IP web based messaging system for localized management of wireless messaging

• US 6,779,025 B1
• Filed: 06/30/2000
• Issued: 08/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wolfe, William M., Joshi, Satish, Dodrill, Lewis Dean
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, VIET DUY
• Application Number:
  US09/608,187
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/206, 709/217, 709/219, 709/223, 709/225, 709/229, 709/249, 719/311, 719/313, 719/328
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/22 Arrangements for supervision, monitoring or testing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53366 Message disposing or creating aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53391 dependent on calling party

Abstract

An application server, configured for executing a messaging application defined by XML documents, is able to provide messaging services to a calling party for a remote subscriber based on retrieval of subscriber attribute information obtained from a remote information database server (such as LDAP) via an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server, upon receiving a voice application operation request having subscriber identifier information from a browser serving the calling party, obtains from the remote information database server attribute information for responding to the voice application operation request based on the subscriber identifier information. The application server generates an HTML document having media content and control tags for personalized execution of the voice application operation based on the attribute information obtained from the standardized database server. The application server also is configured for sending and retrieving messages from a standardized remote messaging server via the IP network .

Claims

1. A method in a wireless communications system of retrieving a stored message for a roaming wireless subscriber, the method including:

terminating by a mobile switching center an incoming wireless telephone call from the roaming wireless subscriber to a proxy device configured for generating HTTP requests and playback of media content based on selective execution of tagged information within web pages;

initiating by the proxy device a messaging application session executed by an application server for the roaming wireless subscriber, the application server configured for generating the web pages based on the respective HTTP requests, at least one of the HTTP requests specifying the wireless subscriber;

obtaining by the application server subscriber attribute information related to the roaming wireless subscriber from an Internet Protocol (IP) based database server via an IP network;

obtaining, by the application server, the stored message via the IP network from an IP-based messaging server based on a prescribed address retrieved from the obtained subscriber attribute information; and

generating by the application server a web page including tags for playback of the stored message to the roaming wireless subscriber by the proxy device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating step includes adding media tags within the web page that specify prescribed audible prompts based on language preferences specified in the subscriber attribute information.

3. The method of claim 1, with further comprising storing the subscriber attribute information in a local registry for use by the application server during the messaging application session with the roaming wireless subscriber.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating step includes outputting the web page to the proxy device based on validating the roaming wireless subscriber relative to a password supplied by the proxy device and a stored password within the subscriber attribute information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the subscriber attribute information includes accessing the IP based database server according to LDAP protocol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the stored message includes accessing the IP-based messaging server according to IMAP protocol.

7. A computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions for retrieving a stored message for a roaming wireless subscriber, the sequences of instructions including instructions for performing the steps of:

terminating by a mobile switching center an incoming wireless telephone call from the roaming wireless subscriber to a proxy device configured for generating HTTP requests and playback of media content based on selective execution of tagged information within web pages;

initiating by the proxy device a messaging application session executed by an application server for the roaming wireless subscriber, the application server configured for generating the web pages based on the respective HTTP requests, at least one of the HTTP requests specifying the wireless subscriber;

obtaining by the application server subscriber attribute information related to the roaming wireless subscriber from an Internet Protocol (IP) based database server via an IP network;

obtaining, by the application server, the stored message via the IP network from an IP-based messaging server based on a prescribed address retrieved from the obtained subscriber attribute information; and

generating by the application server a web page including tags for playback of the stored message to the roaming wireless subscriber by the proxy device.

8. The medium of claim 7, wherein the generating step includes adding media tags within the Web page that specify prescribed audible prompts based on language preferences specified in the subscriber attribute information.

9. The medium of claim 7, with further comprising instructions for performing the step of storing the subscriber attribute information in a local registry for use by the application server during the messaging application session with the roaming wireless subscriber.

10. The medium of claim 7, wherein the generating step includes outputting the web page to the proxy device based on validating the roaming wireless subscriber relative to a password supplied by the proxy device and a stored password within the subscriber attribute information.

11. The medium of claim 7, wherein the step of obtaining the subscriber attribute information includes accessing the IP based database server according to LDAP protocol.

12. The medium of claim 7, wherein the step of obtaining the stored message includes accessing the IP-based messaging server according to IMAP protocol.