System and method for access and communication between a converged network-based address book system and a user device

• US 9,130,966 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2009
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Chitturi, Suresh, McColgan, Brian Edward Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Moise, Emmanuel L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yu, Xiang
• Application Number:
  US12/561,424
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077027A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,182 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/554 Data synchronization

Abstract

A method of sharing contacts within a converged address book system having a converged address book server, the method receiving from a requestor, at the converged address book server, a request for a contact to be shared with a recipient identified in the request; obtaining contact information for the contact from a repository; and delivering the shared contact to the recipient. Also, a method for interaction with a legacy address book system from a network based converged address book system, the method receiving a request to import legacy address book data from a legacy address book system; contacting the legacy address book system and supplying access parameters; retrieving data from the legacy address book system; and storing the imported data in a network based address book storage.

Claims

1. A method performed by an address book server for importing legacy address book data, the method comprising:

receiving at an address book server a first request, transmitted via an XML document management server (XDMS), from an address book client to import user-information from a third party non-converged address book system, wherein receiving the first request is in response to the address book server sending an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) GET to the XDMS;

sending from the address book server a second request, in response to the first request, to access the user-information from the third party non-converged address book system, wherein the second request comprises a domain element that identifies the third party non-converged address book system;

receiving at the address book server user address book data based on the second request;

sending from the address book server the received user address book data for storage; and

sending from the address book server to the address book client a notification to trigger a synchronization between the address book client and the storage.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain element includes at least a user name and a user password for accessing the user information from the third party non-converged address book system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a notification to a user device executing the address book client to initiate synchronization, wherein the notification is sent subsequent to receiving user address book data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second request is in an HTTP POST format.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the storage is on a Converged Address Book XML Document Management Server Component (CAB XDMS).

6. An address book server comprising:

non-transitory memory; and

a hardware processor, the hardware processor configured to;

receive at an address book server a first request, transmitted via an XML document management server (XDMS), from an address book client to import user-information from a third party non-converged address book system, wherein receiving the first request is in response to the address book server sending an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) GET to the XDMS;

send from the address book server a second request, in response to the first request, to access the user-information from the third party non-converged address book system, wherein the second request comprises a domain element that identifies the third party non-converged address book system;

receive at the address book server user address book data based on the second request;

send from the address book server the received user address book data for storage; and

send from the address book server to the address book client a notification to trigger a synchronization between the address book client and the storage.

7. The address book server of claim 6, wherein the domain element includes at least a user name and a user password for accessing the user information from the third party non-converged address book system.

8. The address book server of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to send a notification to a user device executing the address book client to initiate synchronization, wherein the notification is sent subsequent to receiving user address book data.

9. The address book server of claim 6, wherein the second request is in an HTTP POST format.

10. The address book server of claim 6, wherein the storage is on a Converged Address Book XML Document Management Server Component (CAB XDMS).

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which causes a network component to execute a converged address book server configured to perform the operations of:

receiving at an address book server a first request, transmitted via an XML document management server (XDMS), from an address book client to import user-information from a third party non-converged address book system, wherein receiving the first request is in response to the address book server sending an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) GET to the XDMS;

sending from the address book server a second request, in response to the first request, to access the user-information from the third party non-converged address book system, wherein the second request comprises a domain element that identifies the third party non-converged address book system;

receiving at the address book server user address book data based on the second request;

sending from the address book server the received user address book data for storage; and

sending from the address book server to the address book client a notification to trigger a synchronization between the address book client and the storage.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the domain element includes at least a user name and a user password for accessing the user information from the third party non-converged address book system.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the second request is in an HTTP POST format.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the storage is on a Converged Address Book XML Document Management Server Component (CAB XDMS).

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of 11, further configured to perform the operation of sending a notification to a user device executing the address book client to initiate synchronization, wherein the notification is sent subsequent to receiving user address book data.