METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LIVE REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION VIA TEXT BETWEEN MOBILE USER DEVICES

• US 20110238734A1
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scomm Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Scomm Incorporated
• Inventors: McAllister, David J., Lane, David C., Curry, Jason R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,280,954 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method and system for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the method including receiving, at an application server, a conversation request from a first user device, wherein the conversation request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device, sending the conversation request from the application server to a push server, receiving, at the application server, a conversation session ID from the second user device, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device, sending the conversation session ID from the application server to the push server, receiving, at the application server, a first datagram message from the first user device, sending the first datagram message from the application server to the second user device, receiving, at the application server, a second datagram message from the second user device, and sending the second datagram message from the application server to the first user device.

Claims

1. A method for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the method comprising:

receiving, at an application server, a conversation request from a first user device, wherein the conversation request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending the conversation request from the application server to a push server;

receiving, at the application server, a conversation session ID from the second user device, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device;

sending the conversation session ID from the application server to the push server;

receiving, at the application server, a first datagram message from the first user device;

sending the first datagram message from the application server to the second user device;

receiving, at the application server, a second datagram message from the second user device; and

sending the second datagram message from the application server to the first user device.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein datagram messages include text data.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the datagram messages include redundant text data and new text data.

4. A method for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the method comprising:

selecting a second user device from a contact list that is stored on a first user device;

sending a conversation request with the second user device from the first user device to an application server;

receiving, at the first user device, a conversation session ID from the application server, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device;

sending a datagram message to be received by the second user device, from the first user device to the application server; and

receiving, at the first user device, a datagram message sent by the second user device from the application server.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein datagram messages include text data.

6. A method according to claim 4, wherein datagram messages include redundant text data and new text data.