Real-time interaction in a communication network

• US 9,807,197 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Adisesha, Naveen
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Randy
• Application Number:
  US14/377,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20150341464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,735 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709204, 709205, 709206, 709207
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A method for achieving real-time interaction is described herein. According to an implementation, the method includes determining a context feature associated with a request received from a requesting terminal (104). The request is transmitted in a service region based on the context feature. The request is transmitted by broadcasting the request over a communication network (108). In response to the request, at least one request response is received from one or more of a plurality of target terminals (106). Further, the request response is provided to the requesting terminal (104), based on the request.

Claims

1. A method for real-time interaction, the method comprising:

determining a context feature associated with at least one request, the at least one request being received from a requesting terminal;

transmitting the at least one request in a service region based on the context feature, the transmitting includes determining at least one service parameter associated with the context feature in the at least one request, wherein the at least one request is transmitted by broadcasting over a communication network;

receiving at least one request response from one or more of a plurality of target terminals, in response to the at least one transmitted request; and

providing the at least one request response to the requesting terminal wherein providing also comprises;

tagging the at least one request response with a user category to determine an accuracy of the at least one request response;

transmitting the at least one request response to the requesting terminal based on the service parameter; and

transmitting a delete-request instruction to the plurality of target terminals, based on the at least one service parameter associated with the context feature.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one service parameter comprises at least one of a service region, a response request limit, and a time-out window.

3. An interaction system for real-time interaction, the interaction system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising,

an analysis engine which obtains a context feature associated with a request, wherein the request is received from a requesting terminal, identify a serviced cell for broadcasting the request, based on the context feature, and determine a service parameter associated with the context feature; and

a transmission module which broadcasts the request in a service region to a plurality of target terminals, wherein the service region is identified based on the context feature and the service parameter, transmit at least one request response received from at least one target terminal to the requesting terminal, based on the service parameter, tag the at least one request response with a user category to determine an accuracy of the at least one request response and broadcast a delete-request instruction to the plurality of target terminals, based on the service parameter.

4. The interaction system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the analyzer is further configured to:

determine the service region in the serviced cell for broadcasting the request, based on the service parameter.

5. The interaction system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the transmitter is further configured to broadcast the request in the serviced cell.

6. The interaction system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit the request to a broadcast centre for broadcasting the request in the service region.

7. The interaction system as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a parser configured to validate content of the request and the at least one request response, prior to the broadcasting and the transmitting, respectively.