Background technology
IPTV is a Web TV, is the infrastructure of utilizing broadband internet, as main terminal, provides the multiple digital media service that comprise TV programme and the technology of value-added service thereof by Internet protocol with domestic television set.The video/audio service is the basic business of IPTV, and wherein live telecast, video request program are the most basic.
Can provide one way traffic based on IPTV, so-called one way traffic is exactly by system's active push, and the business of the passive reception of client terminal, comparing class are similar to present radio and television services.Radio and television services can realize the montage handover management of program by the Broadcast Control platform, can realize providing of different business based on different broadcast channels.But radio data system lacks automatic grouping management and Long-distance Control to terminal, and is not suitable for the situation of IPTV common user communication channel.More typical business has building advertisement, public's bulletin, passive monitoring etc. in the one way traffic.
Building advertisement: it is more concentrated generally to be deployed in crowds such as commercial building, sub-district and subway station, bus station, airport, the place that amount of flow is big, and the building advertisement program can issue by the unification of network side platform.
Public's bulletin: be exactly broadcasting bulletin system, generally be deployed in publicity mechanism (such as the sub-district billboard, the government organs working Room etc.), can realize unidirectional information announcement by broadcasting bulletin system towards the end user.
Passive monitoring: there is the demand of checking the part public information in the end user, such as, public informations such as road condition, flight status, personnel leave the port, this type of public information can provide to the end user based on some particular terminal by IPTV, and this class particular terminal comprises vehicle road condition display terminal, the public road conditions display terminal of road, airport public information display terminal.
Provide one way traffic based on IPTV, the end user not will consider and controls this Terminal Type, but needs to consider many-sided problems such as end packet reception, the switching of long-range program, remote playing control in deployment.
Fully the system configuration that provides the IPTV one way traffic based on clean culture as shown in Figure 1.
End packet receives: the customer service account number that terminal configuration is different, the customer service account number is carried out grouping management at the one way traffic platform.Among Fig. 1, IPTV terminal A, B, C dispose different customer service account numbers respectively, in inserting one way traffic platform process, check Packet State by the one way traffic platform, and according to grouping issuing service information, finish service display by the IPTV terminal.
Long-range program switches: the IPTV terminal definitions is supported the far call method that program switches, and the heartbeat that defines based on clean culture between one way traffic platform and the IPTV terminal is connected, and is regularly initiated by the IPTV terminal.In the heartbeat process, if thinking, the one way traffic platform needs to switch the program of IPTV terminal A, then can notify IPTV terminal A to switch to program B in remote procedure call (RPC, Remote Procedure CaU) mode by heartbeat message from program A.
Remote playing control: the IPTV terminal definitions is supported the far call method of Play Control, such as volume adjusting, played in full screen etc.Still connect by the clean culture heartbeat, notify terminal to carry out corresponding Play Control by the one way traffic platform by the RPC mode and handle.
As shown in Figure 2, in the above-mentioned system that the IPTV one way traffic is provided based on clean culture fully, increase the program platform, program A and program B packing are formed a wheel broadcast program,, then can add wheel equally to and broadcast in the program if new-programme is arranged again.The one way traffic platform is only handled the wheel of appointment and is broadcast program.Based on such improvement, program switches no longer to be handled based on the mode of clean culture heartbeat, but is merged by the program platform, but at remote playing control, still need realize by the mode of clean culture heartbeat.
The system of the above-mentioned IPTV of providing one way traffic has following shortcoming: the IPTV terminal quantity that the one way traffic platform need be controlled may be very huge, if all establish a communications link based on clean culture with each IPTV terminal, its concurrent processing Capability Requirement can be very high, and system loading can be very heavy.
Embodiment
The embodiment of the invention provides the control method based on the IPTV one way traffic of multicast and terminal differentiated control at prior art IPTV (internet protocol television) one-way service system loading, Single Point of Faliure, smooth expansion and business experience problem.
Be described in detail below in conjunction with the embodiment of accompanying drawing the embodiment of the invention.
Based on the system configuration of the IPTV one way traffic of multicast and terminal differentiated control control as shown in Figure 3, the control flow of IPTV one way traffic as shown in Figure 4, concrete steps are as follows:
Step 401, system configuration multicast control channel address are used for the multicast control channel of network side by this address correspondence and issue multicast message; The terminal configuration service account.
Wherein, multicast control channel address and service account can carry out online updating by IPTV terminal software upgrading mode, also can carry out online updating by IPTV terminal network guard system.
During the terminal configuration service account, can carry out differentiated control to service account according to the one way traffic type.Such as, if one-level service account A represents the building advertisement Terminal Type, then define secondary traffic account number A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and represent commercial building advertisement terminal, sub-district advertisement terminal, airport advertisement terminal, tube advertising terminal, bus advertisement terminal respectively.Class this, can carry out fine gradedly to terminal according to the one way traffic type, realize the differentiated control of different service types terminal, help the smooth expansion of terminal like this, improve user's business experience.
Step 402, of the multicast control channel issuing service control information of network side one way traffic platform by presetting.
Business control information carries a plurality of service accounts and comprises programme information and the control information relevant with each service account.Wherein, comprise link that program service is provided etc. in the programme information; Comprise program switching and Play Control information etc. in the control information.
Step 403, IPTV terminal are monitored the business control information that network side issues by the multicast control channel that presets all the time, and judge the service account that whether comprises terminal self configuration in the service account that the business control information listen to carries.
Step 404, when judged result be terminal monitoring to the service account that carries of business control information in when comprising the service account of himself configuration, terminal receives this business control information.
Step 405, terminal are carried out controlling and processing services according to the business control information that receives.
In this step, terminal can according in the business control information that receives with self the configuration relevant programme information and the control information of service account, carry out controlling and processing services.Such as, if comprise the program handover information in the control information relevant with the service account of terminal configuration, then terminal is carried out the program switching by the program service chained address of upgrading in the programme information relevant with its service account; If comprise Play Control information in the control information relevant with the service account of terminal configuration, then terminal is carried out Play Control according to the Play Control information relevant with its service account, such as full frame switching, volume control etc.
In the above-mentioned steps 402, whether network side one way traffic platform can also issue the Description of information corresponding with business control information simultaneously, be used in the business control information that the marked network side issues programme information and the control information relevant with each service account to change.
Terminal receives the Description of information that network side issues, and when this Description of message identification programme information relevant with the service account of self configuration and control information generation were changed, terminal just received the corresponding service control information; Otherwise terminal needn't receive the corresponding service control information.
In addition, because the service account of terminal configuration adopts differentiated control, therefore can also comprise the service identification relevant in the business control information that network side issues with service account, the terminal selective reception that is used for indicating this service account of configuration to relevant programme information and the control information of corresponding service account that comprise of business control information, carry out controlling and processing services.Can comprise following two kinds of situations:
1, this service identification indicating terminal according to the relevant programme information and the control information of upper level service account of service account of self configuration, carry out controlling and processing services.
2, this service identification indicating terminal according to self the configuration relevant programme information and the control information of service account, carry out controlling and processing services.
In the prior art, if certain one way traffic platform breaks down, new one way traffic platform must be dispatched and insert to all terminals that are connected with this one way traffic platform all again so, and required time overhead can be very big.And in the embodiment of the invention because the data backup of network side one way traffic platform no longer needs to consider the service condition of terminal, therefore the backup information amount is effectively controlled, thereby reduced the difficulty that IPTV one way traffic Single Point of Faliure recovers, experienced the influence that is subjected to Single Point of Faliure thereby reduced terminal traffic.
In addition, in the prior art, when the terminal that is connected with the one way traffic platform has when a lot, when carrying out unified program switching if desired, because the one way traffic platform all can the overhead time for the program hand-off process of each terminal, therefore will cause the otherness of program presentation, be unfavorable for keeping unified business experience.And the embodiment of the invention is carried out differentiated control by multicast mode and to the service account of terminal configuration, can carry out program hand-off process simultaneously to terminal group, thereby improve user's business experience.
At above-mentioned IPTV (internet protocol television) one-way service controlling schemes, illustrate as follows:
Network side individual event business platform is as follows by the Description of information that the multicast control channel that presets issues:
[Description of=Version]
A=0; // 0 expression programme information and the control information relevant with service account do not have change
A1=0;
A2=0;
…
B=1; // 1 expression programme information and the control information relevant with service account has change
B1=1;
…
According to above-mentioned Description of information, terminal A1 can learn that programme information and the control information relevant with its service account do not change, and then needn't receive the corresponding service control information; Terminal B1 can learn that programme information and the control information relevant with its service account change, and then receives the corresponding service control information.As follows with the control information of above-mentioned Description of information corresponding service:
[one-level business=A]
One-level programme information=PG-A;
One-level control information=OP-A;
[secondary traffic=A1]
Secondary programme information=PG-A1;
Secondary control information=OP-A1;
Particular service sign=T; //T marking terminal carries out controlling and processing services according to programme information and the control information relevant with the upper level service account
[secondary traffic=A2]
Secondary programme information=PG-A2;
Secondary control information=OP-A2;
Particular service sign=F; //F marking terminal according to self the configuration relevant programme information and the control information of service account, carry out controlling and processing services
…
[one-level business=B]
One-level programme information=PG-B;
One-level control information=OP-B;
[secondary traffic=B1]
Secondary programme information=PG-B1;
Secondary control information=OP-B1;
Particular service sign=F; //F marking terminal according to self the configuration relevant programme information and the control information of service account, carry out controlling and processing services
After terminal B1 receives above-mentioned business control information, at first learn needs basis and the relevant programme information and the control information of service account of self disposing according to service identification F, carry out controlling and processing services, carry out controlling and processing services according to programme information PG-B1 and control information OP-B1 then.If the service identification relevant with service identification B1 is T, then terminal B1 need according to the relevant programme information and the control information of service account of the service account upper level of self configuration, carry out controlling and processing services, promptly carry out controlling and processing services according to programme information PG-B and the control information OP-B relevant with one-level service account B.
As can be seen, based on Description of mechanism, can simplify the processing procedure of terminal, have only and find just to receive the corresponding service control information when change takes place for programme information relevant with the service account of self configuration and control information, again business control information be carried out the parsing of detailed content.
Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of terminal, and its structure comprises as shown in Figure 5: monitoring unit 501, judging unit 502, first receiving element 503 and Service Control Unit 504.
Monitoring unit 501 is used to monitor the business control information that network side issues by the multicast control channel that presets;
Judging unit 502 is used for judging whether service account that business control information that monitoring unit 501 listens to carries comprises the service account of this terminal configuration;
First receiving element 503, be used for when the judged result of judging unit 502 when comprising, receive the business control information that monitoring unit 501 listens to;
Service Control Unit 504 is used for carrying out controlling and processing services according to the business control information that first receiving element 503 receives.
Controlling and processing services is carried out in programme information and the control information relevant with the service account of terminal configuration in the business control information that above-mentioned Service Control Unit 504 can receive according to first receiving element 503.
The service identification indication relevant in the business control information that Service Control Unit 504 can also receive according to first receiving element 503 with the service account of terminal configuration, controlling and processing services is carried out in programme information and control information that the corresponding service account that comprises in the business control information of selecting first receiving element 503 to receive is relevant.
In addition, above-mentioned terminal can also comprise second receiving element, be used to receive the Description of information that network side issues by the multicast control channel that presets, whether described Description of information is used for business control information programme information and the control information relevant with the service account of terminal configuration that the marked network side issues and changes; When change took place for programme information that the Description of message identification that receives at second receiving element is relevant with the service account of terminal configuration and control information, first receiving element 503 just received business control information.
Network side one way traffic platform is handed down to terminal by the multicast control channel that presets with business control information in the embodiment of the invention, network side one way traffic platform no longer directly establishes a communications link with each IPTV terminal, thereby the processing load of system is alleviated, and can realize the smooth expansion of terminal.Simultaneously, because the data backup of network side one way traffic platform no longer needs to consider the service condition of terminal, therefore the backup information amount is effectively controlled, thereby has reduced the difficulty that IPTV one way traffic system Single Point of Faliure recovers, and has reduced terminal traffic and has experienced the influence that is subjected to Single Point of Faliure.In addition, carry out differentiated control, also help the smooth expansion of one way traffic system terminal, and improve user's business experience by service account to terminal configuration.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification to the present invention and not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs within the scope of claim of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention also is intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.