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| 20080256177 | Method and Apparatus for Maintaining Information at an Ims Client - A method, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) client terminal, and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server for synchronizing data stored at the IMS client terminal with data stored at the SIP application server. When the IMS client terminal sends a request to the SIP application server, the server determines whether the request includes information identifying the current state of the data stored at the client. If so, the server determines whether to send further data to the client based upon the information included in the request. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090023399 | Message handling in an ip multimedia subsystem - A method of handling the delivery of push messages from a notification server of a Session Initiation Protocol based network to a network user. The method comprises signalling to said notification server the start of a Session Initiation Protocol session and the end of a Session Initiation Protocol session, and deferring the delivery of some or all push messages, scheduled for delivery to said user during the ongoing session, until the session has finished. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090029726 | Method and Arrangement for Distributing Service Messages from Clients to Service Applications - A method and arrangement for distributing services messages from a client terminal to multiple service units or applications in one or more application servers in a multimedia service network. A service message distributor receives from the terminal, a multi-service message that includes a plurality of service message documents containing service-related data targeted to a specific service unit or application. The message distributor converts the received message into a plurality of individual service messages corresponding to the documents. The individual messages are sent separately toward their respective target service units or applications. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090094611 | Method and Apparatus for Load Distribution in Multiprocessor Servers - A method and arrangement for handling incoming requests for multimedia services in an application server having a plurality of processors. A service request is received from a user, requiring the handling of user-specific data. The identity of the user or other consistent user-related parameter is extracted from the received service request. Then, a scheduling algorithm is applied using the extracted identity or other user-related parameter as input, for selecting a processor associated with the user and that stores user-specific data for the user locally. Thereafter, the service request is transferred to the selected processor in order to be processed by handling the user-specific data. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090299985 | Network Based Address Book with Optional Storage of Data - A system, server, computer readable medium and method for receiving personal information about a first user and providing the personal information to a second user, where the first and second users are connected to corresponding first and second servers in a communication network. The method includes receiving at the second server, from the second user, a request for the personal information of the first user, accessing an address of the first user based on an address book of the second user, wherein the address book of the second user is accessible to the second server, contacting the first server based on the address of the first user and requesting from the first server the personal information of the first user, receiving the personal information of the first user from the first server, and providing the received personal information of the first user to the second user, without storing the received personal information in the second server or in an associated storage device. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300704 | Presentity Rules for Location Authorization in a Communication System - A server, computer readable medium and method for accessing data related to a first user connected to a communication network that includes a server, the data being accessed by a second user connected to the communication network. The method includes receiving at the server instructions from the first user for generating authentication privileges for the second user to access the data of the first user, wherein the data includes at least one of location data related to a physical location of the first user, and presence data related to an availability of the first user to communicate with the second user; applying a single set of authentication rules to generate the authentication privileges for the second user for both the location data and the presence data; and storing the generated authentication privileges of the second user. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100077038 | Method and Arrangement For Handling A Subscription For Client Data - A method and arrangement for temporarily withholding notifications with client data of at least one observed client to a watching client when the watching client has an ongoing subscription for receiving the notifications from a client data server. When the watching client receives a subscription suspend trigger, the watching client sends a subscription suspend message to the client data server indicating that client data notifications should be temporarily withheld while retaining the subscription. When the watching client subsequently receives a subscription resume trigger, the watching client sends a subscription resume message to the client data server indicating that the suspended subscription shall be resumed and allowing client data notifications to be delivered again. The watching client then subsequently receives client data notifications according to the subscription. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100094952 | Method and Apparatus for Notifying Clients in a Communication Network - A method, information delivery server, and client data server for providing client data regarding an observed client to plural watching clients. The client data server has knowledge of which watching clients subscribe to watch the observed client. The client data server sends a single notification message to the information delivery server and includes client data of the observed client and identifiers of the subscribing watching clients. The information delivery server may customize the client data according to one or more delivery rules and data filters for delivery to the identified watching clients in individual customized notification messages. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100095362 | Method and Arrangement for Handling Client Data - A method and arrangement for authorizing an initially unauthorized watching client to receive client data of an observed client from a client data server. The watching client sends an expanded request for client data to the server. The expanded request contains additional information such as a text string, a picture, or a video/audio clip. The server extracts the additional information and sends it to the observed client. The observed client can then decide whether to authorize the watching client to receive the observed client's data based on the additional information. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100099447 | Method and Apparatus for Use in a Communications Network - A system and method in a telecommunication network for subscribing a first node to receive event update notifications from a second node. The first node sends a subscription message such as a SIP SUBSCRIBE message to the second node indicating that the first node wishes to subscribe to event update notifications relating to at least one type of event for a plurality of remote nodes of the network that have a predetermined association with the first node or alternatively the second node. In response, the second node generates future event update notifications and sends the notifications to the first node when the event notifications meet the criteria specified in the subscription message. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100111087 | Method and an Arrangement for Handling a Service Request in a Multimedia Network - A method and arrangement for handling a service request in a session control unit in a multimedia network. Upon receiving the service request from a user equipment, the session control unit checks a service profile associated with a user-identity of the service request in order to find an application server to which the service request is to be routed. Prior to routing the service request, an ensuring entity ensures the service request will include a primary user-identity. In the application server, the primary user-identity is used to find stored data, which is necessary for executing the requested service. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100142372 | Method And Apparatus For Use In A Communications Network - A method is disclosed for use in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network comprising an IP Multimedia Subsystem. The method comprises receiving node status information relating to a first node of the network which indicates an occurrence of an event associated with the first node, determining the existence of a network association established between the first node and a second node of the network that would be adversely affected by the occurrence of the event, and causing the network association to be terminated, thereby allowing a new network association between the first and second nodes to be established in its place. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100172342 | Session Initiation Protocol Message Payload Compression - A method, user terminal, and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application Server for transporting SIP messages across an IP Multimedia network between the user terminal and the SIP Application Server. The sending side compresses message payloads within the application layer and the receiving side decompresses them at the application layer. The compressed message payloads are passed between the application layer and a SIP User Agent via an appropriate Application Programming Interface (API). | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100185757 | Method and Apparatus for Use in a Communications Network - A method is disclosed for use in a telecommunications network that makes use of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The method comprises receiving node status information in a SIP Request whose Request Uniform Resource Identifier, or Request-URI, identifies the SIP Request as comprising node status information and also identifies the intended recipients of the node status information. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100262697 | A METHOD FOR EVENT PACKET HANDLING - A method of delivering information from a Notifying node of a SIP/IMS network to a Watcher Client, via an intermediate Watcher Proxy. A connection is established between the Watcher Proxy and the Watcher Client, using a SIP session, wherein the established connection is used for forwarding a request for a SIP subscription to the Watcher Proxy as an embedded SIP subscribe message. Once a backend SIP subscription has been setup between the Watcher Proxy and the Notifying node, SIP notify messages delivered from the Notifying node will be forwarded from the Watcher Proxy to the Watcher Client via the established connection, thereby separating SIP subscribe traffic from SIP control traffic. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100274844 | METHOD OF REDUCING SIZE OF PRESENCE MESSAGES - A method in a communication network of delivering messages associated with an information exchange service. A message, to be delivered between two entities is interrogated to determining if the data content has already been delivered to the terminating entity. If the data content has not already been delivered to the second entity, the message is transmitted to the second entity unchanged, while the message is modified, so that the modified message comprises a data identifier, identifying the data content, but no data content. The modified message is then transmitted to the terminating entity, and the data identifier is cached together with the associated data content when a successful transmission of the message has been verified. The suggested versioning mechanism enables transmission of messages with a reduced size. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100306361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN XML DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE - A method is provided for use in an XML Document Management Architecture. An Aggregation Proxy of Remote Network to use for accessing an XCAP document in the remote network is determined by performing a DNS lookup. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100317330 | METHOD OF ENABLING A SERVICE AT A COMMUNICATION NETWORK NODE - A method enabling a service at a communication network node and a network node adapted to execute the method is provided, wherein a first request, requesting for one or more operations to be associated with a symbol, is received from a first user. The request comprises an instruction, identifying one or more operations. The request triggers the generating of a unique symbol identity, and the creation of a symbol record, associated with the symbol identity, wherein the symbol record, linking the symbol identity to the one or more operations. At the node the symbol identity is also associated with the generated symbol, which is created by a symbol server and forwarded to the first user. Once the symbol has been received by the node in a second request, the symbol identity corresponding to the symbol is retrieved from the symbol server, and the service is enabled by executing the one or more operations according to the symbol record identified by the symbol identity. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110004518 | METHOD AND USER DEVICE FOR HANDLING MOBILE ADVERTISING - Personalized advertisements may be provided from a service node to a user, parallel to executing a request from the user device. At the service node, advertisement information may be selected, according to predefined advertisement rules and the applications which are available at the user device, and attached to a response message, sent to the user device in response to the received request. At the user device, the advertisement information is retrieved, structured and stored. A change of state of an application of the user device will initiate an interrogation of the advertisement information, which will result in performing a presentation of an advertisement on the user information, in case such instructions exists. An advertising method, a user device and a service node adapted to execute the suggested method are described. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004942 | METHOD AND APPARATUSES FOR AUTHORISING PROVISION OF INDIRECTED CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A PRESENTITY OF A PRESENCE SERVICE - The invention provides a method of authorising provision of in-directed content to a user of an IPcommunications network. The in-directed content is associated with a presentity subscriber of a presence service, the presence service including authorisation rules regarding users to which the in-directed content may be provided. The in-directed content is stored at a content server that is not controlled by the presence service. The method includes receiving at an authorisation proxy in the network a request from the user to be provided with the in-directed content, and identifying the presentity subscriber associated with the requested in-directed content. The authorisation proxy retrieves the authorisation rules to verify that the user is authorised to receive the in-directed content. Subject to the verification, the in-directed content is provided from the content server the user. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110113106 | THROTTLE ON PRESENCE - The present invention relates to throttle and rate limitation of notifications in a communication network, in particular to a method and devices for operating a communication network, e g a communication network comprising a presence system A method for operating a communication network for communicating with entities is provided, the method comprising the steps of receiving a first message from a first entity, the first message indicating delay parameter values for different parameters, receiving a second message from a second entity, selecting a delay parameter value in the communication network depending on the received second message and the delay parameter values in the first message, and sending a notification to the first entity according to the selected delay parameter value Further the present invention relates to devices implementing the method. | 05-12-2011 |
