Method for transferring session in converged Internet protocol messaging system

• US 9,246,863 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Inventors: Eom, Hyeonsang, Lee, Seung-Yong, Park, Sung-Jin, Lee, Kyung-Tak
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu, Wutchung
• Application Number:
  US12/709,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20100215036A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,164 Days
• Field of Search: 370259-263, 370310-338, 370/227, 455/466, 455/412.1, 455/445, 455/557, 455/227.1, 709/206, 709217-227, 709/203, 379/93.09, 379/93.11, 379/142.07
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/58 Arrangements for transferring received calls from one subscriber to another; Arrangements affording interim conversations between either the calling or the called party and a third party substation line holding circuits H04M1/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42

Abstract

A method is provided for transferring a session between multiple devices by a target device, in which the target device selects a particular session of a source device and sends a request for session transfer for the selected session to a call server, the target device acquires from the call server data that has been transmitted from the remote party'"'"'s device of the particular session and temporarily stored in the call server after the session transfer request, and the target device sends a message indicating completed acquisition of the temporarily stored data to the call server, and receives the particular session transferred in response thereto.

Claims

1. A method for transferring a session between multiple devices by a target device, comprising:

selecting, by the target device, a first session established between a source device and a remote device, and sending a session transfer request for the first session to a call server;

establishing a second session with the call server after sending the session transfer request and before a completion of the session transfer;

acquiring, from the call server, through the second session, temporarily stored data that has been transmitted from the remote device via the first session after the session transfer request is sent and a session history of the first session;

sending a message indicating a completion for a reception of the temporarily stored data and the session history to the call server through the second session; and

establishing a third session with the call server to transfer the first session to the target device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the call server, a message instructing to acquire the temporarily stored data and the session history from message &

media storage of the call server; and

acquiring the session history comprises acquiring the session history from the message &

media storage.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the first session between the source device and the remote device comprises:

acquiring, by the target device, a device list by sending a request for the device list to a network;

requesting a call server to establish a fourth session for acquiring a session list of a source device included in the acquired device list;

acquiring the session list through the established fourth session;

closing the established fourth session; and

selecting the first session between the source device and the remote device from the acquired session list.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the session list is acquired by using a session request message including information on the source device, the session list of which is requested, wherein the session request message has one of SIP INFO, SIP MESSAGE, and SIP SUBSCRIBE formats.

5. A method for transferring a session between multiple devices in a call server, comprising:

receiving a session transfer request for a first session of a source device from a target device;

beginning, upon receiving the session transfer request, temporary storage of data transmitted from a remote party device via the first session after receiving the session transfer request;

establishing a second session with the target device after receiving the session transfer request and before a completion of the session transfer;

if the of the second session is completed, ending the temporary storage of data and transmitting the temporarily stored data and a session history of the first session to the target device through the second session; and

establishing a third session with the target device to transfer the first session to the target device upon receiving a message indicating a completion for a reception of the temporarily stored data and the session history from the target device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the session history of the first session to the target device comprises further transmitting the session history through the third session.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the session history comprises transmitting a session history stored on the call server if the session history is stored on the call server.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the session history further comprises transmitting the session history through the third session.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the session history comprises:

acquiring the session history of the first session from a message &

media storage if the session history is stored in the message &

media storage; and

transmitting the acquired session history of the first session.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein transmitting the session history further comprises further transmitting the session history through the third session.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising sending to the target device a message instructing the target device to acquire the session history of the first session from a message &

media storage.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein sending a message instructing the target device to acquire a session history comprises using an SIP MESSAGE format including information about a location of the message &

media storage, in which the session history is stored.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein receiving the session transfer request for the first session of the source device from the target device comprises:

establishing a fourth session upon receiving a request for the fourth session for transmission of a session list of the source device from the target device, wherein the session list includes the first session;

upon receiving a request for transmission of the session list from the target device, transmitting the session list of the source device to the target device through the established fourth session; and

receiving, in response to the transmission of the session list, the session transfer request for the first session of the source device from the target device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein transmitting the session list to the target device comprises using a response message including session list information of the source device managed by the call server, wherein the response message has one of SIP INFO, SIP MESSAGE, and SIP SUBSCRIBE formats.