Method and apparatus for integrating communication sessions supporting audio and video between entities

• US 8,250,222 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2009
• Issued: 08/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Seung-Yong, Park, Sung-Jin, Lee, Kyung-Tak
• Primary Examiner(s): BAROT, BHARAT
• Application Number:
  US12/550,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057920A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: 709202-203, 709227-229
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]

Abstract

A session integration method is provided for integrating a first session between a first entity and a third entity and a second session between a second entity and the third entity in a session-based service environment. The first entity receives a REFER message including dialog information from the second entity, and sends a response message to the received REFER message to the second entity. When header information included in the received REFER message indicates an INVITE message and the dialog information is related to the first entity, the first entity generates a Re-INVITE message and sends the generated Re-INVITE message to an address of a target which is subject to session integration. The address is included in the header information and corresponds to the third entity. The first entity updates the first session into an integrated session with the third entity.

Claims

1. A session integration method in a session-based service environment, comprising the steps of:

receiving, by a first entity joining a first session with a third entity, a REFER message including dialog information that is shared by a second entity joining a second session with the third entity, wherein the first session supports a first media and the second session supports a second media;

sending, by the first entity, a response message to the received REFER message to the second entity;

generating, by the first entity, a Re-INVITE message when the received REFER message indicates an INVITE message and the dialog information is related to the first entity;

sending, by the first entity, the generated Re-INVITE message to an address of the third entity which is subject to session integration; and

updating, by the first entity, the first session into an integrated session with the third entity, wherein the integrated session supports the first media and the second media.

2. The session integration method of claim 1, wherein the dialog information comprises a call-id parameter, a from-tag parameter and a to-tag parameter.

3. The session integration method of claim 1, wherein the dialog information comprises Identifier (ID) values of dialog elements in a dialog package document that includes a call-id parameter, a from-tag parameter and a to-tag parameter.

4. The session integration method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, by the first entity, a SUBSCRIBE message requesting a dialog package document to a dialog management server before sending the Re-INVITE message;

receiving, by the first entity, a NOTIFY message including the dialog package document from the dialog management server; and

acquiring, by the first entity, the dialog information from the dialog package document in the NOTIFY message.

5. The session integration method of claim 1, wherein the second session is released when the third entity sends a BYE message for closing a dialog indicated by the dialog information to the second entity and receives a response message to the BYE message from the second entity.

6. The session integration method of claim 5, wherein the release of the second session is accomplished when the third entity sends a NOTIFY message indicating completion of the session integration to the second entity and receives a response message to the NOTIFY message from the second entity, before the sending of the BYE message to the second entity.

7. The session integration method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether an INVITE message will be generated.

8. A session integration apparatus of a first entity in a session-based service environment, comprising:

means for receiving a REFER message including dialog information that is shared by a second entity and sending a response message to the received REFER message to the second entity,

wherein the first entity joins a first session with a third entity, the second entity joins a second session with the third entity, the first session supports a first media and the second session supports a second media;

means for generating a Re-INVITE message when the received REFER message indicates an INVITE message and the dialog information is related to the first entity and sending the generated Re-INVITE message to an address of the third entity which is subject to session integration; and

means for updating the first session into an integrated session with the third entity wherein the integrated session supports the first media and the second media.

9. The session integration apparatus of claim 8, wherein the dialog information comprises a call-id parameter, a from-tag parameter and a to-tag parameter.

10. The session integration apparatus of claim 8, wherein the dialog information comprises Identifier (ID) values of dialog elements in a dialog package document that includes a call-id parameter, a from-tag parameter and a to-tag parameter.

11. The session integration apparatus of claim 8, further comprising means for sending a SUBSCRIBE message requesting a dialog package document to a dialog management server before sending the Re-INVITE message, receiving a NOTIFY message including the dialog package document from the dialog management server, and acquiring the dialog information from the dialog package document.

12. The session integration apparatus of claim 8, wherein the second session is released when the third entity sends a BYE message for closing a dialog indicated by the dialog information to the second entity and receives a response message to the BYE message from the second entity.

13. The session integration apparatus of claim 12, wherein the release of the second session is accomplished when the third entity sends a NOTIFY message indicating completion of the session integration to the second entity and receives a response message to the NOTIFY message from the second entity, before the sending of the BYE message to the second entity.

14. The session integration apparatus of claim 8, further comprising means for determining whether an INVITE message will be generated.

15. A session integration method in a session-based service environment, comprising the steps of:

sending, by a second entity joining a second session with a third entity, a REFER message including dialog information to a first entity joining a first session with the third entity, wherein the first session supports a first media and the second session supports a second media;

receiving, by the second entity, a response message to the REFER message from the first entity through the third entity;

receiving, by the second entity, BYE message for close the dialog second session from the third entity when the first session is updated into an integrated session, wherein the integrated session supports the first media and the second media; and

sending, by the second entity, a response message to BYE message to the third entity for release of the second session.

16. The session integration method of claim 15, wherein the release of the second session is accomplished when the second entity receives a NOTIFY message indicating completion of the session integration from the third entity and sends a response message to the NOTIFY message to the third entity, before the receiving of the BYE message from the third entity.

17. The session integration method of claim 15, wherein the header information comprises a call-id parameter, a from-tag parameter and a to-tag parameter as the dialog information.

18. The session integration method of claim 15, wherein the header information comprises Identifier (ID) values of dialog elements in a dialog package document that includes a call-id parameter, a from-tag parameter and a to-tag parameter as the dialog information.

19. The session integration method of claim 15, wherein integrating the second session into the first session by sending a Re-INVITE message from the first entity to the third entity and sending a response message to the Re-INVITE message from the third entity to the first entity when header information included in the REFER message indicates an INVITE message and the dialog information is related to the first entity.

20. A session integration apparatus of a second entity in a session-based service environment, comprising:

means for sending a REFER message including dialog information to a first entity joining a first session with a third entity, wherein the second entity joins a second session with the third entity, the first session supports a first media and the second session supports a second media, and sending a response message to a BYE message to the third entity for release of the second session; and

means for receiving a response message to the REFER message from the first entity through the third entity and receiving the BYE message for releasing the second session from the third entity when the first session is updated into an integrated session, wherein the integrated session supports the first media and the second media.