METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA WITHIN MOBILE COMMUNITIES

• US 20120009916A1
• Filed: 07/08/2011
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Austria GmbH (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile Austria GmbH (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Prikowitsch, Florian, Schandl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/178,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20120009916A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation

Abstract

A method for synchronizing data related to a communication event between a first mobile device and a second mobile device includes modifying a first data element stored in the first mobile device using a processor of the first mobile device in response to a user action event related to the communication event. The first data element and the modified first data element are related to the communication event. A synchronization message is generated using the processor of the first mobile device, where the synchronization message is related to the modification of the first data element. The synchronization message is transmitted from the first mobile device to the second mobile device. The synchronization message is received and handled using the processor of the second mobile device so as to modify a second data element stored in the second mobile device so as to provide a modified second data element. The modified second data element corresponds to the modified first data element.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method for synchronizing data related to a communication event between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, the communication event being at least one of a voice transfer and data transfer between the first and second mobile devices, each of the first and second mobile devices including a communication device for communicating with a mobile radio network and a processor, the method comprising:

a first step including modifying a first data element stored in the first mobile device using the processor of the first mobile device in response to a user action event related to the communication event so as to provide a modified first data element, the first data element and the modified first data element being related to the communication event;

a second step including generating a synchronization message using the processor of the first mobile device, the synchronization message being related to the modifying of the first data element;

a third step including transmitting the synchronization message from the first mobile device to the second mobile device; and

a fourth step including receiving and handling the synchronization message using the processor of the second mobile device so as to modify a second data element stored in the second mobile device so as to provide a modified second data element, the modified second data element corresponding to the modified first data element.

16. The method recited in claim 15 where in the transmitting the synchronization message is carried out over a mobile radio network.

17. The method recited in claim 15 wherein at least one of the first data element and the modified first data element includes information related to at least one of a message state and a call state.

18. The method recited in claim 15 wherein at least one of the first data element and the modified first data element includes information related to a message.

19. The method recited in claim 15 wherein the processor includes a database having a list of second mobile devices including the second mobile device, wherein the transmitting the synchronization message includes transmitting the synchronization message to at least a portion of the list of second mobile devices.

20. The method recited in claim 19, wherein the database includes a list of preferred communication channels assigned to each of the second mobile devices of the list of second mobile devices, wherein the transmitting the synchronization message to the portion of the list of second mobile devices is carried out using at least one of the list of preferred communication channels.

21. The method recited in claim 15, further comprising:

a fifth step including generating a server synchronization message using the processor of the first mobile device, the server synchronization message being related to the synchronization message,

a sixth step including transmitting the server synchronization message to a subscription server, the subscription server including a server database, and

a seventh step including storing data related to the server synchronization message in the server database.

22. A mobile device including a processor for synchronizing data related to a communication event between the mobile device and a second mobile device, the processor configured to carry out the steps of:

modifying a first data element stored in the mobile device in response to a user action event related to the communication event so as to provide a modified first data element, the first data element and the modified first data element being related to the communication event;

generating a synchronization message, the synchronization message being related to the modifying of the first data element; and

transmitting the synchronization message from the mobile device to the second mobile device so as to be received and handled by a processor of the second mobile device so as to modify a second data element stored in the second mobile device so as to provide a modified second data element, the modified second data element corresponding to the modified first data element.

23. A system of a mobile radio network configure to synchronize data related to a communication event, the system comprising:

a first mobile device including a processor configured to;

modify a first data element stored in the first mobile device in response to a user action event related to the communication event so as to provide a modified first data element, the first data element and the modified first data element being related to the communication event;

generate a synchronization message, the synchronization message being related to the modifying of the first data element; and

transmit the synchronization message from the first mobile device; and

to the second mobile device; and

a second mobile device including processor configured to receive and handle the synchronization message so as to modify a second data element stored in the second mobile device so as to provide a modified second data element, the modified second data element corresponding to the modified first data element.

24. The system recited in claim 23, wherein the system includes a subscription server, wherein communication between the first mobile device and the subscription server, and wherein communication between the first mobile device and the subscription server includes a server synchronization message.

25. A computer program product comprising a storage medium having computer readable program code stored thereon, the computer readable program code including instructions executable by a process or for carrying out a method for synchronizing data related to a communication event between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, the method comprising:

a first step including modifying a first data element stored in the first mobile device using the processor of the first mobile device in response to a user action event related to the communication event so as to provide a modified first data element, the first data element and the modified first data element being related to the communication event;

a second step including generating a synchronization message using the processor of the first mobile device, the synchronization message being related to the modifying of the first data element;

a third step including transmitting the synchronization message from the first mobile device to the second mobile device; and

a fourth step including receiving and handling the synchronization message using the processor of the second mobile device so as to modify a second data element stored in the second mobile device so as to provide a modified second data element, the modified second data element corresponding to the modified first data element.