Content Sharing Method, Terminal, Server, and System

• US 20170302499A1
• Filed: 06/29/2017
• Published: 10/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2014
• 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: Ding, Yu, Wu, Fumin
• Granted Patent: US 10,721,115 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5683 Storage of data provided by user terminals, i.e. reverse caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Embodiments provide a content sharing method and system. A source terminal cloud server receives a content sending command sent by a source terminal, where the content sending command carries an address of a destination terminal cloud server. The source terminal cloud server sends a connection request to the destination terminal cloud server according to the address of the destination terminal cloud server, where the connection request is used to request to establish a connection to the destination terminal cloud server. The source terminal cloud server sends shared content to the destination terminal cloud server after the connection is established. After the shared content is transferred between the cloud servers, terminals respectively log in to their respective cloud servers.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a content sending command sent by a source terminal, wherein the content sending command carries an address of a destination terminal cloud server;

sending a connection request to the destination terminal cloud server according to the address of the destination terminal cloud server, wherein the connection request requests to establish a connection to the destination terminal cloud server; and

sending shared content to the destination terminal cloud server after the connection is established;

wherein the source terminal exchanges information with a destination terminal via an rich communication suite (RCS) server.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before receiving the content sending command sent by the source terminal, the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the source terminal, the address of the destination terminal cloud server from a destination terminal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before receiving the content sending command sent by the source terminal, the method further comprises:

receiving an ID that is of the shared content and sent by the source terminal, obtaining a random verification code according to the ID of the shared content, returning the random verification code corresponding to the ID of the shared content to the source terminal, and determining, by the source terminal according to the ID of the shared content and the random verification code, whether the shared content is uploaded.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after sending the shared content to the destination terminal cloud server, the method further comprises:

operating, by the destination terminal, the shared content using the destination terminal cloud server.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a login request sent by the source terminal, wherein the login request carries login verification information.

6. A method, comprising:

sending, by a source terminal, a request for obtaining an address of a destination terminal cloud server to a destination terminal via a rich communication suite (RCS) server, and receiving the address of the destination terminal cloud server returned by the destination terminal via the RCS server;

sending, by the source terminal, a content sending command to a source terminal cloud server, wherein the content sending command carries the address of the destination terminal cloud server;

sending, by the source terminal cloud server, a connection request to the destination terminal cloud server according to the address of the destination terminal cloud server; and

sending, by the source terminal cloud server, shared content to the destination terminal cloud server after a connection is established.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein before sending, by the source terminal, the content sending command to the source terminal cloud server, the method further comprises:

determining, by the source terminal, an ID of the shared content according to locally stored information, and sending the ID of the shared content to the source terminal cloud server;

obtaining, by the source terminal cloud server according to the ID that is of the shared content and sent by the source terminal, a random verification code corresponding to the ID of the shared content, and returning the random verification code corresponding to the ID of the shared content to the source terminal; and

verifying, by the source terminal according to the ID of the shared content and the received random verification code, whether the received random verification code matches a random verification code locally stored in the source terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein verifying, by the source terminal according to the ID of the shared content and the received random verification code, whether the received random verification code matches the locally stored random verification code comprises:

when the received random verification code matches the random verification code locally stored in the source terminal, executing sending, by the source terminal, the content sending command to a source terminal cloud server;

or

when the received random verification code does not match the random verification code locally stored in the source terminal, uploading, by the source terminal, the shared content to the source terminal cloud server.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein before sending, by the source terminal, the content sending command to the source terminal cloud server, the method further comprises:

sending, by the source terminal, a content sharing request to the destination terminal, and receiving a response of accepting content sharing returned by the destination terminal.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein after sending the shared content to the destination terminal cloud server, the method further comprises:

operating, by the destination terminal, the shared content using the destination terminal cloud server.

11. A terminal, comprising

a processor;

and

a computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for;

sending a request for obtaining an address of a destination terminal cloud server to a destination terminal via rich communication suite (RCS) server, and receiving the address of the destination terminal cloud server sent by the destination terminal via the RCS server;

sending an ID of shared content to a source terminal cloud server, and receiving a random verification code that corresponds to the ID of the shared content and is returned by the source terminal cloud server;

determining, according to the ID of the shared content and the received random verification code, whether the shared content is uploaded to the source terminal cloud server; and

when determining that the shared content is uploaded to the source terminal cloud server, sending a content sending command to the source terminal cloud server, wherein the content sending command carries the address of the destination terminal cloud server, and the address of the destination terminal cloud server is used to make the source terminal cloud server send the shared content to the destination terminal cloud server.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is configured to store related information about the shared content, and the related information about the shared content comprises the ID of the shared content and a random verification code;

and

wherein the program further includes instructions for;

searching the computer-readable storage medium for the locally stored random verification code according to the ID of the shared content;

comparing the locally stored random verification code with the received random verification code returned by the source terminal cloud server; and

when the locally stored random verification code is consistent with the random verification code returned by the source terminal cloud server, determining that the shared content is uploaded to the source terminal cloud server, or when the locally stored random verification code is inconsistent with the random verification code returned by the source terminal cloud server, determining that the shared content is not uploaded to the source terminal cloud server.

13. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is further configured to store login information of logging in to a cloud server by a user, and the program further includes instructions for logging in to the cloud server according to the login information.

14. A content sharing server, comprising:

a transceiver, configured to receive a content sending command sent by a terminal, wherein the content sending command carries an address of a destination terminal cloud server;

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for;

parsing the content sending command received by the transceiver, to obtain the address of the destination terminal cloud server,

sending a connection establishment request to the destination terminal cloud server, and after establishing a connection to the destination terminal cloud server, sending shared content to the destination terminal cloud server; and

sending the connection establishment request to the destination terminal cloud server and establishing the connection to the destination terminal cloud server, and sending the shared content to the destination terminal cloud server;

wherein the terminal exchanges information with a destination terminal via a rich communication suite (RCS) server.

15. The server according to claim 14, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is configured to store related information about the shared content, and the related information about the shared content comprises an ID of the shared content and a random verification code;

wherein the transceiver the is further configured to receive the ID that is of the shared content sent by the terminal;

wherein the program further includes instructions for querying the computer-readable storage medium according to the received ID of the shared content to obtain the random verification code; and

wherein the transceiver is further configured to send the random verification code to the terminal.

16. The server according to claim 14, wherein the program further includes instructions for recording information about a progress and a status that are of transferring the shared content to the destination terminal cloud server;

and

wherein the transceiver is further configured to feed back, to the terminal, the information about the progress and the status that are of transferring the shared content to the destination terminal cloud server.

17. A content sharing system, comprising:

a source terminal;

a source terminal cloud server;

a destination terminal; and

a destination terminal cloud server;

wherein the source terminal is configured to send a request for obtaining an address of the destination terminal cloud server to the destination terminal via a rich communication suite (RCS) server;

wherein the destination terminal is configured to return the address of the destination terminal cloud server to the source terminal;

wherein the source terminal is further configured to send a content sending command to the source terminal cloud server, wherein the content sending command carries the address of the destination terminal cloud server;

wherein the source terminal cloud server is configured to send a connection request to the destination terminal cloud server according to the address of the destination terminal cloud server;

wherein the destination terminal cloud server is configured to return, to the source terminal cloud server, a response to the connection request; and

wherein the source terminal cloud server is further configured to send shared content to the destination terminal cloud server after a connection is established.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the source terminal is further configured to determine an ID of the shared content according to locally stored information, and send the ID of the shared content to the source terminal cloud server;

wherein the source terminal cloud server is configured to obtain, according to the ID that is of the shared content and sent by the source terminal, a random verification code corresponding to the ID of the shared content, and feed back the random verification code to the source terminal; and

wherein the source terminal is configured to determine, according to the ID of the shared content and the received random verification code, whether the shared content is uploaded to the source terminal cloud server.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the source terminal is further configured to:

obtain, according to the ID of the shared content, a random verification code locally stored in the source terminal;

perform verification between the random verification code locally stored in the source terminal and the received verification code; and

when the locally stored random verification code is consistent with the random verification code returned by the source terminal cloud server, determine that the shared content is uploaded to the source terminal cloud server, or when the locally stored random verification code is inconsistent with the random verification code returned by the source terminal cloud server, determine that the shared content is not uploaded to the source terminal cloud server.

20. The system according to claim 17, wherein the destination terminal is further configured to log in to the destination terminal cloud server 50 to operate the shared content.