CN101998310A - Method and system for handling short message as well as network equipment - Google Patents

Method and system for handling short message as well as network equipment Download PDF

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CN101998310A
CN101998310A CN2009100911761A CN200910091176A CN101998310A CN 101998310 A CN101998310 A CN 101998310A CN 2009100911761 A CN2009100911761 A CN 2009100911761A CN 200910091176 A CN200910091176 A CN 200910091176A CN 101998310 A CN101998310 A CN 101998310A
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The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and system for handling a short message handling method as well as network equipment. The short message handling method comprises the following steps: utilizing network equipment in a first network to receive a short message sent by a short message gateway and send a paging message to user equipment receiving the short message; sending instruction information to network equipment in a second network to instruct the network equipment in the second network to send the paging message to the user equipment; and sending the short message to the user equipment according to the received paging response message of the user equipment. The embodiment of the invention can ensure that the transmission success rate of the short message is improved while the operation load of the short message service gateway is relatively low.

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SMS processing and system and the network equipment
Technical field
The embodiment of the invention relates to communication technical field, relates in particular to a kind of SMS processing and system and the network equipment.
Background technology
Short message service (Short Message Service, hereinafter to be referred as: SMS) be one of the most widely used business in the present mobile terminal service.
Fig. 1 is a network architecture schematic diagram of handling short message service in the prior art, as shown in Figure 1, this network architecture comprises: Short Message Service Center (Short Message Service Centre, hereinafter to be referred as: SM-SC), short message service gateway (Gateway MSC For Short Message Service, hereinafter to be referred as: SMS-GMSC), Mobility Management Entity (Mobility Management Entity, hereinafter to be referred as: MME), Home Location Register/home subscriber server (home location register/homesubscriber server, hereinafter to be referred as: HLR/HSS), the GPRS serving GPRS support node (Serving GeneralPacket Radio Service Support Node, hereinafter to be referred as: SGSN).Wherein, SM-SC be used for subscriber equipment (User Equipment, hereinafter to be referred as: UE) and Short Message Entity (Short MessageEntity is hereinafter to be referred as storage or transmit short message SME); SMS-GMSC is used for receiving short message from SM-SC, and next that obtain short message transmission with HLR/HSS alternately jumped routing iinformation, short message sent to next jump entity, and next jumps entity can be MME or SGSN.Specifically, SMS-GMSC obtains next jumping routing iinformation that short message transmits by mutual with HSS.
At Idle state saving signaling (Idle mode Signaling Reduction, hereinafter to be referred as: under the feelings that ISR) are activated, UE can all keep login state in E-UTRAN network and GERAN/UTRAN network, SMS-GMSC can at first attempt transmitting short message by MME, if current UE inserts the E-UTRAN network, then MME can pass to short message this UE, if MME can not send to short message this UE, then MME returns the information of transmitting failure to SMS-GMSC; Then, SMS-GMSC can select to transmit short message by SGSN again; Same SMS-GMSC also can attempt earlier transmitting short message by SGSN, if transmit failure, then selects MME to transmit this short message.
Therefore, under the scene that ISR activates, short messaging gateway can't be determined the network type of the current access of UE, as still residing in the GERAN/UTRAN network in the current E-UTRAN of the residing in network of UE, cause short messaging gateway may repeatedly transmit short message, thereby cause the short message transmission inefficiency, also increased the load of short messaging gateway simultaneously.
Summary of the invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of SMS processing and the system and the network equipment, efficiency of transmission in order to short message in the solution prior art is low, the real-time that short message sends is relatively poor, and the bigger technical problem of the operational load of short messaging gateway, realize improving the efficiency of transmission and the transmission real-time of short message, reduce the technique effect of the operational load of short messaging gateway.
The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of SMS processing, comprising:
The network equipment in first network receives the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and sends beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message;
The network equipment in second network sends indication information, indicates the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment;
Page-response message according to the described subscriber equipment that receives sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention provides a kind of network equipment, comprising:
First receiver module is used to receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and receives the page-response message that subscriber equipment sends;
First sending module is used to send beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message, and the transmission of the network equipment in second network indication information, indicates the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment;
Second sending module, the page-response message that is used for the described subscriber equipment that receives according to first receiver module sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention provides a kind of short message handling system, comprises the above-mentioned network equipment.
The embodiment of the invention, when UE sends SMS message, the network equipment in the network equipment in first network and second network all can be initiated paging to UE, thereby no matter make UE current is to insert first network or second network all can receive beep-page message, and then can send SMS message to UE according to the page-response message corresponding with this beep-page message.Present embodiment, no matter UE is current is to insert first network or second network, all can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, has improved the efficiency of transmission of short message, the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, owing to no longer need short messaging gateway repeatedly to carry out the transmission short message service process for successfully short message being passed to UE, thus the operational load of short messaging gateway also reduced.
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In order to be illustrated more clearly in the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, to do to introduce simply to the accompanying drawing of required use among the embodiment below, apparently, accompanying drawing in describing below only is some embodiments of the present invention, for those of ordinary skills, under the prerequisite of not paying creative work, can also obtain other accompanying drawing according to these accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a network architecture schematic diagram of handling short message service in the prior art;
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of an embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the signaling process figure of another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the signaling process figure of another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention;
Fig. 5 is the signaling process figure of another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the also flow chart of an embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention;
Fig. 7 is the SMS processing of the present invention signaling process figure of another embodiment again;
Fig. 8 is the structural representation of an embodiment of the network equipment of the present invention.
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Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in the embodiment of the invention, the technical scheme in the embodiment of the invention is clearly and completely described, obviously, described embodiment only is the present invention's part embodiment, rather than whole embodiment.Based on the embodiment among the present invention, those of ordinary skills belong to the scope of protection of the invention not making the every other embodiment that is obtained under the creative work prerequisite.
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of an embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, and as shown in Figure 2, the method for present embodiment comprises:
The network equipment in step 201, first network receives the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and sends beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message;
The network equipment in the present embodiment can be SGSN or MME etc.
Step 202, the network equipment in second network send indication information, indicate the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment;
For instance, first network of present embodiment can be the E-UTRAN network, and corresponding, the network equipment in first network can be MME.Second network can be the GERAN/UTRAN network, and correspondingly, the network equipment in second network can be SGSN.Specifically, the MME in the E-UTRAN network can receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, thereby triggers the UE that the MME paging receives this short message.When MME paging UE, both need in the E-UTRAN network, send beep-page message, and the SGSN that will trigger in the GERAN/UTRAN network sends beep-page message to this UE to UE.Perhaps, first network of present embodiment can be the GERAN/UTRAN network, and correspondingly, the network equipment in first network can be SGSN, and second network can be the E-UTRAN network, and corresponding, the network equipment in second network can be MME.Specifically, the SGSN in the GERAN/UTRAN network can receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, thereby triggers the UE that the SGSN paging receives this short message.When SGSN paging UE, SGSN both can be used for the beep-page message of paging UE to the UE transmission in the GERAN/UTRAN network, and the MME that will trigger in the E-UTRAN network sends beep-page message to this UE.
Because under the scene that ISR activates, UE both may insert the E-UTRAN network at current time, also may insert the GERAN/UTRAN network, therefore, the method for present embodiment can comprise following application mode:
(1) during the current access of UE E-UTRAN network, SMS-GMSC can send to MME with short message, and MME sends beep-page message to UE, further, MME also triggers SGSN and sends beep-page message to this UE, sends indication information as MME to SGSN, indicates this UE of this SGSN paging;
For mode (1), because current accesss of UE E-UTRAN network, therefore, when MME and SGSN carried out paging to UE, UE can only receive the beep-page message that MME sends, and can't receive the beep-page message of SGSN transmission.
(2) during the current access of UE E-UTRAN network, SMS-GMSC can send to SGSN with short message, and SGSN sends beep-page message to UE, further, SGSN also triggers MME and sends beep-page message to this UE, sends indication information as SGSN to MME, indicates this UE of this MME paging;
For mode (2), because current accesss of UE E-UTRAN network, therefore, when MME and SGSN carried out paging to UE, UE can't receive the beep-page message that SGSN sends, and can only receive the beep-page message of SGSN by the MME transmission.
(3) during the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, SMS-GMSC sends to MME with short message, and MME sends beep-page message to UE, further, MME also triggers SGSN and sends beep-page message to this UE, sends indication information as MME to SGSN, indicates this UE of this SGSN paging;
For mode (3), because current accesss of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, therefore, when MME and SGSN carried out paging to UE, UE can't receive the beep-page message that MME sends, and can only receive the beep-page message that MME triggers the SGSN transmission.
(4) the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, SMS-GMSC sends to SGSN with short message, and SGSN sends beep-page message to UE, further, SGSN also triggers MME and sends beep-page message to this UE, sends indication information as SGSN to MME, indicates this UE of this MME paging;
For mode (4), because current accesss of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, therefore, when MME and SGSN carried out paging to UE, UE can only receive SGSN and trigger the beep-page message that MME sends, and can't receive the beep-page message of MME transmission.
In step 202, can also comprise this short message in the indication information that the network equipment of the network equipment in first network in second network sends, then:
When the network equipment in first network received the response message of subscriber equipment transmission, the network equipment in first network sent to this subscriber equipment by first network with short message; Perhaps
When the network equipment in second network received the response message of subscriber equipment transmission, the network equipment in first network sent to this subscriber equipment by second network with short message.
The page-response message of the described subscriber equipment that step 203, basis receive sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
In another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, the network equipment in first network sends to described subscriber equipment according to the page-response message of the described subscriber equipment that receives with described short message, can comprise:
The network equipment in first network receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends in first network, and described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment by described first network, or first the network equipment in the network receive the page-response message that described subscriber equipment is transmitted by the network equipment in described second network, and described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment by the network equipment in second network, or after described subscriber equipment switched to first network from second network, the network equipment in first network sent to described subscriber equipment by first network with described short message.
Particularly, for mode (1), MME can receive the page-response message that UE sends; For mode (2), SGSN can paging arrive UE, and therefore, MME can receive the page-response message that UE transmits by SGSN; For mode (3), MME can paging arrive UE, and therefore, SGSN can receive the page-response message that UE transmits by MME; For mode (4), SGSN can paging arrive UE, so SGSN can receive the page-response message that UE sends.
In another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, the network equipment in first network receives after the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends in first network, can also comprise: the network equipment of the network equipment in first network in described second network sends the paging that is used to indicate the described network equipment to stop the described subscriber equipment of paging and stops message.The network equipment in first network receives after the page-response message of described subscriber equipment by the forwarding of the network equipment in described second network, can also comprise: the paging that stops the described subscriber equipment of paging that is used to indicate that the network equipment in first network receives the network equipment transmission in described second network stops message.
Be in the present embodiment, MME can receive the page-response message that UE sends in the mode (1), and SGSN can receive the page-response message that UE sends in the mode (4).
Specifically, for mode (1) and mode (2), MME can send the paging of indicating SGSN to stop paging UE to SGSN and stop message after the page-response message that receives the UE transmission; For mode (3) and (4), SGSN can receive the page-response message that UE sends, and sends the paging of indicating MME to stop paging UE to MME and stops message.
In another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, the network equipment in first network sends to described subscriber equipment by the network equipment in second network with described short message, can comprise: the network equipment in first network sends to the network equipment in described second network with described short message, by the network equipment in described second network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.
Present embodiment can corresponding aforesaid way (2) and mode (3).As for mode (3), when MME and SGSN carried out paging to UE, UE can't receive the beep-page message that MME sends, and triggers the beep-page message that SGSN sends and can only receive MME.Therefore, behind the beep-page message that UE reception SGSN sends, UE can be to the SGSN feedback response message, and SGSN can send page-response message to MME, and this response message can be used for the current access of SGSN notice this UE of MME at the GERAN/UTRAN network.Then, MME can send to SGSN with short message, and last SGSN sends to UE with short message again.After UE received this short message, UE can send confirmation of receipt message to MME by SGSN.Because when MME receives the short message of SMS-GMSC transmission, need to start the SMS state machine, the delivery status of record short message, if short message transmission success between SGSN and the UE, then SGSN needs and will give MME from the confirmation of receipt forwards that UE receives, by MME acknowledge message is transmitted to SMS-GMSC, rather than SGSN will directly be transmitted to SMS-GMSC from the confirmation of receipt message that UE receives.Operation can ensure that the operation of SMS state machine above the MME is normal like this, the description that mode (2) can reference pattern (3).
At SMS processing of the present invention also among embodiment, after described subscriber equipment switches to first network from second network, the network equipment in first network sends to described subscriber equipment by first network with described short message, can comprise: the network equipment in described second network receives the page-response message of described subscriber equipment, comprises in the described page-response message described subscriber equipment is switched to indication information in first network; The network equipment in described second network switches to first network according to the described indication information that receives with described subscriber equipment, and the network equipment in described first network sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
Also corresponding aforesaid way of present embodiment (2) and mode (3).As for mode (2), UE inserts at the E-UTRAN network, and when MME and SGSN carried out paging to UE, UE can't receive the beep-page message that SGSN sends, and triggers the beep-page message that MME sends and can only receive SGSN.Therefore, behind the beep-page message that UE reception MME sends, UE can be to the MME feedback response message, and MME can switch back UE in the GERAN/UTRAN network after receiving this response message.Then, UE can send response message to SGSN in the GERAN/UTRAN network, and SGSN can directly send to UE with short message by the GERAN/UTRAN network after receiving this response message.To the description of mode (3) can reference pattern (2) description.
The foregoing description of SMS processing of the present invention, when UE sends SMS message, SGSN in MME in the E-UTRAN network and the GERAN/UTRAN network all can initiate paging to UE, thereby no matter make UE current is to insert the E-UTRAN network or the GERAN/UTRAN network all can receive beep-page message, and then can send SMS message to UE according to the page-response message corresponding with this beep-page message.Present embodiment, no matter UE is current is to insert in the E-UTRAN network or in the GERAN/UTRAN network, all can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, has improved the efficiency of transmission of short message, the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, owing to no longer need SMS-GMSC to repeat to transmit short message, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
With the specific embodiment under three different application scenes SMS processing embodiment shown in Figure 2 is elaborated below.It is that example describes that following three embodiment all send to MME with SMS-GMSC with short message, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that, when SMS-GMSC jumps routing iinformation when being the routing iinformation of SGSN by next that obtain alternately with HSS, SMS-GMSC also can send to SGSN with short message, it is similar that its principle and SMS-GMSC send to MME with short message, repeats no more.
Fig. 3 is the signaling process figure of another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, and in the present embodiment, the current access of UE is in the E-UTRAN network, and as shown in Figure 3, the method for present embodiment comprises:
Step 301, SM-SC send to SMS-GMSC with short message;
Step 302, SMS-GMSC and HSS obtain next jumping routing iinformation that short message transmits alternately;
This next jumping routing iinformation can be the routing iinformation of MME or the routing iinformation of SGSN etc., and can establish next the jumping routing iinformation that obtains in the present embodiment is the routing iinformation of MME.
Step 303, SMS-GMSC are transmitted to MME according to the routing iinformation of the MME that obtains with short message;
After step 304, MME receive described short message, obtain the information of the UE that receives this short message, as the IP address of UE or the IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity of UE (International MobileSubscriber Identity, hereinafter to be referred as: IMSI) or the like, beep-page message (PSPaging) sent to UE;
Step 305, MME send the indication information notice SGSN paging UE related with its maintenance ISR;
Wherein, Indication message can be a beep-page message, and further, this indication information also can be PS paging (PS Paging) message.
Step 306, SGSN send beep-page message to UE in the GERAN/UTRAN network;
Step 307, UE send response message to MME, and described response message can be page-response message (Paging Response) or service request information (Service Request);
Because the current access of UE is in the E-UTRAN network, therefore, UE can only receive the beep-page message that MME sends, and can't receive the beep-page message that SGSN transmits.Therefore, UE can send response message to MME in the E-UTRAN network.Described response message can be service request information (Service Request).
Step 308, alternatively, MME can notify and set up the related SGSN of ISR with it and stop paging;
Step 309, MME by descending Non-Access Stratum (Non Access Stratum, hereinafter to be referred as: NAS) message is encapsulated in wherein and passes to UE with short message;
Need to prove not have sequencing between step 308 and the step 309.
Step 310, UE send to MME by up NAS message with confirmation of receipt message (Delivery Report);
Step 311, MME transmit Delivery Report to SMS-GMSC;
Because UE this moment inserts in the MME side, short message transmits between MME and UE, SGSN can't pass to UE with short message, SGSN will return the Delivery Report of bust this to the MME that sets up the ISR association, if MME is with the UE that passes to of short message success, and receive the Delivery Report of the transmission success that UE sends, the MME information (perhaps directly abandoning described information) of the described short message transmission failure that sends of treatment S GSN not then.
Step 312, SMS-GMSC transmit Delivery Report and give SM-SC.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter which network of the current access of UE all can successfully receive this beep-page message.Because in the present embodiment, in the current access of the UE E-UTRAN net, therefore, UE can receive the beep-page message that MME sends, and sends response message according to this beep-page message to MME, MME can send SMS message to this UE after receiving this response message then.Therefore, present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message, and the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
Fig. 4 is the signaling process figure of another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, in the present embodiment, the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, as shown in Figure 4, the method for present embodiment comprises:
Step 401, SM-SC send to SMS-GMSC with short message;
Step 402, SMS-GMSC and HSS obtain next jumping routing iinformation that short message transmits alternately, with reference to step 302;
Step 403, SMS-GMSC are transmitted to MME with short message, with reference to step 303;
Step 404, MME send beep-page message (PS Paging) to UE, with reference to step 304;
Step 405, MME send the indication information notice SGSN paging UE related with its maintenance ISR;
Step 406, SGSN send beep-page message to UE in the GERAN/UTRAN network;
Step 407, UE send response message to SGSN, and described response message can be page-response message (Paging Response) or service request information (Service Request);
Because the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, therefore, UE can only receive the beep-page message that SGSN sends, and can't receive the beep-page message that MME transmits.Therefore, UE can not directly send response message to MME, but this response message is sent to SGSN.
Step 408, SGSN send message to setting up the related MME of ISR with it;
This message can be response message or notification message, thereby MME can be known current UE access GERAN/UTRAN network; Alternatively, SGSN can also notify with it and set up the operation that the related MME of ISR stops paging UE.
Step 409, MME receive the response message that SGSN sends, and short message is transmitted to SGSN;
Step 410, SGSN send to UE with short message;
Step 411, UE pass to SGSN with Delivery Report;
Step 412, SGSN are transmitted to the MME that it sets up the ISR association with Delivery Report;
Step 413, MME transmit Delivery Report and give SMS-GMSC;
Step 414, SMS-GMSC transmit Delivery Report and give SM-SC.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter which network of the current access of UE all can successfully receive this beep-page message.Because in the present embodiment, the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, therefore, UE can receive MME and trigger the beep-page message that SGSN sends, and send to SGSN according to this beep-page message and to be used to indicate MME that the response message of service is provided, SGSN sends message informing MME, and MME knows that UE inserts the GERAN/UTRAN network, and MME can send to UE by SGSN with short message then.Therefore, present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message, and the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
Fig. 5 is the signaling process figure of another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, in the present embodiment, the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, as shown in Figure 5, the method for present embodiment comprises:
Step 501, SM-SC send to SMS-GMSC with short message;
Step 502, SMS-GMSC and HSS obtain next jumping routing iinformation that short message transmits alternately;
Step 503, SMS-GMSC are transmitted to the MME corresponding with the MME routing iinformation with short message;
Step 504, MME send beep-page message (PS Paging) to UE;
Step 505, MME send the indication information notice SGSN paging UE related with its maintenance ISR;
Step 506, SGSN send beep-page message to UE in the GERAN/UTRAN network;
Carry the indication information of SMS indication information or Fall back to E-UTRAN in the beep-page message, notice UE returns E-UTRAN and receives short message;
Step 507, UE receive the beep-page message that SGSN sends, and send response message to SGSN, and described response message can be page-response message (Paging Response) or service request information (Service Request);
Alternatively, can also carry SMS rollback indication information (SMS FallbackIndicator) in this response message, this SMS rollback indication information can be used for UE notice SGSN and carry out the operation that UE is switched to the E-UTRAN network;
Step 508, SGSN switch to the E-UTRAN network with UE;
For instance, SGSN sends message, for example carry similarly information of notice " SMS FallbackIndicator " or the like in the message, the notice access network elements, RNC/BSC for example, initiation switches to the flow process of E-UTRAN network with UE, and concrete can switch to the E-UTRAN network with UE by the mode of PS HO (Packet switchedHandOver) or NACC.
Step 509, UE send response message to MME, and described response message can be service request information (Service Request);
Step 510, MME are encapsulated in wherein and pass to UE by descending NAS message with short message;
Step 511, UE send to MME by up NAS message with Delivery Report;
Step 512, MME transmit Delivery Report to SMS-GMSC;
Step 513, SMS-GMSC transmit Delivery Report and give SM-SC.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter the current access of UE in which network, all can successfully receive this beep-page message.Because in the present embodiment, the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, therefore, UE can receive the beep-page message that MME sends by SGSN, indication SGSN switches to it in E-UTRAN network and obtains short message, SGSN can switch to this UE in the E-UTRAN network then, communicates by letter thereby UE is set up with MME, and MME can directly send to UE with short message.Therefore, present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message, and the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
Fig. 6 is the also flow chart of an embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, and as shown in Figure 6, the method for present embodiment can comprise:
The network equipment in step 601, first network receives the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and sends beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message; The network equipment in second network sends indication information, indicates the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment.
Carry content of short message in the described indication information.
The network equipment in the present embodiment can be SGSN or MME.For instance, first network of present embodiment can be the E-UTRAN network, and corresponding, the network equipment in first network can be MME.Second network can be the GERAN/UTRAN network, and correspondingly, the network equipment in second network can be SGSN.Specifically, the MME in the E-UTRAN network can receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, thereby triggers the UE that the MME paging receives this short message.When MME paging UE, both need in the E-UTRAN network, send beep-page message, and the SGSN that will trigger in the GERAN/UTRAN network sends beep-page message to this UE to UE.Perhaps, first network of present embodiment can be the GERAN/UTRAN network, and correspondingly, the network equipment in first network can be SGSN, and second network can be the E-UTRAN network, and corresponding, the network equipment in second network can be MME.Specifically, the SGSN in the GERAN/UTRAN network can receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, thereby triggers the UE that the SGSN paging receives this short message.When SGSN paging UE, SGSN both can be used for the beep-page message of paging UE to the UE transmission in the GERAN/UTRAN network, and the MME that will trigger in the E-UTRAN network sends beep-page message to this UE.
The difference of present embodiment and embodiment shown in Figure 2 is, when MME when SGSN sends indication information, the content of short message that MME can send to needs UE also is carried in this indication information; When SGSN when MME sends message, the short message that SGSN also can send to needs UE is carried in the message.
The response message of the described subscriber equipment that step 602, basis receive sends described short message to described subscriber equipment.
In another embodiment of SMS processing of the present invention, the response message of the described subscriber equipment that described basis receives, send SMS message to described subscriber equipment, can comprise: the network equipment in described first network receives the response message that described subscriber equipment sends, and then by described first network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment; The network equipment in perhaps described second network receives the response message that described subscriber equipment sends, and then by described second network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.
For the network equipment is the situation of SGSN, if the E-UTRAN network at the current access of UE MME place, then MME and UE carry out short message transmission reception operation; If the GERAN/UTRAN network at the current access of UE SGSN place, it is second network at SGSN place, then SGSN can paging arrive UE, SGSN sends to UE with short message, UE can be to SGSN feedback confirmation of receipt message after receiving short message then, and SGSN gives MME with this confirmation of receipt forwards again.
For the network equipment is the situation of MME, if the GERAN/UTRAN network at the current access of UE SGSN place, then SGSN and UE carry out short message transmission reception operation; If the E-UTRAN network at the current access of UE MME place, be second network at MME place, then MME can paging arrive UE, and MME sends to UE with short message, UE can be to MME feedback confirmation of receipt message after receiving short message then, and MME gives SGSN with this confirmation of receipt forwards again.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter the current access of UE is in which network, the capital successfully receives this beep-page message, so present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message.And in the present embodiment, also short message is also sent to the network equipment in second network during network equipment paging UE in triggering second network, make in second network the network equipment paging can be directly during to UE and UE carry out alternately, and short message sent to UE, thereby further improve the real-time that short message sends.In addition, present embodiment has also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
With a specific embodiment SMS processing embodiment shown in Figure 6 is elaborated below.
Fig. 7 is the SMS processing of the present invention signaling process figure of another embodiment again, in the present embodiment, SMS-GMSC sends to MME with short message, and the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, and promptly UE inserts in the second network G ERAN/UTRAN network at SGSN place.It will be understood by those skilled in the art that, when SMS-GMSC jumps routing iinformation when being the routing iinformation of SGSN by next that obtain alternately with HSS, SMS-GMSC also can send to SGSN with short message, and it is similar that its principle and SMS-GMSC send to MME with short message, repeats no more.As shown in Figure 7, the method for present embodiment can comprise:
Step 701, SM-SC send to SMS-GMSC with short message;
Step 702, SMS-GMSC and HSS obtain next jumping routing iinformation that short message transmits alternately;
Step 703, SMS-GMSC are transmitted to MME with short message;
Step 704, MME send beep-page message (PS Paging) to UE;
Step 705, MME are transmitted to the related SGSN with its maintenance ISR with short message;
Step 706, SGSN send beep-page message to UE in the GERAN/UTRAN network;
Step 707, UE send response message to SGSN, and described response message can be page-response message (Paging Response) or service request information (Service Request);
Step 708, SGSN send to UE with short message;
Step 709, UE feed back to SGSN with Delivery Report;
Step 710, SGSN are transmitted to MME with Delivery Report;
Step 711, MME transmit Delivery Report and give SMS-GMSC;
Step 712, SMS-GMSC transmit Delivery Report and give SM-SC.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter in which network of the current access of UE, the capital successfully receives this beep-page message, so present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message.And in the present embodiment, also short message is also sent to the network equipment in second network during network equipment paging UE in triggering second network, make the network equipment in second network can carry out alternately with UE during to UE in paging, short message is sent to UE, thereby further improve the real-time that short message sends.In addition, present embodiment has also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
Fig. 8 is the structural representation of an embodiment of the network equipment of the present invention, and as shown in Figure 8, the network equipment of present embodiment can comprise: first receiver module 10, first sending module 11 and second sending module 12.Wherein, first receiver module 10 is used to receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and receives the page-response message that subscriber equipment sends; First sending module 11 is used to send beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message, and the transmission of the network equipment in second network indication information, indicates the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment; The page-response message that second sending module 12 is used for the described subscriber equipment that receives according to first receiver module 10 sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
The network equipment of present embodiment is identical with the realization principle of SMS processing embodiment shown in Figure 2, repeats no more.
The network equipment of present embodiment, when UE sends SMS message, SGSN in MME in the E-UTRAN network and the GERAN/UTRAN network all can initiate paging to UE, thereby no matter make UE current is to insert the E-UTRAN network or the GERAN/UTRAN network all can receive beep-page message, and then can send SMS message to UE according to the page-response message corresponding with this beep-page message.Present embodiment, no matter UE is current is to insert E-UTRAN network or GERAN/UTRAN network, all can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, has improved the efficiency of transmission of short message, the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, owing to no longer need SMS-GMSC to repeat to transmit short message, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
In another embodiment of the network equipment of the present invention, described first receiver module 10 receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends by first network, and described second sending module 12 sends to described subscriber equipment by described first network with described short message; Or
Described first receiver module 10 receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment is transmitted by the network equipment in described second network, and described second sending module 12 sends to described subscriber equipment by the network equipment in second network with described short message; Or
After described subscriber equipment switched to first network from second network, described second sending module 12 sent to described subscriber equipment by first network with described short message.
In another embodiment of the network equipment of the present invention, when described first receiver module 10 received the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends by the network equipment in first network, described first sending module 11 also was used for the network equipment to described second network and sends the paging that is used to indicate the described network equipment to stop the described subscriber equipment of paging and stop message; Or
When described first receiver module 10 received the page-response message that described subscriber equipment transmits by the network equipment in described second network, the paging that stops the described subscriber equipment of paging that is used to indicate that described first receiver module 10 also is used for receiving the network equipment transmission of described second network stopped message.
In another embodiment of the network equipment of the present invention, comprise short message in the described indication information, so that after the network equipment in described second network receives the page-response message of described subscriber equipment, directly described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.
The network equipment of present embodiment is identical with the principle of the SMS processing embodiment shown in Fig. 3~7, repeats no more.
In the present embodiment, the network equipment both can be MME, also can be SGSN.MME and SGSN all can send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter which network of the current access of UE all can successfully receive this beep-page message.If the current access of the UE in present embodiment E-UTRAN network, UE can receive the beep-page message that MME sends, and send to MME according to this beep-page message and to be used to indicate MME that the response message of service is provided, MME can send SMS message to this UE after receiving this response message then.Therefore, present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message, and the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
In another embodiment of the network equipment of the present invention, when described first receiver module 10 received the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends in first network, described first sending module 11 also was used for the network equipment to described second network and sends the paging that is used to indicate the described network equipment to stop the described subscriber equipment of paging and stop message; Or
When described first receiver module 10 received the page-response message that described subscriber equipment transmits by the network equipment in described second network, the paging that stops the described subscriber equipment of paging that is used to indicate that described first receiver module 10 also is used for receiving the network equipment transmission of described second network stopped message.After described subscriber equipment receives the beep-page message and the network equipment feedback response message in described second network of the network equipment transmission in described second network, first receiver module 10 is used for receiving the page response information of the network equipment of described second network according to described response message transmission, second sending module 12 is used for according to described page response information described short message being sent to the network equipment of described second network, for the network equipment in described second network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.The network equipment in second network sends to described short message after the described subscriber equipment, and first receiver module 10 also is used to receive the confirmation of receipt message that described subscriber equipment is transmitted by the described network equipment.
The equipment of present embodiment is identical with the principle of SMS processing embodiment shown in Figure 4, repeats no more.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter which network of the current access of UE all can successfully receive this beep-page message.If in the present embodiment, the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, UE can receive the beep-page message that MME sends by SGSN, and is used to indicate MME that the response message of service is provided according to this beep-page message to the SGSN transmission, and MME can send to UE by SGSN with short message then.Therefore, present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message, and the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
The equipment of present embodiment is identical with the principle of SMS processing embodiment shown in Figure 5, repeats no more.
With above-mentioned network equipment embodiment accordingly, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of short message handling system, this short message handling system comprises the described network equipment of above-mentioned any embodiment.
In the present embodiment, MME and SGSN all send beep-page message to UE, therefore, no matter which network of the current access of UE all can successfully receive this beep-page message.If in the present embodiment, the current access of UE GERAN/UTRAN network, UE can receive the beep-page message that MME sends by SGSN, indication SGSN switches to it in E-UTRAN network and obtains short message, SGSN can switch to this UE in the E-UTRAN network then, communicate by letter thereby UE is set up with MME, MME can directly send to UE with short message.Therefore, present embodiment can guarantee the success rate that sends SMS message for the first time to UE, improves the efficiency of transmission of short message, and the real-time that short message sends is higher; And, also reduced the operational load of SMS-GMSC.
It should be noted that at last: above embodiment is only in order to technical scheme of the present invention to be described but not limit it, although the present invention is had been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiment, those of ordinary skill in the art is to be understood that: it still can make amendment or be equal to replacement technical scheme of the present invention, and these modifications or be equal to replacement and also can not make amended technical scheme break away from the spirit and scope of technical solution of the present invention.

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1. a SMS processing is characterized in that, comprising:
The network equipment in first network receives the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and sends beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message;
The network equipment in second network sends indication information, indicates the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment;
Page-response message according to the described subscriber equipment that receives sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
2. SMS processing according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the page-response message of the described subscriber equipment that described basis receives sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message and comprises:
Receive the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends in first network, and described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment by described first network; Or
Receive the page-response message that described subscriber equipment is transmitted by the network equipment in described second network, and described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment by the network equipment in second network; Or
After described subscriber equipment switches to first network from second network, described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment by first network.
3. SMS processing according to claim 2 is characterized in that, after the page-response message that the described subscriber equipment of described reception sends in first network, also comprises:
The network equipment in described second network sends the paging that the network equipment that is used for indicating described second network stops the described subscriber equipment of paging and stops message; Or
After the page-response message of the described subscriber equipment of described reception by the forwarding of the network equipment in described second network, also comprise:
The paging that stops the described subscriber equipment of paging that is used to indicate that receives the network equipment transmission in described second network stops message.
4. SMS processing according to claim 2 is characterized in that, describedly by the network equipment in second network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment, comprising:
The network equipment in first network sends to the network equipment in described second network with described short message, by the network equipment in described second network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.
5. SMS processing according to claim 2 is characterized in that, after described subscriber equipment switches to first network from second network, by first network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment, comprising:
The network equipment in described second network receives the page-response message of described subscriber equipment, comprises in the described page-response message described subscriber equipment is switched to indication information in first network;
The network equipment in described second network switches to first network according to the described indication information that receives with described subscriber equipment;
The network equipment in described first network sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message by first network.
6. SMS processing according to claim 1 is characterized in that, when comprising described short message in the described indication information, the page-response message of the described subscriber equipment that described basis receives sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message, comprising:
The network equipment in described first network receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends, and then by described first network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment; Perhaps
The network equipment in described second network receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends, and then by described second network described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.
7. according to the described SMS processing of arbitrary claim in the claim 1~6, it is characterized in that the described network equipment comprises:
GPRS serving GPRS support node SGSN or Mobility Management Entity MME.
8. a network equipment is characterized in that, comprising:
First receiver module is used to receive the short message that short messaging gateway sends, and receives the page-response message that subscriber equipment sends;
First sending module is used to send beep-page message to the subscriber equipment that receives described short message, and the transmission of the network equipment in second network indication information, indicates the network equipment in described second network to send beep-page message to described subscriber equipment;
Second sending module, the page-response message that is used for the described subscriber equipment that receives according to first receiver module sends to described subscriber equipment with described short message.
9. the network equipment according to claim 8 is characterized in that,
Described first receiver module receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends by first network, and described second sending module sends to described subscriber equipment by described first network with described short message; Or
Described first receiver module receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment is transmitted by the network equipment in described second network, and described second sending module sends to described subscriber equipment by the network equipment in second network with described short message; Or
After described subscriber equipment switched to first network from second network, described second sending module sent to described subscriber equipment by first network with described short message.
10. the network equipment according to claim 9 is characterized in that, when described first receiver module receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment sends by first network,
Described first sending module also is used for sending the paging that is used to indicate the described network equipment to stop the described subscriber equipment of paging to the network equipment of described second network and stops message; Or
When described first receiver module receives the page-response message that described subscriber equipment transmits by the network equipment in described second network,
Described first receiver module also is used for receiving the paging that stops the described subscriber equipment of paging that is used to indicate that the network equipment of described second network sends and stops message.
11. the network equipment according to claim 8, it is characterized in that, comprise short message in the described indication information, so that after the network equipment in described second network receives the page-response message of described subscriber equipment, directly described short message is sent to described subscriber equipment.
12. a short message handling system is characterized in that, comprises the described network equipment of arbitrary claim in the claim 8~11.
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