System and method for access and communication between a converged network-based address book system and a user device
View Patent ↗A method of sharing contacts within a converged address book system having a converged address book server, the method receiving from a requestor, at the converged address book server, a request for a contact to be shared with a recipient identified in the request; obtaining contact information for the contact from a repository; and delivering the shared contact to the recipient. Also, a method for interaction with a legacy address book system from a network based converged address book system, the method receiving a request to import legacy address book data from a legacy address book system; contacting the legacy address book system and supplying access parameters; retrieving data from the legacy address book system; and storing the imported data in a network based address book storage.
1. A method performed by an address book server for importing legacy address book data, the method comprising:
receiving at an address book server a first request, transmitted via an XML document management server (XDMS), from an address book client to import user-information from a third party non-converged address book system, wherein receiving the first request is in response to the address book server sending an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) GET to the XDMS;
sending from the address book server a second request, in response to the first request, to access the user-information from the third party non-converged address book system, wherein the second request comprises a domain element that identifies the third party non-converged address book system;
receiving at the address book server user address book data based on the second request;
sending from the address book server the received user address book data for storage; and
sending from the address book server to the address book client a notification to trigger a synchronization between the address book client and the storage.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the domain element includes at least a user name and a user password for accessing the user information from the third party non-converged address book system.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending a notification to a user device executing the address book client to initiate synchronization, wherein the notification is sent subsequent to receiving user address book data.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second request is in an HTTP POST format.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the storage is on a Converged Address Book XML Document Management Server Component (CAB XDMS).
6. An address book server comprising:
non-transitory memory; and
a hardware processor, the hardware processor configured to:
receive at an address book server a first request, transmitted via an XML document management server (XDMS), from an address book client to import user-information from a third party non-converged address book system, wherein receiving the first request is in response to the address book server sending an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) GET to the XDMS;
send from the address book server a second request, in response to the first request, to access the user-information from the third party non-converged address book system, wherein the second request comprises a domain element that identifies the third party non-converged address book system;
receive at the address book server user address book data based on the second request;
send from the address book server the received user address book data for storage; and
send from the address book server to the address book client a notification to trigger a synchronization between the address book client and the storage.
7. The address book server of claim 6 , wherein the domain element includes at least a user name and a user password for accessing the user information from the third party non-converged address book system.
8. The address book server of claim 6 , wherein the processor is further configured to send a notification to a user device executing the address book client to initiate synchronization, wherein the notification is sent subsequent to receiving user address book data.
9. The address book server of claim 6 , wherein the second request is in an HTTP POST format.
10. The address book server of claim 6 , wherein the storage is on a Converged Address Book XML Document Management Server Component (CAB XDMS).
11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which causes a network component to execute a converged address book server configured to perform the operations of:
receiving at an address book server a first request, transmitted via an XML document management server (XDMS), from an address book client to import user-information from a third party non-converged address book system, wherein receiving the first request is in response to the address book server sending an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) GET to the XDMS;
sending from the address book server a second request, in response to the first request, to access the user-information from the third party non-converged address book system, wherein the second request comprises a domain element that identifies the third party non-converged address book system;
receiving at the address book server user address book data based on the second request;
sending from the address book server the received user address book data for storage; and
sending from the address book server to the address book client a notification to trigger a synchronization between the address book client and the storage.
12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the domain element includes at least a user name and a user password for accessing the user information from the third party non-converged address book system.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of 11 , further configured to perform the operation of sending a notification to a user device executing the address book client to initiate synchronization, wherein the notification is sent subsequent to receiving user address book data.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the second request is in an HTTP POST format.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the storage is on a Converged Address Book XML Document Management Server Component (CAB XDMS).