CN104754504A

CN104754504A - Method and equipment for subscribing terminal equipment position information

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Publication number: CN104754504A
Application number: CN201310740630.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 于彬; 李二林; 蒋桂兰; 赵江; 杨鋆源
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2013-12-27
Filing date: 2013-12-27
Publication date: 2015-07-01
Anticipated expiration: 2033-12-27
Also published as: CN104754504B; WO2015096556A1

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and equipment for subscribing terminal equipment position information. The method comprises steps: a PCRF (Policy Control Charging Rules Function) receives an authorization request message with position information of current access equipment of the terminal equipment included sent by gateway equipment, according to the corresponding relationship between the position information and a position trigger, the position trigger corresponding to the position information included in the received authorization request message is determined, and the determined position trigger is sent to the gateway equipment. The position trigger is used for indicating the gateway equipment to report the position information of the terminal equipment according to a position information reporting rule configured for the position trigger. As the position trigger is set with different position information reporting rules, times for reporting the position information of the terminal equipment by the gateway equipment can be effectively reduced, sending of invalid signaling in the network system is further reduced, and work performance of the system equipment is enhanced.

Description

A kind of method and apparatus subscribing to terminal equipment positional information

Technical field

The present invention relates to wireless communication technology field, particularly relate to a kind of method and apparatus subscribing to terminal equipment positional information.

Background technology

Along with the development of communication network technology, increasing user utilizes intelligent terminal by 3GPP(3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3G (Third Generation) Moblie standardization body) or LTE(Long Term Evolution, Long Term Evolution) the gateway device access the Internet of communication system.

Wherein, PCRF(Policy Control Charging Rules Function, "Policy and Charging Rules Function) gateway device that accesses according to terminal equipment of equipment is (such as: GGSN(Gateway GPRS SupportNode, Gateway GPRS Support Node) equipment) positional information of terminal equipment that reports, the business data flow that terminal equipment produces is detected, and issues terminal equipment internet policy etc.

But, the control mode of current PCRF equipment to terminal equipment internet policy includes but not limited to under type: first, PCRF opening of device the whole network RAI(Routing Area Identity, Routing Area Identifier) change subscription event, and configure the preset strategy of management and control community.This whole network RAI changes the terminal equipment real-time report positional information that subscription event is used to indicate community corresponding to access RAI mark.Secondly, terminal equipment activates the RAI information of gateway device to PCRF equipment transmitting terminal equipment access and the positional information of terminal equipment of access.Again, the RAI information that PCRF equipment accesses according to described terminal equipment, issues the whole network RAI to terminal equipment and changes subscription event, require terminal equipment real-time report positional information.Finally, the positional information that PCRF equipment reports according to terminal equipment, determines the internet policy of terminal equipment accessing Internet.

The frequency of carrying out cell merge due to terminal equipment is higher, once employing aforesaid way, when terminal equipment carries out handover between cells, by the positional information of frequent reporting terminal equipment, the inactive signaling transmitted in network system is doubled and redoubled, causes equipment performance to reduce further.

Summary of the invention

Embodiments provide a kind of method and apparatus subscribing to terminal equipment positional information, for solving the positional information of gateway device frequent reporting terminal equipment when the terminal equipment existed in current technology switches in Serving cell, the inactive signaling transmitted in network system is increased, wastes network system resources and the problem that equipment performance is reduced.

According to a first aspect of the invention, provide a kind of equipment subscribing to terminal equipment positional information, comprising:

Receiver module, for receiving the authorization request message that gateway device sends, wherein, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message;

Determination module, for according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determines the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding;

Subscribing module, for the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for described location trigger configuration.

In the execution mode of first aspect present invention, in the first possible execution mode, described corresponding relation, comprising:

Corresponding relation between the positional information that first kind region comprises and small grain size location trigger, wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by a Serving cell in described first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment; And/or

Corresponding relation between the positional information that Second Type region comprises and coarsegrain location trigger, wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the first possible execution mode of first aspect present invention, in the execution mode that the second is possible, described first kind region is management and control region, and described small grain size trigger is USER_LOCATION_CHANGE trigger; And/or

Described Second Type region is non-management and control region, and described coarsegrain trigger is USER_LOCATION_RAI_CHANGE trigger.

In the execution mode of first aspect present invention, or in the first possible execution mode of first aspect present invention, or in the execution mode that the second of first aspect present invention is possible, in the third possible execution mode, described subscribing module, the location trigger determined specifically for judgement and described gateway device configure the location trigger used and whether belong to same location trigger;

Configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and do not belong to same location trigger, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device.

According to a second aspect of the invention, provide a kind of method of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information, comprising:

"Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF receives the authorization request message that gateway device sends, and wherein, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message;

Described PCRF, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determines the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding;

The location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF, and wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for described location trigger configuration.

In the execution mode of second aspect present invention, in the first possible execution mode, described corresponding relation, comprising:

In the first possible execution mode of second aspect present invention, in the execution mode that the second is possible, described first kind region is management and control region, and described small grain size trigger is USER_LOCATION_CHANGE trigger; And/or

In the execution mode of second aspect present invention, or in the first possible execution mode of second aspect present invention, or in the execution mode that the second of second aspect present invention is possible, in the third possible execution mode, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF, comprising:

Described PCRF judges that the location trigger determined and described gateway device configure the location trigger used and whether belong to same location trigger;

According to a third aspect of the invention we, provide a kind of equipment subscribing to terminal equipment positional information, comprising:

Sending module, for sending authorization request message to "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF, wherein, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message;

Receiver module, for receiving the location trigger that described PCRF sends, wherein, described location trigger be described PCRF according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, the location trigger that the positional information with comprising in described authorization request message that is that receive that is that determine is corresponding;

Subscribe to reporting module, report rule for the positional information configured according to described location trigger, report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the execution mode of third aspect present invention, in the first possible execution mode, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of first kind region and small grain size location trigger, wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

Described subscription reporting module, specifically for when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, determine that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the first possible execution mode of third aspect present invention, in the execution mode that the second is possible, described subscription reporting module, specifically for when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical;

Identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the execution mode that the second of third aspect present invention is possible, in the third possible execution mode, described subscription reporting module, also for the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

In the execution mode of third aspect present invention, in 4th kind of possible execution mode, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of Second Type region and coarsegrain location trigger, wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

Described subscription reporting module, specifically for when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the 4th kind of possible execution mode of third aspect present invention, in 5th kind of possible real execution mode, described subscription reporting module, specifically for when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical;

Identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

In the 5th kind of possible execution mode of third aspect present invention, in 6th kind of possible execution mode, described subscription reporting module, also for the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, does not report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the third possible execution mode of third aspect present invention, or in the 5th kind of possible execution mode of third aspect present invention, in the 7th kind of possible execution mode,

Described receiver module, also for receiving the response message that authorizes a change that described PCRF sends, wherein, to be described PCRF send when the location trigger determining that the positional information trigger that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding and described gateway device have configured use does not belong to same location trigger the described response message that authorizes a change, described in authorize a change the positional information trigger containing in response message and determine that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding.

According to a forth aspect of the invention, provide a kind of method of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information, comprising:

Gateway device sends authorization request message to "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF, wherein, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message; And

Receive the location trigger that described PCRF sends, wherein, described location trigger be described PCRF according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, the location trigger that the positional information with comprising in described authorization request message that is that receive that is that determine is corresponding;

Report rule according to the positional information that described location trigger configures, report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, in the first possible execution mode, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of first kind region and small grain size location trigger, wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

Report rule according to the positional information that described location trigger configures, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, comprising:

When receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, determine that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the first possible execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, in the execution mode that the second is possible, when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, determine that the positional information of described terminal equipment is when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, comprising:

Described gateway device when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical;

In the execution mode that the second of fourth aspect present invention is possible, in the third possible execution mode, described method also comprises:

Identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

In the execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, in 4th kind of possible execution mode, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of Second Type region and coarsegrain location trigger, wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

When receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the 4th kind of possible execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, in 5th kind of possible real execution mode, when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, comprising:

In the 5th kind of possible execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, in the 6th kind of possible execution mode, described method also comprises:

Identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, does not report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the third possible execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, or in the 5th kind of possible execution mode of fourth aspect present invention, in the 7th kind of possible execution mode, described method also comprises:

Receive the response message that authorizes a change that described PCRF sends, wherein, to be described PCRF send when the location trigger determining that the positional information trigger that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding and described gateway device have configured use does not belong to same location trigger the described response message that authorizes a change, described in authorize a change the positional information trigger containing in response message and determine that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding.

Beneficial effect of the present invention is as follows:

Embodiment of the present invention "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF receives the authorization request message containing the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment that gateway device sends, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determine the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for described location trigger configuration, report rule different due to the positional information that arranges in location trigger, therefore, it is possible to effectively reduce the number of times of the positional information of gateway device reporting terminal equipment, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

Accompanying drawing explanation

A kind of schematic flow sheet subscribing to the method for terminal equipment positional information that Fig. 1 provides for the embodiment of the present invention one;

A kind of schematic flow sheet subscribing to the method for terminal equipment positional information that Fig. 2 provides for the embodiment of the present invention two;

A kind of schematic flow sheet subscribing to the method for terminal equipment positional information that Fig. 3 provides for the embodiment of the present invention three;

A kind of structural representation subscribing to the equipment of terminal equipment positional information that Fig. 4 provides for the embodiment of the present invention four;

The structural representation of a kind of "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF equipment that Fig. 5 provides for the embodiment of the present invention four;

A kind of structural representation subscribing to the equipment of terminal equipment positional information that Fig. 6 provides for the embodiment of the present invention six;

The structural representation of a kind of gateway device that Fig. 7 provides for the embodiment of the present invention seven.

Embodiment

In order to realize object of the present invention, embodiments provide a kind of method and apparatus subscribing to terminal equipment positional information, "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF receives the authorization request message containing the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment that gateway device sends, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determine the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for described location trigger configuration, like this, according to the positional information of the terminal equipment that gateway device reports, the location trigger of the positional information of different subscription terminal equipments is configured for gateway device, report rule different due to the positional information that arranges in location trigger, therefore, it is possible to effectively reduce the number of times of the positional information of gateway device reporting terminal equipment, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

Below in conjunction with Figure of description, each embodiment of the present invention is described in detail.

Embodiment one:

As described in Figure 1, be a kind of schematic flow sheet subscribing to the method for terminal equipment positional information that the embodiment of the present invention one provides.Described method can be as described below.

Step 101: "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF receives the authorization request message that gateway device sends.

Wherein, the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment is contained in described authorization request message.

In a step 101, when terminal equipment sends IP-CAN(IP-Connectivity AccessNetwork to gateway device, IP connects access network) when setting up request message, gateway device determines the positional information of this terminal equipment accessing gateway equipment.

Wherein, the mode that terminal equipment sets up request message to gateway device transmission IP-CAN can be sent by IP-CAN Establish Request message, also can be sent by other message, not limit here.

Gateway device passes through Gx interface to PCRF(Policy and Charging Rules Function, "Policy and Charging Rules Function) equipment transmission authorization request message, and in authorization request message, carry the positional information that terminal equipment present Access closes equipment.

Wherein, the mode that gateway device sends authorization request message to PCRF can be by CCR-Initial(Credit Control Request-Initial, initial credit control request) message transmission, can also be sent by other message, not limit here.

It should be noted that, gateway device includes but not limited to GGSN(Gateway GPRS SupportNode, Gateway GPRS Support Node) equipment, PGW(Packet Gateway, packet gateway) equipment, UGW(Unified Gateway, unified gateway) equipment.

It should be noted that, the positional information of described terminal equipment includes but not limited to CGI(Cell GlobalIdentification, Cell Global Identification), RAI(Routing Area Identity, Routing Area Identifier), SAI(Serving Area Identity, Service Area Identifier), TAI(Tracking Area Identity, tracking area identification), ECGI(Extended Cell Global Identification, expansion Cell Global Identification).

Step 102: described PCRF, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determines the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding.

Wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for the configuration of described location trigger.

In a step 102, because PCRF divides the Serving cell in overlay area, mark off the Second Type region of the positional information needing the first kind region of the positional information of real-time tracking terminal equipment and do not need real-time tracking terminal equipment, pre-configured internet policy can be implemented for the terminal equipment in first kind region like this.

It should be noted that, PCRF divides the first kind region and Second Type region that obtain, first kind region can be counted as the management and control region of PCRF configuration in embodiments of the present invention, namely pre-configured internet policy is possessed, Second Type region can be counted as the non-management and control region of PCRF configuration, wherein, " first " and " second " does not have essence implication, and the type being only used to distinguish the region that PCRF divides is different.

Wherein, the difference in the management and control region that PCRF divides and non-management and control region is: the microzonation in coverage is divided into management and control region and non-management and control region according to management and control strategy by PCRF, and store the identification information in management and control region and/or the identification information in non-management and control region in this locality, and make the terminal equipment accessing management and control region when initiating business request, by the execution of limiting terminal environment division business.

PCRF limits which business in management and control region, or the execution of which business of limiting terminal equipment, can determine according to actual needs, can also determine according to the positional information in management and control region, can also determine according to the authority of endpoint registration or application business, not limit here.

Because PCRF divides the Serving cell in coverage, so divide in the first kind region that obtains and contain at least one Serving cell, in the Second Type region that corresponding division obtains, contain at least one Serving cell.

And, the Serving cell comprised in first kind region can be made up of multiple adjacent Serving cell, also can be non-conterminous multiple Serving cells compositions, the corresponding relation between the identification information namely setting up first kind region and the identification information of Serving cell comprised; The Serving cell comprised in Second Type region can be made up of multiple adjacent Serving cell, also can be non-conterminous multiple Serving cells compositions, the corresponding relation between the identification information namely setting up Second Type region and the identification information of Serving cell comprised.

As shown in table 1, the signal table for the corresponding relation between the identification information in first kind region set up and the identification information of Serving cell comprised:

The identification information in first kind region	The identification information of the Serving cell comprised
		RAI1	CGI1、CGI2、CGI3、……
RAI3	CGI7、CGI8、CGI9、……
		……	……

Table 1

As can be seen from Table 1, the region belonging to first kind region contains: identification information is the region of RAI1 and identification information is the region of RAI3, wherein, RAI1 contains the Serving cells such as CGI1, CGI2 and CGI3 in region, contains the Serving cells such as CGI7, CGI8 and CGI9 in the region of RAI3.

As shown in table 2, the signal table for the corresponding relation between the identification information in Second Type region set up and the identification information of Serving cell comprised:

The identification information in Second Type region	The identification information of the Serving cell comprised
		RAI4	CGI4、CGI5、CGI6、……
RAI5	CGI10、CGI11、CGI12、……
		……	……

Table 2

As can be seen from Table 2, the region belonging to Second Type region contains: identification information is the region of RAI4 and identification information is the region of RAI5, wherein, RAI4 contains the Serving cells such as CGI4, CGI5 and CGI6 in region, contains the Serving cells such as CGI10, CGI11 and CGI12 in the region of RAI5.

PCRF is to after dividing the Serving cell in overlay area, determine to divide the location trigger that the first kind region that obtains is corresponding, and the location trigger that Second Type region is corresponding, namely determine location trigger corresponding to the location trigger that management and control region is corresponding and non-management and control region.

First aspect, sets up the corresponding relation between positional information and small grain size location trigger that first kind region comprises.

Wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by a Serving cell in described first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Second aspect, sets up the corresponding relation between positional information and coarsegrain location trigger that Second Type region comprises.

Wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

It should be noted that, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment reports the positional information of described terminal equipment when being and changing to another Serving cell by a Serving cell in described first kind region, such as: described gateway device is determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment is when changing to CGI2 by CGI1, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, or described gateway device is determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment is when changing to CGI7 by CGI1, report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment reports the positional information of described terminal equipment when changing to another region by a region, such as: described gateway device is determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment is when changing to RAI5 by RAI4, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, or described gateway device, determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment is when changing to RAI3 by RAI5, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

It should be noted that, the corresponding relation set up can be set up the corresponding relation of first aspect and the corresponding relation of second aspect respectively, can also be set up the corresponding relation of first aspect or set up the corresponding relation of second aspect, after only establishing the corresponding relation in, there is corresponding relation on the other hand in tacit declaration.

Such as: the corresponding relation setting up positional information that first kind region comprises and small grain size location trigger, so assumed position information A does not belong to first kind region, namely be considered as belonging to Second Type region, when being so A for the positional information reported, because positional information A does not belong to first kind region, i.e. not corresponding small grain size location trigger, is now considered as the corresponding coarsegrain location trigger of positional information A.

It should be noted that, corresponding relation between the positional information that corresponding relation between the positional information that the first kind region set up comprises and small grain size location trigger and the Second Type region of foundation comprise and coarsegrain location trigger can be stored in PCRF this locality, also can be stored on other equipment, if be stored in other equipment (such as: SPR(user-subscribed database, Subscriber ProfiIe Repository)) on, PCRF obtains the corresponding relation of foundation in use from other equipment.

Described small grain size trigger can for being still not limited to USER_LOCATION_CHANGE trigger, and described coarsegrain trigger can for being still not limited to USER_LOCATION_RAI_CHANGE trigger.

Described PCRF, after receiving the authorization request message that gateway device sends, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determines the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding.

Particularly, described PCRF judges that the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment comprised in described authorization request message belongs to positional information that first kind region comprises or belongs to the positional information that Second Type region comprises.

Described PCRF is when belonging to positional information that first kind region comprises in the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment determining to comprise in described authorization request message, determines that location trigger corresponding to the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is small grain size location trigger.

Described PCRF is when belonging to positional information that Second Type region comprises in the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment determining to comprise in described authorization request message, determines that location trigger corresponding to the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is coarsegrain location trigger.

Step 103: the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF.

In step 103, when the small grain size location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF, gateway device is after receiving the small grain size location trigger that PCRF issues, report rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information the positional information of described small grain size location trigger configuration, the positional information of installing the configuration of described small grain size location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

In another embodiment of the present invention, described PCRF sends CCA-Initial response message to gateway device, wherein, carries the small grain size location trigger determined in described CCA-Initial response message.

In addition, PCRF sends in CCA-Initial response message the policy information also carried for the online of accessory terminal equipment, wherein, qos parameter information, charge information and business executing rule list information is contained in the policy information for the online of accessory terminal equipment.

The business information that restriction performs is contained in so-called business executing rule list information.

In the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information whether the positional information change of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment configures with small grain size location trigger reports rule to match, and when the positional information determining that the positional information change of terminal equipment and small grain size location trigger configure reports rule to match, to the positional information of described PCRF transmitting terminal equipment.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI3 of RAI1 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, belong to and change to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, the positional information configured with small grain size location trigger reports rule to match, now, gateway device needs the positional information RAI1-CGI3 of terminal equipment to report PCRF.

When the coarsegrain location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF, gateway device is after receiving the coarsegrain location trigger that PCRF issues, report rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information the positional information of described coarsegrain location trigger configuration, the positional information of installing the configuration of described coarsegrain location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

In the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information whether the positional information change of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment configures with coarsegrain location trigger reports rule to match, and when the positional information determining that the positional information change of terminal equipment and coarsegrain location trigger configure reports rule to match, to the positional information of described PCRF transmitting terminal equipment.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI5 of RAI4 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, belong to and change to another region by a region, the positional information configured with coarsegrain location trigger reports rule to match, now, gateway device needs the positional information of terminal equipment (such as: CGI5, or RAI4-CGI5, concrete form is not limit) to report PCRF.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF, comprising:

It should be noted that, be that the situation of gateway device distribution locations trigger message is first inapplicable for PCRF.

During location trigger corresponding to the positional information that PCRF comprises in the described authorization request message determining to receive, there is the location trigger determined and described gateway device and configure the identical situation of the location trigger that uses, therefore, the location trigger needing judgement to determine and described gateway device configure the location trigger used and whether belong to same location trigger.

Configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and belong to same location trigger, no longer will send the location trigger determined to described gateway device, or inform gateway device by the mode sending response message, location trigger need not upgrade.

It should be noted that, the technical scheme that the embodiment of the present invention provides can be applied to various cordless communication network, such as: global mobile communication (global system for mobile communication, referred to as GSM) system, code division multiple access (code division multiple access, referred to as CDMA) system, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) (wideband code division multiple access, referred to as WCDMA) system, universal mobile communications (universal mobile telecommunication system, referred to as UMTS) system, GPRS (general packet radio service, referred to as GPRS) system, Long Term Evolution (long term evolution, referred to as LTE) system, advanced Long Term Evolution (long term evolutionadvanced, referred to as LTE-A) system, global interconnection inserting of microwave (worldwide interoperabilityfor microwave access, referred to as WiMAX) system etc.Term " network " and " system " can be replaced mutually.

By the scheme of the embodiment of the present invention one, "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF receives the authorization request message containing the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment that gateway device sends, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determine the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for described location trigger configuration, like this, according to the positional information of the terminal equipment that gateway device reports, the location trigger of the positional information of different subscription terminal equipments is configured for gateway device, report rule different due to the positional information that arranges in location trigger, therefore, it is possible to effectively reduce the number of times of the positional information of gateway device reporting terminal equipment, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

Embodiment two:

As shown in Figure 2, be a kind of schematic flow sheet subscribing to the method for terminal equipment positional information that the embodiment of the present invention two provides, the embodiment of the present invention two is and the invention of the embodiment of the present invention one under same inventive concept, and described method can be as described below.

Step 201: gateway device sends authorization request message to "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF.

In step 201, when terminal equipment sends IP-CAN(IP-Connectivity AccessNetwork to gateway device, IP connects access network) when setting up request message, gateway device determines the positional information of this terminal equipment accessing gateway equipment.

It should be noted that, the positional information of described terminal equipment includes but not limited to CGI(Cell GlobalIdentification, Cell Global Identification), RAI(Routing Area Identity, Routing Area Identifier), SAI(Serving Area Identity, Service Area Identifier), TAI, ECGI.

Step 202: receive the location trigger that described PCRF sends.

Wherein, described location trigger be described PCRF according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, the location trigger that the positional information with comprising in described authorization request message that is that receive that is that determine is corresponding.

In step 202., the location trigger that gateway device receives described PCRF transmission is that described PCRF utilizes the method in the embodiment of the present invention one described in step 102 to determine, is no longer described in detail here.

Step 203: report rule according to the positional information that described location trigger configures, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In step 203, described location trigger comprises small grain size location trigger and coarsegrain location trigger.

Described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

The first situation: the location trigger received is small grain size location trigger.

Gateway device is after receiving the small grain size location trigger that PCRF issues, report rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information the positional information of described small grain size location trigger configuration, the positional information of installing the configuration of described small grain size location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

Particularly, described gateway device is when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, determine that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Particularly, described gateway device when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical.

In another embodiment of the invention, identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change.

Wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI8 of RAI3 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, in the positional information of terminal equipment, the identification information in region changes, now, need the positional information RAI3-CGI8 of terminal equipment to report PCRF according to the small grain size positional information trigger of the current configuration of gateway device, send the message that authorizes a change simultaneously.

Particularly, PCRF receive gateway device send authorize a change message time, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determine the location trigger that the positional information of the current transmission of gateway device is corresponding, and judge whether the location trigger that the location trigger determined and gateway device have configured belongs to same position trigger, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and do not belong to same location trigger, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device.

Such as: in above-mentioned example, suppose that the positional information of terminal equipment switches to the Serving cell CGI5 of RAI4 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, coarsegrain location trigger because location trigger that RAI1 is corresponding is the location trigger that small grain size location trigger and RAI4 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and do not belong to same location trigger, the coarsegrain location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device.

The positional information of terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI8 of RAI3 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, small grain size location trigger because location trigger that RAI1 is corresponding is the location trigger that small grain size location trigger and RAI3 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and belong to same location trigger, the small grain size location trigger determined can be sent to described gateway device, also the small grain size location trigger determined can not be sent to described gateway device, send authorization response message, inform that gateway device location trigger does not change.

The second situation: the location trigger received is coarsegrain location trigger.

Gateway device is after receiving the coarsegrain location trigger that PCRF issues, report rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information the positional information of described coarsegrain location trigger configuration, the positional information of installing the configuration of described coarsegrain location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

Particularly, described gateway device, when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI5 of RAI4 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, belong to and change to another region by a region, the positional information configured with coarsegrain location trigger reports rule to match, now, gateway device needs the positional information RAI4-CGI5 of terminal equipment to report PCRF.

Such as: in above-mentioned example, suppose that the positional information of terminal equipment switches to the Serving cell CGI2 of RAI1 by the Serving cell CGI5 of RAI4, small grain size location trigger because location trigger that RAI4 is corresponding is the location trigger that coarsegrain location trigger and RAI1 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and do not belong to same location trigger, the small grain size location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device.

The positional information of terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI10 of RAI5 by the Serving cell CGI5 of RAI4, coarsegrain location trigger because location trigger that RAI4 is corresponding is the location trigger that coarsegrain location trigger and RAI5 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and belong to same location trigger, the coarsegrain location trigger determined can be sent to described gateway device, also the small grain size location trigger determined can not be sent to described gateway device, send authorization response message, inform that gateway device location trigger does not change.

In another embodiment of the invention, identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, does not report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI5 of RAI4 by the Serving cell CGI6 of RAI4, belong to and change to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in Second Type region, with the positional information that coarsegrain location trigger configures report rule do not match (or determine the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical), now, gateway device does not need the positional information RAI4-CGI5 of terminal equipment to report PCRF.

By the scheme of the embodiment of the present invention two, gateway device sends authorization request message to "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message; And receive the location trigger of described PCRF transmission, wherein, described location trigger be described PCRF according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, the location trigger that the positional information with comprising in described authorization request message that is that receive that is that determine is corresponding; Rule is reported according to the positional information that described location trigger configures, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, like this, report rule different due to the positional information that arranges in location trigger, therefore the number of times of the positional information of gateway device reporting terminal equipment is effectively reduced, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

Embodiment three:

As shown in Figure 3, for a kind of schematic flow sheet subscribing to the method for terminal equipment positional information that the embodiment of the present invention three provides, the embodiment of the present invention three is and the invention of the embodiment of the present invention one to the embodiment of the present invention two under same inventive concept, and described method can be as described below.

Suppose that the RAI1(that is designated in region 1 is first kind region or management and control region), the RAI2(that is designated in region 2 is Second Type region or non-management and control region), the RAI3(that is designated in region 3 is first kind region or management and control region), the RAI4(that is designated in region 4 is Second Type region or non-management and control region), two Serving cell A and B are contained in region 1, two Serving cell C and D are contained in region 2, contain a Serving cell E in region 3, in region 4, contain a Serving cell F.

Wherein, if in 2G communication system, Serving cell A is designated CGI1, and Serving cell B is designated CGI2, and Serving cell C is designated CGI3, and Serving cell D is designated CGI4;

If in 3G communication system, Serving cell A is designated SAI1, and Serving cell B is designated SAI2, and Serving cell C is designated SAI3, and Serving cell D is designated SAI4;

If in LTE communication system, Serving cell A is designated TAI1, and Serving cell B is designated TAI2, and Serving cell C is designated TAI3, and Serving cell D is designated TAI4.

Step 301: terminal equipment sends IP-CAN to gateway device and sets up request message.

It should be noted that, in 2G system or 3G system, gateway device can be GGSN; In LTE system, gateway device can be PGW.

When terminal equipment sets up request message to gateway device transmission IP-CAN, determine the positional information of this terminal equipment accessing gateway equipment.

Step 302: gateway device sends authorization request message to PCRF.

Wherein, the positional information that terminal equipment present Access closes equipment is carried in described authorization request message.

Suppose that the positional information of terminal equipment present Access pass equipment is the Serving cell A in region 1.

In step 302, gateway device Gx interface sends authorization request message to PCRF equipment, and carry terminal equipment present Access in authorization request message and close the positional information of equipment, to be gateway device set up request message determine according to receiving IP-CAN the positional information that this terminal equipment present Access closes equipment.

It should be noted that, the mode that gateway device sends authorization request message to PCRF is sent by CCR-Initial message.

Step 303: described PCRF, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determines the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding.

Described location trigger contains small grain size location trigger and coarsegrain location trigger.

The execution mode of step 303 is identical with the execution mode of step 102 in the embodiment of the present invention one, is not described in detail here.

Step 304: the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF.

Step 305: gateway device is when receiving the location trigger that PCRF issues, report rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information the positional information that location trigger configures, the positional information of installing the configuration of described location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

In another embodiment of the present invention, described PCRF sends CCA-Initial response message to gateway device, wherein, carries the location trigger determined in described CCA-Initial response message.

In step 305, when receiving the small grain size location trigger that PCRF issues, the positional information that described small grain size location trigger configures reports rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information by gateway device, the positional information of installing the configuration of described small grain size location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

When receiving the coarsegrain location trigger that PCRF issues, the positional information that described coarsegrain location trigger configures reports rule as the rule of subscribing to terminal equipment positional information by gateway device, the positional information of installing the configuration of described coarsegrain location trigger reports rule, and starts the change of the positional information monitoring described terminal equipment.

Step 306: gateway device, when determining that the positional information of terminal equipment changes, reports rule according to the positional information that described location trigger configures, and reports the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Within step 306, in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information whether the positional information change of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment configures with location trigger reports rule to match, and when the positional information determining that the positional information change of terminal equipment and location trigger configure reports rule to match, to the positional information of described PCRF transmitting terminal equipment.

Particularly, when the location trigger that gateway device receives is small grain size location trigger, described gateway device when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI2 of RAI1 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, belong to and change to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, the positional information configured with small grain size location trigger reports rule to match, now, gateway device needs the positional information RAI1-CGI2 of terminal equipment to report PCRF.

Identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to the configuration of described small grain size location trigger reports rule, reports the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI3 of RAI2 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, in the positional information of terminal equipment, the identification information in region changes, now, need the positional information RAI2-CGI3 of terminal equipment to report PCRF according to the small grain size positional information trigger of the current configuration of gateway device.

Particularly, when the location trigger that gateway device receives is coarsegrain location trigger, described gateway device when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical.

Identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI3 of RAI2 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, belong to and change to another region by a region, the positional information configured with coarsegrain location trigger reports rule to match, now, gateway device needs the positional information RAI2-CGI3 of terminal equipment to report PCRF.

Such as: in the mobile service implementation of terminal equipment, the positional information of gateway device monitoring terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGI4 of RAI2 by the Serving cell CGI3 of RAI2, belong to and change to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in Second Type region, with the positional information that coarsegrain location trigger configures report rule do not match (or determine the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical), now, gateway device does not need the positional information RAI2-CGI4 of terminal equipment to report PCRF.

Step 307: described gateway device is when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, send to described PCRF the message that authorizes a change.

Wherein, the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information is contained in the message that authorizes a change described in.

Step 308: receive the response message that authorizes a change that described PCRF sends.

Wherein, to be described PCRF send when the location trigger determining that the positional information trigger that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding and described gateway device have configured use does not belong to same location trigger the described response message that authorizes a change, described in authorize a change the positional information trigger containing in response message and determine that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding.

Particularly, in step 308, PCRF receive gateway device send authorize a change message time, according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determine the location trigger that the positional information of the current transmission of gateway device is corresponding, and judge whether the location trigger that the location trigger determined and gateway device have configured belongs to same position trigger, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and do not belong to same location trigger, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device.

Such as: in above-mentioned example, suppose that the positional information of terminal equipment switches to the Serving cell CGI3 of RAI2 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, coarsegrain location trigger because location trigger that RAI1 is corresponding is the location trigger that small grain size location trigger and RAI2 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and do not belong to same location trigger, the coarsegrain location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device.

The positional information of terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGIE of RAI3 by the Serving cell CGI1 of RAI1, small grain size location trigger because location trigger that RAI1 is corresponding is the location trigger that small grain size location trigger and RAI3 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and belong to same location trigger, the small grain size location trigger determined can be sent to described gateway device, also the small grain size location trigger determined can not be sent to described gateway device, send authorization response message, inform that gateway device location trigger does not change.

The positional information of terminal equipment is switched to the Serving cell CGIF of RAI4 by the Serving cell CGI3 of RAI2, coarsegrain location trigger because location trigger that RAI2 is corresponding is the location trigger that coarsegrain location trigger and RAI4 are corresponding, configure at the location trigger determined and described gateway device the location trigger used and belong to same location trigger, the coarsegrain location trigger determined can be sent to described gateway device, also the small grain size location trigger determined can not be sent to described gateway device, send authorization response message, inform that gateway device location trigger does not change.

When terminal equipment is in region RAI1(and management and control region) in Serving cell when switching, need real-time report positional information, but when terminal equipment is in region RAI2(and non-management and control region) in Serving cell when switching, do not need real-time report positional information, also without the need to triggering issuing of management and control strategy, avoid the mutual of inactive signaling, save system resource, improve systematic function.

Embodiment four:

As shown in Figure 4, for a kind of structural representation subscribing to the equipment of terminal equipment positional information that the embodiment of the present invention four provides, the embodiment of the present invention four is and the transmission of the embodiment of the present invention one ~ embodiment three under same inventive concept, described equipment comprises: receiver module 11, determination module 12 and subscribing module 13, wherein:

Receiver module 11, for receiving the authorization request message that gateway device sends, wherein, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message;

Determination module 12, for according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determines the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding;

Subscribing module 13, for the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for the configuration of described location trigger.

Described corresponding relation, comprising:

Described first kind region is management and control region, and described small grain size trigger is USER_LOCATION_CHANGE trigger; And/or

Described subscribing module 13, the location trigger determined specifically for judgement and described gateway device configure the location trigger used and whether belong to same location trigger;

Concrete, the equipment of described subscription terminal equipment positional information can be PCRF equipment.

It should be noted that, the PCRF equipment described in the embodiment of the present invention four can pass through hardware implementing, also can pass through software simulating, not limit here.

Report rule different due to the positional information that arranges in location trigger, therefore the number of times of the positional information of gateway device reporting terminal equipment is effectively reduced, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

Embodiment five:

As shown in Figure 5, for the structural representation of a kind of "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF equipment that the embodiment of the present invention five provides, the embodiment of the present invention five is and the embodiment of the present invention one, embodiment two, embodiment three and the invention of embodiment four under same inventive concept, PCRF equipment can adopt general-purpose computing system structure, and computer system can specifically based on the computer of processor.Described PCRF equipment comprises at least one processor 21, communication bus 22, memory 23 and at least one communication interface 24.

Processor 21 can be a general central processor (CPU), microprocessor, ASIC(Application Specific Integrated Circuit) (application-specific integrated circuit, ASIC), or one or more for controlling the integrated circuit that the present invention program's program performs.

Wherein, described communication bus 22 can comprise a path, between said modules, transmit information.Described communication interface 24, uses the device of any transceiver one class, for other equipment or communication, as Ethernet, wireless access network (RAN), WLAN (wireless local area network) (Wireless Local Area Networks, WLAN) etc.

Computer system comprises one or more memory, can be read-only memory (read-onlymemory, ROM) static storage device of the other types of static information and instruction can maybe be stored, random access memory (random access memory, or the dynamic memory of other types of information and instruction can be stored RAM), also can be EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memo) (Electrically ErasableProgrammable Read-Only Memory, EEPROM), read-only optical disc (Compact DiscRead-Only Memory, or other optical disc storage CD-ROM), laser disc stores and (comprises compression laser disc, laser dish, laser disc, Digital Versatile Disc, Blu-ray Disc etc.), magnetic disk storage medium or other magnetic storage apparatus, or the program code that can be used in carrying or storing the expectation with instruction or data structure form also can by any other medium of computer access, but be not limited thereto.These memories are connected with processor by bus.

Wherein, described memory 23 performs the application code of the present invention program for storing, and the application code performing the present invention program is preserved in memory, and is controlled to perform by processor 21.Described processor 21 is for performing the application program stored in described memory 23.

In a kind of possible execution mode, when above-mentioned application program is performed by described processor 21, realize following function:

Receive the authorization request message that gateway device sends, wherein, in described authorization request message, contain the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment;

According to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, determine the location trigger that the positional information that comprises in the described authorization request message received is corresponding;

The location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, wherein, described location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device and reports rule to report the positional information of described terminal equipment according to the positional information for described location trigger configuration, as described in embodiment one, no longer repeats here.

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, described corresponding relation, comprising:

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, described first kind region is management and control region, and described small grain size trigger is USER_LOCATION_CHANGE trigger; And/or

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device, comprising:

The location trigger that judgement is determined and described gateway device configure the location trigger used and whether belong to same location trigger;

In the present embodiment, when application program is executed by processor, the exchange method between PCRF equipment and other network elements can with reference to said method embodiment.Here be not described in detail.

The PCRF equipment that the present embodiment provides be provided with different positional informations in location trigger report rule, gateway device is made to report the positional information of regular reporting terminal equipment according to positional information, effectively reduce and report number of times, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

Embodiment six:

As shown in Figure 6, for a kind of structural representation subscribing to the equipment of terminal equipment positional information that the embodiment of the present invention six provides, the embodiment of the present invention six is and the embodiment of the present invention one, embodiment two, embodiment three, embodiment four and the invention of embodiment five under same inventive concept, described equipment comprises: sending module 31, receiver module 32 and subscription reporting module 33, wherein:

Sending module 31, for sending authorization request message to "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF, wherein, contains the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment in described authorization request message;

Receiver module 32, for receiving the location trigger that described PCRF sends, wherein, described location trigger be described PCRF according to the corresponding relation between positional information and location trigger, the location trigger that the positional information with comprising in described authorization request message that is that receive that is that determine is corresponding;

Subscribe to reporting module 33, report rule for the positional information configured according to described location trigger, report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In a kind of possible implementation, described location trigger is small grain size location trigger, wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by a Serving cell in described first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

In the implementation that another kind is possible, described subscription reporting module 33, specifically for when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical;

In the implementation that another kind is possible, described subscription reporting module 33, also for the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

In the implementation that another kind is possible, described location trigger is coarsegrain location trigger, wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

In the implementation that another kind is possible, described subscription reporting module 33, also for the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, does not report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

Described receiver module 32, also for receiving the response message that authorizes a change that described PCRF sends, wherein, to be described PCRF send when the location trigger determining that the positional information trigger that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding and described gateway device have configured use does not belong to same location trigger the described response message that authorizes a change, described in authorize a change the positional information trigger containing in response message and determine that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding.

It should be noted that, the equipment described in the embodiment of the present invention six can pass through hardware implementing, also can pass through software simulating, not limit here.

Embodiment seven:

As shown in Figure 7, for the structural representation of a kind of gateway device that the embodiment of the present invention seven provides, the embodiment of the present invention seven is and the invention of the embodiment of the present invention one to embodiment six under same inventive concept, gateway device can adopt general-purpose computing system structure, and computer system can specifically based on the computer of processor.Described gateway device comprises at least one processor 41, communication bus 42, memory 43 and at least one communication interface 44.

Processor 41 can be a general central processor (CPU), microprocessor, ASIC(Application Specific Integrated Circuit) (application-specific integrated circuit, ASIC), or one or more for controlling the integrated circuit that the present invention program's program performs.

Wherein, described communication bus 42 can comprise a path, between said modules, transmit information.Described communication interface 44, uses the device of any transceiver one class, for other equipment or communication, as Ethernet, wireless access network (RAN), WLAN (wireless local area network) (Wireless Local Area Networks, WLAN) etc.

Wherein, described memory 43 performs the application code of the present invention program for storing, and the application code performing the present invention program is preserved in memory, and is controlled to perform by processor 41.Described processor 41 is for performing the application program stored in described memory 43.

In a kind of possible execution mode, when above-mentioned application program is performed by described processor 41, realize following function:

Send authorization request message to "Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF, wherein, in described authorization request message, contain the positional information of the described gateway device of the current access of terminal equipment;

Report rule according to the positional information that described location trigger configures, report the positional information of described terminal equipment, as described in embodiment two, no longer repeat here.

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of first kind region and small grain size location trigger, wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical;

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of Second Type region and coarsegrain location trigger, wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, does not report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

In the execution mode that another kind is possible, receive the response message that authorizes a change that described PCRF sends, wherein, to be described PCRF send when the location trigger determining that the positional information trigger that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding and described gateway device have configured use does not belong to same location trigger the described response message that authorizes a change, described in authorize a change the positional information trigger containing in response message and determine that positional information that described terminal equipment reports is corresponding.

In the present embodiment, when application program is executed by processor, the exchange method between gateway device and other network elements can with reference to said method embodiment.Here be not described in detail.

The gateway device that the present embodiment provides, report rule different due to the positional information that arranges in location trigger, therefore the number of times of the positional information of gateway device reporting terminal equipment is effectively reduced, further reduce the transmission of inactive signaling in network system, add the service behaviour of system equipment.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the invention can be provided as method, device (equipment) or computer program.Therefore, the present invention can adopt the form of complete hardware embodiment, completely software implementation or the embodiment in conjunction with software and hardware aspect.And the present invention can adopt in one or more form wherein including the upper computer program implemented of computer-usable storage medium (including but not limited to magnetic disc store, CD-ROM, optical memory etc.) of computer usable program code.

The present invention describes with reference to according to the flow chart of the method for the embodiment of the present invention, device (equipment) and computer program and/or block diagram.Should understand can by the combination of the flow process in each flow process in computer program instructions realization flow figure and/or block diagram and/or square frame and flow chart and/or block diagram and/or square frame.These computer program instructions can being provided to the processor of all-purpose computer, special-purpose computer, Embedded Processor or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine, making the instruction performed by the processor of computer or other programmable data processing device produce device for realizing the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.

These computer program instructions also can be stored in can in the computer-readable memory that works in a specific way of vectoring computer or other programmable data processing device, the instruction making to be stored in this computer-readable memory produces the manufacture comprising command device, and this command device realizes the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.

These computer program instructions also can be loaded in computer or other programmable data processing device, make on computer or other programmable devices, to perform sequence of operations step to produce computer implemented process, thus the instruction performed on computer or other programmable devices is provided for the step realizing the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.

Although describe the preferred embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art once obtain the basic creative concept of cicada, then can make other change and amendment to these embodiments.So claims are intended to be interpreted as comprising preferred embodiment and falling into all changes and the amendment of the scope of the invention.

Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various change and modification to the present invention and not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if these amendments of the present invention and modification belong within the scope of the claims in the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention is also intended to comprise these change and modification.

Claims

1. subscribe to an equipment for terminal equipment positional information, it is characterized in that, comprising:

2. equipment as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described corresponding relation, comprising:

3. equipment as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, described first kind region is management and control region, and described small grain size trigger is USER_LOCATION_CHANGE trigger; And/or

4. the equipment as described in as arbitrary in claims 1 to 3, is characterized in that,

Described subscribing module, the location trigger determined specifically for judgement and described gateway device configure the location trigger used and whether belong to same location trigger;

5. subscribe to a method for terminal equipment positional information, it is characterized in that, comprising:

6. method as claimed in claim 5, it is characterized in that, described corresponding relation, comprising:

7. method as claimed in claim 6, is characterized in that,

8. the method as described in as arbitrary in claim 5 ~ 7, it is characterized in that, the location trigger determined is sent to described gateway device by described PCRF, comprising:

9. a gateway device, is characterized in that, comprising:

10. gateway device as claimed in claim 9, it is characterized in that, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of first kind region and small grain size location trigger, wherein, described small grain size location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment, when changing to another Serving cell by the Serving cell of in first kind region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

11. gateway devices as claimed in claim 10, is characterized in that,

Described subscription reporting module, specifically for when receiving the positional information that described terminal equipment reports, judge the identification information in the region that the described positional information that receives is corresponding with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives whether identical;

12. gateway devices as claimed in claim 11, is characterized in that,

Described subscription reporting module, also for the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives not identical time, positional information according to described small grain size location trigger configuration reports rule, report the identification information in the positional information of described terminal equipment and region corresponding to described positional information, and send the message that authorizes a change, wherein, the identification information in described region changes for the region of the positional information generation of informing described PCRF terminal equipment.

13. gateway devices as claimed in claim 9, it is characterized in that, described corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the positional information that comprises of Second Type region and coarsegrain location trigger, wherein, described coarsegrain location trigger is used to indicate described gateway device when determining that the positional information of described terminal equipment changes to another region by a region, reports the positional information of described terminal equipment;

14. gateway devices as claimed in claim 13, is characterized in that,

15. gateway devices as claimed in claim 14, is characterized in that,

Described subscription reporting module, also for the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information determining to receive with adjacent before the identification information in region corresponding to the described positional information that once receives identical time, positional information according to described coarsegrain location trigger configuration reports rule, does not report the positional information of described terminal equipment.

16. gateway devices as described in claim 12 or 14, is characterized in that,