CN117640714A - Communication method, device and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The application provides a communication method, a device and a storage medium, wherein the method is applied to terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps of: the application client sends an information opening request to the information opening module, wherein the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client; the information opening module sends target information to the application server. In a word, the technical scheme provided by the application supports the information opening function of the terminal side, so that the application server can better realize service scheduling based on the function.

Description

Communication method, device and storage medium

Technical Field

Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a communications method, device, and storage medium.

Background

If the application server can obtain some information of the terminal device, such as wireless cell information, wireless signal strength and other air interface information of the terminal device, electric quantity information of the terminal device, network congestion information detected by the terminal device, and information of each session level executed by the terminal device, such as slice information of a session, data network name (Data Network Name, DNN) information, session and service continuity (Session and Service Continuity, SSC) mode (mode) information, etc., service scheduling can be better realized. However, the current fifth generation (the 5rd Generation,5G) mobile communication network does not support the information opening function of the terminal side.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a communication method, equipment and a storage medium, and the technical scheme provided by the application supports an information opening function of a terminal side, so that an application server can better realize service scheduling based on the function.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, where the method is applied to a terminal device, and the terminal device includes: the method comprises the steps of: the application client sends an information opening request to the information opening module, wherein the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client; the information opening module sends target information to the application server.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal device, including: application client and information opening module: the application client is used for sending an information opening request to the information opening module, and the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client; the information opening module is used for sending target information to the application server.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, including: a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being for invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory for performing the method as in the first aspect or in various implementations thereof.

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program causing a computer to perform a method as in the first aspect or implementations thereof.

In a fifth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product comprising computer program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method as in the first aspect or implementations thereof.

In a sixth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program that causes a computer to perform the method as in the first aspect or implementations thereof.

Through the technical scheme provided by the application client can send the information opening request to the information opening module, and the information opening module can send the target information to the application server. That is, the technical scheme provided by the application supports the information opening function of the terminal side, so that the application server can better realize service scheduling based on the function.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a network architecture diagram provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is an interaction flow chart of a communication method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is an interactive flow chart of another communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is an interactive flow chart of yet another communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is an interactive flow chart of another communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a terminal device 600 provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of an electronic device 700 provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and the claims of the present invention and the above figures are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate such that the embodiments of the invention described herein may be implemented in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or server that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Before introducing the technical solutions of the present application, the following first describes relevant knowledge of the present application:

quality of service (Quality of Service, qoS) flows (flows) are the finest QoS differentiation granularity in protocol data unit (Protocol Data Unit, PDU) sessions, which may include different QoS flows. In a 5G communication system, qoS flows are controlled by session management functions (Session Management Function, SMF), which may be preconfigured or established through PDU session establishment procedures or PDU session modification procedures.

Wherein the SMF determines the following information for each QoS flow:

1. a QoS flow configuration (QoS profile) comprising QoS parameters for the QoS flow: 5G QoS identification (5G QoS Identifier,5QI), allocation and retention priority (Allocation and Retention Priority, ARP), code rate requirements, etc. QoS profile is mainly addressed to the base station for use, and is of QoS flow level.

2. One or more QoS rules, wherein the QoS rules are mainly flow description information for detecting a service data flow and a QoS Flow Identifier (QFI) for transmitting the service data flow, and the QoS rules are sent to a terminal device for use, and are mainly used for detecting uplink data.

3. One or more packet detection rules and corresponding QoS execution rules mainly include flow description information for detecting a service data flow and an identifier QFI for transmitting a QoS flow of the service data flow, and the QFI is sent to a user plane function (User Plane Function, UPF) network element for use, and is mainly used for detecting downlink data, but can also be used for detecting and controlling uplink data on a network side.

The technical problems to be solved by the technical proposal of the application are described below:

currently, the capability opening function supported by the 5G mobile communication network mainly opens the information of the network to the application server through the capability opening function network element or the policy control network element of the 5G core network. However, it is not clear how to support the information release capability of the terminal, that is, how to effectively release the information of the terminal to the application server, so as to improve the service experience of the user, and an effective solution is not yet available.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present application proposes that an information opening module may be supported in a terminal device, that is, the terminal device includes: and the information opening module can be called by each Application client (APP) of the terminal equipment according to the requirement, and the information opening module is triggered to report the information of the terminal equipment to the Application server.

It should be understood that the application server may also be referred to as a service server in this application, which is not limited in this application.

The technical solution of the present application is applicable to the network architecture shown in fig. 1, but is not limited thereto:

exemplary, fig. 1 is a network architecture diagram provided in an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 1, where an execution body involved in the network architecture includes: the terminal device 10 and the application server 20, wherein the terminal device 10 comprises: an information opening module 101 and at least one application client 102, each application client 102 may correspond to one application server 20. The information opening module 101 may receive an information opening request sent by the application client 102, and send, in response to the request, information that needs to be opened to the application server 20 corresponding to the application client 102.

Alternatively, the information opening module 101 may send information to be opened to the application server 20 corresponding to the application client 102 through a base station and a user plane function of the mobile communication network, such as a 5G base station and a 5G user plane function, but is not limited thereto.

Alternatively, the information opening module 101 may be a software function module on the terminal device. It can be implemented on the basis of a software layer or on the basis of a hardware layer. For example, the information opening module 101 may be implemented as an application client, or the information opening module 101 may be implemented as a plug-in or component of an application, or the information opening module 101 may be implemented on an operating system of a terminal device, or the information opening module 101 may be implemented on a chip of the terminal device. The application client where the information opening module 101 is located may be a self-contained application client when the terminal device leaves the factory, or may be an application client downloaded by a user after the terminal device leaves the factory.

Alternatively, the information opening module 101 may interact with a chip in the terminal device or a specific interface in an operating system, etc., to acquire information of the terminal device.

Alternatively, the terminal device 10 may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a smart speaker, a smart watch, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a smart television, augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, AR) glasses, a Virtual Reality (VR) helmet, a game terminal, a multimedia device, or the like, but is not limited thereto.

Alternatively, the application server 20 may be an independent physical server, a server cluster or a distributed system formed by a plurality of physical servers, or a cloud server that provides a cloud computing service. The terminal device 10 and the application server 20 may be directly or indirectly connected through wired or wireless communication, which is not limited herein.

Fig. 1 exemplarily shows that one terminal device, one application server, and one terminal device include three application clients, alternatively, a plurality of terminal devices and a plurality of application servers may be included in the network architecture, and each terminal device may include at least one application client, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

The technical scheme of the application will be described in detail as follows:

fig. 2 is an interaction flow chart of a communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application, where the method may be executed by an information opening module in a terminal device, any one of application clients, and an application server corresponding to the application client. As shown in fig. 2, the method may include:

s210: the application client sends an information opening request to the information opening module, wherein the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client;

s220: the information opening module sends the target information to the application server.

Optionally, the application client may be any application client on the terminal device that needs to initiate a service, where the service may be a video service, a telephone service, a sms service, a social service, a game service, a payment service, a web browsing service, a multimedia service, a traffic service, and the application is not limited in this regard.

Alternatively, the application client may send an information opening request to the information opening module when the application client determines that a service needs to be initiated or is in progress.

Optionally, when the application client determines that the service needs to be initiated, when the terminal device has not established a QoS flow for the service, the terminal device may initiate a PDU session establishment procedure or a PDU session modification procedure according to an existing specification to establish the QoS flow of the service, and further, the application client may send service data to an application server corresponding to the application client through the QoS flow; when the terminal equipment establishes the QoS flow for the service, the application client can send the service data to the application server corresponding to the application client through the QoS flow.

In one implementation, the target information may be at least one information of the terminal device, for example: the target information includes at least one of: the radio cell information, radio signal strength, power information, network congestion information, slice information of a session, DNN information of a session, SSC mode information, etc. where the terminal device is located are not limited thereto.

In another implementation manner, the target information may be at least one type of information of the terminal device, for example: the target information includes at least one of: the air interface information of the terminal device, the power information of the terminal device, the network congestion information, the session level information, etc., but is not limited thereto.

Optionally, the air interface information of the terminal device includes at least one of the following, but is not limited thereto: the wireless cell information, the wireless signal strength and the wireless transmission technology adopted by the terminal equipment. The wireless transmission technology may be, for example, a fourth generation (the 4th Generation,4G) mobile communication technology, a fifth generation (the 5th Generation,5G) mobile communication technology, or a wireless fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, wiFi) technology.

Optionally, the session level information of the terminal device includes at least one of the following, but is not limited thereto: slice information of session, DNN information, SSC pattern information, etc.

The target information is used for guaranteeing the service quality of the application client.

Optionally, the application server may determine, according to the target information, a size of a service transmission resource allocated by the application server to the terminal device, thereby ensuring service quality of the application client. For example, when the priority of the radio cell in which the terminal device is located is higher, the application server allocates more traffic transmission resources to the terminal device so that the service quality of the application client is better. For another example, when the signal strength of the radio cell in which the terminal device is located is stronger, the application server allocates more traffic transmission resources to the terminal device so that the service quality of the application client is better.

Optionally, the information opening request may include: and identifying the target information.

Optionally, the information opening request may further include: source internet protocol (Internet Protocol, IP) address, destination IP address of the service, which the application client needs to initiate.

Alternatively, a PDU session of a terminal device may correspond to a source IP address, and the source IP address of a service herein refers to the source IP address of the service on the terminal device when sending data packets on the corresponding PDU session. The destination IP address of the service is the IP address of the application server.

Optionally, the information opening request may further include: the source port number and the destination port number of the traffic.

Optionally, the information opening request further includes: the information reporting condition of the terminal device refers to the reporting condition of the target information.

Optionally, the reporting condition of the target information includes at least one of the following, but is not limited thereto: reporting frequency of target information, maximum reporting times of the target information, reporting threshold value of the target information and the like. The reporting threshold may be that the measured value of the target information is higher or lower than the threshold and needs to be reported.

Alternatively, if there is one target information, the reporting condition of the target information may be the reporting condition of the one target information.

For example, it is assumed that the target information is power information of the terminal device, and the reporting frequency of the power information of the terminal device is that the power information is reported once every two seconds, and the information opening module may report the power information of the terminal device once every two seconds.

For example, it is assumed that the target information is power information of the terminal device, and the maximum number of times of reporting of the power information of the terminal device is 5, at this time, the information opening module may report the power information of the terminal device to the application server 5 times at most.

For example, assume that the target information is the power information of the terminal device, and the reporting threshold value corresponding to the power information is 30%, and the information opening module measures that the power of the terminal is lower than 30% and needs to report the target information.

For example, assuming that the target information is the power information of the terminal device, and the reporting frequency of the power information of the terminal device is that the reporting is performed once every two seconds, the maximum reporting number of the power information of the terminal device is 5 times, and at this time, the information opening module may report the power information of the terminal device once every two seconds, and report the power information of the terminal device to the application server at most 5 times.

It is assumed, for example, that the target information is the power information of the terminal device, and the reporting frequency of the power information of the terminal device is to report once every two seconds, the reporting threshold value corresponding to the electric quantity information is 30%, and the information opening module can report the electric quantity information of the terminal equipment once every two seconds after the electric quantity of the terminal is lower than 30%.

For example, assume that the target information is the power information of the terminal device, and the maximum reporting number of times of the power information of the terminal device is 5 times, and the reporting threshold value corresponding to the power information is 30%, when the power of the terminal is measured to be lower than 30%, and the reporting number of times of the power information of the terminal device is smaller than 5 times, the power information of the terminal device is reported.

For example, assuming that the target information is the power information of the terminal device, and the reporting frequency of the power information of the terminal device is that the reporting is performed once every two seconds, the maximum reporting times of the power information of the terminal device is 5 times, and the reporting threshold value corresponding to the power information is 30%, the information opening module may report the power information of the terminal device once every two seconds, and the power information of the terminal device needs to be satisfied when the power information is reported every time, and the current reporting times are less than 5 times.

Alternatively, if there are a plurality of target information, the reporting condition of the target information may be a reporting condition for each target information.

For example, assume that the target information includes: the wireless cell information and the wireless signal intensity of the terminal equipment are provided, the reporting frequency of the wireless cell information is that the wireless cell information is reported once every 2 seconds, and the reporting frequency of the wireless signal intensity is that the wireless signal intensity is reported once every 3 seconds. Based on the information, the information opening module respectively and independently reports the two pieces of information, and reports the wireless cell information according to the frequency of reporting once every 2 seconds, and reports the wireless signal strength according to the frequency of reporting once every 3 seconds.

For example, assume that the target information includes: the terminal equipment is provided with wireless cell information and wireless signal intensity, and the maximum reporting number of the wireless cell information is 5 times, and the maximum reporting number of the wireless signal intensity is 4 times. Based on the information, the information opening module independently reports the two pieces of information, and the maximum application server reports 5 times of wireless cell information and the maximum application server reports 4 times of wireless signal strength.

For example, assume that the target information includes: the wireless signal intensity of the terminal equipment and the electric quantity information of the terminal equipment are located, the reporting threshold value corresponding to the wireless signal intensity is 80dBm, the reporting threshold value corresponding to the electric quantity information is 30% of the electric quantity, and when the current measured wireless signal intensity of the information opening module is greater than 80dBm, the information opening module reports the wireless signal intensity. When the current measured electric quantity of the terminal equipment is lower than 30%, the information opening module reports the electric quantity information of the terminal equipment.

Alternatively, if there are a plurality of pieces of target information, the information opening module may consider the plurality of pieces of target information as a whole, and the reporting condition of the target information may be a reporting condition for the whole.

For example, assume that the target information includes: the wireless cell information and the wireless signal intensity of the terminal equipment are reported once every 2 seconds. Based on the information, the information opening module reports the wireless cell information and the wireless signal strength at the same time according to the frequency of reporting once every 2 seconds.

For example, assume that the target information includes: the maximum reporting times of the wireless cell information and the wireless signal intensity are 5 times. Based on the information, the information opening module reports the wireless cell information and the wireless signal strength to the application server for 5 times at most.

Alternatively, the above S220 may be implemented by any of the following realizations, but is not limited thereto:

in one implementation manner, after the information opening module receives the information opening request, the information opening module may directly send the target information to the application server.

As shown in fig. 3, the step S220 may include:

s310: the information opening module determines whether to agree to open the target information to the application server;

accordingly, S220 may include:

S320: and when the information opening module determines that the target information is agreed to be opened to the application server, the information opening module sends the target information to the application server.

In one implementation, the information opening module may obtain a network policy of the terminal device; and determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server according to the network policy of the terminal device.

Alternatively, the network policy of the terminal device may include indication information for indicating whether to open the target information, and the information opening module may determine whether to agree to open the target information to the application server based on the indication information. If the network policy of the terminal device includes first indication information for indicating to open target information to the application server, the information opening module determines to agree to open target information to the application server; if the network policy of the terminal device includes second indication information for indicating that the target information is not opened to the application server, the information opening module determines that the target information is not authorized to be opened to the application server.

For example, assume that the network policy of the terminal device may include: the method comprises the steps of wireless cell information, wireless signal strength, electric quantity information, network congestion information, slice information of a session, DNN information of the session, SSC mode information and indication information corresponding to each information and used for indicating whether the information is opened to an application server, wherein when the indication information takes a value of 0, the information is indicated not to be opened to the application server, and when the indication information takes a value of 1, the information is indicated to be opened to the application server. And assuming that the target information is wireless signal strength, and when the corresponding indication information is 1, determining that the target information is agreed to be opened to the application server by the information opening module.

As another example, assume that the network policy of the terminal device may include: the following types of information of the terminal device: air interface information of terminal equipment, electric quantity information of the terminal equipment, network congestion information, session level information and the like and indication information corresponding to each type of information, wherein when the indication information corresponding to certain type of information takes a value of 0, the information is indicated not to be opened to the application server, and when the indication information corresponding to certain type of information takes a value of 1, the information is indicated to be opened to the application server. And assuming that the target information is air interface information of the terminal equipment, and when the indication information corresponding to the information is 0, the information opening module determines that the target information is not agreed to be opened to the application server.

Optionally, the network policy of the terminal device may include: the information opening module determines to agree to open the target information to the application server if the target information is included in the opening permission information in the network policy of the terminal equipment; if the allowed open information in the network policy of the terminal equipment does not include the target information, the information open module determines that the target information is not agreed to be opened to the application server.

For example, assume that the network policy of the terminal device may include: at least one message allowing opening, comprising: the information of the wireless cell, the wireless signal strength where the terminal equipment is located, and the target information is assumed to be the wireless signal strength, and the information opening module determines that the target information is agreed to be opened to the application server because the information is in at least one information which is allowed to be opened.

As another example, assume that the network policy of the terminal device may include: at least one type of information that allows for openness, including: and the air interface information of the terminal equipment, which is assumed to be wireless signal strength, indicates that the information opening module determines to agree to open the target information to the application server because the information belongs to the air interface information and is in at least one type of information which is allowed to be opened.

Optionally, the network policy of the terminal device includes: the target information allows the identification of an application client or classes that are open.

For example, assume that the network policy of the terminal device may include: and the wireless cell information is allowed to be opened to the application client A, and the representation information opening module determines that the wireless cell information is agreed to be opened to an application server corresponding to the application client A.

Optionally, the network policy of the terminal device includes: the identity of at least one application client and the information of the terminal devices to which these application clients are each allowed to open.

For example, assuming that the target information is power information of the terminal device, the network policy of the terminal device includes: and allowing the information to be opened to the application client B, wherein the application client B needing to initiate the service represents that the information opening module determines the electric quantity information of the terminal equipment which is agreed to be opened to the application server corresponding to the application client B.

Optionally, the network policy of the terminal device may be a network policy defined when the terminal device leaves the factory, or may come from a core network side, for example: the session management function network element may obtain the network policy from the policy control function network element and send the network policy to the terminal device. For another example, the session management function network element may obtain subscription information of the terminal device from the subscription information storage network element, and generate the network policy according to the subscription information.

Alternatively, the session management function element may be an SMF element in a 5G network, or may be an element having a similar function to the SMF element, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, the policy control function network element may be a policy control function (Policy Control Function, PCF) network element in the 5G network, or may be a network element having a similar function to the PCF network element, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, the subscription information storage network element may be a unified data management (Unified Data Management, UDM) or a home subscriber server (Home Subscriber Server, HSS), or the like, or a network element having a similar function to both network elements, which is not limited in this application.

In one implementation manner, the information opening module may acquire subscription information of the terminal device; and determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server according to the subscription information of the terminal equipment.

Alternatively, the subscription information of the terminal device may include indication information for indicating whether to open the target information, and the indication information may be used for indicating whether to open the target information to the application server. If the subscription information of the terminal equipment comprises first indication information for indicating to open target information to the application server, the information opening module determines to agree to open the target information to the application server; if the subscription information of the terminal device includes second indication information for indicating that the target information is not opened to the application server, the information opening module determines that the target information is not authorized to be opened to the application server.

It should be understood that this alternative manner is similar to the case where the network policy of the terminal device described above may include indication information for indicating whether to open the target information, so reference may be made to the above example for an example of this alternative manner, which is not repeated in the present application.

Alternatively, the subscription information of the terminal device may include: the information opening module determines to agree to open the target information to the application server if the target information is included in the opening permission information in the subscription information of the terminal equipment; if the permission opening information in the subscription information of the terminal equipment does not include the target information, the information opening module determines that the target information is not agreed to be opened to the application server.

It should be understood that this alternative manner is similar to the case where the network policy of the terminal device may include the allowed open information, and thus, for an example of this alternative manner, reference may be made to the above example, which is not repeated herein.

Optionally, the subscription information of the terminal device includes: the target information allows the identification of an application client or classes that are open.

Optionally, the subscription information of the terminal device includes: the identity of at least one application client and the information of the terminal devices to which these application clients are each allowed to open.

It should be understood that this alternative manner is similar to the case where the network policy of the above-mentioned terminal device may include an identifier of a certain application client or certain types of application clients to which the target information is allowed to be opened, or include an identifier of at least one application client and information of the terminal device to which each of these application clients is allowed to be opened, so that the above-mentioned example may be referred to for an example of this alternative manner, which is not repeated herein.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 4, after S310, the method may further include:

s330: the information opening module sends an information opening response to the application client, wherein the information opening response is used for indicating whether the information opening module agrees to open target information to the application server.

It should be understood that the embodiment of the present application does not limit the execution sequence of S320 and S330.

Alternatively, when the information opening module determines that it agrees to open the target information to the application server, it may send a first information opening response to the application client, where the first information opening response is used to indicate that the information opening module agrees to open the target information to the application server. When the information opening module determines that it does not agree to open the target information to the application server, it may send a second information opening response to the application client, the second information opening response being used to indicate that the information opening module does not agree to open the target information to the application server.

Alternatively, when the information opening module determines that it does not agree to open the target information to the application server, the information opening module may also send a cause value to the application server that does not agree to open the target information to the application server. For example, the cause value is 0, which indicates that the reason for disagreeing to open the target information to the application server is that the target information cannot be opened in the network policy of the terminal device; when the cause value is 1, it may indicate that the terminal does not support acquiring the target information.

Alternatively, the destination information may be carried in a destination data packet, where the source address of the destination data packet is an IP address used by the information opening module or an IP address used by the application client, and the destination address of the destination data packet is a destination IP address of the service.

It should be understood that, the IP address used by the information opening module refers to the IP address allocated by the network side for the PDU session related to the information opening module when reporting information, the IP address used by the application client refers to the IP address allocated by the network side for the PDU session related to the service, and the destination IP address of the service refers to the IP address of the application server corresponding to the client initiating the service.

Through the technical scheme provided by the application client can send the information opening request to the information opening module, and the information opening module can send the target information to the application server. That is, the technical scheme provided by the application supports the information opening function of the terminal side, so that the application server can better realize service scheduling based on the function.

Fig. 5 is an interactive flowchart of another communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application, where the method may be executed by an information opening module in a terminal device, any one of application clients, an application server corresponding to the application client, a base station, an authentication management function network element, a session management function network element, and a user plane function network element. As shown in fig. 5, the method may include:

s510: the terminal equipment sends indication information to a session management function network element, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the terminal equipment has an information opening function;

s520: the session management function network element responds to the indication information to determine whether to establish QoS flow for the target information;

s530: if the session management function network element determines to establish QoS flow for the target information, the session management function network element controls the terminal equipment, the base station and the user plane function network element to establish QoS flow;

S540: the application client sends an information opening request to the information opening module, wherein the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client;

s550: the information opening module sends target information on the QoS flow;

s560: the base station transmits the target information to the user plane function network element on the QoS flow;

s570: the user plane function network element sends the target information to the application server.

Alternatively, the embodiment of the present application is performed based on the embodiment corresponding to fig. 2, and in fact, the embodiment of the present application may be combined with any of the foregoing embodiments, for example, optionally, the information opening module may determine whether to agree to open target information to the application server, and when determining to agree to open target information to the application server, the terminal device may send the target information sent by the information opening module to the base station on the QoS flow. Alternatively, the information opening module may send an information opening response to the application client, where the information opening response is used to indicate whether the information opening module agrees to open the target information to the application server. Optionally, when the information reporting condition of the terminal device is met, the information opening module sends the target information to the application server.

Alternatively, the access and mobility management function element may be an access and mobility management function (Access and Mobility Management function, AMF) element in a 5G network, or may be an element having a similar function to the AMF element, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, the user plane function element may be a UPF element, or may be a network element having a similar function to the UPF element, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the information opening module sends the indication information to the session management function network element when the terminal device initiates a registration procedure, a registration update procedure, a PDU session establishment procedure, or a PDU session modification procedure.

It should be understood that, when the session management function network element determines that the terminal device has the information opening function based on the above-described indication information, the session management function network element may determine whether to establish the QoS flow for the target information based on the policy of the operator or subscription information of the terminal device.

Optionally, the policy of the operator or subscription information of the terminal device may include: the priority of the open function of the terminal device indicates that a new QoS flow can be established for the target information if the priority of the open function is higher than the priority of the QoS flow of the PDU session corresponding to the service. If the priority of the open function is lower than or equal to the priority of the QoS flow of the PDU session corresponding to the service, it means that the default or other QoS flow can be used.

Optionally, the policy of the operator or subscription information of the terminal device may include: the priority of the open function of the terminal device, if the priority of the open function is higher than the preset priority, indicates that a new QoS flow can be established for the target information. If the priority of the open function is less than or equal to the preset priority, it indicates that a default or other QoS flow may be used.

Optionally, the preset priority may be configured to the terminal device when the terminal device leaves the factory, or configured to the terminal device by the base station, or a result of negotiation between the terminal device and the network, or determined by the network of the operator, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the session management function network element controlling the terminal device, the base station and the user plane function network element to establish QoS flows includes: the session management function network element sends QoS flow configuration to the base station, including: qoS parameters of the QoS flow: 5QI, ARP, code rate requirement and other information; transmitting one or more QoS rules to the terminal equipment, wherein the QoS rules mainly comprise flow description information for detecting a service data flow and QFI (quality of service) flow for transmitting the service data flow; one or more packet detection rules and corresponding QoS enforcement rules are sent to the user plane function network element, mainly comprising flow description information for service data flow detection and QFI for QoS flows transmitting this service data flow.

Alternatively, when the session management function network element sends the QoS flow configuration to the base station, it may first send the QoS flow configuration to the access and mobility management function network element, and then the access and mobility management function network element sends the QoS flow configuration to the base station.

Optionally, when sending one or more QoS rules to the terminal device, the session management function network element may first send the QoS rules to the access and mobility management function network element, then send the QoS rules to the base station by the access and mobility management function network element, and finally send the QoS rules to the open information module by the base station.

Optionally, if the session management function network element determines that the QoS flow is not established for the target information, the terminal device may send the target information sent by the information opening module on a default or other QoS flow.

Through the technical scheme provided by the application client can send the information opening request to the information opening module, and the information opening module can send the target information to the application server. That is, the technical scheme provided by the application supports the information opening function of the terminal side, so that the application server can better realize service scheduling based on the function. In addition, reporting of the target information can realize the guarantee of specific 5 GQoS.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a terminal device 600 provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the terminal device 600 includes: the system comprises an application client 610 and an information opening module 620, wherein the application client 610 is used for sending an information opening request to the information opening module 620, and the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module 620 to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client 610; the information opening module 620 is used to send the target information to the application server.

Optionally, the information opening module 620 is further configured to determine whether to agree to open the target information to the application server before the information opening module 620 sends the target information to the application server; accordingly, the information opening module 620 is specifically configured to: when the information opening module 620 determines that the target information is agreed to be opened to the application server, the target information is sent to the application server.

Optionally, the information opening module 620 is further configured to acquire a network policy of the terminal device before the information opening module 620 determines whether to agree to open the target information to the application server; accordingly, the information opening module 620 is specifically configured to: and determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server according to the network policy of the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the information opening module 620 is specifically configured to: if the network policy of the terminal equipment comprises first indication information for indicating to open target information to the application server, determining to agree to open the target information to the application server; if the network policy of the terminal device includes second indication information for indicating that the target information is not opened to the application server, it is determined that the target information is not agreed to be opened to the application server.

Optionally, the information opening module 620 is specifically configured to: if the allowed open information in the network policy of the terminal equipment comprises target information, determining to agree to open the target information to the application server; and if the allowed open information in the network policy of the terminal equipment does not comprise the target information, determining that the target information is not agreed to be opened to the application server.

Optionally, the information opening module 620 is further configured to send an information opening response to the application client 610 after the information opening module 620 determines whether to agree to open the target information to the application server, where the information opening response is used to indicate whether the information opening module 620 agrees to open the target information to the application server.

Optionally, the application client 610 is specifically configured to: when the application client 610 determines that a service needs to be initiated, an information opening request is sent to the information opening module 620.

Optionally, the information opening request includes: source IP address, destination IP address of the service.

Optionally, the destination information is carried in a destination data packet, where the source address of the destination data packet is an IP address used by the information opening module 620 or an IP address used by the application client 610, and the destination address of the destination data packet is a destination IP address of the service.

Optionally, the information opening request further includes: reporting information of the terminal equipment; accordingly, the information opening module 620 is specifically configured to: when the information reporting condition of the terminal device is satisfied, the information opening module 620 transmits the target information to the application server.

Optionally, the terminal device 600 further includes: a sending module 630, configured to send, before the information opening module 620 sends the target information to the application server, indication information to the session management function network element, where the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device has an information opening function, so that the session management function network element determines whether to establish a QoS flow for the target information in response to the indication information; accordingly, the information opening module 620 is specifically configured to: and if the session management function network element establishes the QoS flow for the target information, transmitting the target information to the application server based on the QoS flow.

Optionally, the session management function network element determines whether to establish the QoS flow for the target information based on a policy of an operator or subscription information of the terminal device.

It should be understood that apparatus embodiments and method embodiments may correspond with each other and that similar descriptions may refer to the method embodiments. To avoid repetition, no further description is provided here. Specifically, the apparatus 600 shown in fig. 6 may perform the method embodiments corresponding to fig. 2 to 5, and the foregoing and other operations and/or functions of each module in the apparatus 600 are respectively for implementing the corresponding flows in each method in fig. 2 to 5, which are not described herein for brevity.

The apparatus 600 of the embodiments of the present application is described above in terms of functional modules in connection with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the functional module may be implemented in hardware, or may be implemented by instructions in software, or may be implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules. Specifically, each step of the method embodiments in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in a processor and/or an instruction in software form, and the steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented as a hardware decoding processor or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. Alternatively, the software modules may be located in a well-established storage medium in the art such as random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory, electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, and the like. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads information in the memory, and in combination with hardware, performs the steps in the above method embodiments.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of an electronic device 700 provided by an embodiment of the present application. The electronic device may be the above-mentioned terminal device.

As shown in fig. 7, the electronic device 700 may include:

a memory 710 and a processor 720, the memory 710 being configured to store a computer program and to transfer the program code to the processor 720. In other words, the processor 720 may call and run a computer program from the memory 710 to implement the methods in the embodiments of the present application.

For example, the processor 720 may be configured to perform the above-described method embodiments according to instructions in the computer program.

In some embodiments of the present application, the processor 720 may include, but is not limited to:

a general purpose processor, digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processor, DSP), application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), field programmable gate array (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like.

In some embodiments of the present application, the memory 710 includes, but is not limited to:

volatile memory and/or nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM) which acts as an external cache. By way of example, and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double Data Rate SDRAM (Double Data Rate SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct memory bus RAM (DR RAM).

In some embodiments of the present application, the computer program may be partitioned into one or more modules that are stored in the memory 710 and executed by the processor 720 to perform the methods provided herein. The one or more modules may be a series of computer program instruction segments capable of performing the specified functions, which are used to describe the execution of the computer program in the electronic device.

As shown in fig. 7, the electronic device may further include:

a transceiver 730, the transceiver 730 being connectable to the processor 720 or the memory 710.

The processor 720 may control the transceiver 730 to communicate with other devices, and in particular, may send information or data to other devices or receive information or data sent by other devices. Transceiver 730 may include a transmitter and a receiver. Transceiver 730 may further include antennas, the number of which may be one or more.

It will be appreciated that the various components in the electronic device are connected by a bus system that includes, in addition to a data bus, a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus.

The present application also provides a computer storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a computer, enables the computer to perform the method of the above-described method embodiments. Alternatively, embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the method embodiments described above.

When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, produces, in whole or in part, a flow or function consistent with embodiments of the present application. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line (digital subscriber line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that contains an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a digital video disc (digital video disc, DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), or the like.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative modules and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the modules is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, for example, multiple modules or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or modules, which may be in electrical, mechanical, or other forms.

The modules illustrated as separate components may or may not be physically separate, and components shown as modules may or may not be physical modules, i.e., may be located in one place, or may be distributed over a plurality of network elements. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment. For example, functional modules in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing module, or each module may exist alone physically, or two or more modules may be integrated into one module.

The foregoing is merely a specific embodiment of the present application, but the protection scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and the changes and substitutions are intended to be covered in the protection scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (15)

1. A communication method, characterized in that the method is applied to a terminal device comprising: the method comprises the steps of:

The application client sends an information opening request to the information opening module, wherein the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client;

and the information opening module sends the target information to the application server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information opening module further comprises, prior to sending the target information to the application server:

the information opening module determines whether to open the target information to the application server;

the information opening module sends the target information to the application server, including:

and when the information opening module determines to open the target information to the application server, the information opening module sends the target information to the application server.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information opening module, prior to determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server, further comprises:

the information opening module acquires a network policy of the terminal equipment;

the information opening module determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server, including:

And the information opening module determines whether to open the target information to the application server or not according to the network policy of the terminal equipment.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the information opening module determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server according to a network policy of the terminal device comprises:

if the network policy of the terminal device includes first indication information for indicating to open the target information to the application server, the information opening module determines to open the target information to the application server;

and if the network policy of the terminal equipment comprises second indication information for indicating that the target information is not opened to the application server, the information opening module determines that the target information is opened to the application server in different modes.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the information opening module determining whether to agree to open the target information to the application server according to a network policy of the terminal device comprises:

if the target information is included in the allowed open information in the network policy of the terminal equipment, the information open module determines to open the target information to the application server;

And if the target information is not included in the allowed open information in the network policy of the terminal equipment, the information open module determines that the target information is opened to the application server in different intentions.

6. The method of any of claims 2-5, wherein after the information opening module determines whether to agree to open the target information to the application server, further comprising:

the information opening module sends an information opening response to the application client, wherein the information opening response is used for indicating whether the information opening module agrees to open the target information to the application server.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein the application client sending an information opening request to the information opening module comprises:

and when the application client determines that the service needs to be initiated, the application client sends the information opening request to the information opening module.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the information open request comprises: the source internet protocol IP address and the destination IP address of the service.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the destination information is carried in a destination data packet, a source address of the destination data packet is an IP address used by the information opening module or an IP address used by the application client, and a destination address of the destination data packet is a destination IP address of the service.

10. The method according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the information opening request further comprises: the information reporting condition of the terminal equipment;

the information opening module sends the target information to the application server, including:

and when the information reporting condition of the terminal equipment is met, the information opening module sends the target information to the application server.

11. The method of any of claims 1-5, wherein before the information opening module sends the target information to the application server, further comprising:

the terminal equipment sends indication information to a session management function network element, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the terminal equipment has an information opening function, so that the session management function network element responds to the indication information to determine whether to establish a quality of service (QoS) flow for the target information;

the information opening module sends the target information to the application server, including:

and if the session management function network element establishes a QoS flow for the target information, the information opening module sends the target information to the application server based on the QoS flow.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the session management function network element determines whether to establish QoS flows for the target information based on policies of an operator or subscription information of the terminal device.

13. A terminal device, comprising: application client and information opening module:

the application client is used for sending an information opening request to the information opening module, and the information opening request is used for requesting the information opening module to open target information to an application server corresponding to the application client;

and the information opening module is used for sending the target information to the application server.

14. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor and a memory for storing a computer program, the processor being for invoking and running the computer program stored in the memory to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 12.

15. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 12.