CN1122230C

CN1122230C - Distributed service network

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Publication number: CN1122230C
Application number: CN98803208A
Authority: CN
Inventors: J·J·-P·D·特鲁德奥; A·J·P·克拉多克; R·A·库瓦亚; S·M·阿姆斯特隆; E·W·帕森斯; I·A·麦法拉内
Original assignee: Nortel Networks Ltd
Current assignee: Nortel Networks Ltd
Priority date: 1997-11-10
Filing date: 1998-11-09
Publication date: 2003-09-24
Anticipated expiration: 2018-11-09
Also published as: EP0970429A2; WO1999025071A2; JP2001510667A; CN1250534A; WO1999025071A3; HK1027184A1

Abstract

A distributed service network provides telecommnunications and other services to users via components and services at interconnected network regions. Each region maintains a record of the services and components available in the region and utilization of these services and/or components is obtained by reference to the record. New services and components can be added to the region by updating the record, and services and components can be removed from the region, for preventative maintenance, etc., by appropriately udpdating the record. Entries in the record can be ordered to determine the order in which like components and/or services are utilized and this order can be set according to the degree of utilization of region servers on which said services and/or components are installed. It is also possible to include services and/or components at other regions, which are accessible via a communications backbone, in the record of services and components in a region.

Description

Distributed service network and deal with data insert the method for request

Invention field

The present invention relates to a kind of distributed service network.More particularly, the present invention relates to a kind of network, this network is communicated by letter and other service for fixed-line subscriber, mobile subscriber and nomadic user provide with a kind of mode to outside ISP and user transparent.The invention still further relates to a kind of reconfigurable distributed service network, it is with a kind of mode to outside ISP and user transparent, for fixed-line subscriber, mobile subscriber and nomadic user provide communication component and user's service, in the course of work of network, can increase and decrease service and/or parts as required.The invention still further relates to a kind of data stream converting system and with the method for a data stream from first kind of format conversion to required form.The invention still further relates to a kind of method, be used to from the user's data request of access service is provided, these users link to each other with a distributed service network, do not rely on the communication client of actual tie point and use when wherein providing service for data access request.

Background of invention

The recent development of telecommunications has caused providing the appearance of the network of various services.To packet radio and enhancement mode paging network, individual and the commercial communication mode that can select make rapid progress from traditional speech or data network.Various communication modes have caused a revolution of people's live and work mode, make that mobile workman and/or nomadic workman are more and more common.

Though existing communication service has obtained application in various degree, to a large extent, these are professional and support that these professional networks still are in the situation of doing things in his own way, and make its overall potentiality be difficult to be not fully exerted.For instance, the personal computer client computer in office is impossible to a salesperson's paging subscribing client send Email, even they all follow corresponding communication network to link to each other.

People have recognized for a long time between network and client computer and have lacked problem integrated and/or that communicate by letter, so various " middleware " product occurred, are used for transmitting data between a network/system and another network/system.For example, the title of the 5th chapter was " the middleware scheme that developing wireless remote inserts " during Yankee Group publication in 1997 " was understood the mobile communication of next stage ", and it has discussed the middleware scheme of getting in touch with the mobile subscriber by radio communication.

Although in particular cases can provide required connection many, still not have universal scheme to realize interconnecting between the various communication networks even to this day with middleware.Even distributed network is provided so as with a kind of transparent concerning user and ISP, mode provides the scheme of various required services all not have in a plurality of places easily.In addition, the basic scheme that a kind of distributed network just is not provided, this distributed network allows in the course of the work, increases new business and/or parts thereon, or therefrom cancels business and/or parts.Therefore shoulder heavy responsibilities from any client computer or professional remaining realizing between any two places to the communication other client computer arbitrarily.

Brief summary of the invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of new network, network administration equipment and method telecommunications service are provided, it can be avoided at least one shortcoming in the prior art or alleviate its seriousness.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of reconfigurable network, network administration equipment and method telecommunications service is provided, and it can be avoided at least one shortcoming in the prior art or alleviate its seriousness.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of new types of data stream translation system and method, and it can be avoided at least one shortcoming in the prior art or alleviate its seriousness.

Further object of the present invention provides a kind of new method and provides service for the user's data request of access, and these users connect with a network with multiple access point, and this method can be avoided at least one shortcoming in the prior art or alleviate its seriousness.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a network administration equipment, be used for a kind of distributed telecommunications net, this network administration equipment comprises:

At least one network administration device server, comprise at least one transducer, it can transform to the input traffic of first kind of form the output stream of second kind of form, also comprise a communication host, it can be by communication trunk with other network administration device server communication in the described distributed telecommunications net;

At least one bridge links to each other with described at least one network administration device server, can connect with communication client;

At least one adapter links to each other with described at least one network administration device server, and this adapter can link to each other with an external business, and allows external business to catch up with to state at least one network administration device server to communicate; With

A network administration equipment manager, each of administering in device server with described at least one network links to each other, can determine type with the continuous communication client of described network administration equipment, and thereby network administration device server selecting to be attached thereto and bridge are kept and being connected of this communication client, wherein said transducer will be received from described external business or described communication client, follow the data of first kind of incompatible data layout of another external business and communication client, convert the second kind of data layout that is suitable for described second external business and communication client to.

According to another aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of distributed service network, it comprises at least two network administration equipment that connect with communication trunk, and each network administration equipment comprises:

At least one network administration device server, comprise at least one transducer, it can be transformed into the input traffic of first kind of form the output stream of second kind of form, also comprise a communication host, it can be by communication trunk with other network administration device server communication in the described distributed telecommunications net;

A network administration equipment manager, each of administering in device server with described at least one network links to each other, can determine type with the continuous communication client of described network administration equipment, and thereby network administration device server selecting to be attached thereto and bridge are kept and being connected of this communication client, wherein said transducer will be received from described external business or communication client, follow the data of first kind of incompatible data layout of another external business and communication client, convert the second kind of data layout that is suitable for described second external business and communication client to.

The invention provides a kind of novel distributed service network, it allows the user to insert telecommunication service and other external business from any access point of this network.These business that provided all are transparent concerning user and service supplier.Can utilize known client computer parameter to come setting network, can also come setting network according to each user's preference according to the type separately of client computer.Communication in the network has nothing to do with the host-host protocol of employing, because all agreements, data, application programming interfaces or the like, all by data converting system in the network and/or adapter format transformation automatically.In addition, the business of this network and it place that the user is attached thereto is transparent.

According to another aspect of the invention, provide a kind of network administration equipment to be used for a kind of reconfigurable distributed telecommunications network, it comprises:

At least one bridge or other parts link to each other with described at least one network administration device server, can connect with communication client;

At least one adapter links to each other with described at least one network administration device server, and this adapter can be with professional a connection, and allows described business to catch up with to state at least one network administration device server to communicate; With

A network administration equipment manager, each of administering in device server with described at least one network links to each other, and preserve a record, each network administration business and parts that device server provided are described, described network administration equipment manager can be determined the type of the communication client that links to each other with described network administration equipment, thereby and network administration device server selecting in the described record to be attached thereto and bridge or other parts keep and being connected of this communication client.

According to a further aspect of the invention, provide a kind of reconfigurable distributed service network, it comprises at least two network administration equipment that connect with communication trunk, and each network administration equipment comprises:

The invention provides the method for the reconfigurable distributed network of a kind of novelty and a kind of like this network of operation, this network allow to be in operation increase and decrease parts and business.In addition, the present invention also provides the method for a kind of novel reconfigurable distributed network and a kind of like this network of operation, this network not only can be in a network administration equipment but also can be between network administration equipment balance to the usage degree of parts and/or License Capacity (licensed capabilities).Can increase parts and professional, and/or, from network, cancel parts and business, and do not require that network or network administration equipment quit work for preventative maintenance and reconstruct or the like as new parts and business.

According to another aspect of the invention, a kind of method of processes user data request of access is provided, these users link to each other with a kind of reconfigurable distributed service network, this service network comprises a plurality of interconnective network administration equipment, each network administration equipment has a network administration device server at least, these users use at least a in the multiple communication client, and described network links to each other with multiple business, may further comprise the steps:

(i) be that each network administration equipment is preserved a record in the network, operable parts in the network administration equipment are described;

(ii) determine the type of the communication client that the user uses, and this communication client linked to each other with the parts that can obtain, these parts be in described record, choose and be suitable for described client computer;

(iii) receive the data access request of described user to a business in a plurality of business; With

(iv) described communication client is followed parts of electing in the described record and linked to each other, thereby communication client is linked to each other with selected business.

In accordance with a further aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of data stream converting system, it comprises:

At least two transducers, each can receive the input traffic of first kind of form, and produces form with first kind of output stream that form is different; With

A kind of transducer matrix switch, it can select at least one transducer, and first input traffic is provided, and therefrom receives output stream, the basis of this selection is an input signal to described transducer matrix switch, this signal instruction first form and required different data layout.

According to a further aspect of the invention, provide a communication client that the user links to each other with a distribute type service network, and between the business that links to each other with this net, a kind of conversion method of data flow transmitted, it may further comprise the steps:

(i) determine the type and the needed data characteristic of described client computer of described communication client;

(ii) determine the needed data characteristic of described business;

(iii) select at least one conversion equipment, this device can be between client computer desired data characteristic and professional desired data characteristic converting data streams;

(iv) above-mentioned at least one conversion equipment is applied to data flow transmitted in the described network.

Also have, the invention provides a kind of method, this method provides service for a user by the data access request that inserts a network with any one communication client that links to each other in two or more network administration equipment, and it may further comprise the steps:

(i) in described network administration equipment, determine the type of communication client, and described connection is passed to a bridge that is suitable for this client type in the described network administration equipment;

(ii) examine user identity;

Be a user file of this user storage (iii), determine the business that the predefined preference of all these users and this user can obtain by accesses network; With

(iv) allow this user to insert any fixed business, described network administration equipment is at the form that is suitable for client type and be access between the professional form that adopts and be the client computer converting data streams.

On the other hand, the invention provides a kind of method of handling the user's data request of access that links to each other with a distributed service network, this user has adopted at least one in the multiple communication client type, and described network is continuous with multiple business, and this method may further comprise the steps:

(i) determine the type of the communication client that the user adopts, the storage ground in described network takes out the characterisitic parameter that this communication client requires;

(ii) receive the data access request of the business that the user elects in the multiple business him;

(iii) determine the data characteristic of the selected business of input and output of requirement; With

(iv) the characteristic of the business selected of characteristic that requires according to communication client and user is changed the data of transmitting between described business and the communication client automatically.The invention provides a kind of data stream converting system and method, they make communication client can be connected to a network and access any business wherein, should business convert the form of client computer needs to like this, and not need client user that special input media is provided to the data stream of communication client.This data conversion system and method receive with the relevant information of the type of communication client, all user-defined to the data stream that flows to him preference and with the relevant information of business by this network insertion.This data conversion system and method adopt one or more transducers to come converting data streams then in view of the above.This data conversion system also adopts one or more transducers will become the form of business need from the data stream that communication client is received from the format conversion that receives with method.

Another aspect the invention provides a kind of method of the data access request of process user, and these users link to each other with the distributed service network that a plurality of tie points are arranged, and this method may further comprise the steps:

(i) set up the connection of following a user at a tie point of described network;

(ii) determine the position of user profile, this information stores is in a predetermined area of described network;

(iii) with the copy of described information at least a portion from determine the place by described Network Transmission to described tie point;

(iv) according to the data access request of copies of information process user, and a copy will finishing the needed additional information of described request is from determining that the place is transferred to described tie point;

(v) on the network of determining between place and the described tie point,, pass to copies of information and user's canned data, to keep the consistance between them with expression user's the canned data and the lastest imformation of copies of information variation.

The invention provides the data access request that has access to a network of a plurality of tie points for the user a kind of novel method of service is provided, these services that provide are with actual access point and/or to be connected to the communication client that the user adopted of this network irrelevant.This method is transparent to the user with being access in professional supplier, can also utilize known client computer parameter that this method is set by each client type, it can also be set by each user preference of each client computer.User profile is copied to tie point and obtains there safeguarding, to reduce the stand-by period, reduces the bandwidth requirement to network.

The accompanying drawing summary

To and introduce the preferred embodiments of the invention with reference to the following drawings by example, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a sketch of distributed service network among the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a sketch of network administration equipment in the distributed service network among Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 be from the home network of distributed service network administration device replication to this network the sketch of personal agent of Cache (persistent cache) of a telecommunication network administration equipment.

Detailed Description Of The Invention

Square frame at Fig. 1 has illustrated a distributed service network in a preferred embodiment of the present invention for 14 li.The data type that network 14 is supported is not subjected to special restriction, can comprise simulation and/or digital voice, computer network communication, E-mail, paging system message or the like.Can know that from discussion hereinafter network 14 can be supported polytype data simultaneously when needing.

As illustrated in fig. 1 and 2, network 14 comprises one or more network administration equipment 18, and each network administration equipment all comprises a network administration equipment manager 22 and one or more network administration device server 24.Each network administration equipment manager 22 all follows the all-network administration device server 24 of present networks administration equipment 18 to link to each other, each network administration device server 24 all passes through communication trunk 28 and follows other network administration device server 24 of present networks administration equipment 18 and other network administration equipment 18 to link to each other, communication trunk 28 can be the communication link of any appropriate, as T3 (transfer rate can reach the communication line of 44.736Mb/s) circuit, band optical fiber link, satellite link or the like, or the combination in any of suitable link.

As shown in Figure 2, each network administration device server 24 all comprises as suitable communication host 32 of communication trunk 28 and a plurality of bridge 36, by special-purpose telecommunication line, dial-up access, wireless traffic, as the public Packet Based Network of the Internet or other suitable device arbitrarily, the client computer 40 of network 14 can link to each other with these bridges 36.For clarity sake, 18 li three networks administration device servers 24 that drawn of each network administration equipment among Fig. 1, but the number that should expect network administration device server 24 will be administered professional different and different that the load of equipment and/or network administration equipment provide with network.A network administration equipment 18 all should be provided in each geographic area of this locality " on-the-spot point " that can expect providing client computer 40 can be connected to network 14 at least.Yet network 14 is very flexibly, can expect if desired, can place two or more networks administration equipment 18 in the independent geographic area than multi-client 40 or the like having relatively.Under a kind of like this situation, network administration equipment 18 and their network administration device server 24 can interconnect by main line 28 or any other suitable device, and network administration equipment manager 22 can be administered at network and be implemented load and/or traffic balance between the equipment 18.

And for example shown in Figure 2, network administration device server 24 comprises a data stream translation system, and this system comprises 46 groups of 44 and transducer matrix switches 48 of transducer, with converting data streams between various forms, variety of protocol and various standard as required.Network administration device server 24 also comprises one group of adapter 52 and service agent, they can follow other external business and/or network 56, as the Internet, communicate, thereby with the server communication of operation third edition post office protocol, Simple Mail Transfer protocol or the like, to realize electronic letter task, fax, network browsing or the like.As employed here, term " form " or " data layout " comprise all representations of data.For example, digital speech can comprise a width of cloth black white image, four classes fax, a HTML file of a kind of a width of cloth coloured image, black and white gif file form of data, BIIF (GIF) of form or the like.In addition, as employed here, term " data stream " comprises all set, logic arrangement or the grouping of data, comprises one or more data files, packet, as the data stream of digital speech, multimedia or reciprocal process or the like.

A hyaline layer between the application programming interfaces that each adapter that adapter packs is 52 li all provides agreement and/or external business or the business that is attached thereto is used.Particularly, this adapter translation data between a common protocol of service-specific agreement or application programming interfaces and network administration device server 24.For example, common " getting " of network administration device server 24 usefulness is followed adapter 52 to carry out electronic letter with " depositing " agreement and is communicated by letter, adapter 52 wherein can be between this common protocol and the 4th edition electronic letter agreement of an Internet Message Access Protocol translation data.Therefore, the local service of network administration device server 24 and this server only need adopt simple " getting " and " depositing " agreement, and does not need the 4th edition complicated Internet Message Access Protocol.Only need to increase extra protocol conversion adapter, can also increase new business and/or improve professional 24 li of network administration device servers as required.

Client computer 40 can comprise various telecommunications and/or calculation element, comprises personal computer, honeycomb fashion or PCS Personal Communications System mobile phone, paging receiver, wireless personal digital assistant (PDA) and needs speech or any other device or the system of data communication service.

Network administration equipment manager 22 comprises a database engine 38, and it preserves network 14 users' various information, and it also preserves the log-on message of the client computer 40 that can be connected to network 14.This client registration information comprises the information of how setting up and remaining to the connection of each client computer 40, and about the ability of each client computer 40 and the information of defective.Each network administration device server 24 of network administration equipment manager 22 monitorings is administered the load balance between the device server 24 to realize network, and establishment of connection is managed, and hereinafter will describe in detail.

When client computer 40 hope connect by dial line, wireless connections or other data connection calcaneus rete network 14, just between this client computer and a bridge 36, connect, be called preparation here and connect.With the networks administration device server 24 informing networks administration equipment manager 22 that the bridge 36 of having set up the preparation connection links to each other, network administration equipment manager is the type of definite client computer 40 then.In some cases, as prepare that to connect be to utilize SMS (short message service) agreement to set up with GSM (gsm) cellular phone, set up bridge 36 that preparation connects is hinting type from client computer 40 to network administration equipment manager 22.In other cases, dial-up line situation for example, network administration equipment manager 22 and having set up prepares the type that the bridge 36 that is connected must be determined the client computer 40 that connects, as digital voiceband telephone, simulated voice phone, Web-browser or the like.Can do as those skilled in the art, determining of type can be by analyzing initialization procedure, query user's machine 40 or any other suitable mode realizes.

In case determined the type of client computer 40, network administration equipment manager 22 is just searched the feature of client computer 40 in the client enrollment of 38 li of database engines, and guarantee the preparation connection is transferred on the suitable bridge 36, this suitable bridge 36 or network administration device server are set up at the beginning for 24 li and are prepared that connects, or another network is administered one of 24 li of device servers.Select which network administration device server 24 to handle this and be connected with many criterions, comprise the work at present amount of each network administration device server 24, type of client computer 40 or the like.For example, can be connected to one or more networks administration device server configure dedicated hardware or the voice mail that they are optimized to handle HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) browser clients 40 and other client computer.

If the user changes the type of client computer 40 in the connection procedure of calcaneus rete network administration device server 24, for example change over the Web-browser CLIENT PROGRAM from third edition post office protocol electronic letter CLIENT PROGRAM, perhaps the overload phenomenon has appearred in client server 24, if so suitable, network administration equipment manager 22 just can be transferred to another network administration device server 24 in the network administration equipment 18 of user transparent connecting control.

Next step will examine the user's of client computer 40 identity.This verification process can comprise: a kind of dominance step, input user identifier and password as the user; Perhaps a kind of recessive step: as this connection is the connection of following a known address, for example Internet Protocol address or DN (telephone number); Or the like.This verification process can be administered equipment manager 22 or network administration equipment 18 by network and be finished with the interior one or more networks administration device servers that have the ability of finishing this task.A kind of selection before having illustrated in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 wherein compares the information of verified information with 38 li of database engines to examine user identity.In case examined user's identity, the preparation connection just becomes a complete connection, and the user's data request of access has just obtained service.

In one embodiment of the invention, in case user identity is examined, and set up a complete connection, just user's the agency of people one by one from database engine 38 access servers 24.This personal agent keeps a record of the used business of user, and be called user's overview and this user here and use the user preference of various possible client apparatus and any other preference of user, and this user's accounting information.Except user's overview and preference, personal agent also is provided to the access of all related service data for the user data request of access, comprises user's electronic letter business, password and is used for other professional user ID or the like.

Although use personal agent current be only, but network 14 is not limited in and uses on the personal agent, and user's overview can be stored in 14 li on network with the mode of any appropriate with relevant information, can do as those skilled in the art.

If the user has been connected to a network administration equipment 18 of " ownership " network administration equipment 18 (promptly storing the network administration equipment 18 of this user data generally speaking) that is not this user, so just examine one of in two ways user identity.A kind of is user's registration that inquiry is kept at 38 li of database engines, to determine this user's home network administration equipment 18.Another kind is to inquire about to central user's registrar (not drawing), this server links to each other by communication trunk 28 calcaneus rete networks 14, or administer equipment manager 22 from connected (this locality) network administration equipment manager 22 to the network of adjacent networks administration equipment 18 by main line 28 and send query requests, with the position of the database engine 38 that defines information needed, examine user identity thus.In this last a kind of situation, if 18 li home network administration equipment 18 that do not have this user of adjacent networks administration equipment, therefore the database engine at them does not have essential user profile for 38 li, so just this query requests is given to other network administration equipment 18, up to finding home network administration equipment 18.If determined a bit that at certain this user is not the authorized user of network 14, the preparation that so just stops between client computer 40 and the bridge 36 connects.To one skilled in the art, obviously there is a lot of technology can be used for determining whether a certain user confirms inquiry success or not success, this is not thoroughly discussed here.

In case determined user's home network administration equipment 18, confirm user's identity and set up complete connection, just can be by the personal agent of communication trunk 28 by telecommunication network administration equipment 18 access belonging networks administration equipment 18, perhaps the personal agent of home network being administered equipment 18 by main line 28 copies to local network administration equipment 18.Be to insert personal agents or the personal agent that telecommunication network is administered equipment 18 is duplicated by main line 28, depend on previously selected suitable service quality (QoS) tolerance, it is also contemplated that how long communication stand-by period, user on the communication trunk 28 between telecommunication network administration equipment 18 and the home network administration equipment 18 wishes to wish data volume and other conspicuous to one skilled in the art factor of visiting with data, the user of interior access local network administration equipment 18.

When telecommunication network administration equipment 18 duplicates user's personal agent, do not need a copying whole personal agent.Preferably only duplicate the information that at once needs, or the information that may press for, to reduce the transmission and/or the storage of unnecessary information.In order further to reduce the storage of unnecessary information, the copy of local network being administered personal agent in the equipment 18 is stored in the high-speed cache, will introduce this point in detail below.

Connect in case calcaneus rete network administration device server 24 has been set up fully, the user just can obtain all services of being authorized to use in the network 14.As individual subscriber agency or other user profile information defined, obtain which kind of service and be used for the client computer 40 of access network with him and have no to concern that all data access request that are authorized to are all provided for client computer 40 by network 14.This mode that has nothing to do with client computer realizes by client registration, 46 group 44 in transducer and transducer matrix switch 48.

Particularly, as mentioned above, network administration equipment manager 22 and bridge 36 have been determined the type of the client computer 40 of communicating by letter with bridge 36.This information is used to determine the client computer clauses and subclauses (entry) in the client registration table, characteristic with client computer, comprise its requirement, performance and defective, offer transducer matrix switch 48, the characteristic of the access service types of being determined by adapter 52 also offers transducer matrix switch 48.In order to determine that the user also wants the calling party summary table to the preference of this client computer.

Transducer matrix switch 48 is selected the one or more transducers 46 in the converter groups 44 as required, they are configured and/or connect, with the data layout (type and/or agreement) that adopts in client computer 40 be access in translation data between the professional data layout that adopts.If 44 li of converter groups can be carried out essential conversion without any single inverter 46, transducer matrix switch 48 just is grouped together two or more transducers 46 so, the output of one of them transducer is as the input of another transducer, to realize essential conversion.In an embodiment, transducer matrix switch 48 is accepted the data input of the form of client computer 40 employings from bridge 36, accept the input of the data layout of external business employing from adapter packs 52, consult the table of 48 li of matrix switches according to the form of these two kinds of inputs, i.e. ordered set, thus all possible conversion regime found.The clauses and subclauses of finding from table have illustrated the transducer 46 that needs, and perhaps transducer 46 chains are finished the conversion of requirement.When increasing new transducer 46 in the converter groups 44, the conversion look-up table also upgrades thereupon.

In addition, in some cases, can be with two or more transducers 46, perhaps transducer 46 chains are connected in parallel.For example, can receive four class facsimile messages, to realize the access of PCS Personal Communications System telephone customer machine 40 with in the adapter packs 52.In this situation, can finish optical character identification (OCR) with first transducer 46, facsimile format is transformed to the ASCII text formatting, check the text that is converted to simultaneously with a pair of transducer 46 then, a name and/or a telephone number that is used for determining facsimile transmission person, another is used for determining theme from " theme " row.According to the preference of the user who notes down in the client registration information of PCS Personal Communications System client computer and the subscriber survey table, " sender " and " theme " information is sent to user's PCS Personal Communications System telephone set then to this client computer.

Apparent to one skilled in the art, in order to use transducer 46 effectively, can set up a kind of multithread architecture for them.At this moment, owing to preserved one group of available clue in this structure, so can find each transducer 46.

As an example that uses data conversion system of the present invention, if a user who is connected to network 14 by simulated voice telephone customer machine 40 wishes to insert electronic mail service, transducer matrix switch 48 is just selected and is disposed what a button audio acknowledgement transducer 46 and a text-speech inverter 46, and the partial information of electronic letter is read to listen to the user.As what store in individual subscriber agency or other subscriber survey table, to the preference of client computer 40 and/or the difference of setting, can provide electronic letter for the user with different modes according to user-defined.For example, can give prompting of user, notify the user to receive the electronic letter information how many bars are new, and/or these information or their subject line are read to listen to the user by text-speech inverter 46 by text-speech inverter 46.Button audio acknowledgement transducer 46 allows the user to select information of interest to allow transducer 46 read out by using push-button phone, perhaps selects the information that will delete or the like.Can also adopt a speech recognition transducer 46, be used for replacing or modifier key audio acknowledgement transducer 46.At this moment, the user can dictate and reply electronic letter or the like.Perhaps, the user may be have set their preference in their personal agent or subscriber survey table, so just notifies the number of their new electronic letter information and receives their time.

Be not difficult to find out, can be in user's personal agent or subscriber survey table each service delivery of explanation user's during difference preference to different client computer 40.For example, when the user will move a personal computer of electronic letter program as client computer 40, when being connected to network 14 by dial line, just can user's electronic letter be offered the user by the electronic letter program, rather than read to listen to the user with text-speech inverter 46 with common mode.If this personal computer is connected to network 14 by cellular modem, its limited bandwidth and/or price are high, so just can only transmit subject line, are designated as except the urgent information.Those skilled in the art should expect that the many of other may be provided with and/or select.

As mentioned above, can be when needing by transducer matrix switch 48 with transducer 46 links, with the conversion of needing carrying out.For example, if the user wishes to interview a webpage by phone from simulated voice, transducer matrix switch 48 just can select for use HTML-ASCII(American Standard Code for information interchange) transducer to receive the HTML information of webpage so, and convert thereof into the ASCII(American Standard Code for information interchange) text, by text one speech inverter 46 the ASCII(American Standard Code for information interchange) text-converted is become voice then, make that the user can be by their telephone set uppick.Similarly, can also adopt speech recognition or button audio acknowledgement transducer to accept user's input, as arriving the link of focus subsequently, other input that perhaps needs.

46 group 44 in transducer and transducer matrix switch 48 provide professional transparent translation in network 14.Can expect that according to the user preference information that is stored in the individual subscriber agency, at least to a certain extent, all business all should be transparent, perhaps can insert all business, and such transparency does not need any step of ISP one side.For example, the user only can stipulate that the paging receiver that the new electronic letter information with some sends to them gets on, perhaps download all subject lines and be designated as urgent electronic letter of newly receiving or the like, and the sender of these electronic letter information does not need to be concerned about these details.

Should expect that in some cases, the converter groups 44 that 18 li different network administration device servers of network administration equipment are 24 li can have different transducer 46.For example, network administration device server 24 can have the one or more text-speech inverters 46 that need specialized hardware.At this moment, may have only a network administration device server 24 to be equipped with such specialized hardware in the network administration equipment 18, when needing, to client computer 40, need the connection of text-speech inverter 46 to transfer to network administration device server 24 in another network administration equipment 18 that has essential transducer 46 by the transducer matrix switch 48 that network is administered 24 li of device servers.Can administer a table in the equipment manager 22 by requester network, or by conspicuous alternate manner to one skilled in the art, getting which network administration device server 24 clear there is essential transducer 46.

Except the conversion of carrying out the Business-to-Customer machine, network 14 can also carry out transport protocol conversion.The adapter that adapter packs is 52 li can receive data with a kind of host-host protocol, is forwarded to another adapter of 52 li of adapter packs, sends out with another kind of host-host protocol more therein.For example, first adapter that adapter packs is 52 li can use transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol to receive data, these data is sent with Asynchronous Transfer Mode or frame relay protocol by second adapter then.Can expect that adapter packs 52 can also comprise encrypts and/or decryption engine.It will also be appreciated that, in some cases, can finish protocol conversion and/or encryption and decryption with transducer 46 when needing.Can expect that again adapter packs 52 and/or converter groups 44 can also provide application programming interfaces for legacy record and book keeping operation subsystem, to promote ISP (ISP), telephone operator, cellular phone company or the like keeping records.

As mentioned above, each user has preferably one by one that the people acts on behalf of several the tasks of finishing.For example, by user identifier and password, known Internet Protocol address, paging receiver number, honeycomb equipment notice or the like is installed, personal agent can obtain user's information necessary of recognition network 14.In addition, personal agent can also be the information of third party's Operational Visit as account and/or password of user applies.For example, the user may apply for stock market and information service, and before obtaining to allow these information of visit, needs their identity of user-approved.When personal agent brought convenience to the user, the user also needn't keep number of the account, password or the like firmly in mind, and in these areas, personal agent in fact can be done better.

Particularly, the user can indicate their personal agent to finish multiple-task, and is quite complicated from simply obtaining.For example the user may stipulate that their personal agent each hour all catches up with and state the stock market business relations once, to determine the present price of one or more stocks, if these prices have arrived a certain degree, just follow customer contact with the mode of regulation, for example give him Men Fayi envelope electronic letter, perhaps call out them, in voice mail, give their synthetic speech information or get in touch with them by their analogue cellular telephone set by radio paging.Obviously, when getting in touch with the user, to adopt converter groups 44 and transducer matrix switch 48 when needing, for example by utilizing text-speech inverter 46 on their cellular telephone, to give them a voice announcement by suitable client computer 40.Apparent to one skilled in the art, personal agent is not a service-specific, but can be used for operable all business of this user.So can expect, each user can be only acts on behalf of all tasks of finishing with people one by one.It will also be appreciated that the user can select to stipulate the task that their personal agent will be finished with a computer graphic user interface, these tasks send personal agent to by network 14 then.How to set up and operate such personal computer interface, or give other suitable device of personal agent assignment of mission and selection, will be readily apparent to persons skilled in the art.

And for example the above the present invention includes a cache systems and is used for personal agent.As shown in Figure 3, user's home network administration equipment 18a comprises the master agent of people one by one 80 that is stored among the database engine 38a.When the user connects by telecommunication network administration equipment 18b calcaneus rete network 14, and when not reaching the service quality of predesignating by the individual master agent 80 of communication trunk 28 visit, just by communication trunk 28 individual master agent 80 being copied to telecommunication network administration equipment 18b becomes personal agent copy 80r, should act on behalf of in the high-speed cache that copy is stored in database engine 38b at telecommunication network administration equipment 18b.As mentioned above, beginning just to duplicate a least possible part of personal agent most.For example, only transmit essential information, the business of user applies and user's the accounting information of identification user.

In case set up complete connection, according to user's operating position, extra information can be delivered to personal agent copy 80r, and/or pass lastest imformation back individual master agent 80 from personal agent copy 80r.In order to be consistent, personal agent copy 80r is new individual master agent 80 more always, with the reflection all changes, equally also changes according to some of individual master agent 80 and upgrades personal agent copy 80r.Be limited in as much as possible within the local network administration equipment 18b by the activity with the user, this mode of employing copy has reduced the requirement to the bandwidth and the traffic, has reduced the traffic of communication trunk 28.

For example the user can connect with telecommunication network administration equipment 18b, and it is individual master agent 80 in user's the home network administration equipment at network administration equipment 18a that the network administration equipment manager of network administration equipment 18b finds this user.From network administration equipment 18a user's personal agent copy 80r is sent to network administration equipment 18b, and is used for examining user's identity.Here, according to user's operating position, the high-speed cache in the database engine 38b of network administration equipment 18b is with Data transmission continually between the individual master agent 80.If this user just drops into a voice mail information another user's voice mail mailbox, just on personal agent copy 80r, add book keeping operation clauses and subclauses, and more new individual master agent 80 to reflect this book keeping operation input.

In a more interesting example, the user can carry out the electronic letter dialogue as required, reads, replys, deletes and set up various information.In this situation, need in personal agent copy 80r, duplicate this user's inbox and address list, also more which information new individual master agent 80 has been read with explanation and/or has been removed the information deleted, and the scheduler inventory is with the reflection all modifications that the user was carried out.When the user imports new electronic letter, just these information are sent with a kind of common mode, deposit the outbox of user in high-speed cache simultaneously in, and user's outbox of new individual master agent 80 more.All electronic letters that can automatically individual master agent 80 be received duplicate to personal agent copy 80r if desired.Apparent to one skilled in the art, such reproduction technology also can be used for the voice service of gsm, to cooperate attaching position register and Visited Location Registor wherein.

In addition, in some cases, can data transfer be given client computer 40 and revise data in client computer from personal agent (master agent 80 or act on behalf of copy 80r).When client computer 40 is connected to network 14 subsequently, can be by directly upgrading or renewal personal agent copy 80r, come more new individual master agent 80 to reflect these variations.For example, the telephone number inventory can be downloaded to the client computer 40 that resembles PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) or the cellular phone, the user can increase, deletes or revise the clauses and subclauses in the inventory subsequently.When this client computer 40 is connected to network 14 again, just according to the inventory of client computer 40 inventory in the new individual master agent 80 more, with reflection increase, deletion and modification that the user was carried out.

Apparent for a person skilled in the art, the operation of relevant high-speed cache is transparent to the user, the purpose that adopts this buffer memory is to improve the performance of network 14 by the minimizing stand-by period, if possible, also can match to reduce bandwidth requirement with replication strategy.This high-speed cache can adopt any suitable cache policy, and this is apparent to one skilled in the art.Certainly expect, can adopt a kind of FIFO (first-in first-out) technology, wherein come divided rank, in the time of must cleaning part of cache, just remove the clauses and subclauses of input the earliest according to personal agent copy 80r length of storage time in buffer memory.By the clauses and subclauses in the trace cache, with after understanding the last time the visit that the personal agent copy 80r in the high-speed cache is carried out, corresponding individual master agent 80 accessed mistake whether among their the home network administration equipment 18a, perhaps whether once be copied to another telecommunication network administration equipment, and can make above-mentioned strategy more effective like this.After the last visit personal agent copy 80r, the personal agent copy 80r among corresponding accessed mistake of individual master agent 80 or the network that the had been replicated administration equipment 18b can dispose from network is administered buffer memory the equipment 18b.

Apparent to one skilled in the art, in a single day between client computer 40 and network administration equipment 18, set up complete connection, security is just guaranteed by network 14.All connections via communication trunk 28 all are safe, and/or all encrypted, obtain differentiating with the identity of guaranteeing the user, and the data communication in the network 14 are all maintained secrecy.Further, can as required come encryption and decryption with service agent with communicating by letter of other business via adapter packs 52.

As long as suitably, form the parts of network administration equipment 18 and realize that with software perhaps they have some software interfaces, become easy thereby make upgrading and improve performance, and realize " hot plug ", promptly network 14 also increases in work or cancels the ability of business and/or hardware.Specifically, bridge 36 comprises necessary hardware to be established to the connection of client computer 40, also comprises the communication of managing calcaneus rete network administration device server 24 with the control function of software realization.Similarly, database engine 38 comprises a suitable data storehouse engine and a control function that realizes with software, other function of coming management of cache and database engine 38.46 group 44 in transducer and transducer matrix switch 48 also comprise the parts of realizing with software, and they or control hardware and/or firmware are to finish their function, and perhaps they oneself finish these functions.Similarly, adapter packs 52 and service agent comprise necessary hardware to finish suitable communication task, comprise that also these tasks are managed and controlled to the control function of a software realization.

Preferably like this, the control that these softwares are realized is made up of Java service small routine (servlets), Java beans and Java enterprise beans in the present invention, as the JavaSoft Java service small routine file and 1 of Sun Microsystems.1 edition Java language file is illustrated.Same illustrated as above-mentioned file, the communication between the service small routine is that RMI (route monitoring information) business by Java is finished.

In one embodiment of the invention, on common Java service small routine, increased a packing so that synchronous fast and asynchronous communication to be provided.In particular, the function that this packing will be served small routine expands to the asynchronous communication application programming interfaces with complete function from common " post " and " get " application programming interfaces based on HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), utilize it, can information be sent to any service small routine and receive information from any service small routine by a lasting connection or by an asynchronous connection.The service small routine expanded with such packing can carry out synchronous communication with other service small routine (expanded or not expansion) arbitrarily, also can carry out asynchronous communication with any service small routine that other has been expanded.

Packing consists essentially of the method that the service small routine must be realized.First method is " perform () ", and it is the synchronous event handling procedure.It returns a value along with incident is called after finishing, it is interrupted (blocked) in the processing procedure of incident.Second method is " performAsynch () ", and it is the asynchronous event handling procedure.This method is returned " FutureReply " placeholder object as soon as possible.After finishing event handling, this method sends the asynchronous incident of replying to calling program service small routine.The FutureReply placeholder comprises a unique identifier, and the incident of replying that this identifier allows reception service small routine to receive is subsequently compared with former incident.Utilize this method, in the process of other incident of processing, call the service small routine and can freely carry out other processing.

In order to adapt to this event processing of two types, two kinds of dissimilar incidents have been defined.Specifically, defined " ServletEvent " and " ServletAsynchEvent ", the previous synchronous event that is used for, back one is used for asynchronous event.In this system, incident comprises the identifier of a character string type, a parameter and a session, and parameter wherein can be any object (Object).Because can there be service small routine that a time is sent to an expansion service small routine more than one, a session is provided, it is to comprise object of a uniquely identified, by allowing the service small routine discern the order of incident, assists expansion service applet process synchronous event.

Preferably serve small routine, Java beans, Java enterprise beans and Java RMI interface though realize the software part of network 14 with Java, but it is apparent to one skilled in the art, the present invention is not limited to such embodiment, when needing, can partly or entirely use CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) or other suitable embodiment.

Apparent to one skilled in the art, use software to realize that control has several advantages.Particularly, network administration equipment 18 is in operation and just can increases or reduce parts, and it is upgradeable not require that network 14 shutdown, result are that network 14 becomes, and network 14, network administration equipment 18 and network administration device server 24 still can continue to move when change such parts.So for example, can administer equipment 18 to network when needing increases extra bridge 36 or different transducers 46, or from network administration equipment 18 they is removed.Further, can administer equipment 18 to network increases new business and/or ability and only needs at 18 li suitable service small routines of registration of network administration equipment.This also allow to physical unit safeguard and can not influence network 14 or network the administration equipment 18.

Can also be on network 18 loaded with traffic and ability.For example, when starting network administration equipment 18, can from other network administration equipment 18 or from the network 18 for this purpose and a lane database that keeps is loaded into network of network with business, adapter, gateway and transducer and administers equipment 18 and get on.Also can from the network administration device server 24 of a certain particular network administration equipment 18 or network administration equipment 18, parts and business be loaded as requested when needing.Can carry out these business or the like at telecommunication network 18, perhaps they are written into network administration equipment 18 at local runtime, as hereinafter described.

In order to realize this " hot plug ", between the parts of network administration equipment 18 and service request, adopted the indirect addressing layer to these parts.In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, network administration equipment manager 22 has been preserved a record, or the available unit inventory, available parts in the network administration equipment 18 are described, each request of a parts business is all determined available unit by visiting this inventory.In order to increase new parts and/or business, when this parts/business is ready to, on this available unit inventory, add this parts/business to network administration equipment 18.In order to remove parts because of preventative maintenance or the like, in the available unit inventory, remove these parts, these parts just can remove later on or off line finishing current task like this.Apparent to one skilled in the art, above-described available unit inventory is a kind of feasible mode, utilize it can determine available unit in network administration equipment 18 and/or other network administration equipment 18, the present invention is not limited to use such inventory.

This also allows hardware and/or permission (license) are carried out balance.For example, network administration equipment 18 can comprise one or more text-speech inverters 46, and these transducers depend on the software of the emulation conversion (or just being allowed to do like this) that specialized hardware maybe can carry out some.At this moment, business list can be determined business/parts of using before other business/parts, also can point to the parts/business of other network administration equipment that can visit by communication trunk 28.

In text-voice example, as long as carrying out the text-phonetic modification emulation of some, just can hand to another network administration equipment 18 that has similar specialized hardware or additional permission to other request of text-phonetic modification and handle by the reference business list.In this situation, business list can be pointed out an optional transducer 46, and it is lower than licensing system efficient, only could use it when all specialized hardware transducers 46 are all occupied.In this way, text-phonetic modification request has obtained processing, and permits, if any, just can not be exceeded and/or the use of hardware is improved.Obviously, if transducer 46 is not taken fully, network administration equipment manager 22 just can be by main line 28 to other network administration equipment 18 report available capability, allow other network administration equipment 18 use this ability more than needed, thereby use the hardware and/or the permission capacity of network 14 effectively.

Similarly, can administer the usage degree that equipment manager 22 is monitored each network administration device server with network, and suitably upgrade business list, compare with the similar parts of the higher network administration device server 24 of usage degree with explanation, should preferentially use the parts of the lower network administration device server 24 of usage degree.

So conventional network resources can effectively be used, and can increase and decrease resource as required.Though be now in 22 li business list of preserving 18 li all available units of network administration equipment of network administration equipment manager, but can expect in some cases, can also be in 24 li business list of preserving some or all business of each network administration device server.For example, can expect the inventory of the available transducer 46 of 24 li of one or more network administration device servers 24 preservation network administration device servers.It will also be appreciated that, if network administration device server does not find available required parts in its inventory, just can directly or by network administration equipment manager 22 send request by communication trunk 28 to another network administration device server 24, require to use required parts, perhaps can administer the business list that 22 li of equipment managers are preserved available service in other the network administration equipment 18 at each network, when needing it is inquired about, to determine where can obtain this business.Network administration equipment manager 22 can allow another network administration equipment 18 that this business is provided a long way off, perhaps by network 14 the network administration device server 24 of this service downloading to network administration equipment 18 is carried out.

Another advantage of network 14 is that it can provide passage for Internet Protocol address (or similar address).Particularly, as the part of security model, the security model of many networks all comprises the identification to user's Internet Protocol address, and these addresses are all arranged in the information header of each packets of information of Internet Protocol.The information from not clear IP address generally all can be refused in the Internet.Though this model all is feasible in many cases, it is difficult to prove effective for mobile subscriber or nomadic user.For example, salesperson attempts to visit from afar his employer's network, the Internet Protocol address of the Internet Protocol packets of information that he sends is with difference, compare with the path of salesperson when his home address sends information, information path in this case is obviously different, and therefore employer's network can reject this information.Utilize network of the present invention,, can administer " transmitting " Internet Protocol packets of information between equipment and the telecommunication network administration equipment at home network with passage as network 14.The packets of information of sending from telecommunication network administration equipment will be used as packaged packets of information and deliver to home network administration equipment, to preserve its Internet Protocol address, and home network administration equipment will be opened the packing of this packets of information, and be forwarded to needed business, and intactly keep original Internet Protocol head/address.Equally, home network administration equipment will be packaged from the packets of information that this business is received, issue telecommunication network administration equipment again, open encapsulation there and give the user.No matter when the user connects with a telecommunication network administration equipment, and this passage process all is transparent concerning the user, believes that this passage has obvious superiority for the network user who adopts based on the security model of IP address.

Though the particular combinations of various characteristics and parts among the present invention only has been discussed here,, apparent for a person skilled in the art, can also reselect these characteristics of combination and parts as required.

The invention provides a kind of new distribution type network, it makes the user to insert telecommunications and other business by any access point from network.These business that offer the user all are transparent.Do not need special steps when for example, the user is with HTML file of the visit of people's communication system telephone set one by one.Providing of these business also is transparent concerning service supplier, and for example, the author of HTML file does not need to change this file just can give it the user who uses the PCS Personal Communications System telephone set.Can utilize the client computer parameter in client's registration form that network settings are become to be suitable for this client type, also this network can be set according to the user's who preserves in user's status list preference.The communication of network does not rely on the host-host protocol that is adopted, because all agreements, data, application programming interfaces or the like are all automatically changed by network.Also have, no matter where the user is from being connected to this network, this network and its business all are transparent.

The present invention also provides a data stream translation system and method, it allows communication agent to be connected to a network and visits the business of this network, data stream from this business to communication agent can be converted to the needed form of client computer like this, and not need the user of client computer to import information specific.This data conversion system and method receive the type that relates to communication client, user to the preference of the data that will mail to client computer, the information of business by access to netwoks and/or the information of the professional preference of stipulating for communication client.This data conversion system and method adopt one or more transducers to change from communication client and the data stream that mails to communication client in view of the above then.Data conversion system and method also adopt one or more transducers, will become professional needed form from receiving format conversion from the data stream of communication client.

The present invention also provides a kind of new method, is used to handle the data access request that inserts the multiconnection point network from the user, and this processing is irrelevant with the communication client of the user's employing that is connected to this network with actual tie point.In addition, can increase new business to network as required, user profile, user data and other data of distributed store also are provided, and allow to visit these information from any tie point of network.

Claims

1. a network that is used for the distributed telecommunications net is administered equipment, comprising:

At least one network administration device server, this server comprises at least one transducer and a communication host, this transducer can be transformed into the input traffic of first form output stream of second form, and communication host can communicate with other network administration device server in the described distributed telecommunications net by communication trunk;

At least one bridge links to each other with a described network administration device server at least, can connect with communication client;

At least one adapter follows a described network administration device server to link to each other at least, and this adapter can link to each other with an external business, and supports this external business and above-mentioned at least one network to administer the communication of carrying out between device server; With

A network administration equipment manager, catching up with each that state at least one network administration device server links to each other, can determine type with the continuous communication client of described network administration equipment, and select a network administration device server to be attached thereto to keep being connected with this communication client with a bridge, when the data layout of receiving from external business or communication client is during with incompatible first data layout of the data layout of another external business or communication client, just it is transformed into second data layout of suitable described other external business and communication client with transducer.

2. the network of claim 1 is administered equipment, also comprise one group of at least two transducer and a transducer matrix switch, first transducer in this group is used for the input traffic of first form is transformed to the output stream of second form, and second transducer in this group is used for the input traffic of second form is converted to the output stream of the 3rd form; And

The transducer matrix switch, the communication client type that it is determined according to network administration equipment manager, from converter groups, select transducer, with the data output of a transducer in this group input as second transducer in this group, like this, will convert other external business and desired the 3rd data layout of communication network to from first formatted data that external business or communication client receive.

3. the network of claim 2 is administered equipment, wherein converter groups comprises at least two transducers that the input traffic of first form can be transformed into the output stream of second form, in at least two transducers each can both connect with second between the external business with first connection between the external business and second communication client computer first communication client, and the data stream of a corresponding connection in these two connections is changed.

4. the network of claim 1 administration equipment at least also comprises two networks administration device servers, and each at least two servers all comprises at least two bridges and at least two adapters.

5. the network of claim 1 is administered equipment, and wherein network administration equipment manager comprises a database engine, and this database engine has stipulated to follow the type of the communication client of at least one bridge connection.

6. the network of claim 1 is administered equipment, the user's of wherein said communicator identity be by described network administration equipment after the type of having determined communication client, network administration equipment manager selects network administration device server and bridge to examine before being attached thereto with being connected of communication client in order to keep.

7. the network of claim 6 is administered equipment, and network administration equipment manager wherein comprises a database engine, its objective is the user identity of determining to follow the continuous communication client of at least one bridge with it.

8. the network of claim 6 is administered equipment, and the verified information that at least one network administration device server wherein utilizes communication trunk to provide is determined the user identity with the continuous communication client of at least one bridge.

9. the network of claim 4 is administered equipment, network administration equipment manager is wherein monitored each network administration device server to determine their usage degree, and can between the bridge that links to each other with different network administration device servers, shift connection, with the described usage degree of balance.

10. the network of claim 1 is administered equipment, and wherein the form that mails to the data of described communication client from described network administration equipment is to determine according to the type of determined communication client.

11. the network of claim 6 administration equipment, wherein the form that mails to the data of described communication client from described network administration equipment is to determine according to the type of determined communication client.

12. the network of claim 10 administration equipment, set of preferences wherein is predefined by the communication client user, changes described form with the preference according to the user at each class communication client.

13. a distributed service network comprises that at least two network administration equipment connect with a communication trunk, each network administration equipment comprises:

At least one network administration device server, this server comprises at least one transducer and a communication host, this transducer can convert the input traffic of first form to the output stream of second form, and communication host can communicate with other network administration device server in the described distributed telecommunications net by communication trunk;

At least one bridge links to each other with at least one described network administration device server, can connect with communication client;

At least one adapter follows at least one described network administration device server to link to each other, and this adapter can link to each other with an external business, and supports this external business and above-mentioned at least one network to administer the communication of carrying out between device server; With

14. the distributed service network of claim 13, wherein at least one at least two network administration equipment comprises at least two networks administration device servers, and each at least two network administration device servers all comprises at least two bridges and at least two adapters.

15. the distributed service network of claim 13 also comprises at least one database engine that links to each other with described network administration device server, and the type definition that can follow the communication client of described network connection.

16. the distributed service network of claim 15 also comprises at least one database engine that connects with described network administration device server, and the preference that is used for user's setting of the connection between user's calcaneus rete network.

17. the distributed service network of claim 16, database comprising the set preference of user is in a network administration equipment of the home network administration equipment that is defined as described user, safeguard at each user, when described user connects with the telecommunication network administration equipment that is different from home network administration equipment, this access of database is undertaken by communication trunk.

18. the distributed service network of claim 17, database engine have wherein also been preserved the information that is used to examine user identity for network.

19. the distributed service network of claim 17, wherein the visit to described preference comprises that at least a portion preference that user in the described database engine is set copies to a telecommunication network administration equipment.

20. the distributed service network of claim 19, the part that wherein is replicated are stored in the Cache of telecommunication network administration equipment.

21. the distributed service network of claim 20, preference wherein also comprise the information that allows the user capture external business and about the information of the activity of user and external business.

22. the distributed service network of claim 21 wherein copies in the described Cache according to the other parts of service request from user with preference.

23. the home network administration equipment that the distributed service network of claim 22, renewal wherein are sent to described user is with preference, the visit permission information revising the user and be provided with, duplicate the relevant information of activity partly with user's response.

24. be used for a network administration equipment of reconfigurable distributed telecommunications network, comprise:

At least one network administration device server comprises at least one transducer and a communication host, this transducer can convert the input traffic of first form to the output stream of second form, and this communication host can communicate with other network administration device server in the described distributed telecommunications net by communication trunk;

At least one bridge or other parts link to each other with at least one network administration device server, can set up contact with communication client;

With at least one adapter that described at least one network administration device server links to each other, it can be connected to a business, and supports the communication between this business and described at least one network administration device server; With

A network administration equipment manager, with each connection in described at least one network administration device server, and preserve each available service and parts at least one network of record declaration administration device server, this network administration equipment manager can be determined the type with the communication client of described network administration equipment connection, and other parts of selecting a network administration device server and a bridge or be attached thereto from described record, to serve the connection of described communication client.

25. the network of claim 24 administration equipment, wherein be increased in described at least one network administration device server any one supplementary service and parts, thereby after having upgraded the business and parts that described record comprises these increases, just become the part of described network administration equipment.

26. the network of claim 24 administration equipment, wherein therefrom delete business of any one and quoting of parts at least one network administration device server by new record more, will be from described business of network sweep and parts, these business are just removed from network administration equipment after finishing current task.

27. the network of claim 24 administration equipment, wherein the record preserved of network administration equipment manager also comprises the information of the professional and sequencing that parts are used in the explanation network administration equipment.

28. the network of claim 27 administration equipment, wherein the record of network administration equipment manager preservation also comprises passing through the available external business of communication host and the explanation of parts in another network of network administration equipment, just selects available external business and parts when only business in described network of network administration equipment and parts are occupied.

29. the network of claim 27 administration equipment, network administration equipment manager wherein changes described order according to the usage degree of each in described at least one network administration device server, the network that utilization rate is relatively low is administered business and the parts in the device server in described order, comes the business of the higher relatively network administration device server of utilization rate and the front of parts.

30. the network of claim 24 administration equipment, network administration equipment manager wherein comprises a database engine, is used for examining the user identity of the communication client that links to each other with described at least one bridge.

31. the network of claim 24 administration equipment, parts wherein comprise the transducer in the data stream converting system, and these transducers can convert the input traffic of first data layout to the output stream of different data format.

32. comprise the reconfigurable distributed business of at least two network administration equipment that link to each other with communication trunk, each network administration equipment all comprises:

A network administration equipment manager, with each connection in described at least one network administration device server, and preserve available service and parts at least one network of record declaration administration device server each, this network administration equipment manager can be determined the type with the communication client of described network administration equipment connection, and other parts of selecting a network administration device server and a bridge or be attached thereto from described record, to serve the connection of described communication client.

33. the network of claim 32, wherein at least one at least two network administration equipment comprises at least two networks administration device servers, in at least two networks administration device server each all comprises at least two bridges and at least two adapters, and the record of preserving in the network administration equipment manager also comprises the business of at least one and the use explanation in proper order of parts at least two the network administration equipment.

34. the network of claim 32, wherein the network administration equipment manager of at least one network administration equipment changes described order according to each the usage degree at least one network administration device server, the business of the network administration device server that utilization rate is relatively low comes the relative higher network of utilization rate with parts and administers the business and the parts front of device server, also comprise at least one database engine that connects with described network administration device server, and comprise the type definition of the communication client that is connected to this network.

35. the network of claim 32, parts wherein comprise the transducer in the data stream converting system, and these transducers can convert the input traffic of first data layout to the output stream of different data format.

36. handle the method for the user's data request of access that connects with reconfigurable distributed service network, comprise a plurality of internet administration equipment, each network administration equipment comprises at least one network administration device server, described user adopts at least a in the multiple communication client, described network may further comprise the steps with a plurality of professional connections:

(i) be record of each network administration equipment preservation of network, operable parts in the network of network administration equipment are described;

(ii) determine the type of the communication client that the user uses, and this communication client linked to each other with the parts that can obtain that these parts choose in the described record and are suitable for described client computer;

(iii) receive the data access request of described user to a business in a plurality of business, selecting; With

37. the method for claim 36, parts wherein comprise the transducer in the data stream converting system, step wherein (iv) also comprises the available transducer that employing is determined from record, as required the step of converting data streams suitably between communication client and business.

38. the method for claim 36 also comprises the step of increasing new parts for every now and then at least one network administration equipment and upgrading described record in view of the above.

39. the method for claim 36 also comprises the step of record ordering with the order of the similar parts of explanation visit.

40. the usage degree of the method for claim 39, order dependent wherein each network administration device server in network administration equipment.

41. a data stream converting system comprises:

42. the data stream converting system of claim 41, transducer matrix switch wherein can be selected first and second transducer at least, and input traffic offered first transducer, the output stream of first transducer is offered second transducer as input traffic, first transducer becomes the output stream of second form with the input data-switching of first form, and second transducer converts the input traffic of second form to required form.

43. the data stream converting system of claim 41, in store transducer of transducer matrix switch wherein and their input, a record of output format, can on data conversion system, increase extra transducer as required, and upgrade described record in view of the above.

44. the data stream converting system of claim 41, matrix converter switch wherein comprises a record having worked out index according to the input and output form of each transducer, and the clauses and subclauses of this record have determined how to select input format is converted at least one transducer of the output format that needs.

45. the data stream converting system of claim 41, adopted wherein at least that first transducer will convert second needed form of communicator from the data stream that first communicator is received to, and adopted at least the second converter to convert the data stream of second communication client to first communicator desired form.

46. the data stream converting system of claim 45 wherein has at least one to be the communication client that the user uses in first and second communicator.

47. the data stream converting system of claim 46, wherein at least one another is the business that the user inserts in first and second communicator.

48. the data stream converting system of claim 45, first transducer is wherein finished the inverse transformation of second conversion that transducer carried out.

49. the data stream converting system of claim 41, matrix converter switch wherein uses at least two transducers arranged side by side, and wherein each of at least two conversion all converts the data stream of first form to needed different corresponding output format.

50. the data stream converting system of claim 41, wherein first input traffic obtains from a communication service, described input signal comprises first signal of explanation first data layout of receiving from described business, also comprise second signal receiving from a bridge that is connected with communication client, second described required form of signal instruction.

51. the data stream converting system of claim 50, input signal wherein also comprise the 3rd signal of one or more preferences of explanation communication client user, this 3rd signal also stipulated described required form.

52. the data stream converting system of claim 45, input signal wherein also comprises from first signal of first communication client with from second signal of second communication client, and these first and second signals have been stipulated in first and second communication client input data layout and the required form of each.

53. the data stream converting system of claim 52 wherein has at least one to be a business in first and second communication client.

54. comprise the distributed communication network of a data stream translation system in the claim 41, be used for the network data flow transmitted between communication client and the business is changed.

55. a method is used to change data flow transmitted between communication client that connects user and distributed service network and the business that is connected with described network, this method may further comprise the steps:

(i) determine the type of described communication client and the data characteristic that this client computer requires;

(ii) determine the desired data characteristic of described business;

(iii) select a conversion equipment at least, it can be between desired data characteristic of described client computer and the desired data characteristic of described business converting data streams;

(iv) at least one described conversion equipment is applied to data flow transmitted in the described network.

56. the method for claim 55, therein the (iii) the step is selected two conversion equipments at least, in at least two conversion equipments one is received in the network corresponding to first of desired data characteristic, with the first form data flow transmitted, and it is transformed into second form, another one at least two conversion equipments receives the translation data of second form, and convert it to the 3rd form corresponding to another characteristic of desired data characteristic, and in network the data of transmission the 3rd form.

57. the method for claim 55, wherein the selection of step in (iii) is to finish by consulting the table of having worked out index with the data characteristic of first and second needs.

58. the method for claim 55, wherein in step (i), the characteristic of determining client computer also comprises the step to the preference of described characteristic of determining that all users set.

59. a method is used to a user to provide service by the data access request that inserts a network with any one communication client that links to each other in two or more network administration equipment, it may further comprise the steps:

(i) determine the type of communication client at described network administration equipment, and described connection is passed to a bridge that is suitable for this customer service machine type in the described network administration equipment;

(ii) examine user identity;

60. (ii) also comprising, the method for claim 59, step wherein determine the home network administration equipment that described network administration equipment is the user or the step of telecommunication network administration equipment.

61. the method for claim 60, wherein, when determining that described network administration equipment is telecommunication network administration equipment of this user, step (iv) in, access to the business that is determined is provided by home network administration equipment by communication trunk connection telecommunication network administration equipment and home network administration equipment, like this, administer address and other identifying information of equipment from home network administration equipment corresponding to home network to being access in professional address and other identifying information.

62. the method for claim 60, wherein step (iii) in, when the user connect with the network of telecommunication network administration equipment go up after, copy to this telecommunication network administration equipment to major general certain customers summary table.

63. the method for claim 62, wherein certain customers' summary table is kept in the Cache of telecommunication network administration equipment.

64. the method for claim 63, subscriber survey table wherein also comprises the information that inserts described business.

65. the method for claim 64, telecommunication network administration equipment wherein be with home network administration devices communicating, the subscriber survey table of home network administration equipment is upgraded in the variation of the subscriber survey table that causes in order to the operation that is used in user in the telecommunication network administration equipment.

66. the method for claim 64, wherein telecommunication network administration equipment and home network administration equipment utilization network will reflects that the lastest imformation of the information change of home network administration equipment or telecommunication network administration equipment mails to telecommunication network administration equipment or home network administration equipment, and the subscriber survey table that makes the described part of telecommunication network administration equipment user summary table administer equipment with home network is consistent.

67. the method for claim 63, after user's calcaneus rete network disconnects connection, still in store described information in the high-speed cache of described network administration equipment, up to surpassing preset time, perhaps this user reconnects the above network at different network administration equipment.

68. the method for claim 59 comprises that also monitoring connects the step with the variation of determining to be connected client computer, when the type of the client computer that connects when monitoring changes, just re-executes step (iii) and (iv).

69. handle a kind of method of the user's data request of access that links to each other with a distributed service network, this user has adopted at least one in the multiple communication client type, and described network is continuous with multiple business, this method may further comprise the steps:

(i) determine the type of the communication client that the user adopts, the storage ground in the described network takes out the parameter of the characteristic that this communication client requires;

The characteristic of the data of the selected business of input and output that (iii) determine to require; With

(iv) the characteristic of the business selected of characteristic that requires according to communication client and user is changed the data of transmitting between described business and the communication client automatically.

70. the method for claim 69, wherein step (iv) in, also change described data according to being stored in the preference that the user sets in the network.

71. the method for claim 69 also comprises the step of the described connection of monitoring with the variation of definite connected communication client, when the type that monitors connected communication client changes, just re-executes step (i)～(iv).

72. a kind of method of the data access request of process user, these users link to each other with the distributed service network that a plurality of tie points are arranged, and this method may further comprise the steps:

73. the method for claim 72, wherein said part comprises described user's identifier.

74. the method for claim 72, user profile wherein also comprises user's personal agent.

75. the method for claim 72, the information of wherein duplicating is stored in described tie point, up to this user this network on another tie point connects.