SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING SESSION UPON SATISFACTION OF PARTICULAR CONDITIONS

• US 20120042026A1
• Filed: 04/09/2010
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung-jin, Lee, Kyung-Tak, Lee, Seung-Yong
• Granted Patent: US 9,264,970 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/385 of the core network

Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions in a messaging service system such as SIMPLE Instant Messaging (IM), Push to talk over Cellular (PoC), and Converged IP Messaging) (CPM) services, in which a client provides particular conditions to a server separately for a predefined group session, an Ad-hoc group session and a one-to-one session, and the server establishes a session to the pertinent members upon satisfaction of the particular conditions. By doing so, a session reflecting particular conditions set by the client is established in the SIP-based system, thereby offering further differentiated messaging services.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions for a messaging service in a server, comprising:

receiving, by the server, a message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session;

acquiring a group member list and scheduled conference information;

checking session establishment conditions based on the acquired information; and

sending a session establish request message to at least one receiving client corresponding to the group member list upon satisfaction of the session establishment conditions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the session establishment conditions include at least one of a scheduled time and presence information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is an INVITE message or a REFER message, and includes a parameter indicating a scheduled conference.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising sending by the server a session establish request message even to the transmitting client upon satisfaction of the session establishment conditions, if the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is a REFER message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of acquiring comprises sending the steps of:

acquiring the group member list and the scheduled conference information from a shared XML Document Management Server (XDMS).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of acquiring comprises sending the steps of:

acquiring the group member list and the scheduled conference information from the message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is an INVITE message or a REFER message, and includes a parameter indicating a scheduled conference.

8. A messaging service system for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions, comprising:

a transmitting client for requesting a shared XML Document Management Server (XDMS) to store a group member list and scheduled conference information, and sending a message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session to a server;

the shared XDMS for storing the group member list and scheduled conference information on request from the transmitting client; and

the server for acquiring the group member list and scheduled conference information from the shared XDMS upon receiving the message from the transmitting client, checking session establishment conditions based on the acquired information, and sending a session establish request message to at least one receiving client corresponding to the group member list upon satisfaction of the session establishment conditions.