CN1378371A - Communication system and method setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically - Google Patents
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This invention discloses a communication system and its method for network phone equipment basic data of automatically setting type. The said system transfers its MAC address to the management terminal equipments to ask for fetching related set data according to DHCD or BOOTP communication protocol mounted on it, after connection of the network phone equipment and internal network which searches for the related set data in its data base and allocate IP address to every network phone equipment to return each said IP address together with other information enabling the said network phone equipment to get its own base set data automatically from the management equipment with the characteristic of whenever insertion and whenever using without the phenomenon of hange-on calls due to the unmatched problemset by the end user and management terminal.
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The present invention is a kind of communication system and communication means, especially the communication system and the method that refer to a kind of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically, can make network telephone equipment with world-wide web mutually behind the line, automatically obtain the basic setting data of oneself from management end equipment, make described network telephone equipment on network, possess plug and play, finish line each other smoothly, the function of conversing immediately.
The general networking telephone that uses now, owing to can make the user need not the international long-distance telephone expense of both expensive, can converse by other people of a network and a distant place, so the utmost point is subjected to consumer's welcome in recent years, and many network communication system dealers, also comply with this market trend, borrow and set up network telephone equipment (VoIP, Voice Over IP Device), so that the network user to be provided the service about long-distance and international communication, this measure not only can be saved the expense expenditure of user in long-distance and international communication, also brings great market business opportunity for the network communication system dealer.In addition, show according to data, the following black phone user that will have up to 70 percent, the interesting network telephone equipment of using instead, carry out long-distance and international liaison, communication user that this quantity is huge and demand, management end (as: network telephone service supplier (the Call Agent of the military order network telephone equipment that is bound to ...) etc.), face following point:
1) user of identification network formula telephone plant how;
2) the IP address of specified network formula telephone plant how;
3) how can change or change the setting data of management end at any time, and the unlikely occupation mode that influences this network telephone equipment;
4) this network telephone equipment that how to make the user hold need not the action that any artificial modification is set;
5) software upgrading that how to automatically perform network telephone equipment is moved ... Deng.
In addition, utilizing existing network telephone equipment, when carrying out the communication communication on the grid line, general all the need carried out basic setting and management to following set point earlier:
1) management end (Call Agent ...) the IP address or dns name claims and/or number number of connectivity port decided at the higher level but not officially announced (Default Port number): make described network telephone equipment can borrow this IP address or dns name claim to find management end, and link up with it.
2) the IP address of DNS server: described network telephone equipment is to borrow this IP address, finds this DNS server, and utilizes management end (Call Agent ...) dns name claim to convert thereof into corresponding IP address.
3) identification name of network telephone equipment (as: gateway domain name in MGCP endPointidentifier): described network telephone equipment is to borrow this identification name, make management end (Call Agent ...) debate the identity of knowing the user, but not utilize the IP address of telephone plant, confirm user's identity, therefore, described network telephone equipment may be assigned to different IP addresses at any time.
4) the IP address of the drive software shelves name (filename) of network telephone equipment and TFTP (Trivial FileTransfer Protocol) server: described network telephone equipment is to borrow described information, judges whether to carry out the upgrading of software version according to this.
Described network telephone equipment mainly can be complied with following dual mode, finishes setting or modification to aforementioned set point:
1) provides a RS-232 connectivity port by described network telephone equipment, make the administrative staff can be with the COM connectivity port of computer, directly with this RS-232 connectivity port line mutually, utilize institute's installed software (as: terminating machine of win98) on the computer again, login the setting picture of this network telephone equipment, directly it is set or revises.The shortcoming of this setting means, be that administrative staff must directly put the place to this network telephone equipment and set or revise, so where network telephone equipment is furnished, administrative staff just must be to this ornaments position, it is set or revises, cause manpower and time to go up waste greatly.
2) provide a HTTP server (or TELNET server) by described network telephone equipment, make administrative staff utilize online computing at far-end, and login the setting picture of this network telephone equipment by web browser (or TELNET), it is set or revises.The shortcoming of this setting means, it is the IP address that administrative staff must know each network telephone equipment really, could correctly login the setting picture of this telephone plant, and arbitrary telephone plant can not have identical IP address with another telephone plant, will cause great puzzlement to these administrative staff.
Because administrative staff are passing through the aforementioned network browser, when this network telephone equipment was set or revised, its action was the IP address of finding first network telephone equipment earlier, logins the setting picture, and it is set, and leaves then; Find the IP address of next telephone plant again, login, set, leave then; Then, find the IP address of another telephone plant again, login, set, leave then, carry out so repeatedly, till all-network formula telephone plant is all finished setting.So, similarly set action if having ten network telephone equipments, these administrative staff just must carry out ten times; If thousands of equipment are arranged, these administrative staff promptly must carry out thousands of times and similarly set action, and in a single day describedly in the future be set with change, aforementioned setting action (containing management end and use side) all must be carried out once again, real very a labor intensive and the engineering of time that belong to.
Especially, under the quick-fried situation that increases of network type telephone communication number of users, the network telephone equipment that quantity is huge certainly will cause great puzzlement to the management dealer setting, manage and safeguarding.So, how to make the automation that more becomes of the setting of described network telephone equipment and management operations, significantly to simplify manpower, shorten the activity duration, and effectively reduce because of the artificial mistake that is caused of setting, make management end can be easily at the network telephone equipment of the use side of distribution various places, set or change the set point on it fast and automatically, promptly become the important topic that design, exploitation and the manufacturer of network telephone equipment now need to be resolved hurrily.
Therefore, setting the many shortcomings that taken place in the management, special communication system and the method that proposes setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically of the present invention for improving the aforementioned conventional network telephone equipment.
One object of the present invention and technical scheme, be behind network telephone equipment and world-wide web line, can be according to a communications protocol of being installed on it, its MAC Address is sent to the management end equipment of this network telephone equipment, make to this management end equipment requirements and obtain relevant setting data, this management end equipment also will be according to this requirement, according to this communications protocol of being installed on it, in its database, search the relevant respectively setting data of this network telephone equipment, and automatic IP address allocation is given each network telephone equipment, and respectively during this IP address, other information are sent to respectively this network telephone equipment in the lump in passback.So, described network telephone equipment can automatically obtain the basic setting data of oneself from management end equipment, make described network telephone equipment on network, possess the characteristic of plug and play, and reason use side and management end are not set unmatched problem, and the obstructed phenomenon of telephone dial connection takes place.
Another object of the present invention, be that this communications protocol can adopt DHCP (Dynamic HostConfiguration Protocol) communications protocol or BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol) communications protocol, to realize the purpose of aforementioned setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically.
Another purpose of the present invention and technical scheme thereof, be in this setting data, to comprise the TFTP shelves name of network telephone equipment and the IP address of TFTP server, make the upgraded version that the drive software of described network telephone equipment is installed in this TFTP server, when receiving the setting data of passing back by this management end at network telephone equipment, can judge whether and to upgrade, and whether decision according to its IP address, downloads (Download) this upgrade version drive software from this TFTP server.When downloading first packet, this network telephone equipment is packet content whereby, whether the upgrade version drive software of judging this appointment has existed on this telephone plant, so the drive software of the same version of unlikely repeated downloads can effectively reduce burden meaningless on the network traffics.
Another purpose again of the present invention, it is the set point that in this setting data, comprises palpus changed network formula telephone plant function, so network telephone equipment when receiving this setting data of being passed back by this management end, can be changed the former setting of described network telephone equipment according to this.
By above description to the object of the invention and technical scheme as can be known, use the communication system and the method for setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically of the present invention, described network telephone equipment can automatically obtain the basic set point of oneself, and need not administrative staff one by one on each described network telephone equipment, change its setting respectively, not only can significantly reduce manpower and time and go up meaningless waste, also can make described network telephone equipment on network, possess the characteristic of plug and play, make described network telephone equipment at network smoothly under the situation, reason use side and management end are not set unmatched problem, and the obstructed phenomenon of telephone dial connection is arranged.
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In the communications protocol of world-wide web now, the communications protocol of a kind of DHCP by name (Dynamic Host ConfigurationProtocol), can make with world-wide web on the electronic equipment of a user side, pass through broadcast data packet, with it in the second address (Ethernet Address) on the network too, via world-wide web, be sent to the electronic equipment of a server-side, make to this server-side electronic equipment and obtain relevant setting data, as: the IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS value ... etc. data, this user side electronic equipment that this kind utilizes the DHCP communications protocol to link up, the present invention is referred to as the DHCP user side, this server-side electronic equipment corresponding with it, the present invention then is referred to as the DHCP server-side.This DHCP server-side can be searched the setting data about this DHCP user side earlier in its database (database) when receiving the broadcast data packet that this DHCP user side sends, more described data are returned to this DHCP user side.
Generally speaking, stored data in the database of this DHCP server-side, mainly can be divided into two kinds of static data (static data) and dynamic datas (dynamic data), wherein static data is the IP address with the described DHCP user side of its line, netmask, default gateway and DNS value ... etc. master data, this dynamic data is meant the IP address that is kept, make this DHCP server-side require packet according to what this DHCP user side transmitted, can't in this static data, find its second too when the network address (ethernetAddress) and corresponding data, can in this dynamic data, select an IP address that is not used as yet, distribute and give this DHCP user side.
The present invention promptly utilizes to possess in this DHCP communications protocol and can assign the characteristic that each DHCP of user side is given in the IP address automatically, respectively this network telephone equipment of user's end is set at this DHCP user side, then the basic data management end equipment (hereinafter to be referred as management end) of described network telephone equipment is this DHCP server-side, consult shown in Figure 1, make respectively this network telephone equipment 10,11 with world-wide web 20 mutually behind the line, can be according to this DHCP communications protocol, with it in the second address (Ethernet Address) on the network too, mode with broadcasting is sent to this management end 30, obtain relevant setting data to these management end 30 requirements, this management end 30 also will be according to this requirement, in its database 40, search the relevant respectively setting data of this network telephone equipment, and automatic IP address allocation is given each network telephone equipment 10,11, and respectively during this IP address, other information are sent to respectively this network telephone equipment 10 in the lump in passback, 11.So, owing to set the respectively management work of this basic data of network telephone equipment, all be to concentrate on this management end, and this management end can be complied with this DHCP communications protocol, according to the respectively requirement of this network telephone equipment, automatic IP address allocation and other setting datas so described network telephone equipment can automatically obtain the basic set point of oneself from this management end, no longer must administrative staff be set with manual mode.
Owing to be equipped with unique MAC Address in each network telephone equipment, the management end of this network telephone equipment is after installing this DHCP communications protocol among the present invention, can be with this MAC Address as each network telephone equipment at the second unique address on the network too, to distinguish each telephone plant.So when this network telephone equipment respectively and world-wide web mutually behind the line, the drive software of being installed on it, promptly according to this DHCP communications protocol, on one's own initiative its MAC Address is sent to this management end, to obtain relevant setting data to this management end requirement, this management end searches relevant setting data in its database after, promptly respectively it is back to respectively this network telephone equipment automatically.In the present invention, the basic setting data of this network telephone equipment respectively can be respectively:
1) the IP address of this network telephone equipment respectively, this IP address is the basic setting data of its necessity, or/and subnet mask, IP of default router
2) identification name of this network telephone equipment (as: gateway domain name In MGCPendpoint identifier respectively ...);
3) dns name of the IP address of management end, connecting portion decided at the higher level but not officially announced numbering or management end claims (containing local name, domain name);
4) the IP address of DNS server.
In the present invention, this setting data still comprises the IP address of the TFTP file name and the TFTP server of network telephone equipment, so, when the drive software correcting of described network telephone equipment, only need the upgraded version of this drive software is installed in this TFTP server, can be when described network telephone equipment receives the setting data of being passed back by this management end, judge whether and to upgrade, just on this TFP server,, download the drive software of this upgrade version then according to its IP address.When downloading first packet, this network telephone equipment is packet content whereby, whether the upgrade version drive software of judging this appointment has existed on this telephone plant, and the drive software of the same version of unlikely repeated downloads, to reduce meaningless burden on the network traffics, and make the administrative staff need not be after described network telephone equipment is finished upgrading, the information (TFTP shelves name and TFTP server IP address) of deletion upgrading immediately is in order to avoid cause these TFTP shelves of the continuous repeated downloads of described network telephone equipment.
In addition, in the present invention, this setting data still can comprise the setting data that must change described network telephone equipment function, so when described network telephone equipment receives this setting data of being passed back by this management end, described network telephone equipment is the specified setting shelves of download management end immediately, and check the content of this setting shelves, and change the set point of described network telephone equipment according to this.As: whether start DNS, DTMF relay, NAT or DHCP server ... Deng function; Change Transmit Gain or Receive Gain value; The frequency values of change Dial Tone, Ring Back Tone or Busy Tone etc.. etc. information.
In another embodiment of the present invention, because the communications protocol of BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol) by name, the afore-mentioned characteristics that also has the DHCP communications protocol, and the two data packet format is also very approximate, so also can utilizing to possess in this BOOTP communications protocol, the present invention can assign the characteristic that each BOOTP of user side is given in the IP address automatically, respectively this network telephone equipment of user's end is set at this BOOTP user side, this management end is set at this BOOTP server-side, make respectively this network telephone equipment and world-wide web mutually behind the line, can be according to this BOOTP communications protocol, its MAC Address is sent to this management end, obtain relevant setting data to this management end requirement, this management end also will be according to this requirement, in its database, search relevant setting data, and give each network telephone equipment with IP address and other information distribution automatically.
The above only is a best specific embodiment of the present invention, but design of the present invention is not limited thereto, and anyly is familiar with this operator in field of the present invention, can think easily and variation or modification, all should be included in protection scope of the present invention.
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1. the communication system of a setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically, it is characterized in that: this system comprises:
One management end equipment;
The more than one network telephone equipment that links to each other with described management end equipment by world-wide web;
One comprises the communications protocol of a database, stores in this database about described network type phone
The setting data of equipment.
2. the communication system of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described setting data comprises:
The IP address of described network telephone equipment;
The identification name of described network telephone equipment;
The IP address of this management end equipment;
The IP address of DNS server.
3. the communication system of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described setting data also comprises the TFTP shelves name of described network telephone equipment and the IP address of TFTP server.
4. the communication system of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: described setting data also comprise must the described network telephone equipment function of change setting data.
5. as the communication system of claim 1,2,3 or 4 described setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically, it is characterized in that: described communications protocol can be the DHCP communications protocol.
6. as the communication system of claim 1,2,3 or 4 described setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically, it is characterized in that: described communications protocol can be the BOOTP communications protocol.
7. the communication means of a kind of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically of the system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described system can be according to the communications protocol of its installation, its MAC Address is sent to this management end equipment, obtains relevant setting data to this management end equipment requirements; And this management end equipment also will according to this communications protocol, be searched the setting data of relevant this network telephone equipment according to this requirement from its database, and automatically this setting data be distributed to this network telephone equipment.
8. the communication means of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically as claimed in claim 7, it is characterized in that: when the drive software version of described network telephone equipment is changed, only need the upgraded version of this drive software is installed in this TFTP server, can be when described network telephone equipment receives the setting data of being passed back by this management end, whether the IP address of judging TFTP shelves name and TFTP server exists, if need upgrade, just from this TFTP server, according to its IP address, download the drive software of this upgrade version; When downloading first packet, this network telephone equipment is packet content whereby, whether the upgrade version drive software of judging this appointment has existed on this telephone plant, and the drive software of the same version of unlikely repeated downloads, to reduce meaningless burden on the network traffics.
9. the communication means of setting basic data of network telephone equipment automatically as claimed in claim 8, it is characterized in that: when described network telephone equipment receives this setting data of being passed back by this management end, described network telephone equipment is the specified setting shelves of download management end immediately, and check the content of this setting shelves, change the set point of described network telephone equipment then according to this.
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