Method and system for implementing group message service based on converged service system

• US 9,237,587 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xi'An Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd. (ZTE Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Fengjun, Huang, Zheng, Ghazanfar, Ali
• Primary Examiner(s): Bates, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Naoreen, Nazia
• Application Number:
  US13/061,280
• Publication Number:
  US 20110153764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,577 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/185 with management of multicast group membership
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/40 for selective distribution or broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A method and system for implementing a group message service based on a converged service system, and the method comprises: a sender converged service client sending a message to a sender'"'"'s home participant session and message processing module, and the message including a group identifier; said sender'"'"'s home participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to a controller session and message processing module according to said group identifier; the controller session and message processing module authorizing the sender, and forwarding said message to a destination user'"'"'s home participant session and message processing module, the destination user corresponding to the group identifier; and said destination user'"'"'s home participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to a converged service client terminal of said destination user.

Claims

1. A method for implementing a group message service based on a converged service system, the method comprising:

a sender converged service client of a user which has joined a group in the group message service sending a message to a sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and the message including a group identifier of said group;

said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module authenticating the sender and judging whether the sender has permission to send the message, when the sender has the permission to send the message, said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to a network controller session and message processing module according to said group identifier, wherein said network controller session and message processing module is responsible for routing processing for sessions and messages;

after the network controller session and message processing module receives said message, the network controller session and message processing module judging whether said group is managed by a local domain of the network controller session and message processing module according to the group identifier, and if not, forwarding said message to a network controller session and message processing module of the converged service system to which the group identifier belongs;

when the network controller session and message processing module determines that said group is managed by the local domain, the network controller session and message processing module judging whether the sender has permission to send the message to the group, when the sender has the permission to send the message to the group, the network controller session and message processing module authorizing the sender, and forwarding said message to a destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, the destination user corresponding to the group identifier; and

said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to a converged service client of said destination user;

thereby the converged service clients which belong to the converged service system and have joined the same group implementing the group message service.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, said method further comprising:

said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module sending a message delivery notification to said network controller session and message processing module, said network controller session and message processing module forwarding said message delivery notification to said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module forwarding said message delivery notification to said sender converged service client.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein said message delivery notification is a failure delivery notification message generated by said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and after receiving a failure response message transmitted by the converged service client of said destination user, said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module generates the failure delivery notification message.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein said message delivery notification is received from the converged service client of the destination user by said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and after receiving said message, said converged service client of the destination user sends the message delivery notification to said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein, when there are a plurality of destination users, said network controller session and message processing module sets a waiting time when receiving the first message delivery notification returned by said plurality of destination users, and, after the waiting time is due, combines a plurality of message delivery notifications returned by said plurality of destination users and sends the combined message delivery notification to the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module.

6. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

when there are a plurality of destination users, said network controller session and message processing module directly forwards a plurality of message delivery notifications returned by said plurality of destination users to the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module.

7. The method as claimed in claim 2, said method further comprising:

when receiving a repeated message delivery notification, said network controller session and message processing module discarding the repeated message delivery notification, or directly forwarding the repeated message delivery notification to the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein said sender converged service client, the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, the network controller session and message processing module, the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and the converged service client of said destination user interact with one another through a Session Initiation Protocol/Internet Protocol (SIP/IP) core bearer network.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said message also includes a converged service identifier, and said sender converged service client sending the message to the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module comprises the following steps of:

the sender converged service client sending the message to the SIP/IP core bearer network; and

said SIP/IP core bearer network forwarding the message to the participant session and message processing module of the converged service system to which the sender belongs according to said converged service identifier.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to the network controller session and message processing module according to the group identifier further comprises:

said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module authenticating said sender, and sending the message to said SIP/IP core bearer network if the sender has permission to send the message;

the SIP/IP core bearer network sending said message to a home SIP/IP core bearer network of the converged service system to which group information belongs according to the group identifier, namely forwarding the message to a SIP/IP core bearer network managing the group; and

the SIP/IP core bearer network managing the group sending said message to a network controller session and message processing module of the converged service system to which the group information belongs.

11. The method as claimed in claim 2, said method further comprising:

when said message includes indication information of requiring a message delivery notification and any one module among the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module and said network controller session and message processing module requires blocking sending of the message delivery notification, the one module returning the message delivery notification to the sender converged service client to inform the sender that the system does not support the message delivery notification.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sender converged service client, the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, the network controller session and message processing module, the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and the converged service client of said destination user interact with one another through a Session Initiation Protocol/Internet Protocol (SIP/IP) core bearer network.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein said message also includes a converged service identifier, and said sender converged service client sending the message to the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module comprises the following steps of:

the sender converged service client sending the message to the SIP/IP core bearer network; and

said SIP/IP core bearer network forwarding the message to the participant session and message processing module of the converged service system to which the sender belongs according to said converged service identifier.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to the network controller session and message processing module according to the group identifier further comprises:

said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module authenticating said sender, and sending the message to said SIP/IP core bearer network if the sender has permission to send the message;

the SIP/IP core bearer network sending said message to a home SIP/IP core bearer network of the converged service system to which group information belongs according to the group identifier, namely forwarding the message to a SIP/IP core bearer network managing the group; and

the SIP/IP core bearer network managing the group sending said message to a network controller session and message processing module of the converged service system to which the group information belongs.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, said method further comprising:

when said message includes indication information of requiring a message delivery notification and any one module among the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module and said network controller session and message processing module requires blocking sending of the message delivery notification, the one module returning the message delivery notification to the sender converged service client to inform the sender that the system does not support the message delivery notification.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a group corresponding to the group identifier comprises more than two participants.

17. A system for implementing a group message service based on a converged service system, the system comprising:

a sender'"'"'s home network device which comprises a processor configured with a sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, a network controller device which comprises a processor configured with a network controller session and message processing module, and a destination user'"'"'s home network device which comprises a processor configured with a destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, wherein;

the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module is configured to receive a message from a sender converged service client of a user which has joined a group in the group message service, authenticate the sender and judge whether the sender has permission to send the message, and when the sender has the permission to send the message, forward said message to the network controller session and message processing module according to a group identifier of said group included in said message;

the network controller session and message processing module is responsible for routing processing for sessions and messages and is configured to;

receive a message from a participant session and message processing module, and after receiving said message from the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, judge whether said group is managed by a local domain of the network controller session and message processing module according to the group identifier, and if not, forward said message to a network controller session and message processing module of the converged service system to which the group identifier belongs; and

when determining that said group is managed by the local domain, judge whether the sender has permission to send the message to the group, when the sender has the permission to send the message to the group, authorize the sender, and forward said message to the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, wherein the destination user corresponds to the group identifier;

the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module is configured to forward said message to a converged service client of said destination user;

thereby the converged service clients which belong to the converged service system and have joined the same group implementing the group message service.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17, the system further comprising:

a SIP/IP core bearer network, which is used to bear message interaction among said sender converged service client, the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, the network controller session and message processing module, the destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module, and the converged service client of said destination user.

19. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein said destination user'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module also sends a message delivery notification to said network controller session and message processing module;

said network controller session and message processing module receives said message delivery notification, and when there are a plurality of destination users and said network controller session and message processing module receives the first message delivery notification returned by said plurality of destination users, said network controller session and message processing module sets a waiting time and combines a plurality of message delivery notifications returned by said plurality of destination users when the waiting time is due, and then sends the combined message delivery notification to the sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module; and

said sender'"'"'s home network participant session and message processing module sends said message delivery notification to said sender converged service client.

20. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein a group corresponding to the group identifier comprises more than two participants.