METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL PERSONAS ACROSS APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES

• US 20150215422A1
• Filed: 04/06/2015
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Siegel, Steven A., Brown, Steven, Chen, David Feng-Lin, Foladare, Mark, Gausman, Paul, Klein, Reuben, McGrath, Gilbert, Mullis, Karen
• Granted Patent: US 9,544,393 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• 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 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A persona determination approach can be utilized to apply digital personas across multiple communications domains. A service gateway can determine whether to transfer a request for communications services to a Persona Determination Mechanism (PDM). The PDM can select a digital persona based on available information and transmit the digital persona to the service gateway. The service gateway can process the communications services based on the selected digital persona or based on the determination not to transfer the request. In some methods, the service gateway can forward the processed request to one or more network elements for further processing. Related systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of applying digital personas across multiple communications domains, comprising:

receiving, using a processor circuit, a request for communications services at a service gateway;

determining, using a processor circuit, whether a digital persona for the communication services is asserted by the request;

determining, using a processor circuit, whether to maintain the asserted digital persona or to transfer the request from the service gateway to a Persona Determination Mechanism (PDM), wherein the PDM selects a new digital persona based on available information and transmits the new digital persona to the service gateway; and

processing, using a processor circuit, the communications services based on the new digital persona or the asserted digital persona.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the new digital persona is applicable to web, email, and phone services.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service gateway provides the communications services comprising at least two of web, email, and phone services.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service gateway includes one or more of a Serving-Call Session Control Function, a late-binding-capable web server, an email gateway, and a web application server.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein processing, using a processor circuit, the communications services includes forwarding the request from the service gateway to one or more network elements.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the one or more network elements include an application server.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the service gateway forwards a modified form of the request.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining, using a processor circuit, whether to maintain the asserted digital persona or to transfer the request from the service gateway to the PDM further comprises evaluating access information included in the request.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the access information further comprises identity information corresponding to an identity of a requesting party making the request.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the access information further comprises security information provided by a requesting party making the request.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein a subscriber of the PDM determines which access information is used in the determination of whether to maintain the asserted digital persona or transfer the request.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the available information includes preferences of a subscriber of the PDM and identity information corresponding to a requesting party, and wherein the preferences associate the requesting party with the new digital persona.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the available information includes preferences stored within the PDM.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the available information includes preferences retrieved from a network element other than the PDM.

15. A system of applying digital personas across multiple communications domains, comprising:

a processor circuit configured to receive a request for communications services at a service gateway;

the processor circuit being further configured to determine whether a digital persona for the communication services is asserted by the request;

the processor circuit being further configured to determine whether to maintain the asserted digital persona or to transfer the request from the service gateway to a Persona Determination Mechanism (PDM), wherein the PDM selects a new digital persona based on available information and transmits the new digital persona to the service gateway; and

the processor circuit being further configured to process the communications services based on the new digital persona or the asserted digital persona.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the new digital persona is applicable to web, email, and phone services.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein the service gateway is configured to provide the communications services comprising at least two of web, email, and phone services.

18. The system according to claim 15, wherein the service gateway includes one or more of a Serving-Call Session Control Function, a late-binding-capable web server, an email gateway, and a web application server.

19. The system according to claim 15, wherein processing the communications services includes forwarding the request from the service gateway to one or more network elements.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein the one or more network elements include an application server.