CN102026158B

CN102026158B - Method and device for obtaining user subscription information

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Publication number: CN102026158B
Application number: CN 200910190428
Authority: CN
Inventors: 钱韬; 肖晓玲
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2009-09-11
Filing date: 2009-09-11
Publication date: 2013-10-02
Anticipated expiration: 2029-09-11
Also published as: CN102026158A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and device for obtaining user signing information. The method comprises: after an NAI (no address instruction) which is reported by a terminal MS (mobile station) is received by an AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) server, according to the service mode information which is carried by the NAI, the terminal is confirmed to be subject to OTA (over-the-air) configuration; when the AAA learns that the terminal is subscribed, a terminal status notification message is sent to a DM (device management) server, wherein the terminal status notification message carries information indicating that the terminal is subscribed; when the AAA does not learn whether the terminal is subscribed or not, a terminal subscribing status request message is sent to a SPB (signaling process board); a terminal subscribing status response message which is sent by the SPB server is received by the AAA server, wherein the terminal subscribing status response message carries information indicating whether the terminal is subscribed or not; and a terminal status notification message is sent to the DM server by the AAA server, wherein the terminal status notification message carries the information indicating whether the terminal is subscribed or not. By adopting the method and device provided by the embodiment of the invention, the DM server can learn whether the terminal is subscribed or not.

Description

A kind of method and device that obtains user signing contract information

Technical field

The present invention relates to wireless communication field, particularly a kind of method and apparatus that obtains user signing contract information.

Background technology

Aerial download technology (Over the Air, abbreviate OTA as) upload in the air and download technology with portable terminal is closely-related as a kind of, be subjected to extensive concern just day by day, and constantly perfect along with mobile terminal function, the OTA technology also will be applied in the mobile service more and more.

Mobile phone users can be realized data upload and download, functions such as various application programs, download pictures/the tinkle of bells, firmware updating are installed by the OTA technology, OTA has reduced operation maintenance and upgrade cost for functions such as the remote firmware of portable terminal loads, information is uploaded provide technical guarantee.

WiMAX NWG (WiMAX Network Group network working group) is devoted to the research on standard work of OTA technology, the OTA network configuration as shown in Figure 1, the network element that the OTA process relates to mainly comprises:

Terminal MS: be used for the handheld device of access network, include but not limited to mobile phone, notebook, PDA etc.;

Aaa server (authentication, authentication and accounting server): be mainly used in terminal is carried out authentication;

DM server (device management server, Device Management Sever): be used for the server of management terminal device, existing general management agreement comprises: TR-069 and OMA etc.;

WIB server (WIMAX Initial Bootstrap, initialization start server): be used for providing the information that inserts DM server necessity to terminal to be configured, as: land information such as the user name of DM server and password; And

SPB (Service Provider Backoffice, rear end equipment): the relevant CAMEL-Subscription-Information that is used for providing Network and storage terminal.

Wherein the WIB server can be positioned at identical or different physical network entity with the DM server.

At present, defined the layoutprocedure of two kinds of OTA in the standard, be respectively In-band subscription and In-band provisioning process and Out-of-band subscription and In-band provisioning, that is, the user is signatory to carry out the OTA configuration then by carrying out on the line, and carries out the signatory OTA that carries out then of user under the line and dispose, both differences are signatory mode difference, for the latter, user's off-line is finished signatory process, does not need to carry out on the line signatory; In the specific implementation process, for the terminal that does not have signatory terminal and contracted, the flow process of carrying out the OTA configuration is different, in the process of carrying out the OTA configuration, after the DM server received terminal transmission PKG#1 message, whether the DM server was signatory according to terminal, carry out different flow processs, for there not being signatory terminal, need finish the signatory process on the line, and then carry out the layoutprocedure of OTA.Qian Yue terminal need not to carry out the signatory process on the line again, and the layoutprocedure of directly carrying out OTA gets final product.

For general terminal, whether it reaches the standard grade, and it is uncontrolled when reaching the standard grade, and whether after it was reached the standard grade, the DM server can not determine whether user terminal is signatory, further, can't contract according to terminal and carry out different OTA layoutprocedures.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of method and device that obtains user signing contract information, so that the DM server can obtain user's CAMEL-Subscription-Information.

A kind of method that obtains user signing contract information comprises:

Behind the network access Identifier NAI that authentication, authentication and charging aaa server receiving terminal MS report, according to the service mode information of carrying among the described NAI, determine that this terminal need download OTA configuration in the air;

If it is signatory that AAA is known terminal, then send the SOT state of termination notification message to equipment control DM server, carry the indication information of terminal unit contractual in the described SOT state of termination notification message; Or

If whether AAA is not known terminal signatory, then equipment SPB sends the terminal unit contractual status request message to the back-end;

Described aaa server receives the terminal unit contractual status response message that the SPB server sends, and carries the indication information whether this terminal contracts in the described terminal unit contractual status response message;

Described aaa server sends the SOT state of termination notification message to the DM server, carries the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described SOT state of termination notification message.

A kind of method that obtains user signing contract information comprises:

Behind the NAI that aaa server receiving terminal MS reports, according to the service mode information of carrying among the described NAI, determine that this terminal need carry out OTA configuration;

If it is signatory that AAA is known terminal, then send the SOT state of termination notification message to the DM server, carry the indication information of terminal unit contractual in the described SOT state of termination notification message; Or

If whether AAA is not known terminal signatory, then send the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB;

Described aaa server receives the terminal unit contractual status response message that the SPB server sends, and carries the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described terminal unit contractual status response message;

Described aaa server starts the WIB server to initialization and sends the SOT state of termination notification message, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described SOT state of termination notification message, whether signatory indication information sends to the DM server so that described WIB server is with terminal.

A kind of method that obtains user signing contract information comprises:

After the DM server receives the PKG#1 message of terminal MS transmission, send the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB;

The DM server receives the terminal unit contractual status response message that described SPB sends, and carries the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described terminal unit contractual status response message.

A kind of aaa server comprises:

Determination module: after being used for NAI that receiving terminal MS reports, according to the service mode information of carrying among the described NAI, determine whether described terminal needs the OTA configuration,

First sending module: when determination module determines that described terminal need be carried out the OTA configuration, if know that terminal is signatory, be used for sending the SOT state of termination notification message to the DM server, carry the indication information of terminal unit contractual in the described SOT state of termination notification message; If or do not know that whether terminal is signatory, is used for sending the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB;

Receiver module: when first sending module sends the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB, be used for receiving the terminal unit contractual status response message that the SPB server sends, carry the indication information whether this terminal contracts in the described terminal unit contractual status response message;

Second sending module: be used for sending the SOT state of termination notification message to the WIB server, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described SOT state of termination notification message, whether signatory indication information sends to the DM server so that described WIB server is with terminal.

A kind of aaa server comprises:

Determination module: after being used for NAI that receiving terminal MS reports, according to the service mode information of carrying among the described NAI, determine whether described terminal needs the OTA configuration;

Second sending module: send the SOT state of termination notification message to the DM server, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described SOT state of termination notification message.

A kind of DM server comprises;

First receiver module: be used for the PKG#1 message that receiving terminal MS sends;

Sending module: be used for sending the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB;

Second receiver module is used for receiving the terminal unit contractual status response message that described SPB sends, and carries the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described terminal unit contractual status response message.

Whether the method that the embodiment of the invention provides and device, DM server can know whether terminal is signatory, further signatory according to terminal, can adopt different flow processs in the OTA layoutprocedure.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is OTA network structure in the WIMAX system in the prior art;

Fig. 2 obtains the method flow diagram of terminal use's CAMEL-Subscription-Information for the embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 3 obtains the method flow diagram of terminal use's CAMEL-Subscription-Information for another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 obtains the method flow diagram of terminal use's CAMEL-Subscription-Information for another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is embodiment of the invention aaa server device schematic diagram;

Fig. 6 is embodiment of the invention DM server unit schematic diagram.

Embodiment

For making purpose of the present invention, technological means and advantage clearer, developing simultaneously below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the present invention is described in detail for embodiment.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a kind of method that obtains user signing contract information, this method comprises:

Behind the network access Identifier NAI (Network Access Identifier) that authentication, authentication and charging aaa server receiving terminal MS report, according to the service mode information of carrying among the described NAI, determine that this terminal need download OTA configuration in the air;

Another embodiment of the present invention discloses a kind of method that obtains user signing contract information, and this method comprises:

Below in conjunction with specific embodiment and flow chart said method is described.

Embodiment one

The method that the embodiment of the invention is disclosed obtains terminal unit contractual information is with reference to figure 2:

Step 101, after terminal MS networks, carry out authentication alternately with aaa server, in this process, terminal is after receiving the authentication request message that network side sends, and terminal need be constructed NAI, and in authentication response message, report described aaa server, need carried terminal service mode (Service Mode) information in NAI, being used to indicate this terminal is the terminal that does not dispose, or the terminal of other service modes;

If terminal is in not configuration status, perhaps reason such as losing because of configuration information causes terminal to reshuffle, then during terminal constructions NAI, can in the WiMAX of NAI decoration territory, carry SM (service mode)=1, SM=1 represents that terminal is in not configuration status, require AAA temporarily by authentication, in order to carry out the configuration of network side necessity, in order to avoid networked by the AAA refusal.In the OTA standard, require aaa server to having the terminal of SM=1, can not verify whether this user opens an account in AAA, allow accessing terminal to network in order to accept the configuration of DM server temporarily.

Step 102, receive the authentication response message of terminal as AAA after, according to the service mode information of carrying in this message, confirm whether terminal needs configuration;

If carry SM=1 among the NAI of authentication response message, represent that this terminal need carry out OTA configuration, if aaa server does not know that whether terminal is signatory, then carries out step 103,104; If it is signatory that aaa server self is known terminal, then execution in step 105;

For example: whether AAA can self store the corresponding information whether terminal contracts by detecting, and self does not store the corresponding information whether terminal contracts if AAA detects, and then triggers step 103,104.

If AAA detects the corresponding information that himself stores terminal unit contractual, then execution in step 105.

Step 103, AAA send the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB, can carry the MSID of this terminal in this message, with the indication of whether contracting to this terminal of SPB server request;

Step 104, SPB server return the terminal unit contractual status response message to described aaa server, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in this message;

If store the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of terminal on the SPB, then carry the indication information that terminal has been contracted in the described terminal unit contractual status response message, if there is not the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of storage terminal on the SPB, then carrying terminal in the described terminal unit contractual status response message does not have signatory indication information.

Step 105, terminal sets up initial Business Stream with network and IP is connected, and sends beginning (Accounting start) message of chargeing by ASN-GW and give AAA, and this step is that prior art repeats no more.

Step 106, receive the charging start information from ASN-GW after, aaa server sends the SOT state of termination notification message to the WIB server, carries whether signatory indication information of terminal in this message.

Step 107, MS send HTTP GET message to the WIB server, and this step belongs to prior art, is not giving unnecessary details.

Step 108, WIB server send bootstrap (startup) request message to the DM server, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described message.

So far, the DM server knows whether terminal is signatory.

The DM server know terminal whether the signatory DM server of being convenient to terminal is carried out the OTA configuration, that is, select different OTA layoutprocedures according to terminal is whether signatory.

Step 109～110, the DM server sends the bootstrap response message to the WIB server, and the WIB server sends HTTP OK message to the DM server, and this process belongs to prior art.

Step 111, MS sends PKG#1 message to the DM server, after the DM server receives, according to the terminal of knowing in the step 106 signatory information whether, carry out different operations, if it is signatory that the DM server is known terminal, know that terminal is not signatory if then carry out step 110, then carry out step 111.

Step 112, the terminal OTA layoutprocedure of carrying out.

Step 113, the terminal unit contractual process of carrying out are carried out terminal OTA layoutprocedure then.

Embodiment two

The method that the embodiment of the invention is disclosed obtains terminal unit contractual information is with reference to figure 3:

Step 201～205 are similar with step 101～105, repeat no more.

Step 206, aaa server send the terminal unit contractual state notification message to the DM server, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described message.

So far, the DM server knows whether terminal is signatory.

Step 207, MS send HTTP GET message to the WIB server, and this step belongs to prior art, is not giving unnecessary details.

Step 208, WIB server send bootstrap (startup) request message to the DM server, because the DM server has obtained the indication information whether terminal contracts in the step 206, so the indication information that does not need carried terminal whether to contract in this step; The WIB server sends HTTP OK message to the DM server.

Step 209～213, similar with step 109～113 among the embodiment one repeat no more.

Embodiment three

The method that the embodiment of the invention is disclosed obtains terminal unit contractual information is with reference to figure 4:

Step 301, terminal network, and carry out authentication with aaa server, and terminal need be constructed NAI, and in authentication response message, report, carry SM=1 among this NAI, represent that this terminal need carry out OTA configuration, and set up corresponding initial service flow and IP connects.

Step 302, WIB discovery procedure belong to the prior art flow process, no longer describe in detail.

Step 303, MS send PKG#1 message to the DM server;

Step 304, because the DM server does not know that terminal is whether signatory, this moment is after receiving PKG#1, send the terminal unit contractual status request message to SPB, with the indication of whether contracting to this terminal of SPB server request, the MS ID of this terminal of portability in the described terminal unit contractual status request message;

Step 305, SPB server return the terminal unit contractual status response message to described DM server, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in this message;

So far, the DM server knows whether terminal is signatory.

If it is signatory that the DM server is known terminal, know that terminal is not signatory if then carry out step 306, then carry out step 307.

Step 306, the terminal OTA layoutprocedure of carrying out.

Step 307, the terminal unit contractual process of carrying out are carried out terminal OTA layoutprocedure then.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a kind of aaa server, with reference to figure 5, comprising:

Above-mentioned aaa server is the aaa server among the embodiment two.

Above-mentioned aaa server is the aaa server among the embodiment one.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses a kind of DM server, with reference to figure 6, comprise;

Above-mentioned DM server is the DM server among the embodiment three.

Being preferred embodiment of the present invention only below, is not for limiting protection scope of the present invention.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of doing, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. a method that obtains user signing contract information is characterized in that, this method comprises:

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method further comprises:

If it is signatory that the DM server is known terminal, after then described DM server receives the PKG#1 message of terminal transmission, carry out the OTA configuration of terminal; Or

If it is not signatory that the DM server is known terminal, after then described DM server receives the PKG#1 message of terminal transmission, earlier terminal is contracted, carry out the OTA configuration of terminal then.

3. a method that obtains user signing contract information is characterized in that, this method comprises:

4. method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, this method further comprises:

The indication information whether described WIB server contracts described terminal is carried to start in the request message and sends to the DM server.

5. method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, this method further comprises:

6. a method that obtains user signing contract information is characterized in that, this method comprises:

After the DM server received the PKG#1 message of terminal MS transmission, equipment SPB sent the terminal unit contractual status request message to the back-end;

7. method as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, this method further comprises:

If it is signatory that the DM server is known terminal, then carry out the OTA configuration of terminal; Or

If it is not signatory that the DM server is known terminal, then terminal is contracted, carry out the OTA configuration of terminal then.

8. an aaa server is characterized in that, comprising:

First sending module: when determination module determines that described terminal need be carried out the OTA configuration, if know that terminal is signatory, be used for sending the SOT state of termination notification message to the DM server, carry the indication information of terminal unit contractual in the described SOT state of termination notification message; If or do not know whether terminal is signatory, and being used for to the back-end, equipment SPB sends the terminal unit contractual status request message;

9. an aaa server is characterized in that, comprising:

Second sending module: be used for starting the WIB server to initialization and send the SOT state of termination notification message, carry the indication information whether terminal contracts in the described SOT state of termination notification message, whether signatory indication information sends to the DM server so that described WIB server is with terminal.

10. a DM server is characterized in that, comprises;

Sending module: being used for to the back-end, equipment SPB sends the terminal unit contractual status request message;