Communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software

• US 7,512,640 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Issued: 03/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Original Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Inventors: Hsin, Chih-Hao, Yuan, Chia-Shang, Huang, Chi-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CAM LINH T
• Application Number:
  US11/397,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,092 Days
• Field of Search: 707/10, 707/200, 707/203, 707/204, 709/248
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 Version management

Abstract

A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software includes performing data description communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to negotiate an acceptable data format; and performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to complete a data processing operation according to the data format.

Claims

1. A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software, comprising:

performing data description communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to negotiate an acceptable data format, comprising;

sending out a description request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software to request for describing data of a packet type of a software module in the electronic apparatus; and

responding a description response data packet to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus according to the description request data packet to describe the data of the packet type of the software module, wherein the description response data packet comprises a transmission descriptor corresponding to the packet type and a plurality of field descriptors corresponding to a plurality of fields in the packet type; and

performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to complete a data processing operation according to the data format.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the transmission descriptor comprises a transmission mode, a transmission data amount, and a field number, and each field descriptor comprises an element type, a data type, a data size and a field topic.

3. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software according to the data format comprises sending out an operation request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software according to the data format so as to perform a data operation request;

and responding an operation response data packet to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus so as to perform a data operation response.

4. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein the data operation request has a format of an application interface including an operation code, an operation module type, an operation packet type, and a parameter, and the parameter is generated according to the data description response.

5. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein the synchronization software decodes the data operation response to complete the data processing operation according to the data description response.

6. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile phone and the synchronization software sends out the description request data packet to request a data description about a phonebook module from the mobile phone.

7. The communication method according to claim 6, wherein the mobile phone finds out the corresponding data description according to a module type code and a packet type code of the description request data packet and responses the description response data packet to the synchronization software.

8. The communication method according to claim 7, wherein the synchronization software receives and decodes the description response data packet, generates a user interface and a register according to a decoding result, and sends out the operation request data packet to the mobile phone.

9. The communication method according to claim 8, wherein the mobile phone actuates corresponding internal software module according to the module type code, the packet type code and an operation code of the operation request data packet, and transmits a parameter packed in the operation request data packet to the phonebook module.

10. The communication method according to claim 9, wherein the phonebook module performs a reading operation according to the operation code, reads corresponding phonebook record in a file system according to the parameter provided, packs the phonebook record in the operation response data packet and responds the operation response data packet to the synchronization software.

11. The communication method according to claim 10, wherein the synchronization software receives and stores the operation response data packet in the register, and decodes the operation response data packet in the register according to description of the description response data packet.

12. The communication method according to claim 11, wherein the decoding result is a phonebook record to be read, and the synchronization software displays the phonebook record on a user interface.

13. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the data format is a format of the data description response.

14. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization software is used in a computer, and the synchronization software checks if the data inputted to the electronic apparatus from the computer are correct according to the data description response.

15. A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software, comprising:

sending out a description request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software to request for describing data of a packet type of a software module in the electronic apparatus, wherein the description request data packet has a data description request format com prism g a module type code corresponding to the software module and a packet type code corresponding to the packet type;

responding a description response data packet having a data description response format to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus according to the module type code and the packet type code to describe the data of the packet type of the software module, wherein the data description response format comprises a transmission description response corresponding to the packet type and a plurality of field description responses corresponding to a plurality of fields in the packet type;

sending out an operation request data packet to the electronic apparatus by the synchronization software so as to perform a data operation request; and

responding an operation response data packet to the synchronization software by the electronic apparatus so as to perform a data operation response.

16. The communication method according to claim 15, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile phone, the module type comprises a phonebook, a ring, and an ID photo, and the packet type comprises a phonebook record and a caller group.

17. The communication method according to claim 15, wherein the transmission description response comprises a transmission mode, a transmission data amount and a field number, and each of the field description response comprises an element type, a data type, a data size, and a field topic.

18. The communication method according to claim 17, wherein the electronic apparatus informs the synchronization software about the data transmission way of the electronic apparatus via the transmission description response, and the transmission data amount is a permitted maximum data transmission amount of the electronic apparatus.

19. The communication method according to claim 17, wherein the transmission mode comprises a non-string mode, the element type comprises a character element, and the data type comprises strings, FIG. 0 to 9, symbols * ,#, and letters A to Z.

20. The communication method according to claim 15, wherein the data operation request has a format of an application interface including an operation code, an operation module type, an operation packet type and a parameter, and the parameter is generated according to the data description response format.

21. The communication method according to claim 15, wherein the synchronization software decodes content of the data operation response to complete a data processing operation according to data description response.

22. The communication method according to claim 15, wherein the synchronization software is used in a computer, and the synchronization software checks if the data inputted to the electronic apparatus from the computer are correct according to the data description response.

23. The communication method according to claim 15, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile phone and the synchronization software sends out the description request data packet to request a data description about a phonebook module from the mobile phone.

24. The communication method according to claim 23, wherein the mobile phone finds out the corresponding data description according to a module type code and a packet type code of the description request data packet and responses the description response data packet to the synchronization software.

25. The communication method according to claim 24, wherein the synchronization software receives and decodes the description response data packet, generates a user interface and a register according to a decoding result, and sends out the operation request data packet to the mobile phone.

26. The communication method according to claim 25, wherein the mobile phone actuates corresponding internal software module according to the module type code, the packet type code and an operation code of the operation request data packet, and transmits a parameter packed in the operation request data packet to the phonebook module.

27. The communication method according to claim 26, wherein the phonebook module performs a reading operation according to the operation code, reads corresponding phonebook record in a file system according to the parameter provided, packs the phonebook record in the operation response data packet and responds the operation response data packet to the synchronization software.

28. The communication method according to claim 27, wherein the synchronization software receives and stores the operation response data packet in the register, and decodes the operation response data packet in the register according to description of the description response data packet.

29. The communication method according to claim 28, wherein the decoding result is a phonebook record to be read, and the synchronization software displays the phonebook record on a user interface.