Embodiment
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of network television incremental value service system embodiment of the present invention, and Web TV (hereinafter to be referred as IPTV) increment service system 1 comprises that service provider is (hereinafter to be referred as SP) IAD subsystem (hereinafter to be referred as SPGW) 11, IPTV business management subsystem 12, value-added service capacity subsystem 18 and professional navigation subsystem (hereinafter to be referred as EPG) 19.Perimeter systems comprises SP application platform 13, business support system (hereinafter to be referred as BSS) 15, OSS (hereinafter to be referred as OSS) 16, payment system (hereinafter to be referred as SCP) 17 and terminal set top box (hereinafter to be referred as STB) 20.
Wherein, SPGW11 is connected with SP application platform 13, for all IPTV value-added services provide unified application and development interface, avoided the direct visit of SP application to all kinds of complicated business ability parts, development difficulty and the cycle used have been reduced, also make simultaneously operator on SPGW11,, unify control and monitoring to using the flow process and the degree of visit disparate networks professional ability parts and Internet resources.
IPTV business management subsystem 12 is connected with BSS 15, OSS 16 and SCP 17, for all IPTV value-added services of setting up by SPGW 11 provide unified management function.IPTV business management subsystem 12 can extract by the common management functionality module that will have now in the various IPTV increment service systems, concentrates and realizes.Because this part common management functionality and concrete independent of service, therefore IPTV business management subsystem 12 can realize by the unified management of an IPTV increment service system to multiple business, will shorten greatly in this way new business reach the standard grade the cycle, reducing the construction costs.
Value-added service capacity subsystem 18 is used to all IPTV value-added service providing capability parts of setting up by SPGW 11.Value-added service capacity subsystem 18 mainly is made of the ability parts that various IPTV value-added services are provided, and each ability parts can both provide a big class corresponding value-added service.As: storage class ability parts can be realized downloading the value-added service that class ability parts can realize downloading as aerial download (OTA), recreation download etc. class as the professional relevant value-added service with storage properties of blog class.Appearance along with new value-added service demand, only need to increase the ability parts of supporting new class business in the value-added service capacity system, and not needing to change other modules in the entire I PTV value-added system, this also greatly reduces cost of investment, has shortened the construction cycle of new business simultaneously.
EPG 19 connects STB 20, is used to use the user of IPTV business that unified door is provided.EPG19 provides unified door for the user uses the IPTV business, the generation that this system mainly finishes the page with represent, product information browse reception with search, EPG template data and metadata.Simultaneously, by with the interface of IPTV business management subsystem 12, realize the triggering, user of authentication request inquiry and modification from information on services.
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of SPGW in the network television incremental value service system embodiment of the present invention, SPGW comprise the application development interface (hereinafter to be referred as: API) 21, SP uses access authentication unit 22, SP service level agreement (hereinafter to be referred as SLA) control unit 23, operation flow control unit 24, protocol adaptation unit 25 and ability adaptation unit 26.Wherein, API 21 is used to the SP of all network television incremental value services that unified application development and service access interface is provided, SPGW is by adaptive various IPTV value-added service capacities, the specific implementation details of these professional abilities is stashed, the unified application and development interface API 21 of the standard that is packaged into upwards offers SP, has avoided the direct visit of SP to all kinds of complicated business ability systems in the carrier network.The API open interface of standard has reduced development difficulty and cycle that SP uses.SP application access authentication unit 22 is used for all SP of API 21 accesses and SP application carrying out authentication; SP SLA control unit 23 is used for visit to the professional ability system and monitors and control, and guarantees that Internet resources are rationally used in reasonable range, has realized the control of network optimization protection and resource; Operation flow control unit 24 is used for triggering authentication operations to the IPTV business management subsystem; Protocol adaptation unit 25 is used for SP application carrying out agreement such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) (the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol to inserting by API 21, HTTP), Short Message Peer to Peer (Short Message Peer to Peer, SMPP) etc. adaptive, finish the protocol conversion of different business between bottom professional ability system and the upper strata SP application platform and adaptive, as for information browse class business, have protocol adaptation subelement in the protocol adaptation unit at the Http agreement; For short message class business, have in the protocol adaptation unit at note SMPP agreement and carry out subelement adaptive and conversion.Ability adaptation unit 26 is used for finishing adaptive with value-added service capacity subsystem 18 each ability parts; Ability adaptation unit 26 can comprise information service subelement, stores service subelement and messenger service subelement; The information service subelement mainly lays particular emphasis on information browse, is used for finishing adaptive with described value-added service capacity subsystem 18 information browse professional ability parts; Simultaneously this professional ability is packaged as API 21, upwards offers SP application platform exploitation content service, as the security inquiry business; The stores service subelement is used for finishing adaptive with value-added service capacity subsystem 18 storage service ability parts, simultaneously this professional ability is packaged as API21, upwards offers SP application platform exploitation storage class business, as TV blog business; The messenger service subelement mainly lays particular emphasis on interactive classes of messages, as note, interactive ballot etc., be used for finishing adaptive with described value-added service capacity subsystem 18 content service ability parts, simultaneously this professional ability is packaged as API 21, upwards offer SP application platform exploitation information series business, as interactive TV service.
SPGW has realized the flow process and the unified of degree of all kinds of professional abilities of SP application access and Internet resources are controlled and monitoring by operation flow control unit 24.Because SPGW is unique inlet of SP application access professional ability system; therefore SPGW can use visit to the professional ability system to SP and monitors and control; guarantee that Internet resources are rationally used in reasonable range, realized the control of network optimization protection and resource.And except traffic streams, SPGW also is a trigger point of professional control, by with the interactive interfacing of IPTV business management subsystem, SPGW can realize assisting business management subsystem to finish professional authenticating and charging operation.
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of IPTV business management subsystem in the network television incremental value service system embodiment of the present invention, and the functional unit of IPTV business management subsystem comprises: affiliate (hereinafter to be referred as SP/CP) administrative unit 301, service management unit 302, management of product unit 303, accounting management unit 304, subscription management unit 305, authentication unit 306, service fulfillment unit 307, door administrative unit 308, statistical analysis unit 309, Template Manager unit 310, set-top box administrative unit 311, System Management Unit 312; The interface of IPTV business management subsystem and perimeter systems comprises: OSS interface 313, SPGW interface 314, value-added service capacity subsystem interface 315, EPG interface 316 and SP application platform interface 317.
Wherein, the attribute, life cycle, service authority and the operator that are used for the affiliate of partner management unit 301 manages; Service management unit 302 is used for maintenance customer's attribute information, and user's life cycle and integration managed; Information, life cycle, composite service and set meal that management of product unit 303 is used for product manage; Product is combination professional and that charge, and the management of product comprises Product Information Management, Production Lifecycle Management (comprising product establishment, audit, examination commercialization, issue, time-out, recovery, inquiry, renewal, deletion etc.), composite service and set meal management etc.By complanation management, the IPTV business management subsystem can be carried out between business packing to the business of its administration and be given birth to composite service or set meal, generate isolated, vertical value-added service the colourful business that can't realize.Accounting management unit 304 is used for the charging policy management, wholesale price is handled and ticket generates; Subscription management unit 305 is used for order relations, orderability activation mode and the strategy of deducting fees are managed, and subscription status is controlled; Authentication unit 306 is used for user, business, affiliate, the keeper of operator are authenticated; Service fulfillment unit 307 is used for according to the service fulfillment request, increases the professional ability information of relative users; Door administrative unit 308 is used for the keeper of operator door, affiliate's door and user are managed from service door; Statistical analysis unit 309 is used for affiliate, customer consumption, user capture and application content are carried out statistical analysis, and carries out Report Server Management; Template Manager unit 310 is used for business navigation system EPG template is carried out maintenance and management; Set-top box administrative unit 311 is used for set-top box information and monitoring are managed; System Management Unit 312 is used for the system parameters of TV service management subsystem, daily record, system maintenance plan are managed.
OSS interface 313 be used for and OSS between carry out simultaneous user's information, product information and ordering information, and transmit charge information and ticket; SPGW interface 314 is used to SPGW that professional control interface and configuration data are provided, and promptly by this interface, SPGW sends the authentication charging and asks business management system, realizes the control to business; I PTV business management subsystem sends its required configuration data by this interface to SPGW in addition, finishes professional control and two functions of information configuration.
Value-added service capacity subsystem interface 315 is used to the value-added service capacity subsystem that operation flow control interface and synchronous SP information are provided, business information and user professional ability are opened information, user professional ability is opened information, promptly, if the user opens a certain professional ability such as information series business ability by the application of IPTV business management subsystem, then the IPTV business management subsystem is opened information synchronization to the information series business ability parts in SPGW and the value-added service capacity subsystem with this, the user just can use the information series business in this value-added service capacity subsystem so, otherwise the user then can't enjoy this type of business if do not open this professional ability.
EPG interface 316 is used for professional click frequency and the EPG operation information on the data that represent with the synchronous EPG template data of EPG, for EPG and information, the EPG door, and provides product information, order relations, and the query function of consumption information for EPG.Wherein, data that represent for EPG and information comprise the binding information of the content metadata (as column, channel, program introduction, advertisement, film clips etc.) that represents for EPG, SP information data, service product information, professional and content, and these data and information are synchronized to EPG by the IPTV business management subsystem; Each business clicked frequency information on the EPG door, as follows/second, by the EPG statistics and be synchronized to the IPTV business management subsystem; EPG system operation information comprises CPU usage, internal memory use amount, user's largest request frequency, system response time etc., is synchronized to the IPTV business management subsystem by EPG.
SP application platform interface 317 be used for to SP application platform notice order relations and with SP application platform synchronizing user data information.
In the foregoing description, IPTV increment service system 1 can not comprise value-added service capacity subsystem 18 and EPG 19, and at this moment, value-added service capacity subsystem 18 can be used as the peripheral system of IPTV increment service system, is various IPTV value-added service providing capability parts; Door among the EPG 19 can adopt prior art to realize respectively.
The system model that said system embodiment provides, by the IPTV business management subsystem each is independently extracted the unified management of concentrating with service management, public function that business integration is relevant in the increment service system, final realize professional unified management, unified certification, unified authentication, unifiedly charge, multiple services combination packing, can pack and be combined to form composite service different value-added services.By in this system model, introducing SPGW, not only can realize that the unified of each SP business inserts, and provides the ability to supervise of operator to SP simultaneously in addition.
The IPTV increment service system carries out interface by unified IPTV business management subsystem and operator's support system (BSS/OSS/SCP), rather than whenever go up once the cover increment service system and develop an interface with OSS, avoided overlapping investment, repeated construction, composite service packing difficulty is big, bill is unified the problems such as ability to supervise difference of the big and SP of difficulty, the complanation mode of this IPTV increment service system has shielded the impact that the diversity of value-added service is brought to OSS, guarantee the stability of operator's support system, reduced the difficulty and the risk of system docking.
Based on said system embodiment, the IPTV value-added service can reduce system's construction cost, shortening new business is developed the cycle of reaching the standard grade, improved supervision, the more colourful composite service of generation to SP.
Method based on the arbitrary IPTV increment service system realization of the foregoing description combinations of services comprises:
To IPTV business management subsystem 12 requests one value-added service;
IPTV business management subsystem 12 is carried out authentication;
Under the situation that authentication passes through, realize a described value-added service;
Ask another value-added service relevant by SPGW 11 to IPTV business management subsystem 12 with a described value-added service;
IPTV business management subsystem 12 is carried out authentication;
Under the situation that authentication passes through, realize described another value-added service.
Can initiate request by EPG 19 to IPTV business management subsystem 12 requests one value-added service.A described value-added service, described another value-added service of realization can realize a described value-added service, another value-added service by the ability parts in the value-added service capacity subsystem 18.
Fig. 4 realizes the flow chart of the method embodiment one of combinations of services for the present invention, the business of present embodiment uses scene as " baby's show contest ", the user that promptly participates in competition is by using IPTV blog business, after baby's own home video or picture uploaded to the storage server of IPTV blog, non-race-entry user is the blog business by using a value-added service, can on EPG, browse all race-entry babies' user video or picture, by using another value-added service business of promptly voting, the baby who likes is voted on EPG then.Specifically comprise:
Step 401, set-top box are to EPG server requests door homepage;
Step 402, set-top box are sent the request of blog service chaining;
After step 403, EPG server are received request, request is forwarded to the IPTV business management subsystem, request is carried out authentication to user identity, product, order relations;
Step 404, IPTV business management subsystem are returned the authentication success response, and the blog portal link is transmitted to EPG by response.
Step 405, EPG are transmitted to set-top box with the blog portal link;
Step 406, set-top box are according to link login blog door, and a certain video of acquisition request or picture file;
Step 407, blog door return video or picture file is given set-top box in the address of media server;
Step 408, set-top box and media server connect, and the user obtains and displaying video or picture file, has promptly realized a value-added service.
Behind step 409, user's browsing video or the picture file this content is voted, promptly realize another value-added service that is associated with an above-mentioned value-added service.Set-top box is sent vote information to the IPTV sms center;
It is after mailing to the message of SP application server, this message to be mail to SPGW that step 410, IPTV sms center recognize;
Step 411, SPGW carry out authentication to the request of IPTV business management subsystem to user identity, product, order relations;
After step 412, authentication were passed through, the SPGW message of will voting mail to the SP application server, and application server carries out statistical disposition to ballot message, and statistics is issued SPGW;
Step 413, SPGW are to the authentication of IPTV business management subsystem request to SP, user, product, order relations etc.
After step 414, authentication were passed through, SPGW arrived the IPTV sms center with the statistics forwards.
Step 415, sms center to set-top box, have so far been realized another value-added service with forwards.
Present embodiment has embodied the composite service of realizing by said system embodiment to two class value-added services (blog class and classes of messages).In this combinations of services process, in fact the user has used IPTV two class value-added service capacities: storage class and classes of messages, but in the whole service use, professional present, the generation of management, authentication, authentication, charging and the professional ticket of user/business etc. all is to overlap unified system by one to finish.This business is that vertical type systematic can't be finished with implementation.
Fig. 5 realizes the flow chart of the method embodiment two of combinations of services for the present invention, in the present embodiment, suppose that the user stays at home and to browse information of real estate on the TV, after the user sees satisfied house, can directly send note on TV and to landlord's mobile phone, get in touch the landlord, promptly realize the combination of browsing information class business and two kinds of value-added services of information series business, specifically comprise following process:
Step 501, set-top box are to EPG server requests door homepage;
Step 502, user click on the door homepage, enter " information of renting a house ";
After step 503, EPG server are received request, request is forwarded to the IPTV business management subsystem, request is carried out authentication to user identity, product, order relations;
Step 504, IPTV business management subsystem are returned the authentication success response, and the service portal link of will " renting a house " is transmitted to EPG by response;
To " rent a house " service portal link of step 505, EPG is transmitted to set-top box;
Step 506, set-top box are logined " renting a house " service portal according to link, and browse information of real estate, thereby have realized a value-added service;
After step 507, user browse information of real estate, choose a certain source of houses, and send SMS message to house-owner by " note contact " on the screen according to the contact method in the information of real estate, promptly the user sends short messages breath to the IPTV sms center by set-top box;
Step 508, IPTV sms center mail to SPGW with this message;
Step 509, SPGW carry out authentication to the request of IPTV business management subsystem to user identity, product, order relations;
After step 510, authentication were passed through, the SPGW message of will voting mail to sms center, and sms center is dealt into landlord's mobile phone with this message.
After step 511, mobile phone receive successfully, feed back and successfully report short message service center, short message service center is transmitted to SPGW, and SPGW handles the back and notifies user's note to send successfully at service portal, thereby has realized another value-added service.
Said method embodiment has realized the combination of two kinds of different value-added services by unified IPTV increment service system, realizes professional packing of system in combination and the big problem of product set meal difficulty in the prior art thereby solved, and has greatly enriched the IPTV type of service.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: all or part of step that realizes said method embodiment can be finished by the relevant hardware of program command, aforesaid program can be stored in the computer read/write memory medium, this program is carried out the step that comprises said method embodiment when carrying out; And aforesaid storage medium comprises: various media that can be program code stored such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disc or CD.
It should be noted that at last: above embodiment only in order to technical scheme of the present invention to be described, is not intended to limit; Although with reference to previous embodiment the present invention is had been described in detail, those of ordinary skill in the art is to be understood that: it still can be made amendment to the technical scheme that aforementioned each embodiment put down in writing, and perhaps part technical characterictic wherein is equal to replacement; And these modifications or replacement do not make the essence of appropriate technical solution break away from the spirit and scope of various embodiments of the present invention technical scheme.