METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVATING NETWORK STORAGE, MESSAGE PROCESSING SERVER, AND CLIENT

• US 20110161502A1
• Filed: 02/08/2011
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: LIANG, Gang, HUANG, Cheng, WANG, Jue, BIAN, Yonggang, ZHANG, Yongjing, MU, Lunjian, XU, Guojun
• Granted Patent: US 9,043,475 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42221 Conversation recording systems at the subscriber's set H04M1/656

Abstract

A method for activating network storage includes: a message processing server receives a network storage request from a client; the message processing server establishes a session with a history function (HF) according to the network storage request, and sends the content from the session in which the client participates to the HF through the session with the HF. A system for activating network storage, a message processing server, and a client are also provided. With the present invention, the network storage is implemented more conveniently, and the user experience is improved.

Claims

1. A method for activating network storage, comprising:

receiving, by a message processing server, a network storage request from a client;

establishing a session with a history function (HF) according to the network storage request, and sending a content from the session in which the client participates to the HF through the session with the HF.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the message processing server is located in a media channel of the session in which the client participates.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the message processing server, that the message processing server is not located in a media channel of the session in which the client participates; and

changing a media attribute of the session in which the client participates so that the message processing server is located in the media channel of the session in which the client participates.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining, by the message processing server, that the session in which the client participates is not a conference session.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining, by the message processing server, that the session in which the client participates is a conference session, and indicating that the HF fails to join the conference.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the network storage request from the client by the message processing server comprises:

receiving, by the message processing server, a network storage request that the client sends after the client determines that the session in which the client participates is not a conference session.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording, by the message processing server, a network storage mode.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving, by the message processing server, a network storage deactivation request from the client, and terminating the session with the HF.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the message processing server returns a network storage deactivation response to the client.

10. A message processing server, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a network storage request from a client; and

a processing module, configured to establish a session with a history function (HF) according to the network storage request, and send a content from the session in which the client participates to the HF according to the session with the HF.

11. The message processing server of claim 10, further comprising:

a judging module, configured to determine that the message processing server is not located in a media channel of the session in which the client participates; and

a second processing module, configured to change a media attribute of the session in which the client participates so that the message processing server is located in the media channel of the session in which the client participates.

12. The message processing server of claim 11, wherein:

the judging module is further configured to determine that the session in which the client participates is a conference session and the second processing module is further configured to instruct the HF to join the conference; and

the receiving module is further configured to receive a notification indicating that the HF fails to join the conference.

13. The message processing server of claim 10, wherein:

the receiving module is further configured to receive a network storage deactivation request from the client; and

the processing module is further configured to terminate the session with the HF.

14. The message processing server of claim 10, further comprising a recording module configured to record a network storage mode.

15. The message processing server of claim 10, further comprising a sending module configured to return a network storage deactivation response to the client.

16. A system for activating network storage, comprising a message processing server which comprise a receiving module, configured to receive a network storage request from a client;

and a processing module, configured to establish a session with a history function (HF) according to the network storage request, and send a content from the session in which the client participates to the HF according to the session with the HF; and

the system for activating network storage further comprising;

a history function (HF), configured to;

establish a session with the message processing server according to an instruction from the message processing server, and receive and store a session content of a client through the session.

17. A client, comprising:

a judging unit, configured to determine that a session in which the client participates is not a conference session; and

a sending unit, configured to send a network storage request to instruct a message processing unit to activate network storage.

18. The client of claim 17, wherein the client further comprises:

a receiving unit, configured to receive a notification indicating that a history function (HF) fails to join a conference.