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US 2003/0191762 A1Published application
Group management
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InventorsJuha Kalliokulju, Matti Turunen
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A data structure including specific services such as presence, messaging or the like, and including a group management service, as well as a device and a system using this data structure, is modified to provide specific services within the group management service rather than necessarily as separate services, thereby eliminating the need to invoke both the specific service and group management and to reduce signaling.
A data structure including a plurality of primitives each for carrying out a separate function of a group management service, each primitive for at least temporary storage in a computer-readable medium at a client and in a computer readable medium at a server during transfer of said primitives over a network between the client and the server, each primitive (80) including at least one information element (52, 54, 56, . . . 60) having information relating to said separate function, each primitive having an identifying information element with information identifying said separate function of said group management service, characterized in that at least one primitive of said plurality of primitive also contains an information element or is associated with a header (82) or field relating to a service-specific function and that said service-specific function is subsumed within said group management service.
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Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial
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1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to Group Management, and, more particularly, to an enhancement for group management functionality which enables more effective use of group management in the context of services.
2. Discussion of Related Art
FIG. 1 shows a system in which the group management of the present invention may be employed.
FIG. 2 shows a protocol structure used in the clients and servers of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows more details of the service capabilities layer of FIG. 2 in both the client and server and particularly shows how user group management requirements are currently specified to be generic across all types of services.
FIG. 1 shows a system 10 comprising physical devices 12, 14, clients 16, 18, users 20, 22, 24, 26, and servers 28, 30. A user is a customer of the system, enjoying services thereof provided by using the physical devices 12, 14. A client is an implementation of a given service which allows one or more users to access the service. The client may be hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. The client concept is device independent, but for purposes of actual use it is installed in a physical device. Although not shown, more than one client can be resident on a given physical device, and the same user can access different clients on the same device. For instance, a not shown client 3 could be installed on device 14 and accessed by user 3. A server is a network element providing the services and maintaining user data. The servers may be interconnected.
A user may access the server simultaneously from several clients (using a single device or multiple devices). Similarly, a client may provide simultaneous access for several users.
When a physical device, e.g., mobile handset or PC, has multiple client instances, they may need to be separately identifiable. But for many cases, the device identity and the client identity can be considered the same. In those cases, for all intents and purposes, the physical device is therefore the same as the client.