Automated integration of content from multiple information stores using a mobile communication device

• US 8,532,622 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2005
• Issued: 09/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Robertson, Ian
• Primary Examiner(s): KIM, WESLEY LEO
• Application Number:
  US11/045,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20060174017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,144 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 707/201, 709/248
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A system and method for merging information from a plurality of enterprise information stores on a network using a mobile communication device capable of accessing the network. Using the mobile communication device, communication or contact information is requested from the enterprise information stores, and merged with the content of a personal information store resident in the mobile communication device to create a merged data set for uploading to an enterprise information store on the network. In creating the merged data set, the value of a principal identifier in the requested communication information is used to query the personal information store in order to locate data in the personal information store having a value matching the principal identifier.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device adapted to communicate over a wireless network, the mobile communication device comprising:

a transceiver for communicating over the wireless network;

memory for storing a a personal information store; and

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a microprocessor in communication with the transceiver and the memory, the microprocessor being configured to cause the mobile communication device to;

receive, in response to a request transmitted from the mobile communication device, information of a first type from a first server;

identify a principal identifier value associated with the information of the first type;

query a personal information store at the mobile communication device for a first record comprising information of a second type that is different from the first type and an associated personal principal identifier value matching the principal identifier value;

merge the information of the first type with the first record to create a merged data set stored in the memory;

identify a merged data set principal identifier value associated with the merged data set,

query a different server for a second record having a principal identifier value matching the merged data set principal identifier value; and

merge the merged data set with the second record.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further adapted to transmit a secure e-mail message secured using a public key, wherein the mobile communication device is further operative to:

request a public key certificate containing the public key from the first server, the first server comprising a certificate management system; and

create the merged data set by merging the received public key certificate received in response to said request with the first record.

3. A method for merging information using a mobile communication device, comprising:

receiving over a network at the mobile communication device, in response to a request transmitted from the mobile communication device, information of a first type from a first server;

identifying a principal identifier value associated with the information of the first type;

querying a personal information store at the mobile communication device for a first record comprising information of a second type that is different from the first type and an associated personal principal identifier value matching the principal identifier value;

merging the information of the first type with the first record to create a merged data set for storage at the mobile communciation device;

identifying a merged data set principal identifier value associated with the merged data set;

querying a different server for a second record having a principal identifier value matching the merged data set principal identifier value; and

merging the merged data set with the second record.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first server comprises a certificate management system and the information of the first type thus received comprises a public key certificate, and the different server comprises a global address list.

5. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory storage medium comprising program code, the program code being executable on a mobile communication device to implement the method of:

receiving over a network at the mobile communication device, in response to a request transmitted from the mobile communication device, information of a first type from a first server;

identifying a principal identifier value associated with the information of the first type;

querying a personal information store at the mobile communication device for a first record comprising information of a second type that is different from the first type and an associated personal principal identifier value matching the principal identifier value;

merging the information of the first type with the first record to create a merged data set for storage at the mobile communication device;

identifying a merged data set principal identifier value associated with the merged data set;

querying a different server for a second record having a principal identifier value matching the merged data set principal identifer value; and

merging the merged data set with the second record.

6. A system for merging information, the system comprising:

a plurality of information stores available over a network, each of said plurality of information stores being comprised in one of a plurality of servers;

at least one mobile communciation device adapted to communicate with the network over a wireless link;

wherein the at least one mobile communication device is configured to;

access a first record of a first type stored at a first one of the plurality of information stores comprised in a first one of the plurality of servers,

identify a principal identifier value associated with the record of the first type,

query a personal information store at the mobile communication device for a second record of a second type that is different from the first type, the second record comprising an associated personal principal identifier value matching the principal identifier value;

merge information obtained from the record of the first type with the second record to create a merged record,

store the merged record at the mobile communication device,

identify a merged record principal identifier value associated with the merged record

query a second one of the plurality of information stores comprised in a different server of the plurality of servers for a further record having a principal identifier value matching the merged record principal identifier value; and

merge the merged record with the further record.

7. The system of claim 6, comprising a plurality of said mobile communication devices, such that a plurality of further records stored in the second one of the plurality of information stores are merged with a plurality of merged records.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein at least some of the plurality of mobile communication devices are configured to merge the merged record with records in disparate information stores on the network.