Patent ID: 7136649
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. An environment aware message delivery system, comprising: a portable message redirection agent carried by a user; and a message delivery service manager for managing candidate message terminals to provide message delivery services for the user, wherein when the user moving over to a place, said message redirection agent cooperates with said message delivery service manager located in the environment around the user to select a message terminal from a candidate message terminals in the environment as a target message terminal, and request a message redirection entity to redirect the message addressed to the user to the target message terminal, wherein said message redirection agent comprises: a message redirection service discoverer for sending service requests to said message delivery service manager, and receiving service information from said message delivery service manager; a message redirection manager for maintaining a message redirection service list, configuring message redirection policy and selecting the target message terminal; and a message redirection requester for requesting message redirection service from the message redirection entity; and wherein said message delivery service manager comprises: a service request handler for authenticating the message redirection agent and sending service information on-demand to the message redirection agent; a service availability detector for checking the status of the candidate message terminals in the environment and updating the message delivery service list according to the checking result; and a message delivery service configurator for configuring the available message delivery services, such as authorizing who can access these services.