Patent ID: 9049263
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a Push-To (PT) box service, the method performed by a PT server that supports the PT box service and comprising: receiving, from a terminal, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) PUBLISH message comprising a PT Box setting information, the PT Box setting information representing one among three conditions of ‘unwilling’, ‘unconditional’, and ‘conditional’; determining whether to route a SIP invitation message for the terminal to a PT Box based on the PT Box setting information; and routing or not routing the SIP invitation message to the PT Box according to the determination result, wherein the condition of ‘unwilling’ indicates that the PT box service is available for routing the SIP invitation message to the PT box but that a user of the terminal has prohibited the routing of the SIP invitation message to the PT box, wherein the condition of ‘unconditional’ indicates that the PT box service is available for routing the SIP invitation message to the PT box and that the user of the terminal has allowed the routing of the SIP invitation message to the PT box without condition, wherein the condition of ‘conditional’ indicates that the PT box service is available for routing the SIP invitation message to the PT box but that the user of the terminal has allowed the routing of the SIP invitation message to the PT box only under a certain condition, wherein if the PT Box setting information represents ‘unwilling’, the SIP invitation message is not routed to the PT Box, wherein if the PT Box setting information represents ‘unconditional’, the SIP invitation message is routed to the PT Box,