Session sharing system, session sharing method, session sharing program, and user terminal

• US 8,990,412 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2010
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Ishida, Takeya
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, BRYAN Y
• Application Number:
  US12/845,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20110078319A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,700 Days
• Field of Search: 709/228
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions

Abstract

There is provided a session sharing system for sharing sessions in a system in which one or more application servers cooperate for plural applications including: a first function processor; a second function processor; and a session information cooperation unit for converting session information of a session established with an application server, which is acquired from the first function processor or the second function processor, into a predetermined format and giving the converted session information to the second function processor or the first function processor, wherein the second function processor or the first function processor transmits, to an application server, a request message including the converted session information received from the session information cooperation unit, and the application server associates the converted session information included in the request message with session information that is generated based on a current communication processing protocol.

Claims

1. A session sharing system for sharing sessions in a system in which at least one application server cooperates for plural applications, comprising:

a first function processor for receiving a first application service from the at least one application server by a first communication processing protocol;

a second function processor for receiving a second application service from the at least one application server by a second communication processing protocol; and

sharing means for permitting a session between a user terminal and the at least one application server to share the first and second application services, the sharing means including a session information cooperation unit for converting session information of the session, which is acquired from the first function processor or the second function processor, into a predetermined format and giving the converted session information to the second function processor or the first function processor,

wherein the second function processor or the first function processor transmits, to the at least one application server, a request message including the converted session information received from the session information cooperation unit,

wherein the at least one application server associates the converted session information included in the request message with session information that is generated based on a current communication processing protocol,

wherein the first and second function processors and the sharing means are included in the user terminal,

wherein the first communication processing protocol is HTTP and the second communication processing protocol is SIP, and

wherein the session information of an HTTP session is converted into a predetermined SIP parameter format.

2. The session sharing system according to claim 1, wherein the session information cooperation unit converts session information of a session previously established with the at least one application server into a communication protocol format used in the current communication.

3. The session sharing system according to claim 1, wherein each at least one application server includes:

a server information providing unit configured to transmit information containing established session information and server identification information thereof to a user terminal; and

a message distributing unit for receiving a request message including the session information and the server identification information transmitted from the second function processor or the first function processor and distributing the request message based on the server identification information.

4. A session sharing method for sharing sessions in a system in which at least one application server cooperates for plural applications, comprising the steps of:

receiving a first application service from the at least one application server by a first communication processing protocol, by a first function processor;

receiving a second application service from the at least one application server by a second communication processing protocol, by a second function processor;

permitting a session between a user terminal and the at least one application server to share the first and second application services, the permitting step including

converting session information of the session, acquired from the first function processor or the second function processor, into a predetermined format and giving the converted session information to the second function processor or the first function processor, by a session information cooperation unit;

transmitting a request message including the converted session information from the session information cooperation unit to the at least one application server, by the second function processor or the first function processor; and

associating the converted session information included in the request message with session information generated by a current communication processing protocol, by the at least one application server,

wherein the first and second function processors and the session information cooperation unit are included in the user terminal,

wherein the first communication processing protocol is HTTP and the second communication processing protocol is SIP, and

wherein the session information of an HTTP session is converted into a predetermined SIP parameter format.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a session sharing program for a user terminal in a session sharing system in which at least one application server shares sessions and cooperates for plural applications, the program when executed causing the user terminal to function as:

a first function processor for receiving a first application service from the at least one application server by a first communication processing protocol;

a second function processor for receiving a second application service from the at least one application server by a second communication processing protocol; and

sharing means for permitting a session between a user terminal and the at least one application server to share the first and second application services, the sharing means including a session information cooperation unit for converting session information of the session, which is acquired from the first function processor or the second function processor, into a predetermined format and giving the converted session information to the second function processor or the first function processor,

wherein the second function processor or the first function processor transmits a request message including the converted session information received from the session information cooperation unit to the at least one application server,

wherein the first communication processing protocol is HTTP and the second communication processing protocol is SIP, and

wherein the session information of an HTTP session is converted into a predetermined SIP parameter format.

6. A user terminal configured in a session sharing system in which at least one application server shares sessions and cooperates for plural applications, the user terminal comprising:

a first function processor for receiving a first application service from the at least one application server by a first communication processing protocol;

a second function processor for receiving a second application service from the at least one application server by a second communication processing protocol; and

sharing means for permitting a session between a user terminal and the at least one application server to share the first and second application services, the sharing means including a session information cooperation unit for converting session information of the session, acquired from the first function processor or the second function processor, into a predetermined format and giving the converted session information to the second function processor or the first function processor,

wherein the second function processor or the first function processor transmits, to the at least one application server, a request message including the converted session information received from the session information cooperation unit,

wherein the first and second function processors and the sharing means are included in the user terminal,

wherein the first communication processing protocol is HTTP and the second communication processing protocol is SIP, and

wherein the session information of an HTTP session is converted into a predetermined SIP parameter format.