Virtual Presence Server for Automatic Instantaneous Messaging Session Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional instantaneous messaging systems for mobile terminals face challenges in managing sessions when users cannot or do not wish to keep them open continuously, lack integration of new services without modifying existing protocols and hardware, and struggle with complex filtering rules across multiple communities.
Innovation Solution
An instantaneous messaging system incorporating a virtual presence server that automatically manages messaging sessions, allowing users to continue sessions without constant connection, simplifies connection to multiple communities, and enables filtering rules without modifying existing messaging servers or hardware.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user closes his messaging session, then he can free up resources and avoid unnecessary conversations, but he stops receiving any information from other users until he opens a session again
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual presence server as an intermediary between the user's mobile terminal and the messaging server. This server maintains the messaging session on behalf of the user, allowing the user to close their terminal connection while the virtual presence server continues to receive and forward messages, thus resolving the contradiction between session closure and information reception.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual presence server creates a virtual copy of the user's presence and messaging session. Instead of the physical session ending when the user closes their terminal, the virtual presence server replicates the session state, enabling continuous communication without the user being physically connected.
2Loss of information
If the user keeps his messaging session open, then he continues to receive information from other users, but he cannot converse with them in real time
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual presence server acts as an intermediary that decouples the user's physical presence from the messaging session. The server maintains the session open for information reception while the user can be physically absent or unavailable, allowing asynchronous communication that resolves the contradiction between continuous information reception and real-time conversational capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If new services such as message filtering are integrated into messaging servers, then service functionality is enhanced, but a large number of management protocols and Software/Hardware must be modified
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual presence server serves as an intermediary layer that introduces new services like message filtering without modifying the core messaging server infrastructure. The virtual presence server handles these new functionalities, allowing service enhancement while maintaining the simplicity and stability of the original messaging server protocols and hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the messaging system into separate functional components: the original messaging server handles basic communication protocols, while the virtual presence server handles enhanced services like filtering. This segmentation allows new services to be added to the virtual presence server without modifying the messaging server's management protocols or hardware.
4Adaptability or versatility
If users connect to multiple messaging servers for different communities, then they can access more contacts, but the process becomes laborious and sequential with no link between contact lists
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual presence server merges multiple community contact lists into a single unified interface. Instead of users needing to manually connect to separate messaging servers for different communities, the virtual presence server aggregates contacts from multiple communities and presents them through a single connection, eliminating the laborious sequential connection process while maintaining access to diverse contacts.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging servers (S1, S2) able to deliver instantaneous messaging services to mobile terminals (TA, TB1, TC1, TD1, TB2, TE2, TF2) connected to said servers and of which the users (A, B1, C1, D1, B2, E2, F2) have opened an instantaneous messaging session, and a virtual presence server (100) independent of the existing instantaneous messaging servers (S1, S2), said virtual presence server being connected to at least one mobile client terminal (TA) and to at least one of the existing messaging servers (S1, S2), wherein said virtual presence server (100) comprises means to automatically manage an instantaneous messaging session in place of said user (A), said means of management being activated when the connection between said mobile client terminal (TA) and said virtual presence server is cut off.The invention also relates to a method to automatically manage a session in a messaging system for mobile terminals.