Method for obtaining device information of user terminals and communication service function entity

• US 8,266,203 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2009
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2007
• 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: Xu, Guojun, Mu, Lunjian, Wang, Jue, Liang, Gang, Wang, Xiaobo, Huang, Cheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tammy
• Application Number:
  US12/635,452
• Publication Number:
  US 20100088371A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 703/203
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

A method for obtaining device information of user terminals and a communication service function thereof are disclosed to enable a user to obtain terminal device information. The method for obtaining device information of user terminals in a communication system includes that a communication service function sends device information of a target user to a requesting terminal according to the target user ID carried in a device information obtaining request or a device information publish service setting. The communication service function includes: a receiving unit, adapted to receive a device information obtaining request or a device information publish service setting; a sending unit, adapted to send the stored device information of the target user to the requesting terminal according to the target user ID carried in the device information obtaining request or device information publish service setting.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining device information of user'"'"'s terminals in a communication system, comprising a communication service function entity performing:

obtaining device information of a terminal of a target user, wherein the device information comprises at least a device display-name and ongoing session state information of the terminal of the target user, and the device display-name, which is defined for the user terminal by the target user;

associating the obtained device information with a target user ID and storing the device information as target user device information;

obtaining the ongoing session state information when a state of the on-going session joined by the target user terminal is changed;

associating the ongoing session state information with the target user ID and storing the ongoing session state information in the device information of the target user terminal;

in response to a device information obtaining request, sending the device information of the target user terminal to a requesting terminal according to the target user ID which is carried within the device information obtaining request, wherein the device information obtaining request is authorized according to at least one of;

a presence information authorization rule and notification filtering policy of the target user, or according to a local subscription notification and authorization policy.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending of the device information of the target user terminal to the requesting terminal comprises:

sending a device information notification containing the stored target user device information to the requesting terminal according to the device information obtaining request.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a communication service server, and the obtaining of the device display-name of the terminal of the target user comprising:

receiving, by the communication service server, user registration state information sent of the target user from a SIP/IP core when the terminal of the target user is registered, wherein the user registration state information comprises the device display-name of the terminal of the target user; and

obtaining, by the communication service server, the device display-name of the terminal of the target user from the user registration state information.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein obtaining the device display-name of the terminal of the target user comprising:

receiving, by the communication service server, the device information, wherein the device information is published by the terminal of the target user, after the terminal of the target user is registered or the device display-name of the terminal of the target user is re-defined by the target user, and the device information comprises the device display-name of the terminal of the target user; and

obtaining, by the communication service server, the device display-name of the terminal of the target user from the published device information.

5. The method according to claim 3 wherein obtaining the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user comprising:

obtaining, by the communication service server, the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user from locally buffered session records when a state of a session joined by the terminal of the target user is changed.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a network storage located in a home network of the terminal of the target user;

and the obtaining of the device information comprising;

receiving and storing, by the network storage, the device information of the terminal of the target user, wherein the device information of the terminal of the target user is obtained by a communication service server; and

obtaining, by the network storage, the device information of the terminal of the target user from the storage information.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is the terminal of the target user, and the method comprising:

obtaining, by the terminal of the target user, the device display-name from the local storage information; and

obtaining, by the terminal of the target user, local ongoing session state information from the local storage information after the state of a session joined by the terminal of the target user is changed.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a presence server, and the method comprising:

receiving, by the presence server, user registration state information of the target user from a SIP/IP core when the terminal is registered successfully, wherein the user registration state information comprises the device display-name of the terminal of the target user; and

obtaining, by the presence server, the device display-name of the terminal of the target user from the user registration state information.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a presence server, and the method comprising:

receiving, by a communication service server, user registration state information of the target user from a SIP/IP core when the terminal is registered successfully, wherein the user registration state information comprises the device display-name of the terminal of the target user;

receiving, by the presence server, presence information, wherein the presence information is published by the communication service server according to the received user registration state information, and the presence information contains the device display-name of the terminal of the target user; and

obtaining, by the presence server, the device display-name of the terminal of the target user from the presence information.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a presence server, and the presence server obtaining of the device display-name of the terminal of the target user comprising:

receiving, by the presence server, presence information published by the terminal of the target user after the terminal of the target user is registered;

or receiving, by the presence server, presence information specific to the terminal of the target user, which is published by a communication service server after the terminal of the target user is registered;

wherein the presence information comprises the device display-name of the terminal of the target user;

obtaining, by the presence server, the device display-name of the terminal of the target user from the presence information.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a presence server, and the presence server obtaining of the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user comprising:

receiving, by the presence server, presence information, wherein the presence information is published by the terminal of the target user when a state of a session joined by the terminal of the target user is changed;

wherein the presence information comprises the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user; and

obtaining, by the presence server, the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user from the presence information published by the terminal of the target user.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication service function entity is a presence server, and the presence server obtaining of the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user comprises:

receiving, by the presence server, presence information, wherein the presence information is obtained from the presence server and published by a communication service server located in a home network of the terminal of the target user when a state of a session joined by the terminal of the target user is changed, and the presence information comprises the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user; and

obtaining, by the presence server, the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user from the presence information published by the communication service server.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the ongoing session state information comprises at least the following:

a service type of the session, version information, a communication media type and an encoding format used in the session, a session ID, a session start time, and the number of participants.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the target user corresponds to one or more terminals.

15. A communication service function entity having a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, comprising:

a receiving unit 901, adapted to receive a device information obtaining request; and

a sending unit 902, adapted to in response to a device information obtaining request, send the device information of a target user to a requesting terminal according to the target user ID which is carried within the device information obtaining request, wherein the device information obtaining request is authorized according to at least one of a presence information authorization rule and notification filtering policy of the target user, or according to a local subscription notification and authorization policy, wherein the device information comprises a device display-name of a terminal of the target user, which is defined for the terminal by the target user, and ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user;

an obtaining unit, adapted to obtain the device display-name of a terminal of the target user, and the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user;

a storing unit, adapted to associate an ID of the target user, and store the device display-name of the terminal of the target user, and the ongoing session state information in the terminal of the target user obtained by the obtaining unit as the device information of the target user;

wherein the communication service function entity obtains the ongoing session state information when the state of the session joined by the user terminal is changed, associates the session state information with a user ID and stores the session state information in the device information of user terminals; and

the sending unit, adapted to extract the device information of the target user from the storing unit according to the target user ID.