Samsung patents secure file sharing for emergency networks
Samsung has been granted a patent for a method to store and distribute files within mission-critical communication networks. The system allows devices to securely upload and retrieve file content by using specific links to move data between dedicated storage areas and content servers.
In the filing’s own words
A method, performed by a mission critical data (MCData) message store entity, of depositing MCData for file distribution (FD). the method includes receiving a MCData deposit an object request message or a MCData retrieve file to store locally request message, wherein the MCData deposit an object request message comprises information regarding the object and the MCData retrieve file to store locally request message comprises information regarding object identifier, based on the MCData deposit an object request message or the MCData retrieve file to store locally request message, retrieving uniform resource locator (URL) of file content in a MCData content server, based on a result of the retrieving, fetching the file content from the MCData content server, storing the file content into a MCData user's storage area in the MCData message store entity, and updating the object with the URL referencing the file content stored in the MCData user's storage area.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a mission critical data (MCData) content server, an MCData upload request message indicating a uniform resource locator (URL) of a file residing in an MCData message store entity, wherein the file resides in a secured storage area of the MCData message store entity, the secured storage area being dedicated to an MCData user, wherein the file is fetched from the MCData message store entity via a reference point MCData-file distribution (FD)-7, based on the URL, wherein the reference point MCData-FD-7 exists between a media storage function in the MCData content server and the MCData message store entity, and wherein the file is stored into a repository of the MCData content server.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Method and device for storing and distributing file content in MC network
- Patent number
- US12756751B2
- Application number
- 18794558
- Filed
- Aug 5, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
H04L 67/06 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/0876 Electricity & electronicsH04L 67/1097 Electricity & electronicsH04L 67/566 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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