Patent Application: US-31953905-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to a network - assisted communication method comprising : establishing a communication in a telecommunication network ; capturing an identified communication contribution ; and presenting and storing said communication contribution , associating the established communication with the captured communication contribution , and associating references to related communications to the established communication . the invention further relates to a telecommunication service , a server , a terminal device , and a computer software product therefor .

Description:
fig1 shows a daily life example for a three party a , b , and c communication . the downward arrow t illustrates the time line . the figure shows a message sequence chart of a simplified call scenario where the first party a calls 1 the second party b . a first communication 6 between a and b is established . that triggers the second party b to e - mail 2 to the third party c . the third party c replies 7 to this e - mail , hence establishing a second communication 7 between the second and the third party b and c . this causes the second party to continue 6 ′ the first communication 6 by sending an sms 3 to the first party a . finally this causes the first party to establish 4 and 5 with the second and the third party a common videoconference 8 . as one picture , this scenario looks simple , but usually there are many communications in parallel and for a party , i . e . a user , it is sometimes confusing to which of a manifold of earlier communications the new communication is related . in the case of e - mail there is usually a context , called subject , which allows referring to earlier e - mail correspondence . e - mail clients support usually linear time logic for e - mail correspondence that is called a thread , as news does . that means a user is enabled to list a history of related e - mails . this is not the case for voice communication as illustrated in the second call scenario shown in fig2 . there the first party a tries to reach the second party b via a first voice call 11 leaving at the answering machine of the second party a first question . then the first party a tries to reach the second party b via a second voice call 11 leaving at the answering machine of the second party a second question . the second party b answers 13 and 14 both questions shortly with “ yes ” and “ no ”, e . g . via sms , without referring or repeating the question . since there is an ambiguity the first party a is completely lost and has to re - contact the second party b for whether the answer to the first question is yes or no . the example shows the deficiency of a context - less dangling communication . this is usually done by refereeing or restating communication content , e . g . repeating the question . the concept of context - free communication organization is known as sessions . this is a kind of bracket for communications such that the communication history forms a language , e . g . according to the following context - free grammar s →( s ) s | λ ; where “ s ” is a variable , “(” and “)” are terminal symbols , the begin session and end session identifiers ; and λ is the empty word . this concept is usually applied for coordinating non - preemptive communication resources although users tend to structure communications in mind similarly . e . g . in the first communication scenario the communication sequence 1 , 2 , 2 ′, 3 could be read as the well - formed bracket expression “(( ))”. the third figure shows another ambiguous scenario . the first party a asks 21 the second party b , then asks 22 the third party c , and then asks 23 a further party d . then the further party d replies 24 , after that the second party b replies 25 , and finally the third party c replies 26 . the first party a has somehow to assign the replies to the inquiries , but how : neither first send first reply assumption holds nor any other well - form assumption will work . the first party a has to associate the first inquiry 21 with the second reply 25 ; the second inquiry 22 with the lost reply 26 , and the third inquiry with the first reply 24 . this scenario once more shows the necessity of coordinating communication assistance . in order to discover the lack of information support the idea of kripke structures is borrowed from temporal logic , i . e . a nondeterministic finite state machine , i . e . a graph consisting of states and transitions , whose states are labeled . such a structure is exemplarily shown in fig4 . the time line goes from left to right as illustrated by the right arrow t . discrete time t 1 , t 2 , t 3 , . . . , t 9 is assumed , where t 2 and t 9 are in principle intervals for the duration of a synchronous ( streamed ) communication . events e , i . e . the states of the kripke structure are arranged in a matrix where time is one dimension and the users or participants a , b , and c are the other dimension . at a first time t 1 the first participant a initiates a communication with b , e . g . a phone call . at time t 2 the second participant b is involved . this is illustrated by the causality , i . e . transition from the event at position ( a , t 1 ) to the events at position ( b , t 2 ). the communication is presented by the double arrow between the event at ( b , t 2 ) and ( a , t 2 ). at the next event e occurring in the depicted schedule , the event at position ( b , t 3 ), the second participant b informs the third participant c , e . g . via e - mail . at time t 4 the third participant c receives the e - mail , depicted as event e at position ( c , t 4 ) and replies immediately . the third participant c replies immediately , as illustrated by the arrow from event e at position ( c , t 4 ) to the event e at position ( b , t 5 ). the next communication within the depicted time line is the sms from the second party b to the first party a shown by the events e at the positions ( b , t 6 ) and ( a , t 7 ). the last communication , which is the video communication in the example above is initiated by the first party a and involves all parties a , b , and c . it is modeled by the events e at the positions ( a , t 8 ) initiating the conference communication , and the events e at position ( a , t 9 ), ( b , t 9 ) and ( c , t 9 ), showing the ongoing streamed information exchange . from the figure one can observe that although concerning the same communication content , several communications are separately established . the graph is not connected . one could allege that the second party could countervail this deficit but the information exchange , i . e . the transfer of the information that is the technical contribution of the communication equipment is modeled by the transitions , i . e . the arrows in the figure . fig5 shows a solution out of that dilemma . for each communication , i . e . a connected component in the graph shown in fig4 , context information c 1 , c 2 , c 3 , and c 4 is associated . the vertical dashed double arrows illustrate this . and this context information is linked to a line of gathered content , i . e . information gathered along time within communication . this link structure connects the single isolated communications and ensures a global communication survey . the links enable for instance to refer within the videoconference at time t 9 access context of the first communication , which is the telephone call at t 2 . it should be noted that the context might even be the identical in all cases , e . g . the same subject . the structure allows also to retrieve information by navigating through the now common connected time line . fig6 shows an appropriate class model . a first class c 1 , the user models a kind of participant or account . the second class c 2 models a communication in a uniform manner , i . e . the activity of communicating ; the activity of conveying information . the communication class would correspond in a telephone network with the database of call records . in the e - mail case this is a transferred e - mail itself . there is a third class c 3 context , which is an aggregation , i . e . for each communication a user might instantiate a context . this is expressed by the relationship r 1 between user class c 1 and communication class c 2 . this relation is a many to many relation in order to cover multi - party conferences . a user might contribute to a context which is expressed by the dashed line between the user class c 1 and the context class c 3 . the corresponding relation contributes r 2 might be also realized as an aggregation of the contributed content in an instance of the context class c 3 . here the relation variant is shown to simplify the diagram . the context class c 3 is in relation or even strong relation with the communication class c 2 , expressed by the relation with r 3 . the communication class might have a communication type modeled by a corresponding has relation r 5 with the communication type class c 4 . and a communication usually consumes resources which is expressed by the relation consumes r 6 between the communication class c 2 and the resource class c 5 . this relation is used in telephone systems for billing purposes . instance of resources might be channels , lines , network capacity , processing time , as well as hardware resources like special equipment etc . the relation consumes r 6 means also a requirement for granting resources by a dispatcher . joining the relation with r 3 and consumes r 6 establishes a relation between the context class c 3 and the resource class c 5 . this relation could be used to control via a context the resource grant . for instance suppose the following scenario : a party wants to establish a checkpoint for a meeting and proposes a location and time delivered via sms to the invited persons with the question : “ do you come ?” thus context might be “ the meeting checkpoint ” and the invited parties could answer via sms “ yes ” or “ no ”. usually the reply costs also money , but in this case the party wanting to establish a checkpoint might grant the usage of a resource for a reply sms and to charge his / her account . another feature of this information model is that a user could be identified using the context . sometimes people tend to forget names , addresses , telephone numbers etc . but usually the content of a communication is a well - established anchor . thus seeking for a context via the relation with r 3 a communication and the involved parties or users could be identified . an exemplary user interface reflecting the capabilities of this information model is provided in fig7 . the figure shows a table with five columns : who , date time , subject , type , and context . each row corresponds to a communication where in the first column is the list of participants , in the second column is the time the communication is taking place , the third column mentions a shared ( agreed ) context , the subject , the fourth column mentions the communication type . this might be a media voice , e - mail , etc . or even terminal characteristics etc . enabling a participant to conclude about the communication capabilities and preferences of another communication party . the lost field within a row lists the associated contexts , i . e . communication contributions made persistent and even transcribed or compiled into a machine readable format e . g . by a spoken context that is recognized by a speech recognizer and made persistent as text . the presentation of contexts enables a communication about contexts . it also allows mining communication since the context forms a kind of excerpt from a communication . the subject , i . e . the agreed ( topic ) context is suited for billing , i . e . resource consumption . for instance one could simply retrieve from the de - normalized joined relations which resources were required for what subject . thus even billing could profit from the associations established by the method according to the invention . as illustrated the method according to the invention provides a bunch of new value added services based on the new associations replacing the association between hardware / resource consumption and users . the table shown in fig7 shows only a thread for one subject s . obviously this could be generalized to threads per user or per user group , or per subject group etc . this user interface enables also an ergonomic information access and communication control . for example , when a user activates a certain thread an associated conference call may be initiated enabling the user to continue an ongoing discussion with involved persons about the specific subject . the user does not need to remember each individual person e . g . name , picture dealing with the subject and an integrated rich presence manager may organize the reachability for establishing the necessary connections . moreover the thread ( as structured sequences of call history ) may contain “ hyperlinks ” to other threads , for which the thread becomes a hyper - thread . the hypermedia structure generated by this kind of voice - context management provides significantly more support for automatic conference triggering and reuse of important annotations during a conference . the thread itself might interlink several media , e . g . a voice call with a browser session . therefore the hyper - thread reflects ( represents ) also the communication status and content between different parties using multiple communication media / devices . the hyper - thread then could be automatically activated by a location , media availability or date / time so that the user does not need to remember the thread and the parties involved . furthermore it would be advantageous to bill such contexts , i . e . to itemize ( break down ) costs and / or billing by contexts and to enable context mining ( for instance in order to account costs or to analyze media usage / user behavior ). the preferred realization as a web service could comprise an interface for logging a communication ( of any type ) and for retrieving a communication . e . g . when a communication is established the service is invoked for capturing contributions and for logging session information like participants , communication type , time , duration , media , etc . a contribution is captured , e . g . indicated by a user / participant or automatically by an intelligent extraction engine using a preconfigured ( user ) profile of interests . this extracted contribution , i . e . an excerpt or a resume of the whole communication or simply a topic descriptor is stored in relation with the communication session information . for the retrieval of information range queries filtering time intervals could be provided . a query capability relating to communication contributions should also be provided . and for a user &# 39 ; s convenience a communication session initialization and management should also be provided . such an object structure could comprise a management object communicationcontextmanager for each user , the structure comprising several managed objects , e . g . communication objects , context objects or a user object , i . e . the usual private yellow pages . since it is assumed that each user has his own ( singleton ) manager object , there is a method for synchronizing especially context and communication objects between manager object , i . e . synchronizing information about multiple treads . object : communication context manager generic methods : create , destroy , update , and retrieve method : synchronize with ( other communication context manager ) variable : owner : user managed object : communication mediatype : enum ( voice , video , text , sms , mms , ...) timeattributes : start - end participants : set of users context : set of ( related ) context objects resources : set of consumed ressources managed object : context mediatype : enum ( voice , video , text , sms , mms , ...) author : user content : blob linked contexts : set of ( related ) context objects managed object : user name : address : communication contact points : this structure might be realized as a web service where the service interface specification in web service description language that is capable of handling messages for managing communications might look like & lt ;? xml version =“ 1 . 0 ” encoding =“ utf - 8 ”?& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : definitions targetnamespace =“ services : ccm ” xmlns : impl =“ services : ccm ” xmlns : intf 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name =“ retrievecommunicationrequest ” message =“ impl : retrievecommunicationrequest ”/& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : output name =“ retrievecommunicationresponse ” message =“ impl : retrievecommunicationresponse ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : operation & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : porttype & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : binding name =“ ccmsoapbinding ” type =“ impl : communicationcontextmanager ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : binding style =“ rpc ” transport =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / http ”/& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : operation name =“ createcontext ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : operation soapaction =“”/& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : input name =“ createcontextrequest ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : body use =“ encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace =“ services : ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : input & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : output name =“ createcontextresponse ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : body use =“ encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace 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encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace =“ services : ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : output & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : operation & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : operation name =“ retrievecommunicationcontext ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : operation soapaction =“”/& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : input name =“ retrievecommunicationcontextrequest ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : body use =“ encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace =“ services : ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : input & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : output name =“ retrievecommunicationcontextresponse ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : body use =“ encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace =“ services : ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : output & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : operation & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : operation name =“ retrievecommunication ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : operation soapaction =“”/& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : input name =“ retrievecommunicationrequest ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : body use =“ encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace =“ services : ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : input & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : output name =“ retrievecommunicationresponse ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : body use =“ encoded ” encodingstyle =“ http :// schemas . xmlsoap . org / soap / encoding /” namespace =“ services : ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : output & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : operation & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : binding & gt ; & lt ; wsdl : service name =“ communicationcontextmanagerservice ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdl : port name =“ ccm ” binding =“ impl : ccmsoapbinding ”& gt ; & lt ; wsdlsoap : address location =“ http :// 149 . 204 . 84 . 111 : 8080 / axis / services / ccm ”/& gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : port & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : service & gt ; & lt ;/ wsdl : definitions & gt ; this is only an example for an implementation . instead of the interlinked ( relational ) object structure various other data structures are suited for representing threads . from a theoretical standpoint , sited presentations might also be a limited set of ( recognizable ) acyclic graphs like mazurkiewicz traces , for a definition see e . g . on recognizable stable trace languages , jean - francois husson and rémi morin . these structures have several advantages as they are recognizable by finite automata or they are representable by sets of strings . indeed each event schedule capable of expressing the duality of time and information like chu space representations is suited as data structure . for a concrete presentation as kripke structures as lattices of a complete partial boolean algebra etc . see e . g . concurrent kripke structures , vineet gupta .