WO2017036155A1

WO2017036155A1 - Network access method and terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2017036155A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/080838
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张子敬; 张晴
Original assignee: 宇龙计算机通信科技(深圳)有限公司
Priority date: 2015-08-29
Filing date: 2016-04-29
Publication date: 2017-03-09
Also published as: CN105228216B; CN105228216A

Abstract

Disclosed is a network access method, comprising: acquiring a current geographical location and current time point of a terminal; determining a VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current geographical location and the current time point from a preset corresponding relationship between a geographical location range, a time period and hotspot information according to the current geographical location and the current time point; and accessing an IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot. Also disclosed is a network access terminal. By means of embodiments of the present invention, the network switching speed can be increased, and the network access security is improved.

Description

Network access method and terminal

The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201510543848.3, entitled "A Network Access Method and Terminal", filed on August 29, 2015, the entire contents of in.

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of electronic technologies, and in particular, to a network access method and a terminal.

Background technique

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is an application layer system built on a packet switched domain. In addition to supporting E-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network), the evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network ), UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) and GERAN (GSM EDGE Radio Access Network, GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network) access, and support multiple other access technologies For example, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) access and Wireless-Fidelity (WiFi) access. The current carrier is studying the function of implementing LTE (Long Term Evolution) voice call service VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and WiFi voice call service VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi).

In the prior art solution, the application research for VoLTE and VoWiFi is mainly in different application scenarios. Generally, when the outdoor LTE network coverage is good, the IMS network can be accessed through the LTE network to provide VoLTE voice call service, and indoors. In the case of good WiFi coverage, the user can access the IMS network through the wireless local area network to provide VoWiFi voice call service. However, when the user accesses the IMS network through the VoWiFi hotspot indoors, the user needs to manually find and select a VoWiFi hotspot to connect, the operation is cumbersome, and the network access switching speed is slow.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a network access method and a terminal. It can improve the speed of network switching and improve the security of network access.

The embodiment of the invention provides a network access method, including:

Obtain the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point;

Determining, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point from the preset geographic location range, the time segment, and the correspondence between the hotspot information;

A connection is established with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.

The method further includes: after the step of determining the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point, before establishing the connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, the method further includes:

Obtaining network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot;

Determining whether the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold;

When it is determined that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold, performing the step of establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.

The VoWiFi hotspot includes multiple hotspots, and the establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network further includes:

Obtaining network service quality of each of the plurality of hotspots;

Determining, according to the network service quality of each hotspot, a hotspot with the highest network service quality among the multiple hotspots;

A connection is established to the IMS network by establishing a connection with the hotspot with the highest network service quality.

The obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point further includes:

Obtaining a number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information in the time period and in the geographic location range;

When the number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information exceeds a preset number of times, the corresponding relationship between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information is established.

After the connection is established with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, the method further includes:

When it is detected that the terminal establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, the other radio network is closed.

Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network access terminal, including:

An information acquiring module, configured to acquire a current geographic location of the terminal and a current time point;

a hotspot determining module, configured to determine, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the current time point from a preset geographic location range, a time segment, and a correspondence between hotspot information VoWiFi hotspot;

And a network connection module, configured to connect to the IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot.

The terminal further includes a quality determining module, configured to:

Obtaining network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot;

When it is determined that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold, the network connection module accesses the IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot.

The VoWiFi hotspot includes multiple hotspots, and the network connection module includes:

a quality obtaining unit, configured to acquire network service quality of each of the plurality of hotspots;

a hotspot determining unit, configured to determine, according to the network service quality of each hotspot, a hotspot with the highest network service quality among the multiple hotspots;

And a network access unit, configured to establish a connection with the hotspot with the highest network service quality to access the IMS network.

The terminal further includes:

a number obtaining module, configured to acquire a number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information in the time period and in the geographic location range;

The relationship establishing module is configured to establish a correspondence between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information when it is determined that the number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information exceeds a preset number of times.

The terminal further includes:

The network shutdown module is configured to close other radio frequency networks when detecting that the terminal establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.

The embodiment of the present invention firstly obtains the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point; and according to the current geographic location and the current time point, and then from the preset geographic location range, time period, and hotspot letter Determine the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point in the corresponding relationship; finally, establish a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, thereby increasing the rate of network handover, since the accessed IMS network is in advance The secure network determined in the correspondence relationship can therefore improve the security of network access.

DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some of the present invention. For the embodiments, those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings according to the drawings without any creative work.

1 is a flowchart of a first embodiment of a network access method according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart of a second embodiment of a network access method according to the present invention;

3 is a schematic structural diagram of a network access terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic structural diagram of a network connection module in a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are a part of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a first embodiment of a network access method according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the method in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

S101. Acquire a current geographic location of the terminal and a current time point.

In a specific implementation, the GPS (Global Positioning System) positioning device in the terminal can be used to obtain the current geographic location of the terminal, and the clock application records the current time point, wherein the current geographic location can be longitude and latitude.

Optionally, before obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point, the number of times that the terminal connects to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information in the time range and in the geographic location range may be acquired; The terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information When the number of times exceeds the preset number of times, the corresponding relationship between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information is established. The preset number of times may be 4 times or 5 times, but is not limited to the above number of times, and the hotspot information may include an access point name corresponding to multiple VoWiFi hotspots.

Specifically, the terminal may learn to set a correspondence between a geographical location range, a time period, and hotspot information, for example, the user often arrives at a certain location in a certain period of time, and connects the terminal to a VoWiFi hotspot, and the terminal A geographic location of the location, the time range, and the VoWiFi hotspot may be associated. The user can also set the correspondence between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information in the terminal. The VoWiFi hotspot is a trusted hotspot, and the trusted hotspot is a hotspot authenticated by the IMS network. The hotspot network deployed by the operator can be used as a trusted hotspot. The terminal can learn the corresponding relationship by learning. For other hotspot networks not arranged by the non-operator (such as a hotspot network in a home or a company), the user can set in the terminal. The above correspondence is determined to ensure that the set VoWiFi hotspot is a trusted hotspot, thereby improving the security of network access. In addition, the terminal may determine the hotspot network disposed by the operator or the hotspot network disposed by the non-operator through the access point name of the VoWiFi hotspot.

S102: Determine, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point from a preset relationship between the geographic location range, the time segment, and the hotspot information.

In a specific implementation, after the user arrives at a certain location, the terminal may first determine whether the current geographic location is within the set geographic location. If it is determined that the current geographic location is within the set geographic location, further determine whether the current time point is In the set time range, if the current time point is also within the set time range, the current geographic location and the current location may be determined from a preset geographic location range, a time period, and a correspondence relationship of hotspot information. The VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the time point. If the current time point is not within the set time range or the current geographic location is not within the geographic location range, determining the current geographic location from the preset geographic location range, the time period, and the hotspot information correspondence relationship The VoWiFi hotspot step corresponding to the current time point.

S103. Access a IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot.

In a specific implementation, if the determined VoWiFi hotspot includes multiple hotspots, the network service quality of each of the multiple hotspots may be acquired; and the plurality of hotspots are determined according to the network service quality of each hotspot. The hottest network service quality; the highest quality of service through the network The hotspot establishes a connection to access the IMS network. The network service quality may be network signal strength or/and access.

For example, the terminal determines that the VoWiFi hotspot 1 or the VoWiFi hotspot 2 is obtained according to the current geographic location and the current time point, and the current network environment has both the VoWiFi hotspot 1 or the VoWiFi hotspot 2, and the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 1 can be obtained. And the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 2, if the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 1 is greater than the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 2, the terminal can establish a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot 1 if the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 2 is greater than the network of the VoWiFi hotspot 1 The signal can be connected with the VoWiFi hotspot 2; if the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 1 is equal to the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 2, the terminal can arbitrarily select a VoWiFi hotspot to establish a connection.

Optionally, when detecting that the terminal establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, the other radio frequency network is shut down. Specifically, before the terminal accesses the VoWiFi hotspot, the terminal accesses the IMS network through the 2G/3G/4G radio module, and after connecting to the IMS network through the VoWiFi hotspot, the 2G/3G/4G radio module can be turned off, thereby reducing the work. Consumption.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point are first obtained; and according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location is determined from the correspondence between the preset geographic location range, the time segment, and the hotspot information. The VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point; finally, by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, thereby increasing the rate of network handover, since the accessed IMS network is a secure network determined in advance in the corresponding relationship, Can improve the security of network access.

Please refer to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a second embodiment of a network access method according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the method in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

S201. Acquire a current geographic location of the terminal and a current time point.

S202: Determine, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point from a preset relationship between the geographic location range, the time segment, and the hotspot information.

For the specific implementation of the steps 201 to 202, refer to the foregoing embodiment, and details are not described herein again.

S203. Acquire a network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot. The network service quality may be network signal strength or/and access.

S204. Determine whether the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold.

S205. When it is determined that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold, establish a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.

In a specific implementation, if it is determined that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is not greater than a preset threshold, network switching is not performed. If the VoWiFi hotspot whose network service quality is greater than the preset threshold includes multiple hotspots, the network service quality of each of the multiple hotspots may be obtained; and the multiple hotspots are determined according to the network service quality of each hotspot. The hotspot with the highest network service quality; establishing a connection with the hotspot with the highest network service quality to access the IMS network.

Please refer to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a network access terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the terminal in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

The information obtaining module 301 is configured to acquire a current geographic location of the terminal and a current time point.

The hotspot determining module 302 is configured to determine, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the current time point from a preset geographic location range, a time segment, and a correspondence between hotspot information. Corresponding VoWiFi hotspot.

The network connection module 303 is configured to connect to the IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot. The determined VoWiFi hotspot may include multiple hotspots.

In a specific implementation, as shown in FIG. 4, the network connection module 303 may further include:

The quality obtaining unit 401 is configured to acquire network service quality of each of the plurality of hotspots.

The hotspot determining unit 402 is configured to determine, according to the network service quality of each hotspot, a hotspot with the highest network service quality among the multiple hotspots.

The network access unit 403 is configured to establish a connection with the hotspot with the highest network quality of service to access the IMS network.

For example, the terminal determines, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, that the VoWiFi hotspot 1 or the VoWiFi hotspot 2 is obtained, and the current network environment has both the VoWiFi hotspot 1 or the VoWiFi. Hotspot 2, the network signal strength of VoWiFi hotspot 1 and the network signal strength of VoWiFi hotspot 2 can be obtained. If the network signal strength of VoWiFi hotspot 1 is greater than the network signal strength of VoWiFi hotspot 2, the terminal can establish a connection with VoWiFi hotspot 1, if VoWiFi The network signal strength of the hotspot 2 is greater than the network signal of the VoWiFi hotspot 1, and the connection can be established with the VoWiFi hotspot 2; if the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 1 is equal to the network signal strength of the VoWiFi hotspot 2, the terminal can arbitrarily select a VoWiFi hotspot to establish a connection.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 3, the terminal in the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

The quality determining module 307 is configured to obtain the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot, determine whether the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold, and determine that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold. At the time, the network connection module 303 establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.

The number-of-times obtaining module 304 is configured to acquire the number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information in the time range and in the geographic location range;

The relationship establishing module 305 is configured to establish a correspondence between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information when it is determined that the number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information exceeds a preset number of times. The preset number of times may be 4 times or 5 times, but is not limited to the above number of times, and the hotspot information may include an access point name corresponding to multiple VoWiFi hotspots.

The network shutdown module 306 is configured to close other radio frequency networks when detecting that the terminal establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network. Specifically, before the terminal accesses the VoWiFi hotspot, the terminal accesses the IMS network through the 2G/3G/4G radio module, and after connecting to the IMS network through the VoWiFi hotspot, the 2G/3G/4G radio module can be turned off, thereby reducing the work. Consumption.

It should be noted that, for the foregoing various method embodiments, for the sake of simple description, they are all expressed as a series of action combinations, but those skilled in the art should understand that the present invention is not limited by the described action sequence. Because certain steps may be performed in other sequences or concurrently in accordance with the present invention. In addition, those skilled in the art should also understand that the embodiments described in the specification are all preferred embodiments, and the actions and modules involved are not necessarily required by the present invention.

In the above embodiments, the descriptions of the various embodiments are different, and the parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment can be referred to the related descriptions of other embodiments.

A person skilled in the art may understand that all or part of the various steps of the foregoing embodiments may be performed by a program to instruct related hardware. The program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and the storage medium may include: Flash disk, read-only memory (English: Read-Only Memory, referred to as: ROM), random accessor (English: Random Access Memory, referred to as: RAM), disk or optical disk.

The content downloading method and the related device and system provided by the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail above. The principles and implementation manners of the present invention are described in the specific examples. The description of the above embodiments is only used to help understand the present invention. The method of the invention and its core idea; at the same time, for the person of ordinary skill in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there are some changes in the specific embodiment and the scope of application. In summary, the content of the specification should not be understood. To limit the invention.

Claims

A network access method, the method comprising:

Obtain the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point;

Determining, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point from the preset geographic location range, the time segment, and the correspondence between the hotspot information;

A connection is established with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.
The method according to claim 1, wherein after the step of determining the current geographic location and the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the current time point, the establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access Before the IMS network, the method further includes:

Obtaining network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot;

Determining whether the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold;

When it is determined that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold, performing the step of establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.
The method of claim 1, wherein the VoWiFi hotspot comprises a plurality of hotspots, and the establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network further comprises:

Obtaining network service quality of each of the plurality of hotspots;

Determining, according to the network service quality of each hotspot, a hotspot with the highest network service quality among the multiple hotspots;

A connection is established to the IMS network by establishing a connection with the hotspot with the highest network service quality.
The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal and the current time point further comprises:

Obtaining a number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information in the time period and in the geographic location range;

Determining that the number of times the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information exceeds a preset The number of times, the correspondence between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information is established.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein after the connection to the IMS network is established by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot, the method further includes:

When it is detected that the terminal establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network, the other radio network is closed.
A network access terminal, the terminal includes:

An information acquiring module, configured to acquire a current geographic location of the terminal and a current time point;

a hotspot determining module, configured to determine, according to the current geographic location and the current time point, the current geographic location and the current time point from a preset geographic location range, a time segment, and a correspondence between hotspot information VoWiFi hotspot;

And a network connection module, configured to connect to the IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot.
The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the terminal further comprises a quality determining module, configured to:

Obtaining network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot;

Determining whether the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold;

When it is determined that the network service quality of the VoWiFi hotspot is greater than a preset threshold, the network connection module accesses the IMS network by establishing a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot.
The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the VoWiFi hotspot comprises a plurality of hotspots, and the network connection module comprises:

a quality obtaining unit, configured to acquire network service quality of each of the plurality of hotspots;

a hotspot determining unit, configured to determine, according to the network service quality of each hotspot, a hotspot with the highest network service quality among the multiple hotspots;

And a network access unit, configured to establish a connection with the hotspot with the highest network service quality to access the IMS network.
The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the terminal further comprises:

a number obtaining module, configured to acquire a number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information in the time period and in the geographic location range;

The relationship establishing module is configured to establish a correspondence between the geographical location range, the time period, and the hotspot information when it is determined that the number of times that the terminal is connected to the VoWiFi hotspot corresponding to the hotspot information exceeds a preset number of times.
The terminal according to any one of claims 6 to 9, wherein the terminal further comprises:

The network shutdown module is configured to close other radio frequency networks when detecting that the terminal establishes a connection with the VoWiFi hotspot to access the IMS network.