Selective view synchronization for composite services delivery

• US 20070136436A1
• Filed: 12/08/2005
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Victor, Mandalia, Baiju, Nusbickel, Wendi, Palma, William
• Granted Patent: US 7,890,635 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In one embodiment, a method for selectively synchronizing content across different views of a composite service can be provided. The method can include establishing for a common session, multiple channels of access to a composite service and providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session. A set of user preferences can be consulted to determine whether synchronization of the content is permitted for individual ones of the channels of access to the common session. Subsequently, the content can be synchronized only to channels of access to the common session that are permitted by the set of user preferences.

Claims

1. A method for selectively synchronizing content across different views of a composite service, the method comprising:

establishing for a common session, multiple channels of access to a composite service;

providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session;

consulting a set of user preferences to determine whether synchronization of the content is permitted for individual ones of the channels of access to the common session; and

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synchronizing the content only to channels of access to the common session that are permitted by the set of user preferences.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing for a common session, multiple channels of access to a composite service, comprises establishing for a collaborative session, multiple channels of access to a collaborative service for corresponding multiple collaborators.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session, comprises dragging and dropping content from an external application into a view for one of the channels of access to the collaborative session for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the collaborative session.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session, comprises cutting and pasting content from an external application into a view for one of the channels of access to the collaborative session for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the collaborative session.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein consulting a set of user preferences to determine whether synchronization of the content is permitted for individual ones of the channels of access to the collaborative session, comprises consulting a set of user preferences to determine for each channel of access to the collaborative session whether the content is of a type permitted for synchronization for the channel of access to the collaborative session.

6. A composite service enabling data processing system comprising:

a plurality of channel servlets enabled to establish for a single session, multiple different communication channels for corresponding different channels of access to a composite service;

a location registry comprising a table of entries associating the different communication channels with the single session for the composite service;

a model servlet configured for coupling to a model for the single session, for modifying state data in the model for the single session, and to synchronize views for each of the different channels of access to the composite service responsive to changes detected in the model; and

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selective view synchronization logic coupled to the channel servlets, the selective view synchronization logic comprising program code enabled to selectively synchronize the views based upon user preferences and content type requested for synchronization.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the channel servlets comprise a voice enabler and voice server enabled to establish for the single session, a communications channel for a voice channel of access to the composite service.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the selective view synchronization logic is an applet provided to each of the views.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the session is a collaborative session.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the channel servlets and model servlet are disposed in an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) in a next generation networking (NGN) network.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for selectively synchronizing content across different views of a composite service, the computer program product including:

computer usable program code for establishing for a common session, multiple channels of access to a composite service;

computer usable program code for providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session;

computer usable program code for consulting a set of user preferences to determine whether synchronization of the content is permitted for individual ones of the channels of access to the common session; and

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computer usable program code for synchronizing the content only to channels of access to the common session that are permitted by the set of user preferences.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for establishing for a common session, multiple channels of access to a composite service, comprises computer usable program code for establishing for a collaborative session, multiple channels of access to a collaborative service for corresponding multiple collaborators.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer usable program code for providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session, comprises computer usable program code for dragging and dropping content from an external application into a view for one of the channels of access to the collaborative session for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the collaborative session.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer usable program code for providing content to a view for one of the channels of access for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the common session, comprises computer usable program code for cutting and pasting content from an external application into a view for one of the channels of access to the collaborative session for synchronization across others of the channels of access to the collaborative session.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer usable program code for consulting a set of user preferences to determine whether synchronization of the content is permitted for individual ones of the channels of access to the collaborative session, comprises computer usable program code for consulting a set of user preferences to determine for each channel of access to the collaborative session whether the content is of a type permitted for synchronization for the channel of access to the collaborative session.