KR100666713B1 - Apparatus and method for providing channel to infra in open mobile business support system - Google Patents

Abstract

A device and a method for offering an infra channel in an open mobile business support system are provided to support a performance centric linking process between legacy systems by offering an integrated interface for internal legacy systems of a mobile communication system. An API(Application Program Interface) processor(51) receives a parameter for a biz object from the legacy system, processes/transfers the parameter to a gateway(52), and returns a result value of the gateway to the legacy system requesting the biz object if a biz object request realizing link is received from the legacy system. The gateway analyzes the parameter received from the API processor, transfers a message for requesting execution of the biz object to a legacy linking processor(43), receives the result value from the legacy linking processor, and returns the result value to the API processor. An online inquiry part(53) extracts and transfers a configuration information value of an infra channel providing device according to a configuration information inquiry request for the infra channel providing device.

Description

Apparatus and method for providing channel to Infra in open mobile business support system}

1 is a schematic network diagram of a mobile service.

2 is a block diagram showing the basic structure of a mobile communication system.

3 is a structural diagram showing the overall configuration of an open mobile business support system.

4 is a block diagram illustrating a connection relationship between an infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention in an open mobile business support system.

5 is a detailed configuration diagram of an infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

6 is a block diagram showing an interworking structure of an infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

7 is a flowchart of an application program interface (API) in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of executing a Biz Object in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a real-time processing procedure of configuration information in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

10 is a flowchart illustrating a log information processing procedure following an infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

11 is a flowchart illustrating a log generation procedure in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

12 is a flowchart illustrating a real-time reflection procedure of configuration information in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

13 is a flowchart illustrating an online inquiry processing procedure of configuration information in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

14 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of monitoring data in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

51: API processing unit 52: gateway unit

53: online inquiry unit 54: log upload unit

55: interface unit 56: message broker

57: message queue (MQ) management unit 58: configuration (config) management unit

59: log management unit

60: OMS (Operation & Management system) management unit

61: DB management unit

The present invention relates to an open mobile business support system, and more particularly, to provide an integrated interface to internal legacy systems of a mobile communication system, thereby supporting performance-based interworking processing between legacy systems. An infrastructure channel providing apparatus.

As wireless internet technology has recently been developed and the use of mobile communication terminals has rapidly increased, as shown in FIG. 1, the CP / SP system 11 has predetermined contents to the wireless terminal 13 through the mobile communication system 12. There is a wide range of mobile businesses offering services.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile communication system 12 includes a plurality of base stations (BTSs) 121 that are in charge of a wireless communication section, and a plurality of base station controllers (BSCs) for controlling the base stations 121 ( 122, a mobile communication exchange (MSC) 123 which performs connection to each base station controller 122 and information and authentication for a mobile communication service subscriber, and performs mutual format conversion between voice data and packet data, and performs an IP network. Or an interworking function unit (IWF) 124 for connecting to another mobile communication network, a short message service center (SMSC) 125 that provides a text message transmission service, and a multimedia message transmission / reception service including video, text and voice. A multimedia message service center (MMSC) 126 for providing a message, a push proxy gateway (PPG) 127 for providing a message pushing service to a mobile communication terminal 13, and a location for providing a location-based service Such as anti-service system (LBSP) (128), made of a legacy system having respective functions are intricately linked.

Therefore, when the CP / SP system 11 intends to provide a predetermined mobile service in conjunction with the mobile communication system 12, the CP / SP system 11 directly connects to each legacy system of the mobile communication system 12 according to the set service logic. Since the service was requested and the result was received, the burden on the CP / SP was increased and the service could not be made quickly.

In addition, since interworking standards are not standardized among legacy systems in a mobile communication system, in order for a particular legacy system to interwork with other legacy systems, it has to be inconvenient, for example, to conform to the protocol of the legacy system.

The present invention has been proposed to meet the above-described needs, and an object thereof is to provide an integrated interface to internal legacy systems of a mobile communication system, thereby supporting an open mobile business support system supporting performance-based interworking processing between legacy systems. It is to provide an infrastructure channel providing device.

As a constituent means for achieving the above object, the present invention stores / stores a bead template composed of a plurality of bead objects which perform service processing linked with various legacy systems in a mobile communication system and decision processing based on the result of the processing. An infrastructure channel providing apparatus of an open mobile business support system comprising a business logic processing unit for performing management and a legacy interworking processing unit for interworking with the business logic processing unit and a legacy system associated with a corresponding business template, the legacy channel from a specific legacy system. When receiving a Biz object request that is configured in the functional unit of the system to realize the interworking, it receives and processes the parameters for the Biz object from the legacy system, and delivers the parameters to the following gateway unit, to the gateway unit API processing part for passing the emitter results in a legacy system to the requested business object; And a gateway that analyzes the input parameter transmitted from the API processor, transmits a message requesting the performance of the beads object to the corresponding legacy interworking processor, receives a result value from the legacy interworking processor, and delivers the result value to the API processor. It is characterized by including.

In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing an infrastructure channel for supporting interworking between legacy systems of a mobile communication system, the method comprising: a) service processing by each legacy system of a mobile communication system; Setting a plurality of beads objects for performing a judgment process based on a result of the process; b) providing an API for each of the plurality of set Biz objects; c) receiving a request to perform a particular biz object from a legacy system via the provided API; And d) requesting service processing to the corresponding legacy system according to the requested Biz object, and receiving the result and returning the result to the legacy system requesting to perform the Biz object.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described the configuration and operation of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention.

The present invention is to support the interworking between legacy systems of a mobile communication system, the basic principle of which is a service logic of the CP / SP can be bundled into a unit function and the lower function that can be performed by the mobile communication system biz logic The first and second business objects, which receive input from the legacy system of the mobile communication system, receive input from the legacy system of the mobile communication system, and analyze the logic of the selected range. A bead template expressing the flow of the bead logic is configured by setting at least one second bead object to be determined, arranging the set first bead object and the second bead object in a processing order, and setting information on input / output values. After that, the API (Application Program Interface) for the Provided to CP / SP system.

3 illustrates the overall structure of the open mobile business support system. The open mobile business support system receives a request to perform a bead logic from a CP / SP 21 and generates a bead template corresponding to the requested bead logic. A business that stores / manages / executes the above-described beads template and the open interface processing unit 22 which receives the call result value and delivers the call result value to the CP / SP 21. Receives a request for the execution of the beads object from the logic processing unit 23 and the legacy system, performs the beads object in conjunction with another legacy system through the legacy interworking processing unit 26 to be described later, and transfers the result to the corresponding legacy system The infrastructure channel provider 24 and the business logic processor 23 to perform a business template, or The billing processing unit 25 collects, refines, and transfers the billing log generated by performing the Biz object in the provider unit 24 to the billing legacy system, and interworking between the business logic processing unit 23 and the legacy system 29. A legacy interworking processing unit 26 for intermediating the data, an operation and management unit for collecting fault information and performance information by collecting log information of an open mobile business support system (hereinafter referred to as OMS) 27, and CP / It includes a web service unit 28 that provides the registration of the SP or administrator, querying statistical information about the open mobile business service, monitoring.

In the open mobile business support system, the present invention relates to an infrastructure channel providing unit 24 that handles interworking between legacy systems.

In particular, the present invention provides an API to the legacy system 29 of the mobile communication system for a biz object that divides the service processing performed by the legacy system 29 into functional units, and provides a predetermined legacy system 29 through the API. ) Receives a request to perform a specific biz object, performs the biz object, and returns the result to the corresponding legacy system 29. In this case, the bead object provided for interworking of the legacy system 29 may use the bead objects constituting the bead template provided through the open mobile business support system and, if necessary, the bead object not included in any bead template. You can also set more separately.

4 is a block diagram showing a connection configuration of an infrastructure channel providing apparatus in an open mobile business support system.

Referring to FIG. 4, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 of the open mobile business support system according to the present invention receives a request for performing a specific bead object from a legacy system 40, which is an internal system of the mobile communication system, and receives the received request. Records the information of the beads object to be performed in the MMDB (45) and the execution status of each bead object to process the request, the legacy interworking processing unit 43 and the billing processing unit 44 through the corresponding message delivery unit 42 Deliver the performance request message and billing data of the system. In addition, the message transfer unit 42 receives a processing result of the legacy interworking processing unit 43 from the legacy interworking processing unit 43, and returns it to the legacy system 40 requesting the execution of the Biz object.

In addition, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 is connected to the OMS 46 and the web service unit 48 to deliver log information, configuration information, and inquiry information, respectively.

The Biz object provided to the legacy system 40 through the infrastructure channel providing device 41 is defined to implement a biz template derived from a service selected through verification as described above, or between legacy systems. As defined from the functions of specific legacy systems that are frequently used, the functions mainly used between the legacy systems 40 are mainly.

For example, the Biz object, the normal user inquiry to check whether the normal user using the phone number and social security number, the presence or absence of the normal user by phone number, the user information inquiry to query the user information and phone information, adult pass As used in various services that require word authentication, adult password-existence authentication to confirm the existence of adult password, number movement using phone number, final routing information, number port information search for phone number, phone number Prepaid balance inquiry to search the currently available prepaid balance using prepaid phone subscriber code, content amount to be used, supplementary service subscription to look up subscription / cancellation information of supplementary service using the phone number of the subject / Inquiry / Inquiry, To search the real number using the virtual number of the subject SMS / MMS transmission to send SMS / MMS to recipient by inputting virtual number mapping, outgoing phone number, incoming phone number, phone type and transmission message, request service type, platform classification, positioning method, response time setting and response Latency, response type, screen information, tracker phone number, tracker browser version and tracker phone number to find general location.

For each of the beads objects, an input parameter and an output parameter for performing a corresponding function are defined. For example, the beads object for normal user inquiry is a beads object for inquiring whether the user is a normal user using a phone number and a resident number. User information such as real user, name holder, corporate user's resident / business inquiries match, KTF customer status, and suspension can be verified. It has a type of / business number and social security number, and has a session key, a result code, and a request result message set by the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 as output parameters.

Each input object and output parameter for each of these beads objects are different.

5 is a block diagram showing the detailed structure of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41. As shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 5, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 provides an execution interface of a business object for the legacy system 40, processes input and output parameters for execution of the business object, and gateways input parameters. Using the API processing unit 51 and the input parameter transmitted from the API processing unit 51 to pass to the unit 52 and receives the result corresponding to the output parameter to the legacy system 40 that performed the request of the beads object And a gateway unit 52 which performs the requested biz object, transmits the interworking request to the legacy interworking processing unit 43, receives the result, and delivers the result to the API processing unit 51. In addition, the gateway unit On-line inquiry unit 53 for providing the environment setting value of the 52 to the web service unit 48, and log-up for periodically providing the log of the infrastructure channel providing device 41 to the OMS 46 (54) further includes.

The gateway unit 52 receives the beads object request of the API processing unit 51, and transmits / receives the module 551 to transfer the processing result to the API processing unit 51, and accesses the API processing unit 51. An authentication management module 552 for processing authorization of use of a legacy system 40, a session management module 553 for generating and managing a unique session key for a request authenticated by the authentication management module 552, and The API management unit 51 includes a thread management module 554 that supports multi-thread processing for processing a request authenticated by the authentication management module 552 and performs scheduling and shared resource management of each thread task. An interface unit 55 for providing input / output interfacing to the request controller, a request mediation module 561 and an API processor 51 for analyzing the API requested from the interface 55 and intermediary with the message transfer unit 42; Before It consists of a message constructing module 562 for parsing the delivered parameters in a specialized format to be sent to the message delivery section 42, in conjunction with the message intermediary 56 for mediating messages for performing the request, and the legacy interworking processing section 43 The first sending module 571 for transmitting the message to the legacy system 40 through the message delivery unit 42 and the second for transmitting the message to the charging processing unit 44 through the message delivery unit 42 for the charge log. MQ management unit that supports MQ interworking protocol processing, including a receiving module 573 receiving a message from the legacy interworking processing unit 43 and the charging processing unit 44 through the transmitting module 572 and the message transfer unit 42 ( 57), a configuration manager 58 for managing environment settings such as the system environment of the infrastructure channel providing device 41, log generation cycle, and the like, and a log file of the infrastructure channel providing device 41, and generates an OMS 46. Monitoring day to send to A connection between the log management unit 59 for generating a log, the OMS management unit 60 for transmitting the monitoring data stored in the file form by the log management unit 59 to the OMS 46 at regular intervals, and the MMDB 45; It is composed of a DB management unit 61 in charge of writing and reading data by performing transaction processing.

In the above, the log manager 59 does not directly connect to the OMS 46 for system performance.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an interworking structure between the above-described infrastructure channel providing device 41 and another system, wherein the infrastructure channel providing device 41 (more specifically, the API processing unit 51) and the legacy system 40 are shown. It is connected by the TCP / IP protocol between the exchange, the infrastructure channel providing device 41 and the message transfer unit 42 exchanges messages with the legacy interlocking unit 43 and the billing processing unit 44 through the MQ interworking protocol, The infrastructure channel providing device 41 and the OMS 46 are connected via ODBC and FTP, and the infrastructure channel providing device 41 is connected to the web service unit 48 and ODBC.

In the above configuration, in order to improve the processing speed, between the API processing unit 51 and the gateway unit 52 uses a TCP / IP socket protocol, and other components of the gateway unit 52 and the open mobile business support system, That is, MQ is used for message transmission with the legacy interlocking processor 43 and the charging processor 44, and there is no need to configure a separate interlocking interface between the legacy interlocking processor 43 and the charging processor 44.

The API processing unit 51 supports a variety of platforms (NT, SUN, IBM, AIX, HP-UX), the development language can be implemented by supporting C / C ++, Java, which is mapped 1: 1 by Biz object It provides API in form.

By the above-described configuration, the infrastructure channel providing device 41 establishes the infrastructure integration base of the mobile communication system by providing a standardized communication channel between the legacy systems 40, and supports various platforms and various development languages. It can be used on services, guarantees connection reliability between synchronous TCP / IP sockets and asynchronous MQ communication, and provides fast function performance on a per-object basis.

Detailed operations of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 7 to 14.

7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the API processing unit 51 in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 according to the present invention.

The API processor 51 provides an API in the form of a shared library provided by the legacy system 40, and is responsible for a client portion of socket communication. The operation of the API will be described with reference to FIG. 7. When a bead object to be executed from a specific legacy system 40 is selected (S701), and if the bead object exists (S702), if not, transmits an error code to the corresponding legacy system 40 (S703), If so, the socket communication with the gateway unit 52 is prepared (S704).

After the connection to the gateway unit 52 is performed through the socket communication (S702), if the connection is not successful, after reconnection is performed, it is determined whether or not the success is successful again. The error code is transmitted to the legacy system 40 (S709).

On the contrary, if the connection to the gateway unit 52 is successful through the socket communication, an object ID (objectID), an API authentication key (objectAuthKey), an IP address (ipAddr), a port number (portNo), and an input parameter of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus. A set (inSet) and an output parameter set (outSet) of the execution result of the beads object are transmitted (S710).

It waits for the execution result from the gateway part 52 (S711).

When the result is received from the gateway unit 52, the received result value is returned to the legacy system 40 requesting the execution of the corresponding beads object (S713).

8 is a flowchart showing a procedure of executing a biz object in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, the legacy system 40 requests the execution of the biz object, and transmits a parameter necessary for the execution of the biz object to the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 (S802).

In response, the API processing unit 51 of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 receives the parameters (objectID, objectAuthKey, ipAddr, portNo, inSet, outSet) according to the procedure shown in FIG. 7, and transmits them to the gateway 52 ( S803).

Accordingly, the authentication management module 552 of the gateway unit 52 authenticates whether the corresponding legacy system 40 has API permission by referring to objectAuthKey among the received parameters, and thus, the legacy system 40 does not have permission to use API. If it is a request (S804, S805), it transmits that the authority has failed to the corresponding legacy system 40, and receives it from the legacy system 40 (S806, S807).

On the contrary, the API usage authority is authenticated, and after generating a log (S808), the session management module 553 generates a unique session key for the request (S809), and the thread management module 554 requests the request. Create a thread for performing (S810).

The message composition module 562, which has received the parameter through the generated thread, parses the received parameter to generate the full text of the request message to be sent to the message transfer unit 42 (S812). The first transmission module 571 writes the generated request message message in the designated message queue of the message transfer unit 42 so that the legacy interworking processor 43 receives the message (S813, S814).

The message recorded in the message transfer unit 42 is read and received by the corresponding legacy interworking processing unit 43, and processes the beads object according to the request message, and as a result, the infrastructure channel providing device 41 In order to receive the message, the message is recorded in the stored message queue of the message delivery unit 42 (S815 to S817).

The result message is received by the receiving module 573 of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 44 from the message delivery unit 42 (S818), and then the message relay unit 56 analyzes the received message, the beads object Determine the execution result of the, and transmits it through the socket communication to the legacy system 40 requesting the execution of the beads object through the API processing unit 51 (S820). In operation S821, a log is stored at the completion time of the Biz object.

As described above, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention mediates the use of the legacy system 40 for the beads object that implements the unit functions for each legacy system 40, thereby providing a uniform interworking standard among the legacy systems 40. Will be provided.

9 is a flowchart showing a charging process according to the execution of the beads object in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, the session management module 553 of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 inquires session information of a bead object being executed (S901), and executes a request for executing a bead object received from the legacy system 40. Check whether the execution of the corresponding beads object has been successfully processed, and if the result of the check has been normally processed, generate charging data for the processing, and configure a charging message through the message broker 562 to manage the MQ manager 57 The charging processor 44 transmits the message to the message transmitter 42 so that the charging processor 44 receives the signal through the second transmission module 572 (S903). The charging processor 43 transmits the charging message through the message transmitter 42. After receiving and processing the data (e.g., converting to a UDR file and transmitting to the billing legacy system), the processing result message is transmitted to the message transfer unit 42 (S904 to S906).

The processing result message of the charging data transmitted from the charging processor 43 is received by the receiving module 573 and stored in the charging data log (S908).

By the above procedure, it is possible to collect and process appropriate billing information for each execution of the beads object.

10 is a flowchart showing a log information management procedure in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 according to the present invention, which is performed between the OMS 46 and the OMS 46.

The log management unit 59 of the infrastructure channel providing device 41 generates a log file for the infrastructure channel providing device 41 and a monitoring data log to be sent to the OMS 46. The generated log file or the report log DB In step S1001 and S1002, a file to be transmitted is selected.

The log upload unit 54 periodically requests an FTP connection to the OMS 46 (S1003), and if the OMS 46 processes the connection request and transmits the connection result (S1004, S1005), the transmitted message is transmitted. Upon receiving the access result (S1006), if the connection is successful, the selected log file is transmitted to the OMS 46 via FTP (S1008).

The OMS 46 receives the log file periodically transmitted as described above (S1009). When the log file is normally received, the OMS 46 transmits a reception completion response (Ack) signal to the infrastructure channel providing device 41 (S1010).

When the log upload unit 54 receives the log file reception completion response (Ack) signal from the OMS 46, the log upload unit 54 determines that the log file is successfully transmitted (S1012), and releases the FTP connection (S1013). The completed log file is deleted (S1014).

Steps S1003, S1006, S1007, S1008, S1011 and S1012 are repeatedly performed until the log file is successfully transmitted.

As described above, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 periodically transmits a log file and a report log file of the system to the OMS 46 to manage log information of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 in the OMS 46. To help.

11 is a flowchart showing a procedure of generating the transmitted log file in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 according to the present invention.

The log management unit 59 of the infrastructure channel providing device 41 generates a log of debugging information, fault information, system operation information, etc. generated in each module of the infrastructure channel providing device 41, and stores it in a system log file. The process is as follows.

Referring to FIG. 11, the log manager 49 loads a log environment file (S1101), and checks whether the environment setting value has changed (S1102). If the comparison result indicates that there is a change in the setting value, The changed setting value is reflected in the environment file (S1104), and if there is no change, the log environment file is kept as it is.

In this state, the log manager 49 checks a rotate cycle (S1105). If the rotation result is necessary, the log management unit 49 rotates a log file, debugging information in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41, A new log file for failure information and system operation information is generated (S1108), and a log is generated for each level again, and then stored in the system log file (S1109 and S1110).

By the above procedure, debugging information, fault information, system operation information, and the like are stored in a log file, which is classified and stored in accordance with a rotate cycle defined in the environment setting, so that the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 You can monitor or monitor performance and fault conditions.

12 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure for reflecting configuration information modified by an administrator in real time in the thread control in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 12, the configuration management unit 58 of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 loads a configuration file of a currently set system (S1201), checks whether there is a change in configuration information by modification of an administrator, and changes the configuration. If not, it terminates without performing the following procedure, and if there is a change, the changed configuration is applied to the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 in real time, and in addition, the thread environment is checked (S1205), so that the thread environment is changed. It is changed and thread control is executed (S1206, S1207).

In other words, by checking the configuration file for changes, if it is changed, the changed configuration file is loaded and applied in real time, and if not changed, the previously loaded configuration file is applied as it is. It can be applied immediately to the operation of the device (41).

13 is a flowchart showing a configuration information inquiry procedure of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41. This is made at the request of the web service unit 48, so that the configuration information of the infrastructure channel providing device 41 can be inquired through the web site.

Referring to FIG. 13, the web service unit 48 provides an online inquiry menu of configuration information on a web site to be provided. When an authenticated user selects the online inquiry menu, the web service unit 48 transmits an inquiry request message to an infrastructure channel provider. 41) (S1301, S1302).

Upon receiving the inquiry request message as described above, the online inquiry unit 53 of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 loads a configuration file managed by the configuration management unit 58, parses the inquiry item, and configures a request result message. This is transmitted to the web service unit 48 (S1305 to S1307).

The transmitted result message is received by the web service unit 48 and output to the online inquiry screen (S1308 and S1309).

As described above, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41 of the present invention may provide a configuration inquiry service of the system through a web site through the online inquiry unit 53.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of generating and transmitting monitoring statistics data for enabling the OMS 46 to monitor the infrastructure channel providing apparatus in the infrastructure channel providing apparatus 41. The monitoring statistics data transmission is performed by periodically storing in the OMS log file by the system timer and directly inputting the statistical data into the OMS 46 at the transmission cycle time defined in the configuration. Specifically, it is as follows.

The OMS management unit 60 of the infrastructure channel providing device 41 periodically loads and analyzes the log file generated by the log management unit 59 and extracts access information (S1401 to S1403).

The OMS 46 requests a direct connection to the DB of the OMS 46 based on the extracted access information (S1404). If the OMS 46 processes the DB connection and authenticates the DB connection (S1405 and S1406), the OMS The management unit 60 performs DB interfacing and transmits monitoring statistics data to the OMS 46 (S1407 and S1408).

As described above, when the monitoring statistics data is transmitted, the OMS 46 receives the data, records the data in the DB (S1409, S1410), and transmits a response message (Ack) for the completion of recording to the OMS manager 60. (S1411).

If the response message Ack is received from the OMS 46 after the transmission of the monitoring data, the OMS management unit 60 determines that the monitoring data transmission is completed and ends (S1412).

As described above, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus according to the present invention may provide an interworking means between legacy systems by providing an interface for allowing legacy systems in a mobile communication system to use an open mobile business support system. As a result, by providing fast function performance when interworking between legacy systems, it is possible to ensure high performance and reliability, there is an excellent effect that can efficiently handle the billing for this.

Claims (16)

A business logic processing unit which stores / manages a business template consisting of a plurality of biz objects which perform service processing interworking with various legacy systems in a mobile communication system and decision processing based on the result of the processing; In the infrastructure channel providing apparatus of the open mobile business support system including a legacy interworking processing unit in charge of interworking with the legacy system associated with the Biz template, Upon receiving a request from a specific legacy system that is composed of functional units of the legacy system and realizes interworking, it receives and processes parameters for the beads object from the legacy system, processes the parameters, and transmits the parameters to the following gateway unit. An API processor for transferring a result value to the legacy system that has requested the biz object; And Analyzing an input parameter transmitted from the API processing unit, and delivers a message requesting the performance of the beads object to the corresponding legacy interlocking processing unit, and receives a result value from the legacy interlocking processing unit and delivers the result value to the API processing unit Apparatus for providing infrastructure channels of an open mobile business support system, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the gateway unit delivers a request message to a message queue designated for each legacy interworking processor, and receives a response and a report for the request from a report / response message queue designated for each legacy interworking processor. Device for providing infrastructure channel of open mobile business support system. The method of claim 1, According to the configuration information inquiry request for the infrastructure channel providing apparatus, the infrastructure channel providing apparatus of the open mobile business support system, characterized in that it further comprises an online inquiry unit for extracting and transferring the configuration information value of the infrastructure channel providing apparatus. The method of claim 1, An open mobile business support system further comprising a log uploader for transmitting log files for debugging, failure, and system operation occurring in each module of the infrastructure channel providing device to an operation and management unit of an open mobile business support system. Infrastructure channel provider. The method of claim 2, wherein the gateway unit, An interface unit for authenticating a use right with respect to a request of a legacy system through the API processing unit, and generating and managing a unique session key for the authenticated request; A message broker for performing a request for performing a specific object object of the specific legacy system transmitted through the interface unit together with a legacy interworking processor and mediating a request / result / billing message for billing processing thereof; And MQ management unit for transmitting the request message generated by the message broker to the corresponding message queue to be delivered to the legacy interlocking system and the billing processing unit, and receives the response from the legacy interlocking system and the billing processing unit through the designated message queue Infrastructure channel providing apparatus of the open mobile business support system comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein the interface unit A transmit / receive module for receiving a beads object request of the API processing unit and transferring a processing result to the API processing unit; An authentication management module for authenticating a use authority of the legacy system accessed to the API processing unit; A session management module for generating and managing a unique session key with respect to a request for performing a business object of a legacy system authenticated by the authentication management module; And An open mobile business support system comprising a thread management module for supporting multi-threaded processing for processing an Biz object authentication request authenticated by the authentication management module and performing scheduling and shared resource management of each thread task. Infrastructure channel provider. The method of claim 5, wherein the message relay unit A request mediation module which analyzes the API request transmitted through the interface unit and is in charge of mediating with the message delivery unit; And  Apparatus for providing an infrastructure channel of the open mobile business support system, characterized in that it comprises a message configuration module for parsing the parameters delivered by the API processing in a specialized format to be sent to the message queue. The method of claim 5, wherein the MQ management unit A first transmitting module for transmitting a request message for performing a predetermined biz object to a message queue designated for a legacy interworking system; A second transmitting module for transferring a charging log to a charging processing unit through a specific message queue for charging processing performed by the beads object; And Apparatus for providing an infrastructure channel of an open mobile business support system, characterized in that it comprises a receiving module for receiving a message from the legacy interworking processing unit and the charging processing unit through the message queue. The method of claim 5, wherein the gateway unit The infrastructure channel providing apparatus of the open mobile business support system, characterized in that it further comprises a configuration management unit for managing configuration information for setting the environment, such as system environment, log generation cycle. The method of claim 5, wherein the gateway unit Apparatus for providing an infrastructure channel of the open mobile business support system, characterized in that it further comprises a log management unit for generating a log file, and generating a monitoring data log to be sent to the operation and management. The method of claim 5, wherein the gateway unit Open mobile business support system further comprises a DB management unit for performing a transaction processing, the connection to the memory-based database (MMDB) that manages session state information in the open mobile business support system, and is responsible for recording and reading data Infrastructure channel provider. The method of claim 10, wherein the gateway unit The infrastructure channel providing apparatus of the open mobile business support system, characterized in that it further comprises an OMS management unit for transmitting the monitoring data stored in the file form by the log management unit to the operation and management of the open mobile business support system at regular intervals. In the infrastructure channel providing method for supporting interworking between legacy systems of a mobile communication system, a) setting a plurality of biz objects that perform service processing by each legacy system of the mobile communication system and determination processing based on the result of the processing; b) providing an API for each of the plurality of set Biz objects; c) receiving a request to perform a particular biz object from a legacy system via the provided API; And d) requesting service processing to the corresponding legacy system according to the requested biz object, and receiving the result and returning the result to the legacy system requesting the performance of the biz object. The method of claim 13, e) checking whether a predetermined charging condition is satisfied when performing the Biz object, and if the charging condition is satisfied, collecting the charging information and transmitting the charging information to the charging legacy system of the mobile communication system. How to provide infrastructure channels. The method of claim 13, wherein step c) At least one of an object ID (objectID) to be executed, an API authentication key (objectAuthKey) granted by the legacy system to perform the object, an IP address (ipAddr) and a port number (portNo), and information required to execute the object. And receiving an input parameter set (inSet). The method of claim 15, wherein step d) Determining whether the requested legacy system has permission to use the received information by referring to an API authentication key (objectAuthKey); If the determination result is a request of a legacy system that does not have a right to use), informing the corresponding legacy system that there is no right; Generating a log, generating a unique session key for the request, and generating a thread for performing the request, if the determination result indicates that the user has a right to use it; Analyzing an input parameter set of the received information, constructing a service request message, and transmitting the service request message to a legacy system to process a corresponding function; And And receiving a result of execution from a legacy system that has transmitted the service request message, and transmitting a biz object to the requested legacy system.

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