Method, terminal, and computer readable media for processing message

• US 8,341,274 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2011
• Issued: 12/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• 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: Li, Kepeng, Chai, Xiaoqian, Tian, Linyi, Ye, Fujun
• Primary Examiner(s): SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI
• Application Number:
  US13/196,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20110296042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 709227-228, 709/203, 709/223, 709/248
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/10 adapted for application session management, e.g. SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] connection management H04W76/00; arrangements for session management H04L67/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

A method, a system, a server, and a terminal for processing message are described. The method includes the steps as follows. A notification message for requesting to establish a session sent by a session requester is received, in which the notification message carries session management information related to the session. The session management information of the session in the notification message is acquired, and a session connection with the session requester is initiated according to the session management information. Alternatively, the notification message is acknowledged according to the session management information, a reply message is generated according to an acknowledgement result, and the reply message is sent to the session requester. A Data Synchronization (DS)/Device Management (DM) server determines problems of the sent notification message according to the information returned from the terminal, so as to perform the further processing, thereby preventing the DS or DM server from blindly and repeatedly sending the notification message when not being informed that a session connection is established by a DS or DM terminal.

Claims

1. A method for processing a message, applicable to a Data Synchronization (DS) or Device Management (DM) session, comprising:

receiving, by a terminal device, a notification message for requesting to establish a session sent by a server, wherein the notification message carries session management information related to the session, wherein the session management information includes identifier (ID) information of the server, authentication information, and indication information of the session, and wherein the indication information of the session includes at least one of purpose information, importance information, time-out information, operation information, or reply policy information of the session;

acquiring, by the terminal device, the session management information related to the session in the notification message; and

acknowledging, by the terminal device, the notification message according to the session management information, initiating a session connection with the server according to an acknowledgement result, or acknowledging the notification message according to the session management information, generating a reply message according to an acknowledgement result, and sending the reply message to the session requester.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acknowledging the notification message according to the session management information comprises at least one of:

determining whether a format of the notification message is correct;

determining whether a version of the notification message is correct;

determining whether ID information of the server is valid or whether the ID information of the server exists;

performing an identity authentication on the server according to the authentication information in the notification message;

determining whether to accept the session according to the indication information of the session.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the determining whether to accept the session according to the indication information of the session comprises:

determining the importance of the session according to the importance information of the session, or determining the importance of the session according to the purpose information of the session and the current state of the terminal device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the generating the reply message according to the acknowledgement result, the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, whether to require replying with the notification message, and generating the reply message according to the acknowledgement result if the notification message requires to be replied.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the generating the reply message according to the acknowledgement result, the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, a form of the reply message.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the form of the reply message comprises:

using a bearer form of the notification message as a bearer form of the reply message, and/or replying with the notification message in a form of a DS or DM session message.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reply message carries one of:

information indicating that the notification message is successfully received, error information of the notification message, information indicating that the session is rejected, and information indicating that the session is accepted.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the error information of the notification message indicates at least one of the following:

the ID information of the server in the notification message is incorrect or does not exist;

the format of the notification message is incorrect;

the authentication on the authentication information of the notification message in the notification message fails; and

the notification message exceeds a validity period.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

performing, by the server, a corresponding processing according to the content carried in the received reply message,

wherein the performing the corresponding processing comprises;

modifying the notification message correspondingly according to an error type of the error information, and resending a modified notification message;

or

not resending the notification message according to information of receiving the notification message successfully by a terminal or information of rejecting the session by the terminal.

10. The method according to claim 1, the session management information comprises ID information of a Management Object (MO).

11. A Data Synchronization (DS) or Device Management (DM) terminal device having at least a processor for executing instructions, comprising:

a notification message receiving module, configured to receive a notification message sent by a server, wherein the notification message carries session management information, wherein the session management information comprises identifier (ID) information of the server, authentication information, and indication information of the session, and wherein the indication information of the session comprises at least one of purpose information, importance information, time-out information, operation information, or reply policy information of the session;

a session determining module, configured to acquire the session management information, and acknowledge the notification message according to the session management information; and

a message transceiving module, configured to initiate a session connection with the session requester according to the acknowledgement result of the session determining module.

12. The DS or DM terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the session determining module is further configured to do at least one of:

acknowledging whether identifier (ID) information of the server is correct according to the ID information of the server in the session management information, authenticating authentication information in the notification message according to the correct ID information of the server, determining whether a version of the notification message is correct and determining an importance of the session according to indication information of the session in the session management information.

13. A Data Synchronization (DS) or Device Management (DM) terminal device having at east a processor for executing instructions, comprising:

a notification message receiving module, configured to receive a notification message sent by a server, wherein the notification message carries session management information, wherein the session management information comprises identifier (ID) information of the server, authentication information, and indication information of the session, and wherein the indication information of the session comprises at least one of purpose information, importance information, time-out information, operation information, or reply policy information of the session;

a session determining module, configured to acquire the session management information, and acknowledge the notification message according to the session management information;

a reply message generating module, configured to generate a reply message according to an acknowledgement result of the session determining module; and

a message transceiving module, configured to send the reply message generated by the reply message generating module to a server.

14. The DS or DM terminal device according to claim 13, wherein the session determining module is further configured to determine a form of the reply message according to a bearer form of the notification message sent by the server;

the message transceiving module is further configured to send the reply message to the server in a DS or DM session message form according to the acknowledgement result of the session determining module; and

the terminal further comprises a reply message sending module, configured to send the reply message to the server in the bearer form of the notification message according to the acknowledgement result of the session determining module.

15. The DS or DM terminal device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a policy setting module, configured to set a reply policy of the notification message, wherein the session determining module determines whether to require replying with the notification message or not according to the reply policy, and instructs the reply message generating module to generate the reply message when determining to require replying with the notification message.

16. The DS or DM terminal device according to claim 13, wherein the session determining module is further configured to do at least one of:

acknowledging whether identifier (ID) information of the server is correct according to the ID information of the server in the session management information, authenticating authentication information in the notification message according to the correct ID information of the server, determining whether a version of the notification message is correct and determining an importance of the session according to indication information of the session in the session management information.

17. The DS or DM terminal according to claim 13, wherein the reply message generating module is further configured to carry the ID error information of the session requester and/or authentication failure information acknowledged by the session determining module in the generated reply message;

or carry rejection information of the session acknowledged by the session determining module according to the indication information of the session in the generated reply message.

18. A non-transitory computer readable media, comprising logic encoded in the computer readable media, the logic when executed operable to:

receive a notification message for requesting to establish a session sent by a server, wherein the notification message carries session management information related to the session, wherein the session management information comprises identifier (ID) information of the server, authentication information, and indication information of the session, and wherein the indication information of the session comprises at least one of purpose information, importance information, time-out information, operation information, or reply policy information of the session;

acquire the session management information related to the session in the notification message; and

acknowledge the notification message according to the session management information, initiating a session connection with the server according to an acknowledgement result, or acknowledge the notification message according to the session management information, generate a reply message according to an acknowledgement result, and send the reply message to the session requester.

19. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 18, wherein the acknowledging the notification message according to the session management information comprises at least one of:

determining whether a format of the notification message is correct;

determining whether a version of the notification message is correct;

determining whether an ID information of the server is valid or whether the ID information of the server exists;

performing an identity authentication on the server according to the authentication information in the notification message;

determining whether to accept the session according to the indication information of the session.

20. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 18, wherein the determining whether to accept the session according to the indication information of the session comprises:

determining the importance of the session according to the importance information of the session, or determining the importance of the session according to the purpose information of the session and the current state of the terminal device.

21. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 18, wherein before the generating the reply message according to the acknowledgement result, further comprises:

determining whether to require replying with the notification message, and generating the reply message according to the acknowledgement result if the notification message requires to be replied.

22. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 18, wherein the reply message carries one of:

information indicating that the notification message is successfully received, error information of the notification message, information indicating that the session is rejected, and information indicating that the session is accepted.

23. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 22, wherein the error information of the notification message indicates at least one of the following:

the ID information of the server in the notification message is incorrect or does not exist;

the format of the notification message is incorrect;

the authentication on the authentication information of the notification message in the notification message fails; and

the notification message exceeds a validity period.

24. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 22, comprising logic that is operable to:

perform a corresponding processing according to the content carried in the received reply message, wherein the performing the corresponding processing comprises;

modifying the notification message correspondingly according to an error type of the error information, and resending a modified notification message;

or

not resending the notification message according to information of receiving the notification message successfully by a terminal or information of rejecting the session by the terminal.