WO2012048595A1

WO2012048595A1 - Method and system for improving number resource utilization rate

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Publication number: WO2012048595A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/076993
Authority: WO
Inventors: 袁迎峰
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-10-13
Filing date: 2011-07-08
Publication date: 2012-04-19
Also published as: CN101984681A; CN101984681B

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and system for improving number resource utilization. The method comprises: a home location register detects whether a user is expired and notifies an over-the-air functional entity of the information of the detected expired user; the over-the-air functional entity recycles the number resource of the expired user. A home location register and an over-the-air functional entity are also disclosed. The present invention improves the utilization rate of number resources, reduces operational cost, and improves operational efficiency.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a method and system for improving the utilization of a number resource.

BACKGROUND In the existing wireless communication system, a traditional account opening operation is directly implemented in a Home Location Register (HLR) and a service control through a Business Operation Support System (BOSS, also referred to as a camping system). The new user's account is opened in the subsystems such as Service Control Point (SCP). After the account is opened, the corresponding user card is sold to the user, and the user starts using the user card when needed. In this account opening process, the number of the new user is not used but has occupied the network storage resources from the time the account is opened until the user actually uses the user card. In the existing wireless communication system, the traditional account-out operation is to export expired users at a time (for example, one month), and to perform an account-out operation for expired users in batches. In this type of account cancellation process, a certain number of expired number resources cannot be released in time and still occupy network storage resources.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for improving the utilization of number resources to solve the problem of how to improve the utilization of number resources, reduce operating costs, and improve operational efficiency. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method for improving the utilization of a number resource, the method comprising: the home location register detecting whether the user is out of date, notifying the information of the detected expired user to the air activation function entity; and activating the air The functional entity reclaims the number resource of this expired user. In the above method, the step of detecting, by the home location register, whether the user has expired includes: the home location register detecting whether the user is expired in real time; or the air activation function entity periodically sending an expired user recovery instruction to the home location register, where the home location The register detects whether the user has expired after receiving the expired user recycle instruction. The method further includes: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, the air activation function entity triggers the service control point and the service operation support system to perform an account cancellation operation on the expired user, or triggers a service control point. The business operation support system and the home location register perform the account cancellation operation for the expired user. The method further includes: a process of opening an account of a new user, comprising: the home location register learning, after the new user first registers and not opening an account, querying the information of the new user from the air activation function entity, and The user performs an account opening operation, and the air activation function entity records the opened account status of the new user. The method further includes: a process of opening an account when the new user is a smart user, the method includes: the home location register is informed that the new user firstly registers and does not open an account, and the information of the new user is queried from the air activation function entity, and The account opening operation is performed on the new user. When the air activation function entity determines that the new user is a smart user, the service control point is instructed to open an account for the new user, and the account opening status of the new user is recorded. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention further provides a system for improving the utilization of a number resource, the system comprising: a home location register, an air activation function entity, wherein the home location register is set to: detect whether the user expires, The detected information of the expired user is notified to the air activation function entity; the air activation function entity is configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, recover the number resource of the expired user. In the above system, The home location register is configured to detect whether the user expires in the following manner: detecting whether the user is expired in real time; or the air activation function entity is further configured to: periodically send an expired user collection instruction to the home location register; and the attribution The location register is set to detect whether the user has expired as follows: After receiving the expired user recycle instruction, it is detected whether the user has expired. In the above system, the air activation function entity is further configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, trigger the service control point and the service operation support system to perform an account cancellation operation on the expired user, or trigger the service The control point, the business operation support system, and the home location register perform the account cancellation operation for the expired user. In the above system, the home location register is further configured to: after learning that the new user is initially registered and not open an account, querying the information of the user from the air activation function entity, and performing an account opening operation on the new user; The functional entity is further configured to: record the opened account status of the new user after learning that the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user. In the above system, the home location register is further configured to: after learning that the new user is initially registered and not open an account, querying the information of the user from the air activation function entity, and performing an account opening operation on the new user; The function entity is further configured to: after learning that the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user, and determining that the new user is a smart user, instructing the service control point to open an account for the new user, and recording the new user's already The account opening status; the service control point is set to: after receiving an instruction to open a new user from the air activation function entity, perform an account opening operation on the new user. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention also provides an air activation function entity, which is configured to: receive a home location register to detect a detected expired user after detecting whether the user has expired Information; and after receiving the information of the expired user, reclaiming the number resource of the expired user. The above air activation function entity is also set to:

An expired user reclaiming instruction is periodically sent to the home location register to cause the home location register to detect whether the user has expired after receiving the expired user reclaiming instruction. The air activation function entity is further configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, trigger the service control point and the service operation support system to perform an account cancellation operation on the expired user, or trigger a service control point and a service operation. The support system and the home location register perform an account cancellation operation for this expired user. The air activation function entity is further configured to: record the account opening status of the new user after learning that the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user. The air activation function entity is further configured to: after learning that the home location register completes an account opening operation for a new user, and determining that the new user is a smart user, instructing the service control point to open an account for the new user, and recording the new The user's account opening status.

The invention improves the account cancellation and account opening process, realizes real-time account opening and closing, can improve the utilization of number resources, reduce operating costs, and improve operational efficiency. In the present invention, the method of real-time account opening and closing can increase the utilization of number resources and reduce the dependence on number resources, especially for countries and regions with short number usage periods, which can effectively solve the bottleneck of limited number resources.

1 is a structural diagram of a system for improving number resource utilization in an embodiment; FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for improving number resource utilization in an embodiment; FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the user real-time account cancellation in the first embodiment.

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the features in the embodiments and the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other. The system for improving the utilization of the number resource in this embodiment includes a home location register and an Over The Air Function (OTAF) entity. The home location register is configured to: detect whether the user is out of date, and notify the air activation function entity of the detected information of the expired user. The air activation function entity is configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, recover the number resource of the expired user. The home location register is set to: detect whether the user expires in real time; or, the home location register may further set the expired user function entity sent by the air activation function entity to: periodically send expired user recovery to the home location register. instruction. The home location register is set to detect whether the user has expired after receiving the expired user recycle command. In addition to the air activation function entity, other entities related to user information also need to perform corresponding account cancellation operations during the user account cancellation process. In the system, the air activation function entity is further configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, trigger the service control point and the service operation support system to perform the account cancellation operation on the expired user, or trigger the service control point The business operation support system and the home location register perform the account cancellation operation for the expired user. When the system performs the process of opening an account for the ordinary user, the home location register is set as follows: After learning that the new user is initially registered and has not opened the account, the air activation function entity queries the information of the user, and performs an account opening operation for the new user. The air activation function entity is further configured to: record the account opening status of the new user after learning that the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user. When the system performs the process of opening an account for the intelligent user, the home location register is further set to: after learning that the new user is initially registered and has not opened the account, the information of the user is queried from the air activation function entity, And open an account for this new user. The air activation function entity is further configured to: after learning that the home location register completes an account opening operation for a new user, and determining that the new user is a smart user, instructing the service control point to perform an account opening operation for the new user, and recording the The account opening status of the new user. The service control point is set to: after receiving an indication of an account opening operation for the new user from the air activation function entity, an account opening operation is performed on the new user.

As shown in FIG. 2, the method for improving the utilization of the number resource in this embodiment includes: the home location register detects whether the user is out of date, notifies the detected information of the expired user to the air activation function entity, and the air activation function entity reclaims the expired user. Number resource. In the method of the embodiment, the home location register may detect whether the user expires in real time; the home location register may also be configured to send an expired user recovery command to the home location register when the expired user power back entity sent by the air activation function entity is received. The home location register detects whether the user has expired after receiving the expired user reclaiming instruction. In addition to the air activation function entity, other entities related to user information also need to perform corresponding account cancellation operations during the user account cancellation process. Specifically, after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, the air activation function entity triggers the service control point and the service operation support system to perform an account cancellation operation on the expired user, or triggers the service control point and the service operation support system. And the home location register performs the account cancellation operation for the expired user. When the new user is an ordinary user, the process of opening an account includes: the home location register learns that the new user is initially registered and does not open an account, queries the air activation function entity from the air activation function entity, and performs an account opening operation on the new user. The activation function entity records the account open status of this new user. When the new user is an intelligent user, the process of opening an account includes: the home location register learns that the new user is initially registered and does not open an account, queries the air activation function entity from the air activation function entity, and performs an account opening operation on the new user. When the activation function entity determines that the new user is a smart user, it instructs the service control point to open an account for the new user, and records the account opening status of the new user. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A specific embodiment 1 describes a processing flow of a real-time account. As shown in FIG. 3, the processing procedure of the real-time account in this embodiment includes: Step 301: The HLR and the OTAF establish a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connection, where the HLR As a server, and OTAF as a client. Step 302: The OTAF sets an expired user migration timer and an expired user migration condition. After the timer expires, the OTAF sends an expired user recovery instruction to the HLR. The time of the timer can be set by the OTAF according to the needs of different values. The conditions for a user to become an expired user are defined in the expired user migration condition. The expired user recycle instruction includes at least the number of the migrated user, the expiration time, the smart type, and the user status.

Step 303: The HLR searches the database according to the migration condition in the request message, queries the expired user that meets the migration condition, and sends the information of each expired user to the OTAF one by one. The OTAF imports the information of the expired users received into the OTAF user database. The information of the expired user includes the mobile identification number of the user (Mobile Identification

Number, referred to as MIN), Mobile Directory Number (MDN), smart type, and activation time. Step 304: The OTAF sends a sales account instruction to the SCP, where the account cancellation instruction includes the MIN, MDN, smart type, and activation time of the expired user. In step 305, the SCP cancels the account for the expired user, and returns the account cancellation response to the OTAF. Step 306, the OTAF sends a sales account instruction to the BOSS, where the account cancellation instruction includes the MIN, MDN, smart type, and activation time of the expired user. In step 307, the BOSS cancels the account for the expired user, and returns the account cancellation response to the OTAF. Step 308: The BOSS sends a sales account instruction to the HLR, where the account cancellation instruction includes the MIN, MDN, smart type, and activation time of the expired user. In step 309, the HLR cancels the account for the expired user, and returns the account cancellation response to the BOSS. In step 310, the OTAF reclaims the number resource of the expired user.

Specific Embodiment 2 The processing flow of real-time account opening is described in the second embodiment. When the user purchases the mobile card from a commercial channel but does not open an account, the basic information of the mobile card is stored in the over-the-air activation function entity (OTAF), and the basic information includes the card's MIN, electronic serial number (ESN), MDN. And the account opening template (PROFID), and the information of this mobile card does not exist in the HLR and SCP. The process of real-time account opening includes: Step 401, the user puts the mobile card into the terminal and starts up, the mobile management center (Mobile

The Switching Center (MSC) detects the initial registration of the mobile card and sends a location update message (REGNOT) to the HLR. Step 402: The HLR detects that the user has not opened an account and the user is located in a range of numbers allowed by the HLR.

Step 403: The HLR sends a user information query request message to the OTAF (this message is

OTASPREQ class message). The query request message carries the user's MIN and the Action Code, and the value of the Action Code is 96, which is indicated as indicating that the OTAF queries the user's account opening information and returns to the HLR. In step 404, the OTAF queries the user to exist, and returns the user's MIN, ESN, MDN, and account opening template (PROFID) to the HLR. Step 405: The HLR completes the user account opening operation according to the received user information, and returns a registration response to the MSC, where the registration response message includes information signed by the user. Step 406: The HLR notifies the OTAF system that the HLR is successfully opened. The notification message includes the user's MIN, ESN, and Action Code, and the value of the Action Code is 97, where 97 is a value extended on the basis of the protocol, where the meaning of the operation code 97 is It is the HLR that informs the OTAF to open an account. Step 407, the OTAF sets the user status to the opened account state (ie, the activated state), and sends the HLR to the HLR. Returns a response message. In this step, when the OTAF queries the user as a smart user, the OTASPREQ class message is sent to the SCP, and the SCP is required to open the account. The message carries the user's MIN, MDN, Action Code, SCP type (SCPType), where, Action Code The value is 98, where 98 is a value extended on the basis of the protocol. Here, the meaning of the operation code 98 is that the OTAF notifies the SCP to perform an account opening operation, and the SCPType is an intelligent network type, including a virtual private network. The SCP opens an account for the user, and returns a response message to the OTAF (this message belongs to the OTASPREQ class message), carrying the user's MIN, MDN, and information about successful account opening. The OTAF notifies the SCP that the account opening is successful after setting the user status to the account open state (ie, the active state).

EMBODIMENT 3 The process flow of invalid user account opening failure is described in the third embodiment, including: Steps 501 to 503 are the same as steps 401 to 403, respectively. Step 504: When the OTAF query does not have the user information (that is, the user information is invalid), return a response message indicating that the account opening failed to the HLR. Step 505: The HLR confirms that the account opening fails, and returns a registration rejection message to the MSC.

The fourth embodiment describes the processing flow of the SCP user account opening failure, including: Steps 601 to 606 are the same as steps 401 to 406, respectively. Step 607: When the OTAF queries the user as a smart user, the OTAFREQ class message is sent to the SCP, and the SCP user is required to open the account. The message carries the user's MIN), the Action Code, and the SCPType. In step 608, the SCP fails to open an account for the user, and notifies the OTAF of the result of the account opening failure. In step 609, the OTAF sets the user status to be unopened, and returns a notification message of the account opening failure to the HLR. Step 610: After receiving the failure response message, the HLR performs a rollback process on the user who has opened the account, and notifies the visitor location register (VLR) to delete the user location information.

The embodiment further provides a home location register, which is configured to: detect whether the user is out of date, notify the air activation function entity of the detected information of the expired user, so that the air activation function entity receives the attribution After the location register sends the information of the expired user, the number resource of the expired user is reclaimed. In the home location register of this embodiment, the home location register is configured to detect whether the user expires in the following manner: detecting whether the user is expired in real time; or the home location register is set to detect whether the user expires as follows: After the expired user reclaiming instruction sent by the over-the-air activation function entity to the home location register, it is detected whether the user has expired. The home location register of this embodiment is further configured to: after learning that the new user is initially registered and not opening an account, query the information of the user from the air activation function entity, and perform an account opening operation for the new user.

The embodiment further provides an over-the-air activation function entity, which is configured to: receive information of the detected expired user sent by the home location register after detecting whether the user expires; and after receiving the information of the expired user, recovering The number resource of this expired user. The air activation function entity of this embodiment is further configured to: periodically send an expired user reclaiming instruction to the home location register, so that the home location register detects whether the user expires after receiving the expired user reclaiming instruction. The air activation function entity of this embodiment is further configured to: After receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, triggering the service control point and the service operation support system to perform an account cancellation operation on the expired user, or triggering the service control point, the service operation support system, and the home location register to expire The user performs the account cancellation operation. The air activation function entity of this embodiment is further configured to: record the account opening status of the new user after learning that the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user. The air activation function entity of this embodiment is further configured to: after learning that the home location register completes an account opening operation for a new user, and determining that the new user is a smart user, instructing the service control point to perform an account opening operation for the new user, and Record the account opening status of this new user.

The invention improves the process of opening accounts and opening accounts, realizing real-time account opening and closing, and can improve the utilization of number resources, reduce operating costs, and improve operational efficiency. In the present invention, the method of real-time account opening and closing can increase the utilization of the number resources and reduce the dependence on the number resources, especially for countries and regions with a short period of use, which can effectively solve the bottleneck of the limited number resources. In addition, the present invention utilizes the existing standard service message (OTASPREQ) and the TCP process to implement an efficient and fast account opening and closing operation, thereby effectively improving the load capacity and operation efficiency of the network system, and enhancing the utilization of the number resource. Resources other than number resources also have reference significance, which has certain promotion effects on resource optimization of mobile networks.

It is a matter of course that the invention may be embodied in various other forms and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be performed by a program to instruct the associated hardware, such as a read only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the above embodiment can be used The form of hardware implementation can also be implemented in the form of software function modules. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

Industrial Applicability The present invention improves the process of opening an account and opening an account, realizing real-time account opening and closing, and can improve the utilization of number resources, reduce operating costs, and improve operational efficiency. In the present invention, the method of real-time account opening and closing can increase the utilization of number resources and reduce the dependence on number resources, especially for countries and regions with short number usage periods, which can effectively solve the bottleneck of limited number resources.

Claims

Claim

A method for improving the utilization of a number resource, the method comprising: the home location register detecting whether the user is out of date, notifying the detected information of the expired user to the air activation function entity; and the air activation function entity reclaiming the number of the expired user Resources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of detecting, by the home location register, whether the user has expired comprises: detecting, by the home location register, whether the user has expired in real time; or transmitting, by the air activation function entity, to the home location register The expired user reclaims the command, and the home location register detects whether the user has expired after receiving the expired user reclaiming instruction.

3. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising: after the air activation function entity receives the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, triggering the service control point and the service operation support system to expire The user performs the account cancellation operation, or triggers the service control point, the business operation support system, and the home location register to perform the account cancellation operation for the expired user.

The method of claim 1, further comprising: a process of opening an account of a new user, comprising: querying, by the home location register, that the new user is initially registered and not open an account, querying from the air activation function entity The information of the new user is entered, and the account opening operation is performed for the new user, and the air activation function entity records the account opening status of the new user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising: a process of opening an account when the new user is a smart user, the method comprising: the home location register learning that the new user is initially registered and not activated, and activated from the air The function entity queries the information of the new user, and performs an account opening operation on the new user, and the air activation function entity determines that the new user is smart. At the time of the household, the business control point is instructed to open an account for the new user, and the account opening status of the new user is recorded.

A system for improving the utilization of a number resource, the system comprising: a home location register, an air activation function entity, wherein the home location register is set to: detect whether the user is out of date, and notify the detected information of the expired user to The air activation function entity is configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, recover the number resource of the expired user.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the home location register is configured to detect whether the user is out of date as follows: detecting whether the user is expired in real time; or the air activation function entity is further configured to: The home location register sends an expired user recycle command; and the home location register is configured to detect whether the user has expired as follows: After detecting the expired user recycle command, detecting whether the user has expired.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein the air activation function entity is further configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, triggering the service control point and the service operation support system to expire The user performs the account cancellation operation, or triggers the service control point, the business operation support system, and the home location register to perform the account cancellation operation for the expired user.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein the home location register is further configured to: after learning that the new user is initially registered and has not opened an account, querying the information of the user from the air activation function entity, and The user performs an account opening operation; the air activation function entity is further configured to: record, after the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user, record the opened account status of the new user.

10. The system according to claim 6, wherein the home location register is further configured to: after learning that the new user is initially registered and has not opened an account, querying the information of the user from the air activation function entity, and The user performs an account opening operation; the air activation function entity is further configured to: after learning that the home location register completes an account opening operation for a new user, and determining that the new user is a smart user, instructing the service control point to open an account for the new user Operation, and recording the account opening status of the new user; the service control point is set to: after receiving an instruction to open an account operation for the new user from the air activation function entity, perform an account opening operation for the new user.

11. An over-the-air activation function entity, configured to: receive information of a detected expired user sent after detecting that the user has expired; and, after receiving the information of the expired user, recovering the expired user Number resource.

12. The air activation functional entity of claim 11 further configured to:

An expired user reclaiming instruction is periodically sent to the home location register to cause the home location register to detect whether the user has expired after receiving the expired user reclaiming instruction.

The air activation function entity of claim 11, further configured to: after receiving the information of the expired user sent by the home location register, trigger the service control point and the service operation support system to cancel the expired user Operation, or triggering the service control point, the business operation support system, and the home location register to perform an account cancellation operation for the expired user.

14. The over-the-air activation function entity of claim 11, further configured to: record the account opened status of the new user after learning that the home location register completes an account opening operation for the new user.

15. The over-the-air active function entity of claim 11 further configured to: After learning that the home location register completes the account opening operation for the new user, when the new user is determined to be a smart user, the service control point is instructed to open an account for the new user, and the account opening status of the new user is recorded.