Method and system for synchronizing information to contacts on cloud platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016191618-A1
Application number	US-201414438759-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 21, 2014
Priority date	Feb 28, 2014
Publication date	Jun 30, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention relates to register a cloud account and allocate a cloud storage space. Information about contact people in the directory at each user's terminal is backed up to the cloud storage space for each user's terminal The contact information of each user's terminal is stored in its cloud storage space. Once the contact information is changed, the changed contact information is updated in the cloud storage space for each user's terminal and simultaneously in the cloud storage space for all of the contact people in the directory at the user's terminal. The updated contact information about the user's terminal can be downloaded from the cloud storage space. The information about the contact people among the user's terminals can be transferred with one another.

First claim

1 . A method for synchronizing information on a cloud platform, comprising:
receiving a request of registering an account from a first user's terminal and a second user's terminal;
allocating a single ID marker and a cloud storage space to the first user's terminal and the second user's terminal and sending a message of successful registration to each of the user's terminals after receiving the request of registering the account, and the cloud storage space at each of the user's terminals comprising a permanent IDentity (ID) marker and a permanent station address;
backing up information about contact people in a directory at each of the user's terminals to each of the respective applied cloud storage spaces, and storing each of the users' contact information to his/her own cloud storage space; and
updating the contact information in the cloud storage space belonging to the first user's terminal as the contact information at the first user's terminal changes, synchronizing the renewed contact information with each of the contact people's cloud storage spaces in the directory at the first user's terminal automatically, and automatically downloading, from the contact people's cloud storage spaces, the first user's renewed contact information to the contact people listed in the directory at the first user's terminal.

2 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein updating the contact information in the cloud storage space belonging to the first user's terminal as the contact information at the first user's terminal changes and synchronizing the renewed contact information with each of the contact people's cloud storage spaces in the directory at the first user's terminal automatically comprises following steps of:
changing and updating the first user's terminal's renewed contact information to the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal simultaneously once the first user's terminal's contact information changes; sending the renewed contact information at the first user's terminal automatically to the cloud storage spaces belonging to the contact people in the directory at the first user's terminal after the information about the contact people in the cloud storage space belonging to the first user's terminal is synchronized.

3 . The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein downloading the first user's renewed contact information to the contact people in the directory at the first user's terminal from their individual cloud storage spaces automatically comprises following steps of:
identifying the first user's cloud account, changing the first user's contact information after identification, and sending a message notifying the first user's cloud storage space of success after the cloud storage space of the contact information in the directory at the first user's terminal receives the update of first user's contact information; sending a simultaneous request to each of the user's terminals corresponding to the cloud storage spaces of the contact information in the directory at the first user's terminal after the cloud storage spaces of the contact information in the directory atat the first user's terminal are updated completely; and executing simultaneous operation of updating the first user's new contact information to each of the users' directories simultaneously after each of the user's terminals receives the simultaneous request.

4 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein synchronizing the renewed contact information with each of the contact people's cloud storage spaces in the directory at the first user's terminal automatically comprises following steps of:
sending a request of obtaining the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal to the central server from the cloud storage at the first user's terminal when the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal communicates with the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal; authenticating the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal once the central server receives the request of obtaining the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal, and sending the single ID marker and the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal to the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal after the authentication is proven successful; sending the first user's renewed phone number and business type at the first user's terminal to the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal after the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal receives the information about the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal; and deciding if the phone number at the first user's terminal is simultaneously operated according to a permission issued to the user by an interior system after the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal receives the message, and if the first user's terminal is one of the second user's friend's terminals and owns a super permission, the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal being going to receive all of simultaneous update commands sent by the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal unconditionally and being going to obtain and save the latest phone number at the first user's terminal.

5 . The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein synchronizing the renewed contact information with the cloud storage spaces of all of the contact people in the directory at the first user's terminal comprises following steps of:
sending a request of obtaining the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal to the central server from the first user's terminal when the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal communicates with the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal; authenticating the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal once the central server receives the request of obtaining the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal, and sending the single ID marker and the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal to the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal after the authentication is proven successful; sending the first user's renewed phone number and business type at the first user's terminal to the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal after the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal receives the information about the address of the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal; and deciding if the phone number at the first user's terminal is simultaneously operated according to a permission issued to the user by an interior system after the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal receives the message, and if the first user's terminal is one of the second user's friend's terminals and owns a super permission, the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal being going to receive all of simultaneous update commands sent by the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal unconditionally and being going to obtain and save the latest phone number at the first user's terminal.

6 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein deciding if a phone number at the first user's terminal is simultaneously operated according to a permission issued to the user by an interior system after the cloud storage space at the second user's terminal receives the message further comprises following steps of:
suspending the execution of every command sent by the cloud storage space at the first user's terminal at the second user's terminal if the first user's terminal is on the blacklist of the second user's terminal.

7 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein deciding if a phone number at the first user's terminal is simultaneously operated according to a permission

Assignees

• Huizhou Tcl Mobile Comm Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shi Zhen

Classifications

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• G06F17/30345

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/1095 Primary

  Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes · CPC title

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F16/27

  Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor · CPC title