Point-to point data synchronization

• US 9,443,230 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pratt, James H., Stettler, Garrett L., Sullivan, Marc Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI
• Application Number:
  US13/459,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290440A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• Field of Search: 709/248, 709/223, 709/206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2859 Point-to-point connection between the data network and the subscribers encapsulation H04L12/4633; virtual LANs H04L12/4641; routing of packets H04L45/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/026 using e-messaging for transporting management information, e.g. email, instant messaging or chat
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• 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: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Concepts and technologies for point-to-point data synchronization are provided. A personal area network connection between a first user device and a second user device is established. State change information of first data stored on the first user device is received by the second user device, and second data stored on the second device is updated to reflect the state change to synchronize the first data and the second data. Alternatively, a synchronization message including the state change information of first data stored on a first user device is received by the second user device. The state change information is extracted from the synchronization message, and second data stored on a second user device is updated to reflect the state change to synchronize the first data and the second data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a second user device, from a first user device, via a personal area network connection established between the first user device and the second user device when the first user device and the second user device are within proximity of one another, a first short message service message comprising a subject line, wherein the subject line comprises first state change information identifying a state change of first data stored on the first user device, the state change comprising a first indication that a portion of the first data stored on the first user device has been deleted;

in response to receiving the first short message service message, deleting, by the second user device, based on the first indication of the state change that the portion of the first data stored on the first user device has been deleted, a portion of second data stored on the second user device to synchronize the second data stored on the second user device with the first data stored on the first user device,

receiving, at the second user device, via the personal area network connection, a second short message service message from the first user device, wherein the second short message service message comprises second state change information identifying third data from an external source that has been received by the first user device but not received by the second user device prior to establishment of the personal area network connection between the first user device and the second user device;

in response to receiving the second short message service message from the first user device via the personal area network connection, synchronizing, by the second user device, the second user device to include the third data;

after synchronizing the second user device to include the third data, receiving, at the second user device, the third data from the external source; and

in response to receiving the third data from the external source after synchronizing the second user device to include the third data from the first user device, deleting, by the second user device, the third data from the external source as already having been received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user device and the second user device are both associated with a single user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user device is associated with a first user and the second user device is associated with a second user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data comprises first message data and the second data comprises second message data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the external source comprises an e-mail server and the third data comprises an e-mail message from the e-mail server that was received by the first user device but was not received by the second user device from the e-mail server prior to the personal area network connection being established between the first user device and the second user device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the external source comprises a mobile message service center and the third data comprises a mobile message generated by the first user device directed to at least the second user device that was not received by the second user device from the mobile message service center serving the second user device prior to the personal area network connection being established between the first user device and the second user device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user device is configured to operate on a first wireless wide area network and the second user device is configured to operate on a second wireless wide area network.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the second state change information comprises an order of the mobile message within a message flow comprising a plurality of mobile messages.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the state change further comprises a second indication that the first data stored on the first user device has been moved from a first location within a first file system of the first user device to a second location within the first file system of the first user device, and wherein the method further comprises in response to receiving the first short message service message, moving, by the second user device, the second data stored on the second user device from a first location within a second file system of the second user device to a second location within the second file system of the second user device to synchronize the second data stored the second user device with the first data stored on the first user device.

10. A computer storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a second user device, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a first user device, via a personal area network connection established between the first user device and the second user device when the first user device and the second user device are within proximity of one another, a first short message service message comprising a subject line, wherein the subject line comprises first state change information identifying a state change of first data stored on the first user device, wherein the state change comprises a first indication that a portion of the first data stored on the first user device has been deleted;

in response to receiving the first short message service message, deleting, based on the first indication of the state change that the portion of the first data stored on the first user device has been deleted, a portion of second data stored on the second user device to reflect the state change to synchronize the second data stored on the second user device with the first data stored on the first user device;

receiving, via the personal area network connection, a second short message service message from the first user device, wherein the second short message service message comprises second state change information identifying third data from an external source that has been received by the first user device but not received by the second user device prior to establishment of the personal area network connection between the first user device and the second user device;

in response to receiving the second short message service message from the first user device via the personal area network connection, synchronizing the second user device to include the third data;

after synchronizing the second user device to include the third data, receiving the third data from the external source; and

in response to receiving the third data from the external source after synchronizing the second user device to include the third data from the first user device, deleting the third data from the external source as already having been received.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first user device creates the first short message service message comprising the first state change information in response to the state change of the first data stored on the first user device.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first data and the second data each comprises e-mail message data.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first data and the second data each comprises mobile message data.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first data and the second data each comprises an e-mail message, wherein the state change further comprises a second indication that the e-mail message stored on the first user device has been read, and wherein the operations further comprise updating the e-mail message stored on the second user device as having been read to synchronize the second data with the first data in response to receiving the first short message service message.

15. A first user device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising

receiving, from a second user device, via a personal area network connection established between the first user device and the second user device when the first user device and the second user device are within proximity of one another, a first short message service message comprising a subject line, wherein the subject line comprises first state change information identifying a state change of second data stored on the second user device, wherein the state change comprises a first indication that a portion of the second data stored on the second user device has been deleted,

in response to receiving the first short message service message, deleting, based on the first indication of the state change that the portion of the second data stored on the second user device has been deleted, a portion of first data stored on the first user device to reflect the state change to synchronize the first data stored on the first user device with the second data stored on the second user device,

receiving, via the personal area network connection, a second short message service message from the first user device, wherein the second short message service message comprises second state change information identifying third data from an external source that has been received by the first user device but not received by the second user device prior to establishment of the personal area network connection between the first user device and the second user device,

in response to receiving the second short message service message from the first user device via the personal area network connection, synchronizing the second user device to include the third data,

after synchronizing the second user device to include the third data, receiving the third data from the external source, and

in response to receiving the third data from the external source after synchronizing the second user device to include the third data from the first user device, deleting the third data from the external source as already having been received.

16. The first user device of claim 15, wherein the first data and the second data each comprises an e-mail message, wherein the state change further comprises a second indication that the e-mail message stored on the second user device has been read, and wherein the operations further comprise updating the e-mail message stored on the first user device as having been read to synchronize the first data with the second data in response to receiving the first short message service message.

17. The first user device of claim 15, wherein the state change further comprises a second indication that the first data stored on the first user device has been moved from a first location within a first file system of the second user device to a second location within the first file system of the second user device, and wherein the operations further comprises in response to receiving the first short message service message, moving the first data stored on the first user device from a first location within a first file system of the first user device to a second location within the first file system of the first user device to synchronize the first data stored the first user device with the second data stored on the second user device.