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• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
  • H04W24/00—Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
  • H04L67/34—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications involving the movement of software or configuration parameters 
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
  • H04L67/50—Network services
  • H04L67/60—Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources

Definitions

• the present invention relates to downloading data from a campaign server into portable communicating objects through a radio network during a download campaign.
• it relates to a download of data when the portable communicating objects targeted by the campaign are deemed to be present in the radio network.
• Portable communicating objects are smart cards, such as MMC cards (Multi-Media
• the UICC smart card is for example a card with a SIM application
• Subscriber Identity Module when the terminal is a mobile type GSM or GPRS, or an application
• USB Universal Subscriber Identity Module
• CDMA coded division multiple access
• 3GPP coded division multiple access
• UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
• UTRAN Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
• 3GPP2 third generation of the CDMA 2000 type.
• the campaign server for downloading data also known as the Over The Air (OTA) card management platform, includes software that allows the operator managing the radio network to maintain control of the data. smart cards in mobile devices and modify their content. These operations initiated by the operator (push mode) concern for example the downloading of a file in predetermined cards of the park managed by the operator, or the downloading or deletion of a specific application, or the modification of data of a given file or application in cards managed by the operator.
• OTA Over The Air
• the invention is more particularly concerned with a massive download campaign of user card data, although the campaign server can operate a unitary download in a user card.
• a download relates to a single personal file which is intended for roaming users who are frequently abroad and which contains more than a dozen preferred network identifiers managed by operators with whom network operator managing the cards contracted.
• the file of preferred network identifiers is unique and is intended to be downloaded into many predetermined user cards so that the user cards are preferably connected to these networks when the users are abroad.
• the operator currently has two options to download this file from the campaign server.
• the operator decides to download the file in a unitary way, as soon as possible, the first time that an interested user is roaming, and so on for all the users one after the other. the others, who are in roaming.
• said in campaign mode the server sends the file of the preferred network identifiers during a single campaign to the cards whose users have subscribed to a roaming option.
• a download concerns an application facilitating the management of the directory of telephone numbers in the cards.
• This application allows a user to save all his directory in a predetermined server managed by the operator and the backup is updated each time the user records a new phone number in his card.
• the user calls during the day the call center of the operator to request to download the application in his card.
• This operation is a unit operation initiated in the campaign server by the operator in "Customer Care" mode.
• the user takes the initiative to order downloads by consulting himself from his mobile terminal the site of the operator so as to trigger the download of the application in the card.
• This download is also a unit operation ordered in the campaign server by the user in so-called “Self Care” mode.
• the operator triggers a download operation in campaign mode on a few thousand targeted users so that the OTA server administers downloading the application in all these maps.
• the downloading is done by sending a series of SMS short messages, formatted by the campaign server according to a known protocol to a card, and then sent to the card through a GSM type radio network of the operator.
• This embodiment is described in the French patent application 0410225 filed on September 27, 2004 by the applicant and unpublished, entitled "Campaign for downloading data in portable communicating objects".
• the establishment of push mode communication that requires the use of SMS technology is a disadvantage for networks whose infrastructures do not support short messages or for which the short messages do not meet the standards necessary for an upgrade. remote day of cards for example in CDMA networks (Code Division Multiple Access).
• Another disadvantage is the unavailability of cards whose terminals are off or out of the coverage of the radio network during the campaign, which requires many subsequent tests.
• a second embodiment consists of downloading from a new generation radio communications network of GPRS or UMTS type through an IP (Internet Protocol) type data channel.
• a campaign server initiates a campaign to download data to many smart cards by sending a short message called "Push SMS" to the cards.
• Push SMS a short message
• GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
• a download campaign is often massive (a few million cards) over a relatively short period of time ranging from a few days to a few months and thus leads to a peak of traffic on the radio network.
• the network is highly stressed, which requires a well-dimensioned infrastructure capable of supporting a temporary overload.
• the management of the new tests without knowing if the mobile terminal carrying the card is again under the coverage of the network further increases the overhead of the network.
• the invention aims to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks by downloading data to at least one communicating object, such as a map, targeted by the campaign when the latter is deemed to be present in the radio network for a period such that the campaign server can execute a download of the data provided in the communicating object.
• This has the advantage, among other things, to eliminate the management of re-tests by the download server and to avoid a peak of traffic on the radio network due to the campaign.
• a method for downloading data made available in a campaign server to portable communicating objects through a radio network during a data download campaign comprises the steps of: transmit campaign campaign rules from the campaign server to a presence server, and notify the presence server to the campaign server that an event relating to the presence of at least one communicating object in the network of radiocommunications satisfies a transmitted campaign rule to initiate data download from the campaign server to the communicating object present.
• the invention can further optimize the massive campaigns launched from a campaign server through the transmission of campaign rules in the presence server connected to the radio network.
• a campaign rule may include at least one identifier of a communicating object targeted by the campaign and at least one condition of presence of the communicating object in the radio network.
• the campaign rule thus unambiguously identifies an event of presence of a communicating object, such as a smart card, targeted by the campaign in the radio network.
• This presence event indicates to the campaign server that the communicating object is available in the radio network for a sufficient predetermined duration of connection of the communicating object to the radio network to receive the download data provided by the campaign.
• the presence server after transmission of the campaign rules by the campaign server to the presence server, the presence server combines each campaign rule relating to a targeted communicating object with presence rules relating to at least one accessibility time slot of said targeted communicating object so that an event relating to the presence of the targeted communicating object in the radio network satisfies both the combined campaign and presence rules.
• the invention also relates to a system for downloading data made available in a campaign server to portable communicating objects through a radio network during a data download campaign.
• the system is characterized by comprising: means in the campaign server for transmitting campaign-related campaign rules to a presence server, and means in the presence server for notifying the campaign server that an event relating to the presence of at least one communicating object in the radio network satisfies a transmitted campaign rule in order to initiate a download of the data from the campaign server to the present communicating object.
• the communicating objects may be mobile user removable smart cards, or mobile terminals.
• the radio network is a CDMA code division multiple access network, for example UMTS or UTRAN.
• the radio network is a GSM network backed by a GPRS network.
• the invention may not use an infrastructure comprising a short message server.
• the system of the invention may comprise a packet network without using short messages.
• the invention relates to a computer program capable of being implemented in a system for downloading data made available in a campaign server to portable communicating objects through a radio network. during a data download campaign.
• the program comprises instructions which, when the program is executed in said system, that is to say partly in the campaign server and partly in the presence server, perform the steps according to the method of the invention.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a communication system connecting portable communicating objects, a campaign server managed by a network operator and a presence server for implementing the downloading method according to the invention
• FIG. 2 is a more detailed schematic block diagram relating to FIG. 1;
• FIG. 3 is an algorithm of the downloading method according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows principal means for downloading data into portable communicating objects, such as removable IC to CN user smart cards which are respectively associated with mobile radio terminals T1 to TN, attached to a network of digital cellular radiocommunications RR.
• the smart card Cn associated with the mobile terminal Tn, with the index n such that 1 ⁇ n ⁇ N, is of the UICC type (Universal Integrated
• a campaign server SC is generally managed by the operator of the RR network and constitutes an OTA platform (Over The Air) with data to be downloaded to the smart cards targeted by a download campaign.
• OTA platform Over The Air
• a presence server SP detects in the radio network RR the presence of smart cards targeted by the download campaign according to RGC campaign rules prepared and transmitted to the server SP by the campaign server SC.
• the RGC campaign rules are described in more detail with reference to Figure 2.
• the campaign server SC and the presence server SP communicate with each other via a first data channel of a network of RP packets of the Internet or intranet type.
• the two servers SC, SP are located at the same operator, thus reducing problems of IP addressing and name resolution.
• the two servers are located in separate operators and then communicate via a secure connection between the two servers.
• the campaign server SC communicates with the smart cards C1 to CN associated with the terminals T1 to TN by a second data channel CD open between the radio network RR and the packet network RP via for example a gateway communication device not shown in Figure 1.
• This second data channel CD does not cross the presence server SP.
• the communication gateway may include an access gateway for communicating with the SC server through the network of high-speed RP packets, such as the Internet, or such as an intranet network specific to the operator of the RR network.
• Another access gateway of the communication gateway communicates with at least one switch of the radio network, often through an access network such as an X.25 type packet network.
• the communication gateway exchanges with the mobile radio terminals T1 to TN messages that encapsulate IP (Internet Protocol) packets transmitted to and by the SC server through the RR and RP networks.
• IP Internet Protocol
• the campaign server SC when launching a campaign, transmits a presence request RQP comprising RGC campaign rules to the presence server SP via the packet network RP. As soon as an RGC campaign rule applied to a smart card Cn is satisfied in the presence server SP, the latter sends an NP presence notification including an identifier IDCn of the card Cn to the campaign server SC so that the latter downloads data D in the smart card Cn.
• the campaign server SC includes a GEC campaign manager that manages various operations during the download and an ICC communication interface for transmitting and receiving IP packets through the RP packet network.
• the campaign manager GEC prepares the campaign rules RGC relating to one or more download campaigns to be transmitted to the presence server.
• a RGC campaign rule is linked to an unambiguous identification of a presence event of a Cn smart card targeted by the campaign in the RR radio network, which means that the Cn card is available in the network for a period of time. enough time to receive a complete download of data D from the campaign server SC.
• the RGC campaign rule includes at least one IDCn of a smart card Cn targeted by a campaign, such as a serial number of the card or an international identity IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) of the user of the card, and at least one presence condition.
• the presence condition of the smart card Cn in the RR radio network is a connection of the smart card having the IDCn identifier to the RR radio network for a predetermined time, typically more than five minutes.
• an EP presence event of the targeted smart card is detected by the presence server SP as soon as the presence condition included in the campaign rule transmitted from the campaign server to the presence server is satisfied.
• an RGC campaign rule includes identifiers for many smart cards targeted by a campaign and one or more conditions of presence.
• a presence condition is a location of the terminals supporting the smart cards in a location area in the RR network.
• the campaign server SC is linked to a database BD including various parameters and characteristics of the cards managed by the RR network operator. These parameters and characteristics are, among other things, necessary for the preparation of the RGC campaign rules.
• Each smart card Cn is associated with a table TCn in the database BD.
• the table TCn comprises in particular initial characteristics which are related to the identity of the card Cn and the type of the card and which are recorded in the database BD as soon as the card is put into service. These initial characteristics include a card serial number, the card user's International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), and the Mobile Station ISDN Number (MSISDN) mobile phone number.
• the type of card Cn is defined in particular by an identifier of the type of the processor included in the card, the identifier of the manufacturer of the card, a number of bits per word processed by the processor, characteristics of the operating system and of the virtual machine implemented in the map, etc.
• Other characteristics specific to the use of the card and in particular of the user of the card may also be recorded in the table TCn associated with the card Cn during the commissioning of the card, and may be modified during the use of the card.
• These other characteristics concern in particular the subscription profile of the user of the card Cn, data which can be modified by the user or by the operator managing the card such as a directory of telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, and for example a file of preferred radio network identifiers PPLMN (Preferred Public Land Mobile Network).
• PPLMN Preferred Public Land Mobile Network
• the TCn table may also contain one or more IAP application identifiers that were loaded during the commissioning of the Cn smart card and / or were downloaded later when it was put into service.
• an application consists of modifying the file of preferred network identifiers PPLMN.
• the application consists in deleting or downloading an application in the card Cn for example to facilitate the management of the directory of telephone numbers in the card Cn by allowing the user, each time he registers a new number phone in the card, to save all its directory in a specific server managed by the operator so that the user can find his saved directory when he loses the Cn card or when he changes his card.
• Another application can be used to modify parameters in an application already downloaded into the card Cn; for example, the parameters to be modified are an update of charging rates and communication units when the user is subscribed to a prepaid account, or the updating of a name of the operator or one of his services.
• the database BD also contains one or more campaign tables TCA respectively assigned to campaigns.
• Each TCA campaign table includes one or more Ct contents to download to the cards.
• Each content Ct contains data D to download.
• the data is for example update data of an application, or an advertising message.
• Each Ct content also contains a DSD description of the data D such as the IAP identifier of the application concerned by the download or the list of smart card identifiers targeted by the TCA download campaign.
• the database BD can be incorporated in the campaign server SC, or be independent in the form of a database management server which is connected to the server SC by a packet network such as the network RP, it is ie via the internet or via an intranet network specific to the operator of the RR network.
• the presence server SP comprises a presence manager GEP which manages various operations relating to the detection of events of presence of smart cards in the RR radio network and satisfying one or more RGC campaign rules.
• the presence server includes in the presence manager RGP presence rules programmed by users subscribed to a presence service and based on user terminal access time slots.
• a subscriber subscribing to a service presence program according to its activities call time slots of its terminals during which another user can call it.
• the subscriber schedules the access time slots of three terminals: a desktop landline on which he wishes to be called between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm, a mobile terminal or an electronic mail on which he wishes to be contacted between 2 pm and 7 pm and a landline telephone on which he wishes to be called after 7 pm and before 8 am
• the presence server is informed and either returns the call according to the scheduling of call times by the subscriber for example to the mobile terminal thereof, either emits a message to the second user indicating the terms such as the address of the terminal and the access time range thereof.
• the subscriber can transmit via his mobile terminal, or another communication device, a message M comprising the RGP presence rules to the presence server SP.
• the presence server also includes an ICP communication interface for transmitting and receiving IP packets across the packet network RP, and receiving IP-type M messages transmitted by a control element of the RR radio network to indicate that a smart card Cn having the identifier IDCn is connected to the network.
• the terminal Tn contains a reader LT which is associated with an input / output port PES of the smart card Cn with or without electrical contact.
• the terminal includes a PT processor, MT memories, a AT display such as a screen connected or integrated in the terminal and associated in particular with a keyboard connected or integrated in the terminal, and an IR network interface.
• the various elements of the terminal are interconnected by a bidirectional bus BT.
• the smart card Cn mainly comprises in integrated form one or more PC microprocessors and three memories M1 to M3.
• the memory Ml is a non-rewritable memory type ROM or Flash including the operating system of the card.
• the memory M2 is a non-volatile memory of the EEPROM or Flash type, in particular for storing keys, identity numbers and other parameters of the profile of the user having the card, such as a PIN code and other security data.
• the memory M3 is of the RAM or SRAM type used more particularly for data processing.
• the Cn card exchanges commands, or queries, and responses with the Tn terminal through a PES input / output port and the LT reader with or without contact.
• the different elements of the card are connected to each other by a bidirectional bus BC.
• the downloading method according to the invention comprises steps E1 to E5.
• Step E1 comprises mainly two initial steps ElO and EI1.
• the terminal Tn of a user subscribing to the presence service sends a message M comprising the RGP presence rules relating to the access time slots for calling terminals of the subscriber. These RGP rules can be transmitted via another communication device.
• the operator of the RR radio network provides one or more contents Ct in the database BD whose data D must be downloaded during a campaign TCA of common data downloading operations of the server SC on a set of maps specified according to the DSD data descriptions.
• the campaign manager GEC in the campaign server translates the TCA campaign-related DSDs into smart card identifiers targeted by the TCA and associates them with presence conditions to obtain server-aware RGC campaign rules. of presence SP. Indeed, a description of a download campaign requiring the update of an application in cards may include only the IAP identifier of the application.
• the presence server is not connected to the BD database of the campaign server, ignores the contents of smart cards that are deemed to be present in the radio network.
• Step E2 relates to the transmission of the RGC rules of the TCA campaign from the communication interface ICC of the campaign server SC to the communication interface ICP of the presence server SP via the first data channel and comprises steps E20 to E25.
• step E20 the campaign server SC which has prepared the campaign rules RGC for the campaign TCA, transmits to the presence server SP a presence request RQP comprising a campaign rule RGC.
• the presence server can return an acknowledgment AQ1 in step E21.
• the campaign server transmits as many RQP requests as there are campaign rules. Alternatively, the campaign server transmits a single presence request including a list of campaign rules.
• the presence manager GEP After receiving all the RGC campaign rules, the presence manager GEP stores them in the presence server SP, in step E22, by combining them with the RGP presence rules already stored and relating to the access time slots of the programs. terminals of users with a smart card targeted by the TCA campaign. Thus, if a smart card Cn satisfies an RGC campaign rule but does not satisfy a RGP presence rule relating to the accessibility time slot of the terminal Tn, the associated presence event EP will not be triggered.
• a campaign rule includes the following condition: a smart card Cn having an identifier IDCn has been connected to the RR radio network for more than five minutes.
• the Cn smart card targeted by the campaign connects to the RR radio network and a RGP presence rule indicates that at 12 o'clock the user of said smart card will disconnect RR network the terminal Tn with the card, the presence event EP is not triggered and the presence manager GEP does not detect it.
• the presence server SP optionally transmits to the campaign server SC an NPl notification indicating, among other things, that the transmitted campaign rules have been correctly stored.
• the campaign server can return an acknowledgment AQ2 to the presence server, in step E24.
• step E25 the campaign server SC waits for a new presence notification NP2 comprising presence data DP corresponding for example to the identifiers of the smart cards that have just connected to the RR radio network and which comply with the rules RGC and RGP.
• the first NP1 notification may include DP presence data indicating to the campaign server SC the smart cards already present in the RR radio network at the launch of the TCA campaign and complying with the campaign and presence rules.
• the method continues with step E4 for each smart card complying with said rules.
• Step E3 corresponds to the detection of an EP presence event by the presence server SP, the event EP corresponding to the connection of a smart card Cn to the RR radio network and the card Cn respecting the rules of presence.
• RGC campaign and RGP presence rules if they are stored in the presence server and correspond to the map.
• step E30 at least the smart card Cn connects to the RR network and the connection of the smart card Cn is detected by a control device included in the RR radio network.
• the control device may be the RR Home Location Register (HLR).
• the control device transmits, in the step E31, to the presence server SP a message M1 comprising the identifier IDCn of the connected card Cn and connection data COD relating to the connection of the card.
• a COD connection data indicates, for example, the time of connection of the card.
• the message M1 can be transmitted to the presence server SP at a predefined periodicity.
• the presence manager GEP of the presence server SP Upon receipt of the message Ml, the presence manager GEP of the presence server SP matches, in step E32, the identifier IDCn of the card Cn and the connection data COD to the campaign rules RGC combined with the presence rules RGPs designated by the IDCn ID. If the campaign and presence rules applicable to the card Cn thus identified by the identifier IDCn are respected by the DCO data, an EP presence event is considered detected by the manager GEP in the step E33.
• the presence server SP transmits to the campaign server SC, in the step E34, a presence notification NP2 comprising presence data DP relating to the smart card Cn complying with the rules RGC and RGP.
• the campaign server can return an acknowledgment AQ3 to the presence server, then proceed to download the data D in the smart card Cn in step E4.
• the campaign server SC is not requested by an NP2 notification.
• the presence server SP expects the satisfaction of campaign and presence rules by the card Cn or any other card and the process proceeds from step E33 to the connection step E30.
• the step E4 initiated by the detection of the EP presence event concerns the downloading of the data D by the campaign server SC in the Cn smart card that complies with at least one RGC campaign rule via the second data channel CD not traversing the presence server SP.
• step E40 the campaign server transmits a message such as an SMS to the smart card to initiate the opening of the second data channel CD.
• the SMS message contains an address of the campaign server SC.
• the card As soon as the card has received the SMS message, it opens, in the step E41, via the terminal Tn the IP-type CD data channel between the terminal Tn and the gateway between the RR and RP networks in order to log in to communicate directly with the SC campaign server.
• the campaign server SC uploads the data D defined in the campaign TCA to the card Cn, which processes them in step E43. For example, the map updates an application that is affected by the download.
• the card transmits in step E43, the result R of the download to the campaign server SC.
• the SC server closes the session, for example by sending a logoff request to the card Cn. On receipt of the logoff request, the card and / or the server of SC campaign release the communication channel CD between the terminal Tn and the gateway.
• the campaign server connects directly to the card via an IP type connection via a predefined port of the terminal Tn when the latter is for example a personal computer already offering an internet or intranet connection.
• Step E5 is the end of the TCA campaign once all targeted smart cards have been processed.
• step E50 the campaign server checks whether all smart cards targeted by the TCA campaign have been processed. If cards have not yet been processed, the campaign server waits for further presence notifications NP2 from the presence server in step E25. If all cards targeted by the campaign have been processed, the TCA campaign is terminated and the campaign server transmits in step E51 a request to delete RQS campaign rule. Upon receiving the RQS request, the presence server SP deletes all the RGC rules relating to the TCA campaign in step E52.
• the campaign rules for smart cards already processed can be deleted while the TCA campaign is not completed.
• the invention is not limited to downloading data into UICC type smart cards.
• a smart card in which data is to be downloaded may also be a card included in a portable computer connected to a mobile terminal, or a payment card, an electronic purse card or any other additional card linked to a mobile terminal.
• the invention applies to other portable communicating electronic objects, such as PDA communicating personal digital assistants.
• the invention also applies to mobile terminals targeted by a campaign for which the data to download may relate to a game to save in non-volatile memory type EEPROM mobile terminals.
• the invention described herein relates to a method and a system for downloading data made available in a campaign server to portable communicating objects.
• the steps of the method 1 of the invention are determined by the instructions of a computer program incorporated in the system and in particular partly in the campaign server and partly in a presence server.
• the program comprises program instructions which, when said program is loaded and executed in the system whose operation is then controlled by the execution of the program, carry out the steps of the method according to the invention.
• the invention also applies to a program, in particular a program on or in an information carrier, adapted to implement the invention.

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