Method and device for displaying information

• US 8,908,853 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2013
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device, Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gao, Wenmei, Wang, Lei, Zhang, Huiping, Fan, Shunan
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, QUOC DUC
• Application Number:
  US13/872,834
• Publication Number:
  US 20130235990A1
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142.01, 379/142.06, 379/207.16, 379/251, 379/252, 379/257, 379/93.23, 379/373.01
• US Class Current: 379/257
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP

Abstract

A method and device for displaying information operate during a call service based on an IPTV system. When a first user terminal calls a second user terminal, a person-to-person communication enabler in the IPTV system obtains identity information of media streams of a ring tone service corresponding to the first user terminal and/or the second user terminal. The obtained identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service is sent to an Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to a first user and/or a second user, for playing corresponding media streams of the ring tone service.

Claims

1. A method for displaying information based on Internet Protocol Television, the method comprising:

obtaining identity information of media streams of a ring tone service corresponding to a first user terminal and/or a second user terminal when the first user terminal calls the second user terminal, wherein the media streams comprise a ring back tone media stream, a ringing tone media stream, and a background tone media stream; and

sending the identity information to an Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to a first user and/or a second user, so that the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or the second user can obtain and play corresponding media streams of the ring tone service according to the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

before obtaining the identity information, the method further comprises receiving a notification message sent by a current originating network, wherein the notification message comprises user identity information of the first user and/or the second user and the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service;

obtaining identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service specifically comprises parsing the notification message to obtain the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

before sending the identity information, the method further comprises matching the user identity information of the first user and/or second user with a mapping relationship between user identity information and IPTV service terminals and extracting identity information of an IPTV service terminal matching the user identity information of the first user and/or second user and corresponding to the user identity information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before sending the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service, the method further comprises:

sending prompt information to the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user or to the first and/or second user terminal, wherein the prompt information is used to prompt a user to select an Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the user as a redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service, or to select one from multiple Internet Protocol Television service terminals corresponding to the user as the redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service; and

receiving information about the selected redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service and sending the obtained identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service to the selected redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a session setup request message sent by the selected redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service, wherein the session setup request message is used to request to set up a session of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

forwarding the session setup request message to a play function entity, wherein the forwarded session setup request message carries a session identity of the media streams of the ring tone service currently delivered by the play function entity for the first user terminal and/or the second user terminal, so that the play function entity delivers the media streams of the ring tone service to the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or the second user according to session identity.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the session setup request message further comprises a type identity of the redirecting terminal to request the play function entity to deliver streaming media of the ring tone service suitable for a playing format of the redirecting terminal corresponding to the type identity to the redirecting terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

after the first user terminal and the second user terminal start a call, sending an off-hook message to the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user, so that the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user continues playing or pauses playing the media streams of the ring tone service, or decreases audio volume in the media streams of the ring tone service or stops playing.

7. A method for displaying information, comprising:

sending a request message to a play function entity to request the play function entity to deliver corresponding media streams of the ring tone service after receiving identity information of media streams of a ring tone service sent by a person-to-person communication enabler, wherein the media streams of the ring tone service are media streams of the ring tone service corresponding to a first user terminal and/or a second user terminal when the first user terminal calls the second user terminal, and wherein the media streams comprise a ring back tone media stream, a ringing tone media stream, and a background tone media stream; and

receiving and playing the media streams of the ring tone service delivered by the play function entity.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein, before receiving the receiving identity information, the method further comprises:

receiving a prompt message, wherein the prompt message is used to prompt a user to select an Internet Protocol Television service terminal for playing the media streams of the ring tone service;

receiving information about a redirecting terminal selected by the user for the media streams of the ring tone service among corresponding Internet Protocol Television service terminals; and

sending the information about the redirecting terminal selected by the user to the person-to-person communication enabler, so that the person-to-person communication enabler sends identity information of the corresponding media streams of the ring tone service to the selected redirecting terminal for playing the media streams of the ring tone service.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein after receiving the identity information of the media streams, the method further comprises:

sending a session setup request message to request to set up a session of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

receiving a response message sent by the play function entity, wherein the response message carries a time offset of the media streams of the ring tone service currently delivered for the user terminal;

wherein sending the request message to the play function entity specifically comprises sending a play request message to the play function entity to request the play function entity to continue sending, according to the time offset, the media streams of the ring tone service current delivered for the user terminal.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the session setup request message comprises a type identity of the service terminal, to request the play function entity to deliver streaming media of the ring tone service suitable for a playing format of a redirecting terminal corresponding to the type identity to the service terminal.

11. A person-to-person communication enabler device, comprising:

a media identity obtaining unit, configured to obtain identity information of media streams of a ring tone service corresponding to a first user terminal and/or a second user terminal when the first user terminal calls the second user terminal, wherein the media streams comprise a ring back tone media stream, a ringing tone media stream, and a background tone media stream; and

a sending and playing unit, configured to send the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service obtained by the media identity obtaining unit to an Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to a first user and/or a second user, so that the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or the second user obtains and plays corresponding media streams of the ring tone service according to the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service.

12. The device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a notification receiving unit, configured to receive a notification message sent by a current originating network, wherein the notification message comprises user identity information of the first user and/or the second user and the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

a matching and obtaining unit, configured to match the user identity information of the first user and/or the second user in the notification message received by the notification receiving unit with a mapping relationship between user identity information and IPTV service terminals and to extract identity information of an IPTV service terminal matching the user identity information of the first user and/or second user and corresponding to the user identity information;

wherein the media identity obtaining unit is specifically configured to parse the notification message received by the notification receiving unit to obtain the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

wherein the sending and playing unit is specifically configured to send, according to the identity information of the IPTV service terminal obtained by the matching and obtaining unit, the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service obtained by the media identity obtaining unit.

13. The device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a prompt sending unit, configured to send prompt information to the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user or to the first and/or second user terminal, wherein the prompt information is used to prompt a user to select an Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the user as a redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service, or to select one from multiple Internet Protocol Television service terminals corresponding to the user as the redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service; and

a redirecting and receiving unit, configured to receive information about the selected redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service;

wherein the sending and playing unit is specifically configured to send the obtained identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service to the selected redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service after the redirecting and receiving unit receives the information about the redirecting terminal.

14. The device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a session requesting unit, configured to receive a session setup request message sent by the selected redirecting terminal for the media streams of the ring tone service, wherein the session setup request message is used to request to set up a session of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

a request forwarding unit, configured to forward the session setup request message received by the session requesting unit to a play function entity, wherein the forwarded session setup request message carries a session identity of the media streams of the ring tone service currently delivered for the first user terminal and/or second user terminal so that the play function entity delivers the media streams of the ring tone service to the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user according to the session identity.

15. The device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a post-call processing unit, configured to, after the first user terminal and the second user terminal start the call, send an off-hook message to the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user, so that the Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to the first user and/or second user continues playing or pauses playing the media streams of the ring tone service, or decreases audio volume in the media streams of the ring tone service or stops playing.

16. A service terminal, comprising:

an identity receiving unit, configured to receive identity information of media streams of a ring tone service sent by a person-to-person communication enabler, wherein the media streams comprise a ring back tone media stream, a ringing tone media stream, and a background tone media stream;

a first request sending unit, configured to, when the identity receiving unit receives the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service, send a request message to a play function entity to request the play function entity to deliver corresponding media streams of the ring tone service, wherein the media streams of the ring tone service are media streams of the ring tone service corresponding to a first user terminal and/or a second user terminal when the first user terminal calls the second user terminal; and

a playing unit, configured to receive and play the media streams of the ring tone service delivered by the play function entity.

17. The terminal according to claim 16, further comprising:

a second prompt receiving unit, configured to receive a prompt message, wherein the prompt message is used to prompt a user to select an Internet Protocol Television service terminal for playing the media streams of the ring tone service; and

a second selecting and sending unit, configured to, after the second prompt receiving unit receives the prompt message, receive information about a redirecting terminal selected by the user for the media streams of the ring tone service among corresponding Internet Protocol Television service terminals, and to send the information about the redirecting terminal selected by the user to the person-to-person communication enabler, so that the person-to-person communication enabler sends the identity information of the corresponding media streams of the ring tone service to the selected redirecting terminal for playing the media streams of the ring tone service.

18. The terminal according to claim 16, further comprising:

a second request sending unit, configured to, after the identity receiving unit receives the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service returned by the person-to-person communication enabler, send a session setup request message to request to set up a session connection of the media streams of the ring tone service; and

a response receiving unit, configured to receive a response message sent by the play function entity, wherein the response message carries a time offset of the media streams of the ring tone service currently delivered for the user terminal;

wherein the first request sending unit is specifically configured to send a play request message to the play function entity to request the play function entity to send, according to the time offset in the response message received by the response receiving unit, the media streams of the ring tone service currently delivered for the user terminal.

19. The terminal according to claim 18, further comprising a current program processing unit, configured to, after the identity receiving unit receives the identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service, send a pause message to the play function entity to request the play function entity to pause delivering a current program or send a record message to request the play function entity to record the current program.

20. The terminal according to claim 16, further comprising an off-hook processing unit, configured to continue playing or pause playing the media streams of the ring tone service after receiving an off-hook message sent by the person-to-person communication enabler, or decrease audio volume in the media streams of the ring tone service or stop playing.

21. The terminal according to claim 16, further comprising a call ending unit, configured to stop playing the media streams of the ring tone service after receiving a call end message sent by the person-to-person communication enabler.