Background technology
In order to realize inserting the level and smooth interaction that independently also keeps with catv terminal by the Internet, the IMS of regulation has been developed to meeting IETF (the Internet engineering duty group) " internet standard " in 3GPP technical specification TS 23.228.Described IP multimedia core network (IM CN) subsystem make to move or the Virtual network operator of cellular network can based on and according to internet, applications, business and agreement, its client's multimedia service is provided.Purpose is that the mechanism that internet usage and IM CN subsystem are provided is researched and developed described business by the Mobile Network Operator that comprises the operator in the Internet space and other third-party vendor.Described IMS thereby can be for wireless user conversion and incoming voice, video, message, data with based on the technology of web, and the growth of the Internet and the growth of mobile communication combined.
Fig. 1 shows the architecture according to the IMS network of above 3GPP (third generation cooperation agreement) technical specification.Architecture is based on a kind of like this principle, is controlled in the network HN of ancestral home for the business of roamer's ancestral home reservation business, and for example service call State Control function (S-CSCF) is positioned at ancestral home network HN.In Fig. 1, show current or original S-CSCF
010 and following or new S-CSCFn 12, terminal equipment or subscriber equipment (UE) 40 can shift between them, and this changes owing to changing the desired properties that is caused by the user profile of described UE 40 or network coverage area.
Generally speaking, S-CSCF carries out the session control business of serviced UE.Described S-CSCF according to the Virtual network operator support can by application server (AS) 60 provide professional required, keep session status, described application server 60 may be positioned at ancestral home network HN or visited network VN.In the network of operator, different S-CSCF may have different functions.Described S-CSCF in during respective session performed function for example manage for login, session flow management, charging and the utilization of resources.When the user roamed into visited network VN, described visited network VN supported proxy CSCF (P-CSCF) 30, and described proxy CSCF (P-CSCF) 30 makes described session control to be delivered to be positioned at network HN place, ancestral home and the professional corresponding S-CSCF that controls is provided.In addition, poll CSCF (I-CSCF) 50 is set in the network HN of ancestral home, points to the user of Virtual network operator in carrier network as all, or is currently located at the contact point of the connection of the roamer in the Virtual network operator service area.In the network of operator, may there be a plurality of I-CSCF.Described I-CSCF 50 performed functions comprise with the S-CSCF assignment give to carry out logon process the user, will be routed to S-CSCF from the request that another network receives, keep the address of the S-CSCF the customer database and/or will ask or respond being forwarded to based on from the address modification of HSS 20 and definite S-CSCF, described customer database for example is a home subscriber server (HSS) 20 as shown in Figure 1.
Described P-CSCF 30 is the first make contacts in the IMS.Its address is activated according to PDP (packet data protocol) linguistic context by UE 40 and is found.Described P-CSCF 30 serves as the agency, promptly accepts request, and internal services is carried out in request, or when translation, may after translation described request be transmitted.Described P-CSCF 30 also may serve as the user agent, and promptly under abnormal conditions, it may stop and the independent affairs that generate.Described P-CSCF 30 performed functions are, the I-CSCF that the logging request that receives from UE 40 determines for the domain name of using described UE 40 to be provided is provided, and will asks or respond to be transmitted to UE 40, and described I-CSCF for example is I-CSCF50.
The more details of the function of different CSCF shown in Figure 1 unit can obtain from above-mentioned 3GPP technical specification.
IETF has stipulated session initiation protocol (SIP) the event routine bag logined, such as in " draft-ietf-sipping-reg-event " definition.By its REGISTER method, SIP allows the user agent to generate, revise and the deletion login, and described user agent is the interface (for example browser) between user and the network application.Login also can be revised by the keeper, so that the enforcement policy.Therefore, a slice state that can dynamically change in the network has been represented in these logins.Exist many situations that user agent wherein can utilize the notice that this state changes.Described event routine package definition a kind of user agent can ask and obtain the mechanism of described notice.
Described SIP REGISTER method provides a kind of method of handling login for the user agent.Contact can be increased or delete, and the current contact group can be inquired.Login also can be changed into the result of keeper's policy.For example, if the user falls under suspicion or be the tricker, then his login can be deleted, thereby make it can't receive any request.If login does not obtain upgrading, then after a period of time, expire.Therefore, the login representative dynamical state sheet that described network kept.The described sip event framework general framework that has been reservation and the notice event definition relevant with the SIP system.Described framework has defined method SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY, and has introduced the notion of program package.Program package is that Events Frame specifically is applied to particular event kind such as logging status.
The SUBSCRIBE message of described logging program bag may comprise the main body that is used to filter reservation.Send described SUBSCRIBE message and may have or not have described main body.Default login policy is, according to SUBSCRIBE message trigger notice, and when having logined the state of contact change for reservation resource any, generates described notice at every turn.Described notice only comprises the information of the contact that has changed about state.The notice of using NOTIFY to transmit comprises the log-on message file in its main body, described log-on message file description the some or all of contacts relevant with specific recording address.
In 3GPP IMS version 5 technical specification TS 24.229,24.228 and 23.218, described SIP logging status event routine bag is used for described user's logging status is notified to the client of described event routine bag.3GPP IMS version 6 is the new business drawing-in system, for example existence, message, meeting and MMS.Exist the business of similar MMS, it can utilize the performance of IMS network.Described IMS network can use SIP logging status event routine bag, and the precise information about user's logging status is provided, and described IMS network also allows to use the SIPMESSAGE request to carry the MMS notice.
According to IMS version 5 technical specifications, IMS client is logged or nullifies.Yet although be logged, described IMS client still can't arrive, and this for example covers loss owing to the temporary transient radio of battery loss, user current position, and this is particularly general in the big city or wherein for some spotty zone of reason area of radio coverage.Therefore, if service-user can't arrive, then can't notify the external business of using the IMS network.
Summary of the invention
Whether therefore, the object of the invention provides a kind of method, system and the network equipment, by means of this, can make the application server that the IMS network is used to transmit message understand service-user and can not utilize.
The realization of described purpose is by a kind of method that temporarily can not utilize the network user that routes messages to, and described method comprises step:
Subscribe the described network user's state event program package;
When the described network user's described state event program package is changed to indicating the described network user can utilize once more, or the described network user logined once more state the time generate notice; And
In response to receiving described notice, give the described network user with described message route.
In addition, the realization of above purpose is by a kind of network equipment that is used to serve the network user in the data network, the described network equipment is configured to store the state event program package that the described network user of indication is canceled or is logged but can not utilize, if and described state event program package indicates the described network user to utilize, then generate notice for user's described state event program package.
In addition, the realization of above purpose is by a kind of webserver that is used to generate the message that will be routed to the network user, described server is configured to subscribe the state that can not utilize the network user, and in response to receiving indication is described can not to utilize the available state notifying of the network user, the message route is given describedly can not utilize the network user.
At last, the realization of above purpose is used to route messages to the system that temporarily can not utilize the network user by a kind of, and described system comprises the webserver and the network equipment as defined above.
Therefore, external application servers can be subscribed the network user's logging status, and obtains the notice whether network user is logged.In addition, even being logged, the described network user can not utilize.
Therefore, the external business of use IMS network can be utilized the notice of the utilizability that is experienced about described IMS network.
In the present invention, term " can utilize " situation that all users can't arrive that contains that is appreciated that, promptly wherein for example because the described network user of meeting does not wish situation about being disturbed.
Can carry out described reservation step in response to receiving the message that the described network user of indication can not utilize or not login.
In addition, logging status is not affected the information that the described network user still can arrive once more even notice may comprise indication.Particularly, this information may be incident or label information.Carry out that outbound session is set up or after the incoming call session set up trial and success, described information may be set to indicate the available state of the described network user at the described network user's terminal equipment.Can be based on determine described login again about the notice of the described network user's assignment again.Then, in response to the login of being notified again, renewable described reservation.
Embodiment
Below will transmit and describe preferred embodiment based on the notice of the MMS in the IMS network architecture shown in Figure 1.
IMS architecture shown in Figure 1 is meant that the use business that packet-switched domain provided provides one group of core-network entities of multimedia service.Described HSS 20 is specific user's a master data base, comprises the function of conventional home location register (HLR), and regulation is given the new function of IP network, for example IMS.Described HSS 20 comprises that the information relevant with reservation is called out with the support actual treatment and/or the entity of the network entity of session.
Fig. 2 shows the schematic signaling diagram according to first preferred embodiment, wherein AS 60 uses the logins/logoffs information of logging status event routine bag, its MMS notice is passed to the IMS client of UE40, to login once more described client and thereby to obtain notice can utilize the time.
According to first preferred embodiment, advised a kind of for using IMS network existing force to come the technical scheme based on SIP of MMS notice.
When AS 60 intention passed to IMS user or client with the MMS notice, it generated SIP MESSAGE request, and comprised that (step 1), described AS 60 may be a MMS server for direct or indirect notice as the Payload of request.If this moment, IMS client did not login, then MESSAGE message is not passed to UE 40, but is used SIP errored response refusal by default S-CSCF, and described default S-CSCF for example is S-CSCF
010, and for example being SIP 480, the SIP errored response temporarily can not utilize.Herein, AS 60 is corresponding to the SIP AS in the IMS network architecture, and serves as sip user agent.Suppose AS 60 its oneself the request of can starting, and the S-CSCF by the described user of inquiry on Sh interface, or described request is sent to I-CSCF 50, thereby described request is entrusted to described user.Because the current not login of user, therefore supposition also can provide logging status information when user log off.Therefore, the logging status configuration is equal to the same business relevant with exit state.If described user has the business relevant with exit state, i.e. the user profile of the described exit state of HSS 20 storages, then default S-CSCF will be assigned to processes said request.Because described user does not login, therefore there is not described S-CSCF
OThe path of the 10 sensing UE 10 that stored, thereby S-CSCF
O10 will ask thereby refuse incoming call SIP MESSAGE by responding with the 4xxSIP failure response.
Can obtain the more details that generate about the path from 3GPP technical specification TS 24.229.
According to Fig. 2, I-CSCF 50 starts the inquiry (step 2) for HSS 20, to obtain routing iinformation in response to receive SIP MESSAGE request from AS 60.Then, I-CSCF50 is transmitted to default S-CSCF with the MESSAGE request in step 3
O10, described default S-CSCF
O10 temporarily can not utilize response to come in response to AS 60 with SIP 480 in step 4a and 4b.Because the MESSAGE request goes whistle, therefore AS 60 passes through to ask identical mode with previous transmission MESSAGE, transmit the SUBSCRIBE request of described logging status incident, for example by described request being entrusted to I-CSCF 50 (step 5), thereby subscribe described user's logging status, described I-CSCF 50 can inquire user's S-CSCF to HSS20 in step 6.Based on the previous S-CSCF that distributes
OWhether 10 be disengaged the fact of distribution, may exist new default S-CSCF is assigned as the needs of handling described SUBSCRIBE request.
Work as S-CSCF
O10 when receiving the SUBSCRIBE request in step 7, they must be according to IETF technical specification RFC 3265 needs, and authentication is also authorized described request.In step 8a and 8b, successfully subscribe with SIP 200OK response confirmation.In 3GPP IMS, solve described authentication by IETF technical specification RFC 3325, wherein AS 60 inserts the SIP request with its trusted identity.Based on this, S-CSCF
OWhether the described AS 60 of 10 decidables is the authorized user of particular user login state, if then it can install described reservation.According to 3GPP technical specification N1-030285, all application servers of HN are authorized to subscribe the log-in events program package.Therefore, if AS 60 belongs to HN, then AS 60 is authorized.
Yet, when described user or IMS client in step 9 during (once more) login, the NOTIFY request that sends in step 10a and 10b will be notified the variation of user's logging status to AS 60.Described AS 60 in step 11a and 11b with the described reception of SIP 200OK response confirmation.Therefore, described AS 60 can restart its MESSAGE request, and in step 12 and 14 (HSS of I-CSCF 50 inquiry in step 13) with it via S-CSCF
O10 are routed to UE 40, with the IMS user who in step 15 described UE 40 is finally transmitted and passed to the MMS notice.
Fig. 3 shows the schematic signaling diagram according to second preferred embodiment, and wherein AS 60 uses the reservation that refreshes of moving to newly assigned S-CSCFn 12 based on reservation, its MMS notice is delivered to the IMS client of UE 40.
In Fig. 3, therefore step 1 to 9 repeats no more for the reason of simplifying corresponding to first preferred embodiment shown in Figure 2.
Yet, when user or IMS client during (once more) login, may be the new S-CSCFn 12 of its assignment in step 9, because the S-CSCF of institute's assignment must have and the relevant correct ability of logging status.In this case, will be via the Cx interface of in 3GPP technical specification TS23.228, describing, to old S-CSCF
O10 notify assignment (step 10) again.At this moment, at S-CSCF
OBefore 10 deletion users' the abridged table, it is by sending SIP NOTIFY request in step 11a and 11b, and described reservation is moved to the S-CSCFn 12 of new assignment, and described SIP NOTIFY request comprises the reservation state title that contains value " termination ".Described AS 60 confirms to respond with SIP 200OK in step 12a and 12b.
According to IETF technical specification RFC 3265, when carrying out the reservation migration, described AS 60 starts reservation again in step 13.I-CSCF 50 carried out the HSS inquiry in step 14 after, the SUBSCRIBE request was transmitted to S-CSCFn 12 in step 15.Described S-CSCFn 12 confirms to respond with SIP 200OK in step 16a and 16b.Therefore, by migration, reservation refreshes the SUBSCRIBE request and will stop at S-CSCFn 12 places of new assignment, and described S-CSCFn 12 will carry out authentication and authorisation step as mentioned above, and described reservation will be installed.
Because described user or IMS client is current is logined, the NOTIFY request that therefore new S-CSCFn 12 sends in step 17a and 17b will be notified the variation of user's logging status to AS 60.Therefore, (not shown) after confirming, described AS 60 can restart its MESSAGE request, and gives UE 40 via S-CSCFn 12 (being the HSS inquiry in step 19) with its route in step 18 and 20, with the IMS client who in step 21 described UE 40 is transmitted and passed to the MMS notice.
At this moment, described AS 60 may judge the reservation of termination for described user's logging status, or it may keep described reservation.Suppose the latter's situation, when described user log off self or network are judged the cancellation process of carrying out network startup, described reservation will be terminated.This is because S-CSCFn is disengaged distribution 12 this moments, and another S-CSCF may be assigned as the described exit state of processing.This process is described in 3GPP technical specification N1-030296 and TS 24.229.
Therefore, reservation at described AS 60 is terminated, be that if described AS 60 still wishes to receive the logging status about described user, then they must be according to S-CSCFn 12 its reservations of renewal under the situation of its reception NOTIFY request of comprising the reservation state title that contains value " termination ".
According to the 3rd preferred embodiment, the network user or IMS client can be identified as and login but still can not utilize.For this reason, described S-CSCF is suitable in logging status incident or new state event routine bag keeping whether accessibility additional information of the described user of indication.For example, if having battery loss or exist temporary transient radio to cover loss in described client's current position, then described client possibly can't arrive.If the termination business successfully is not delivered to described client, then S-CSCF can discern this situation.Therefore, introduce a kind ofly being logged for described client but can not arriving, for example " can not arrive " or the new events of " outside the area of coverage " state.Therefore, when described client logined, described state may be " can arrive " or " can not arrive ".
Particularly, if to the professional success of described client's termination, or the incoming call session sets up trial and success, or terminal equipment or UE 40 carry out normal outbound session and set up, or has the normally login again of UE 40, state then may be set " can arrive ".Yet when state was set to " can not arrive ", it still can not stop described termination professional.But when the message failure that sends from the AS 60 such as MMS server etc., described AS 60 can subscribe S-CSCF, can arrive once more so that find described user.For this reason, described AS 60 subscribes other new events program package of log-in events program package or described client.
Therefore, provide better graininess, thereby made the AS 60 that subscribes this event routine bag can utilize more accurate information about user's utilizability for described log-in events program package.
Fig. 4 shows the signaling diagram of reservation of state event program package that indication AS 60 subscribes the IMS client of described UE 40.In step 1, the MMS notice is given I-CSCF 50 by route in the defined SIP MESSAGE request in as IETF technical specification RFC 3428, described I-CSCF 50 starts the inquiry for HSS 20 in step 2, to obtain pointing to the current S-CSCF that serves UE 40
O10 routing iinformation.After receiving described routing iinformation, described I-CSCF 50 is transmitted to S-CSCF with SIP MESSAGE request in step 3
O10.Then, may determine described UE 40 current can not arrival.At this moment, described termination S-CSCF
OThe direct message of 10 decidables is not transmitted to described termination user.Described judgement may be based on some applied logics, or for example based on caller's preference and/or callee's ability.Can obtain information needed at P-CSCF 30 places, information needed may be indicated and can not be arrived state in the error reason of response message, and for example SIP 480 temporarily can not utilize message.According to IETF technical specification RFC 3261, the reason phrase in the described response message can be used for transmitting state information of event.The corresponding states row is as follows:
Status?Line=SIP-Version?SP?Status-Code?SP?Reason-PhraseCRLF
Determining of the state that can not arrive of described UE 40 may be overtime based on waiting for for the MESSAGE request responding of pointing to UE 40 at P-CSCF 30 places.Described P-CSCF 30 thereby supposition UE 40 can not arrive, and generate the response message that indication can not arrive state.
Therefore, indication is not found as yet that message SIP480 that described client or described client can not utilize temporarily can not utilize and issued described AS60 via I-CSCF 50 in step 4a and 4b.
In response to this negative acknowledge, described AS 60 transmits SIP SUBSCRIBE request via I-CSCF 50 in step 5a and 5b, and is transmitted to S-CSCF after HSS inquiry (not shown)
O10.Described S-CSCF
O10 confirm described reservation for the SIP 200OK of AS 60 via I-CSCF 50 routes in step 6a and 6b.As long as the successful affairs of UE 40 are by S-CSCF
O10 determine for example login again of the affairs of the affairs of mobile originating or Mobile Termination or UE 40, described S-CSCF
O10 promptly in step 7a and 7b via I-CSCF 50, send the SIP NOTIFY request that comprises that state " login " and incident " can arrive ".Described NOTIFY request is by AS 60 SIP 200OK response confirmation with correspondence in step 8a and 8b.
Therefore, UE 40 can arrive once more to AS 60 notice, and can be via I-CSCF 50 in step 9, step 11a in the 11c via S-CSCF
O10 and P-CSCF 30, via comprising that MMS notified SIP MESSAGE request (comprising the HSS inquiry of I-CSCF50 in step 10) is transmitted to UE 40.In response to this, described UE 40 confirms be transmitted to AS 60 with SIP 200OK at step 12a in 12d.
Therefore, can notify the connection status of described UE 40, and thereby MMS can be notified and successfully be transmitted to UE 40 to described AS 60.
Should be noted in the discussion above that the present invention is not limited in above preferred embodiment.Present invention can be implemented in any data network, wherein can implement reservation for client's logging status, thus with arriving of network of relation user maybe can not arrive state or again login be notified to the client.Embodiment thereby can in the appended claims scope, change.