Syncing history information

• US 8,923,903 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Teliasonera AB
• Original Assignee: Teliasonera AB
• Inventors: Jarvenpaa, Marko, Tuomela, Frans, Pihlajamaki, Antti
• Primary Examiner(s): DOAN, PHUOC HUU
• Application Number:
  US13/979,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20130303211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,075 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/558, 455/411, 455/456.2, 709/206
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

To enable syncing communication-specific history information on apparatuses of a user, one of which may be a legacy apparatus, in a multi-apparatus environment, to correspond to each other, communication-specific history information is also maintained in a network, and in response to an event changing the communication-specific history information, it is also updated in the network, and by means of the information in the network, corresponding communication-specific history information in the user'"'"'s other apparatuses can be updated.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

supporting, by an apparatus, IP-based messaging to and from the apparatus, the IP-based messaging using data transfer capabilities of the apparatus; and

detecting, in the apparatus, an event creating communication-specific history information;

updating the communication-specific history information in the apparatus;

checking whether or not data transfer is set off in the apparatus; and

sending, in response to the data transfer being set off, the communication-specific history information in a short message via a short message centre to a history function to update the communication-specific history information maintained in a document server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating the communication-specific history information with identifying information identifying the communication to which the communication-specific history information relates.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the identifying information is a hash value and/or a consecutive number and/or time relating to the event.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

checking, in response to the data transfer being on, whether or not the communication-specific history information relates to a status change of a short message;

sending, in response to the communication-specific history information relating to a status change of a short message, the communication-specific history information in a short message via the short message centre to the history function to update the communication-specific history information in the document server; and

sending, in response to the communication-specific history information not relating to a status change of a short message, the communication-specific history information to the document server in an application layer protocol message to update the communication-specific history information in the document server.

5. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

sending, in response to the data transfer being on, the communication-specific history information to the document server in an application layer protocol message to update the communication-specific history information in the document server.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining, in an apparatus, communication-specific history information from a network; and

updating the communication-specific history information in the apparatus accordingly.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

detecting that the communication-specific history information relates to a status change of a message;

using an identifying information included in the obtained communication-specific history information, the identifying information identifying the message;

comparing the obtained status with the status of the identified message in the apparatus; and

updating the status in the apparatus to correspond to the obtained status if they are different.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication-specific history information indicates a status change of a short message or contains log information.

9. An apparatus configured to support IP-based messaging to and from the apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

data transfer capabilities usable for the IP-based messaging;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to;

detect an event that creates communication-specific history information;

update the communication-specific history information in the apparatus;

check whether or not data transfer is set off; and

send, in response to the data transfer being set off, the communication-specific history information in a short message via a short message centre to a history function to update the communication-specific history information maintained in a document server.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus at least to associate the communication-specific history information with identifying information identifying the communication to which the communication-specific history information relates.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus to:

check, in response to the data transfer being on, whether or not the communication-specific history information relates to a status change of a short message;

send, in response to the communication-specific history information relating to a status change of a short message, the communication-specific history information in a short message via the short message centre to the history function to update the communication-specific history information in the document server; and

send, in response to the communication-specific history information not relating to a status change of a short message, the communication-specific history information to the document server in an application layer protocol message to update the communication-specific history information in the document server.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus to send, in response to the data transfer being on, the communication-specific history information to the document server in an application layer protocol message to update the communication-specific history information in the document server.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus to:

obtain communication-specific history information from a network; and

update the communication-specific history information in the apparatus accordingly.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus to:

detect that the communication-specific history information relates to a status change of a message;

use an identifying information included in the obtained communication-specific history information, the identifying information identifying the message;

compare the obtained status with the status of the identified message in the apparatus; and

update the status in the apparatus to correspond to the obtained status if they are different.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the apparatus is an advanced user equipment.

16. A computer program product comprising a computer usable non-transitory medium having a computer readable program code embedded therein for controlling a data processing apparatus, the computer readable program code configured to cause the data processing apparatus supporting IP-based messaging to and from the data processing apparatus, the IP-based messaging using data transfer capabilities of the data processing apparatus, to execute a process comprising:

detecting an event that creates communication-specific history information;

updating the communication-specific history information in the data processing apparatus;

checking whether or not data transfer is set off in the data processing apparatus; and

sending, in response to the data transfer being set off, the communication-specific history information in a short message via a short message centre to a history function to update the communication-specific history information maintained in a document server.

17. A system supporting a multi-apparatus environment and comprising:

at least one document server for storing in a network-side communication-specific history information;

a first user equipment configured to support IP-based messaging to and from the first user equipment, to use data transfer capabilities for the IP-based messaging, to detect an event that creates communication-specific history information, to update the communication-specific history information in the first user equipment, to check whether or not data transfer is set off, and to send, in response to the data transfer being set off, the communication-specific history information in a short message via a short message centre to a history function to update the communication-specific history information maintained in one of the at least one document server; and

a second user equipment that is a legacy user equipment configured to detect an event that creates communication-specific history information, to update, the communication-specific history information in the user equipment, and to send a signalling message to update the communication-specific history information in at least one other apparatus;

wherein the first and second user equipments are usable by one user, and the system is configured to update the communication-specific history information in the first user equipment to correspond to the communication-specific history information in the second user equipment by means of the document server.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a server delivering multimedia services, the server comprising a history function unit configured to receive communication-specific history information in a short message or in an unstructured supplementary data service message and to forward the communication-specific history information in an application layer protocol message to the document server to be stored as communication-specific history information or to be used for updating the communication-specific history information in the document server.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the history function unit is further configured to receive an update request in a short message or in an unstructured supplementary data service message, to retrieve new or updated communication-specific history information from the document server, and to send the retrieved information in a short message or in an unstructured supplementary data service message as a response to the update request.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the document server comprises a history function unit configured to receive communication-specific history information in a short message or in an unstructured supplementary data service message and to forward the communication-specific history information as an internal information exchange to be stored as communication-specific history information or to be used for updating the communication-specific history information in the document server.