System and method for establishing session upon satisfaction of particular conditions

• US 9,264,970 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2010
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung-jin, Lee, Seung-yong, Lee, Kyung-tak
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Dhairya A
• Application Number:
  US13/263,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20120042026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,139 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/204, 709/205, 709/206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• 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: H04W 36/385 of the core network

Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions in a messaging service system such as SIMPLE Instant Messaging (IM), Push to talk over Cellular (PoC), and Converged IP Messaging) (CPM) services, in which a client provides particular conditions to a server separately for a predefined group session, an Ad-hoc group session and a one-to-one session, and the server establishes a session to the pertinent members upon satisfaction of the particular conditions. By doing so, a session reflecting particular conditions set by the client is established in the SIP-based system, thereby offering further differentiated messaging services.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions for a messaging service in a server, comprising:

receiving, by the server, a message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session;

acquiring, by the server, a group member list and scheduled conference information;

checking, by the server, whether session establishment conditions set by a transmitting client in the acquired information are satisfied, wherein the session establishment conditions include a scheduled session establishment time and presence information;

sending, by the server, a session establish request message to at least one receiving client corresponding to the group member list when at least the scheduled session establishment time has arrived and one or more members indicated by the presence information are present; and

sending, by the server, a Not Accepted message to suspend a connection of a current session with the server to the transmitting client, if remaining time to the scheduled session establishment time is greater than a predetermined waiting time limit.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is an INVITE message or a REFER message, and includes a parameter indicating a scheduled conference.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending by the server a session establish request message to the transmitting client which transmitted the message requesting establishment of the scheduled conference session upon satisfaction of the session establishment conditions, if the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is a REFER message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of acquiring comprises the step of:

acquiring the group member list and the scheduled conference information from a shared XML Document Management Server (XDMS).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of acquiring comprises the step of:

acquiring the group member list and the scheduled conference information from the message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is an INVITE message or a REFER message, and includes a parameter indicating a scheduled conference.

7. A method for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions for a messaging service in a client terminal, comprising:

generating, by the client terminal, session establishment conditions including a scheduled session establishment time and presence information;

transmitting, by the client terminal, a message requesting a shared XML Document Management Server (XDMS) to store a group member list and the session establishment conditions;

transmitting, by the client terminal, a message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session to a server so that the server checks whether a current time is the scheduled session establishment time;

establishing, by the client terminal, a session with at least one receiving client terminal by receiving a message generated by the server in response to the message for requesting establishment of the scheduled conference session at the scheduled session establishment time if at least one or more members indicated by the presence information are present; and

receiving, by the client terminal, a Not Accepted message to suspend a current session with the server, if remaining time to the scheduled session establishment time is greater than a predetermined waiting time limit.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the message for requesting the shared XDMS is an XCAP PUT command, the XCAP PUT command including the group member list and the session establishment conditions.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the group member list and the session establishment conditions are acquired from the shared XDMS by the server.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, when the session establishment conditions are satisfied, a session establish request message is transmitted to the at least one receiving client terminal corresponding to the group member list.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the message for requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session is an INVITE message or a REFER message, and includes a parameter indicating a scheduled conference.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the server determines whether the parameter indicating the scheduled conference is included in the INVITE message or the REFER message and sends an XCAP GET command requesting the session establishment conditions to the shared XDMS if the parameter indicating the scheduled conference is included.

13. A server which establishes a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions, comprising:

one or more transceivers which receive a message requesting establishment of a scheduled conference session and which transmit a session establish request message to at least one receiving client corresponding to a group member list when session establishment conditions are satisfied; and

one or more controllers which, upon receiving the requesting message, acquire the group member list and scheduled conference information, check whether session establishment conditions set by a transmitting client in the acquired information are satisfied, control the transceiver to transmit the session establish request message to the at least one receiving client corresponding to the group member list when the session establishment conditions are satisfied, and control the transceiver to send a Not Accepted message to suspend a current session with the server to the transmitting client, if remaining time to the scheduled session establishment time is greater than a predetermined waiting time limit,

wherein the session establishment conditions include a scheduled session establishment time and presence information, and

wherein the session establishment conditions are satisfied when at least the scheduled session establishment time has arrived and one or more members indicated by the presence information are present.

14. A client terminal having a messaging service, comprising:

one or more controllers which;

generate session establishment conditions including a scheduled session establishment time and presence information;

generate a message requesting a shared XML Document Management Server (XDMS) to store a group member list and the session establishment conditions;

control one or more transceivers to transmit the message to the XDMS;

generate a message requesting a server to establish a scheduled conference session;

control one or more transceivers to transmit the message to the server; and

establish a session with at least one receiving client terminal by receiving a message generated by the server in response to the message requesting establishment of the scheduled conference session at the scheduled session establishment time; and

one or more transceivers which transmit the message to the shared XDMS, transmit the message requesting establishment of the scheduled conference session to the server, receive the message generated by the server in response to the message requesting establishment of the scheduled conference session, and receive a Not Accepted message to suspend a current session with the server, if remaining time to the scheduled session establishment time is greater than a predetermined waiting time limit,

wherein the server checks whether a current time is the scheduled session establishment time and one or more members indicated by the presence information are present after receiving the message generated by the server in response to the message requesting establishment of the scheduled conference session, and

wherein the session establishment conditions are satisfied when at least the scheduled session establishment time has arrived and one or more members indicated by the presence information are present.