System and method for implementing interactive operations between a mobile communication terminal and an email box with multiple communication modes

• US 9,130,780 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2010
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Fan, Zheng, Deng, Yuanyuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Murray, Daniel C
• Application Number:
  US12/910,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20110040842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/219, 709/220, 370/252, 455/3.04, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

A system and method for implementing interactive operations between a mobile communication terminal and an Email box. The system includes a database (DB) server, a format transforming Email-box server and an intermediate processing server. The method includes the following: performing, by the mobile communication terminal, interactive operations with an Email-box server where the Email box located via an intermediate server; first determining, by the intermediate server, communication mode set by a corresponding user according to set user information, during process of performing an interactive operation procedure; and providing, by the intermediate server, an interactive-operations processing service for the user'"'"'s mobile communication terminal and the user'"'"'s Email box with determined communication mode.

Claims

1. A system for implementing interactive operations between a mobile communication terminal and an Email box, comprising:

a mobile communication terminal;

a network;

a database (DB) server, to store setting information of a user, wherein the setting information of the user comprises communication mode information of the user;

a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Email-box server, to transform information of the Email box into a WAP format for the mobile communication terminal to access;

an intermediate processing server, to determine communication mode of the user according to the setting information in the DB server, when determining the communication mode of the user comprises the WAP communication mode, inform, via the network, the mobile communication terminal to access the WAP Email-box server with the WAP communication mode;

when determining the communication mode of the user fails to comprise the WAP communication mode, provide interactive-operations processing services for the user'"'"'s mobile communication terminal and the Email-box server where the user'"'"'s Email box located with a Short Message Service (SMS) mode;

wherein the intermediate processing server comprises;

an Email processing server, to receive a reading-Email request or a writing-Email request from the mobile communication terminal, according to the communication mode set by the corresponding user, adopt the SMS mode to interact with the mobile communication terminal to complete reading operation or writing operation, or inform the mobile communication terminal to access the WAP Email-box server with the WAP communication mode to complete the reading operation or the writing operation; and

a reminding and processing server, to receive a new-Email notification message coming from the Email-box server where the user'"'"'s Email box located, adopt the SMS mode or WAPpush mode to send the notification message to the mobile communication terminal, according to the communication mode set by the user;

wherein the reminding and processing server takes General network process, GNP, as network layer structure;

during the process of initiating the reminding and processing server, all user setting information in the DB server is loaded into memory of the reminding and processing server for one-time.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an Instant Messaging (IM) server, which is to provide IM communication service for IM users;

and

the intermediate processing server is further to communicate with the IM server after receiving an writing-Email request from the mobile communication terminal, determine whether a writing-Email user and corresponding receiving-Email user are both IM users, and determine whether an IM client corresponding to the receiving-Email user is currently online;

if yes, trigger the IM server to provide the IM communication service for the writing-Email user and the receiving-Email user, and forward corresponding IM information between the IM server and the mobile communication terminal via the network.

3. A method for implementing interactive operations between a mobile communication terminal and an Email box, comprising:

performing, by the mobile communication terminal, interactive operations with an Email-box server where the Email box located via an intermediate server;

firstly determining, by the intermediate server, communication mode set by a corresponding user according to set user information, during process of performing an interactive operation procedure;

informing, by the intermediate server, the mobile communication terminal to access a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Email-box server when determining the communication mode set by the corresponding user comprises a WAP communication mode; and

providing, by the intermediate server, an interactive-operations processing service for the user'"'"'s mobile communication terminal and the user'"'"'s Email box with a Short Message Service (SMS) mode when determining the communication mode set by the corresponding user fails to comprise the WAP communication mode;

wherein the intermediate server comprises a intermediate processing server; and

the intermediate processing server comprises a reminding and processing server;

wherein the interactive operation procedure comprises a new-Email notification procedure, providing the interactive-operations processing service comprises;

sending, by the Email-box server, a new-Email notification message to the reminding and processing server, after the Email box receives an Email;

determining, by the reminding and processing server, the communication mode set by the user, if the WAP communication mode has been set, sending, by the reminding and processing server, the new-Email notification message to bound mobile communication terminal with WAPpush mode;

if the WAP communication mode hasn'"'"'t been set, sending, by the reminding and processing server, the new-Email notification message to the bound mobile communication terminal with the SMS mode;

wherein the reminding and processing server takes General network process, GNP, as network layer structure;

during the process of initiating the reminding and processing server, all user setting information in the DB server is loaded into memory of the reminding and processing server for one-time.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the user information is set in a database, the new-Email notification procedure is completed by a dedicated reminding and processing server, and the method further comprises:

loading the user information in the database into memory of the reminding and processing server, during initiation procedure of the reminding and processing server;

when receiving the new-Email notification message, querying the memory by the reminding and processing server to obtain related user information.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the interactive operation procedure comprises a reading-Email procedure, providing the interactive-operations processing service comprises:

sending, by the user'"'"'s mobile communication terminal, a reading-Email request to the intermediate server;

determining, by the intermediate server, the communication mode set by the user;

if the WAP mode has been set, a WAP linking address of an Email to be read being sent to the mobile communication terminal with the WAPpush mode, and accessing, by the mobile communication terminal, the WAP linking address with the WAP mode to read the Email;

if the WAP mode hasn'"'"'t been set, reading contents of corresponding Email from the Email-box server, and sending the Email contents to the user mobile communication terminal with at least one SMS messages.

6. The method according to claim 3,

the intermediate processing server further comprises a Email processing server;

wherein the interactive operation procedure comprises a writing-Email procedure, providing the interactive-operations processing service comprises;

sending, by the user'"'"'s mobile communication terminal, a writing-Email request to the Email processing server;

determining, by the Email processing server, the communication mode set by the user;

if the WAP mode has been set, sending, by the Email processing server, a WAP linking address of an Email to be written to the mobile communication terminal with the WAPpush mode, and accessing by the mobile communication terminal the WAP linking address to perform the writing-Email operations with the WAP mode;

if the WAP mode hasn'"'"'t been set, prompting the user'"'"'s mobile communication terminal to complete every kind of operations for writing Email with the SMS communication mode, and after receiving all the contents about the writing operations for one Email, packeting and sending the Email'"'"'s contents to the Email-box server.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein when determining the communication mode set by the corresponding user fails to comprise the WAP communication mode and the interactive operation procedure comprises a writing-Email procedure, the method further comprises:

determining, by the intermediate processing server, whether writing-Email user and receiving-Email user are both Instant Messaging (IM) users, and determining whether an IM client corresponding to the receiving-Email user is currently online, if yes, triggering the IM server to provide IM communication service for the writing-Email user and the receiving-Email user, and forwarding IM information between the IM server and the writing-Email user.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein

when setting the user information, taking user identifier as index, taking modulus of the user identifier to obtain a modulus value, setting a storage table according to modulus value, and respectively storing the user information in a storage table corresponding to the modulus value;

when querying the user information, taking modulus of the user identifier at first, and querying the user information in the storage table corresponding to the modulus value.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the reminding and processing server is further to, during the process of being initiated, load all the setting information of the user into memory of the reminding and processing server;

and

after receiving the new-Email notification message, the reminding and processing server obtains the communication mode set by the user by querying the memory of the reminding and processing server.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the Email processing server is further to provide a user interface in a certain format, receive modification about user information made by the user via the user interface, record modified user information in the DB server, and inform the reminding and processing server to update related user information in its memory.