MESSAGE SYNCHRONIZATION IN NETWORKED DATA COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES CALLABLE BY APPLICATIONS

• US 20160366221A1
• Filed: 08/22/2016
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Layer, Inc. (MOBurst Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Layer, Inc. (MOBurst Ltd.)
• Inventors: PALMERI, RON, STOLFA, TOMAZ, VYRROS, ANDREW H., FLETCHER, DON
• Application Number:
  US15/243,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20160366221A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0807 using tickets, e.g. Kerberos cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 at the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

A data processing method providing message synchronization, the method comprising: maintaining, by a server computer implementing a communications service, a stream of events comprising a plurality of members, the stream of events representing a thread of communication between the plurality of members, wherein each event in the stream comprises a sequence number; receiving, by the server, a request to synchronize a local state of a client computer, wherein the client computer is associated with a member of the plurality of members; sending a plurality of new events to the client computer using sequence numbers of the stream of events, wherein the client computer represents the thread of communication as conversations; receiving, by the server, a conversation object comprising a temporary identifier from the client computer; assigning, by the server, a globally unique identifier to the conversation object; notifying, by the server, the plurality of members of the conversation object.

Claims

1. A data processing method providing message synchronization, the method comprising:

maintaining, by a server computer implementing a communications service, a stream of events comprising a plurality of members, the stream of events representing a thread of communication between the plurality of members, wherein each event in the stream comprises a sequence number;

receiving, by the server computer, a request to synchronize a local state of a client computer, wherein the client computer is associated with a member of the plurality of members;

sending, by the server computer, a plurality of new events to the client computer using sequence numbers of the stream of events, wherein the client computer represents the thread of communication as conversations;

receiving, by the server computer, a conversation object comprising a temporary identifier from the client computer;

assigning, by the server computer, a globally unique identifier to the conversation object;

notifying, by the server computer, the plurality of members of the conversation object.