a second memory associated with the communications session.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving at a first time a first communications session initiation request and a plurality of participant identifiers from a first mobile device via a network;

associating a portion of a memory with a first communications session, the first communications session initiated in response to the first session initiation request;

receiving at a second time after the first time a second session initiation request from a second mobile device via the network; and

associating a second communications session with the first communications session.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

initiating the second communications session in response to the second session initiation request before the associating the second communications session with the first communications session.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving a first directive and a second directive from the first mobile device; and

storing the first directive separate from the second directive at the portion of the memory.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining that a third mobile device associated with a participant identifier from the plurality of participant identifiers is not accessible via the network; and

storing a communications session invitation associated with that participant identifier from the plurality of participant identifiers and the first communications session.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

storing a communications session invitation associated with a participant identifier from the plurality of participant identifiers and the first communications session;

determining that a third mobile device associated with that participant identifier from the plurality of participant identifiers is accessible via the network; and

sending the communications session invitation to the third mobile device via the network when the third mobile device is accessible via the network.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the portion of the memory is a first portion of the memory, the method further comprising:

associating a second portion of the memory with the second communications session;

transferring a first data set stored at the first portion of the memory to a database, the first data set including a plurality of directives associated with the first communications session; and

transferring a second data set stored at the second portion of the memory to the database, the second data set including a plurality of directives associated with the second communications session.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the second mobile device is associated with a participant identifier from the plurality of participant identifiers.