JPH1097476A - Method and system for community priority control - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the method and system for community priority control which can evade congestion of a network in advance and makes good use of network resources effectively by giving priority to a community. SOLUTION: When an end user issues a request to use information communication service S1, a service provider side gives priority to the community as information for determining the activity range of a user on the network S2 and delivers it through the network, and the end user performs a process for acquisition, ending, movement, interruption, or returning according to the community.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a community priority control method and system, and more particularly, to a virtual user group for defining a range of user activity on a network for controlling effective use of network resources. The present invention relates to a community priority control method and system for performing priority control on a network for using a communication service based on the concept of a represented community.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, all users are treated equally on a computer network. As described above, when congestion occurs in a situation where users are treated equally, processing such as changing equipment to larger network resources is performed.

There is also a method of grasping a situation such as a network traffic amount and stopping a process that uses a large amount of network resources. Further, a community management method and system for registering a user set on a network corresponding to real-world tasks and activities as a community, grasping required network resources and the like, and managing the use of communication services (Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 8 164792).

[0004]

However, in a situation where all users are treated equally on the above-mentioned computer network, the processing for finite network congestion can be solved unless the equipment is changed to a facility having larger network resources. There is a problem that can not be.

[0005] Further, such a method based on the expansion of facilities is only a temporary process, and it is inevitable that network congestion will occur again in the future due to an increase in the use of communication. In a network or the like, a problem occurs in communication during congestion regardless of the level of business priority for the company. Therefore, even if the network resources are increased, the decisive problem cannot be solved by increasing the use of communication.

[0006] Further, the technology for grasping the state of the network and stopping a process that uses a large amount of network resources cannot control activities on the network as a system in view of the priority of business in a company. For this reason, when network congestion occurs, even important tasks, inevitable tasks, and urgent tasks are stopped, which hinders the tasks.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has as its object to provide a community priority control method and system capable of avoiding network congestion in advance and effectively utilizing network resources. And

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the principle of the present invention. According to the community priority control method of the present invention, when a use request for an information communication service is issued from an end user (step 1), a service provider side assigns a priority to a community which is information for defining a range of activity of a user on a network. (Step 2), and deliver via the network (step 3), and the end user performs acquisition, termination, movement, interruption, and return processing based on the community (step 4).

According to the present invention, a request for a community and a delivery of the community are performed in cooperation with the end user and the service provider via a network based on the priority of the community. Further, according to the present invention, the network is dynamically monitored, and communities are acquired in descending order of priority according to the congestion state of the network.

Further, the present invention predicts the state of a network, and, according to the predicted congestion state of the network, reduces the size of the network usage, suspends the network, or starts with the community having the lowest priority rank in operation. , Suspend and gain communities with higher priority ranks.

Further, the present invention dynamically monitors the resource status of a network, reduces, stops, or terminates the active communities operating on the network according to the priority, and reduces the congestion status of the network. To avoid. Also,
The present invention manages the order of community acquisition requests for each priority rank assigned to a community, and acquires the community according to the priority and the order of acquisition requests within the priority according to the congestion state of the network.

Further, according to the present invention, a community acquisition time is set, and a community having a priority corresponding to the set time zone is acquired. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention. The present invention provides a network 200, an end-user terminal 100 that issues a use request for an information communication service via the network 200, and information for defining a range of user activities on the network 200 based on the use request. A certain community is called the network 200
And a service provider 300 that provides services including acquisition, termination, movement, interruption, and return based on the community, to the end user terminal 100, and the end user terminal 100 The service provider 300 includes a community information request unit 110 that requests community information from the provider 300, and the service provider 300 includes a priority assignment unit 310 that assigns a priority to the community.

Further, the end user terminal 100 and the service provider 300 of the present invention cooperate with each other through the network 200 to request the community and deliver the community based on the priority of the community. Having.

The service provider 300 of the present invention
Has priority-based community information acquisition means 330 that dynamically monitors the network 200 and acquires communities in descending order of priority according to the congestion state of the network 200. In addition, the service provider 300 of the present invention predicts the state of the network 200 and, in accordance with the predicted congestion state of the network 200, reduces the scale of use of the network 200 in the order of the active low priority rank communities. , Suspending or stopping, and acquiring a community having a high priority rank.

Further, the service provider 300 of the present invention
Can dynamically monitor the resource status of the network 200, reduce, stop, or terminate running communities operating on the network 200 according to priority, and avoid congestion avoiding the congestion status of the network 200. Means 3
50.

Further, the service provider 300 of the present invention
The community information acquiring means 330 with priority manages the order of community acquisition requests for each priority rank assigned to the community, and according to the priority and the acquisition request order within the priority according to the congestion state of the network 200. And an order control means 331 for passing information.

Also, the service provider 300 of the present invention
The priority-added community information acquiring means 330 includes a specific time zone control means 332 for setting an acquisition time of a community and acquiring a community having a priority corresponding to the set time zone. Further, the specific time zone control means 3 of the present invention
32 specifies a time zone in which the frequency of use of network resources is fixed, and closes the time zone to rank at least one of the priorities of the communities whose priorities are lower than a predetermined priority.
Includes priority changing means for raising the grade.

Further, the priority assigning means 310 of the present invention comprises:
The importance of measuring whether a community is an important task, the necessity of measuring whether it is an indispensable task, and
A priority rank adjusting means for assigning a priority rank according to the degree of urgency for determining whether execution is required without delay in business.

As described above, according to the present invention, a community, which is information for defining the activity range of a user on a network, is delivered from a service provider via a network in response to a use request of an information communication service by an end user. In a community management system that provides services such as acquisition, termination, interruption, and return based on a community, a priority is given to the community, and the size of the community is reduced based on the priority.
The system performs control to suspend or stop to avoid network congestion, prevent network congestion beforehand, and smoothen and improve the efficiency of business in the network.

Further, according to the present invention, a control function for requesting a community via the network based on the priority of the community and for delivering the community is held by both the end user and the service provider. It is possible to perform coordinated communication.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, communities can be acquired in the order of priority, so that the communities to be acquired are controlled according to the congestion state of the network. Thus, in a congestion state, congestion is avoided by reducing, temporarily suspending, or stopping the scale of a community using a low-priority network resource.

Further, according to the present invention, the state of the resources of the network is predicted, and a community having a low priority rank is selected according to the predicted state of the network.
By performing control such as scale reduction, suspension, or stop, it is easy to obtain a community with a high priority.

Further, according to the present invention, a community being communicated on the network is grasped by dynamically monitoring the network, and the size of the community is reduced, stopped, or terminated according to the priority of the community. By doing so, when the network is in a congested state, it is possible to preferentially acquire a community with a high priority.

Also, in the present invention, the order of community acquisition, that is, the order of community acquisition,
Keep track of the order in which community acquisition requests are issued,
It is possible to acquire the communities corresponding to the order managed according to the congestion state of the network.

Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to set a specific time zone in which a community can be acquired, and acquire a community only in a designated time zone in the order of priority. In addition, a specific time zone is set as a time zone in which the frequency of use of the network decreases, and the rank of a community having a low priority is upgraded in the time zone, thereby acquiring a community that was difficult to obtain at the time of normal network use frequency. Chances are higher.

The setting of the priority includes the importance, the necessity,
By setting according to the degree of urgency, the higher the grade, the higher the priority can be set. Therefore, the probability of stopping the main task is reduced.

[0027]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, the definition of the meaning of a word used in the present invention will be described. The community is a virtual closed user group registered in the network corresponding to the business and purpose of use in the real world, and is registered in the network or the service provider in advance.

The community information is information in which an available service called a member in the community and a request name (activity) thereof are set, and is created and provided by a service provider. A community who wants to receive a communication service (assuming it has been registered in advance) first makes an application for acquiring community information to a service provider, and can use the network service only when the application is obtained.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a system according to the present invention.
The system shown in FIG. 1 includes an end user terminal 100, a network 200, and a service provider 300. The end user terminal 100 includes a community information acquisition requesting unit 110 that requests community information from the service provider 300, a cooperative processing unit 120 that performs processing in cooperation with the service provider 300 via the network 200, and a community priority control unit 130. You. The community priority control unit 130 includes a community acquisition unit 131, a community interruption control unit 132, a community return control unit 133, and a community reduction control unit 1.
34.

The service provider 300 includes a priority rank assigning unit 310, a cooperative processing unit 320, a community information acquiring unit with priority 330, an order setting unit 331, a specific time zone control unit 332, a preemption unit 340, a congestion avoiding unit 350,
Community database 360 and queue management unit 3
70.

The priority rank assigning section 310 assigns a rank in advance according to the importance, necessity, and tension of the service provider 300 in the business on the network 200 of the community. This result is stored in the community database 360. The importance level indicates how important the community is, the necessity level indicates whether the task must be performed, and the urgency level requires that the task be performed without delay. The priority is given based on the ranked information.

Community information acquisition section 330 with priority
When requesting the acquisition of a plurality of communities, grasp the priority rank of each community, grasp the status of network resources, and preliminarily consider that congestion will be caused by the execution of the plurality of communities together. When it is learned, community information is acquired in the order of higher priority rank.

The order setting unit 331 is connected to the network 200
If the community information cannot be acquired due to congestion of the network or other factors, the acquisition request order for each priority rank is managed in the order of the acquisition request time in those communities. The community information is passed to the priority-added community information acquisition unit 330 in accordance with the order managed when the community information disappears and community information acquisition becomes possible.

The specific time zone control unit 332 sets the priority rank of the community with the lowest priority rank (or nth) to be one rank higher in a certain time zone determined by the service provider 300. This enables the lowest priority rank community to be acquired.

The pre-emption unit 340 is connected to the end user terminal 10
When the community information is requested from 0, the state of the network 200 is predicted based on the information described in advance, and when it is known in advance that the congestion of the network will cause network congestion, the priority is given. By efficiently reducing, temporarily suspending, or stopping the community information of the active community with a low rank, the community information is acquired preferentially for the community with a high priority rank.

The congestion avoiding unit 350 is connected to the network 200
When the congestion of the network 200 is detected or the congestion of the network 200 is predicted, the community information of the active community having a low priority rank is efficiently scaled. Avoid congestion in the network by reducing, pausing, or stopping.

The cooperative processing section 320 cooperates with the end user terminal via the network 200 to perform processing. Next, an outline of the operation of the community priority control system will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the community priority control system of the present invention.

Step 101) Priority rank assigning section 3
10 is to input the priority rank and the maximum value of the amount of network resources used for the activity of the community in a stepwise manner (hereinafter referred to as weight) according to a ratio calculated from the throughput that the network can flow; The information is stored in the community database 360 together with the community information.

Step 102) End user terminal 10
From 0, a community acquisition request is issued. Step 103) Based on the community acquisition request issued from the end user terminal 100, the priority-added community information acquisition unit 330 reads community information from the community database 360, and stores the priority rank of the community information and other pluralities. The priority ranks of the community information are compared. If the priority ranks are higher than other community information, step 104
When the priority rank is low, the comparison with the priority rank of the executed community information is repeated.

Step 104) It is determined whether or not the acquired community information is in a specific executable time zone. If it is an executable time zone, the process proceeds to step 105; Move to step 106. Step 105) Increase the priority of the acquired community information by one.

Step 106) The congestion avoiding unit 350
The network 200 is dynamically monitored to determine whether the network is congested.
The process proceeds to step 109, and if not congested, the process proceeds to step 109. Step 107) Determine whether the priority of the request community of the end user terminal 100 is higher than a predetermined priority,
If it is lower, the process proceeds to step 111, and if it is higher, the process proceeds to step 108.

Step 108) The priority-added community information obtaining unit 330 reduces, suspends, or stops the low-priority community, and transfers the community information requested by the end user 100 to the cooperative processing unit 320. Move to step 116.

Step 109) If the network 200 is not congested, it is determined whether the network 200 is congested by acquiring a community from the end user terminal 100. If the network 200 is not congested, the process proceeds to step 117.

Step 110) End user terminal 10
If congestion occurs due to community acquisition from 0,
The congestion avoiding unit 350 reduces, suspends, or stops a community having a low priority. Step 111) In step 107, the requested community information from the end user
Community information of low priority in step 11
For community information of low priority at 0,
It is determined whether to perform the process of reducing, suspending, or stopping the scale. If the process is to be performed, the process proceeds to step 112. If the process is to be suspended or stopped, step 1 is performed.
Go to step 13.

Step 112) The size of the community is reduced, and the process proceeds to step 116. Step 113) To stop the community,
The process ends. Step 114) To suspend the community,
In the queue management unit 370, the queue is added to the queue.

Step 115) When the network 200 becomes available, communities are acquired in order of priority. Step 116) Determine whether the information matches the community information requested by the end user terminal 100,
If they do not match, the process proceeds to step 111, and if they do match, the process proceeds to step 117.

Step 117) Acquire a community. An embodiment according to the above-described processing outline will be described below. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the community priority control system of the present invention. In the figure, components corresponding to the respective components in FIG. 3 are given the same reference numerals as those components. In FIG. 5, the priority rank assigning unit 310 corresponds to the priority input unit 310 for registering priorities for each community in advance, and the communities and the priorities are registered in the community database 360. Community acquisition section 330 with priority, order setting section 331,
The specific time zone control unit 332 and the congestion avoidance unit 350 correspond to the community priority management unit 330, and the community priority management unit 330 sends the community priority storage unit 365 and the queue management unit 370 in FIG. Register and reference. In the community priority management unit 330,
When acquiring the network status, the network 20 monitored by the network monitoring unit 357 in FIG.
The status of 0 is stored in the network status storage unit 355, the status information is managed by the network management unit 350, and the network priority information is provided to the community priority management unit 330. The communication processing unit 320 and the community priority management unit 330 in FIG.
Corresponding to

Further, the service provider 3 shown in FIG.
00 manages, for each community, which state among scale reduction, suspension, and suspension is possible when the community is active on the network and the priority of the community is low. It has a management method database 380.

Also, it is assumed that the community information acquisition request section 110 in the end user terminal 100 corresponds to the input section 150, and the cooperative processing section 120 corresponds to the communication section 120. In the configuration of FIG. 5, the end user terminal 1
00 is a display unit 160 on which a message or the like is displayed, and a community execution unit 14 for executing the acquired community.
It also has 0.

In the figure, it is assumed that the numbers in the circles in the figure correspond to the numbers described below. The service provider 300 determines the priority rank from the priority input unit 310 and the maximum value of the amount of network resources used for the activity of the community in a stepwise manner according to the ratio calculated from the available throughput on the network 200. And stored in the community database 360 (priority rank assigning unit).

The request issued from the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal 100 is sent to the community priority management unit 33 via the server communication unit 320.
0 is transferred. The community priority management unit 330
In response to the request, permission to acquire a community, or
When it is impossible to acquire the community as it is, it is possible to control community activities such as permission, suspension, and non-permission (stop) based on the scale (cooperative processing unit).

Input unit 15 of a plurality of end user terminals
When the community acquisition request is input simultaneously from 0,
It is transferred to the community priority management unit 330 via the communication unit 120 and the server communication unit 320. In response to the acquisition request, the community priority management unit 330 acquires the priority of each community from the community database 360 (priority acquisition unit).

At the same time, the community priority management unit 3
30 obtains the network state at that time from the network management unit 350, determines whether or not a plurality of communities requested to obtain can be obtained at the same time, and determines that network congestion is induced by simultaneous acquisition ( For example, when it is determined that the usage rate of the network with respect to the throughput of the network exceeds 70%, a range where the network is not congested (for example, the usage rate of the network with respect to the throughput of the network is 70%)
In the following range), the server communication unit 32 sequentially obtains the plurality of communities for which the acquisition request has been made, in descending order of the priority rank.
0, the end user terminal 100 via the communication unit 120
The community acquisition permission notification is transferred to the community priority control unit 130 of FIG. Community priority control unit 130
Executes the community. The community priority management unit 330 of the service provider 300 transfers the obtained information to the community priority storage unit 365, and the community priority storage unit 365 stores the acquired information in the queue management unit 370 of the priority rank (priority level). Acquisition section).

In addition, a community acquisition rejection notification is sent to the community priority control unit 130 via the server communication unit 320 and the communication unit 120 to the end user terminal 100 that has made the acquisition request for the community that could not be acquired. , Can be displayed on the display unit 160 (priority acquisition unit).

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an operation of acquiring a community in the community priority control system of the present invention. The configuration shown in the same drawing is the same as the configuration shown in FIG. In the figure, it is assumed that the numbers in the figure and the numbers in the circles correspond to the numbers described below.

2- The acquisition request from the end user terminal 100 is transferred to the community priority management unit 330,
When it is determined that congestion of the network 200 will be induced by acquiring the community based on the usage status of the resources of the network 200, the community priority management unit 330 transmits the acquired community via the community priority storage unit 365. The priority rank of the requested community is sent, and the community priority storage unit 365 acquires community information lower than the requested community rank from the queue management unit 370 and transmits it to the community priority management unit 330. Yes (steal part).

2- Community priority management unit 330
Indicates whether or not to reduce the scale of network resource use for changing the community database 360 and the weights of these communities from the management method database 380 to resources of the network 200 to be used for the lower-level communities.
Temporarily suspend the activities of the community, network 2
The network 200 determines whether it is possible to temporarily suspend the use of the resources, or to suspend the community and terminate the use of the network 200 resources.
In the case of the scale reduction of the use of the resource 0, the command is issued to the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal 100 using the corresponding community to reduce the scale, and at the same time, the display unit 160 of the end user terminal 100 indicates that the scale is reduced. Is displayed.

In the case of temporary suspension, a command is issued to the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal 100 that is using the corresponding community to suspend the community, and at the same time, the display unit 160 of the end user terminal informs the display unit 160 of the suspension. Display (storage section). 2- In the case of stop, the command is issued to the community priority control unit 130 of the end user who is using the corresponding community to stop the community, and at the same time, a message indicating the stop is displayed on the display unit 160 of the end user terminal 100. ,
The community stop information is transmitted to the community priority storage unit 365 of the service provider 300. The community priority storage unit 365 deletes the corresponding stopped community of the queue management unit 370 (the preemption unit).

With the above processing, it is possible to acquire a community having a high priority rank, regardless of the state of network resources. 2—Network congestion information is transferred from the network management unit 350 to the community priority management unit 330 (congestion avoidance unit).

2- Community priority management unit 330
Acquires the community information of the running low priority rank from the queue management unit 370 via the community priority storage unit 365 (congestion avoidance unit). 2- The community priority management unit 330 uses the community database 360 and the management method database 380 for the communities that have obtained the information, and determines whether or not the use of the network 200 resources can be reduced for those communities, and temporarily suspends the communities. It is determined whether or not the community can be stopped. When the use of the network resources is reduced, a command is issued to the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal that is using the corresponding community to reduce the scale of the community, and at the same time, the display unit 160 of the end user terminal 100 indicates that the scale is reduced. Is displayed.

In the case of temporary suspension, the community priority management unit 330 instructs the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal 100 that is using the relevant community to suspend the community, and at the same time, The display unit 150 displays a message indicating the suspension.

In the case of suspension, the community priority management unit 330 instructs the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal 100 that is using the community to stop the community, and at the same time, terminates the end user terminal 10.
0 is displayed on the display unit 160, and at the same time, the community stop information is transferred to the community priority storage unit 365. The community priority storage unit 365 deletes the corresponding stopped community of the queue management unit 370 (a congestion avoiding unit).

With the above processing, the network congestion state can be avoided. 2—The community priority management unit 330 sends information of the community that could not be obtained due to network congestion or priority acquisition and congestion avoidance control to the queue management unit 370 via the community priority storage unit 365 as an acquisition waiting community. , For each priority rank, in the order in which the acquisition request was issued.

Thus, when the congestion of the network 200 is avoided, the queue management section 370 responds to the extraction of the waiting community information from the community priority management section 330 in the descending order of the priority rank and the acquisition request. The community information can be passed to the community priority management unit 330 in the order of earliest (sequence unit).

2- The priority rank of a community having a low priority rank is limited to a specific time zone in which the use of network resources is small. Is raised by one rank to facilitate acquisition of a community having a low priority rank (specific time zone control unit).

[0066]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the following embodiment, priority ranks A, A are assigned in descending order of business priority on a company's internal network.
B, C, and D are defined. For example, a priority A is defined for communities a and b that manage networks, a priority B is defined for communities c and d, and a priority C is defined for communities e and f. In addition, the community database 360 stores information on the priorities of the communities, types of actual activities (hereinafter referred to as activities), and amounts of network resources actually used (hereinafter referred to as community weights). It shall be described.

For example, for the important conference community c, priority = B, activity = “TV conference”, and community weight = 5 are set. FIG. 7 shows an example of assigning a priority rank according to an embodiment of the present invention. The service provider 300 has a circle activity community g
To give priority rank = D to the service provider 300, together with information such as the community name and the like, priority rank = D, activity = TV conference, VOD, community weight = 8, etc. The information is input from the degree input unit 310 and the information is stored in the community database 360.

Next, the cooperative processing between the service provider 300 and the end user terminal 100 will be described. FIG. 8 shows an example of cooperative processing between a service provider and an end user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

For example, when a request to acquire an important conference community c “I want to make a TV conference” is issued from the input unit 150 of the end user terminal 100, the request is transmitted to the communication unit 120 of the end user terminal 100 and the service provider 300.
Is transferred to the community priority management unit 330 via the server communication unit 320.

At normal time, the community priority management section 330 performs a community acquisition process from the community database 360, and issues a community start instruction “Voice Conference is OK” to the server communication section 320 and the end user terminal 1
00, and is issued to the community priority control unit 130 via the communication unit 120. Community priority control unit 130
Sends the information “OK for audio conference” to the community execution unit 140 of the end user terminal 100 based on the command, and starts the community.
When the request of 00 cannot be satisfied, communication with the community priority control unit 130 of the end user terminal 100 such as a change in the activity to be performed is made, and the activity that can be performed is determined in a coordinated manner.

As described above, the service provider 300 and the end user terminal 100 communicate with each other by communication to perform cooperative processing. Next, a process of acquiring priority of a community will be described. FIG. 9 shows an example of community priority acquisition processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in the figure, the priority acquisition process is performed by the end user terminal 100A (EU-A) to the important conference community c (priority = B) and the end user terminal 100B
(EU-B) to general conference community e (priority =
When the acquisition request of C) is input, the community priority management unit 330 of the service provider 300 stores information on the priority rank and weight of each community from the community database 360 [(important conference community c, priority = B). , (General conference community e, priority = C)], and at the same time, the network manager 350 notifies the current availability of network resources (restriction: 2).
You can not start multiple communities at the same time).

The end user terminal 100A (EU-A),
When judging that the simultaneous start of the communities c and e of the request of the 100B (EU-B) is impossible, the community priority management unit 330 sets the end user terminal 100A (EU-A).
Community priority (= B) of the end user terminal 1
Since the community priority is higher than the community priority (= C) of 00B (EU-B), a community acquisition permission is issued to the community priority controller 130A of the end user terminal 100A (EU-A), and the display 160 of the end user terminal 100B is displayed. Indicates that the community could not be acquired. Next, a description will be given of a process of preempting resources when a community information acquisition request is issued from a community having a higher priority during congestion.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a resource stealing process according to an embodiment of the present invention. Currently, the end user terminal 100A
(EU-A) (priority rank = B), end user terminal 100B (EU-B) (priority rank = B), and end user terminal 100C (EU-C) (priority rank = C). Assume that the community is active. now,
Here, it is assumed that the end user terminal 100D (EU-D) issues a request to acquire a network management community a (priority rank = A).

When the community priority management unit 330 predicts that congestion of the network will be induced by starting the community of the end user terminal 100D (EU-D), the community priority management unit 330 determines the priority among the active communities. Reduce the scale of the end user terminal 100C (EU-C) operating a community with a low degree rank, or
Stop and end user terminal 100 with high priority rank
D (EU-D) community.

Next, processing for avoiding network congestion will be described. FIG. 11 shows an example of the congestion avoiding process according to one embodiment of the present invention. Service provider 300
From the network management unit 350 of the network 200
Information indicating that there is congestion in the community priority management unit 3
30, the community priority management unit 330
, Via the community priority storage unit 365, grasps the running community in the queue management unit 370 for each priority rank.

Now, the active communities are as follows: the community priority rank = A is the network management community a; the priority rank = B is the important conference communities c and d;
The priority rank = C is each community of the general conference community e. At this time, the community priority management unit 3
Numeral 30 obtains information about the scale reduction, suspension, or suspension of the general conference community e from the management method database 380 (possible coping information for the community e = scale reduction ×, suspension ○, stop ○). Do planning.

In this case, the community priority management unit 33
0 has selected the suspension, so the end user terminal 10
0 to the community priority control unit 130 to suspend the community e,
The display section 160 of 00 displays that the community e is temporarily suspended.

Next, the community information that could not be obtained due to the congestion of the network 200 is stored in the queue management unit 3.
When the acquisition request communities are stored in the order of the priority ranks in the order of the acquisition priority communities in the order 70, the congestion state of the network 200 is now avoided, and the acquisition and start of the community can be performed. Will be described.

FIG. 12 shows an example of an order control process according to an embodiment of the present invention. The community priority management unit 330 acquires the community in the descending order of the priority rank and in the order in which the acquisition request is issued. In the example shown in the figure, the communities with the highest priority ranks are two communities of “NW management community a” and “NW management community b”, but “NW management community a” has a higher acquisition request. Since it was issued earlier, the community a is acquired first. Next, it becomes “NW management community b”, and the community acquired next is a community of priority rank = B. In this case as well, there are two communities, but since the community is acquired from the community that has a fast acquisition request, the “important conference community c” is acquired first. In this way, the sequentially acquired communities are in the order of a → b → c → d → e → f → g.

Next, a specific time zone control process for acquiring a community with a low priority rank when a community acquisition request is issued at a specific time when the use of network resources is small will be described. FIG. 13 shows an example of a specific time zone control process according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the example shown in FIG.
It is 8:00 to 9:00 the next morning. At this time, the community e with the lowest priority rank = D in the normal time zone is upgraded by one priority rank in the specific time zone, and the priority rank = C. As a result, in the specific time zone, the communities d and e are set to the priority rank = C, so that the possibility of acquiring the community e after the acquisition of the community d is increased.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but can be variously modified and applied within the scope of the claims.

[0083]

As described above, according to the community priority control method and system of the present invention, a priority within a network is given to a user's activity itself as a community, and a community having a higher priority rank is given priority. By executing this, congestion of a closed network such as a company can be avoided in advance, and network resources can be effectively used.

Further, within a company, it is possible to prioritize activities that are highly required by the company, and thus it is possible to increase the productivity of the network as a company.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a system according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the community priority control system of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a community priority control system of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an operation of acquiring a community in the community priority control system of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of assigning a priority rank according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing cooperative processing between a service provider and an end user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a community priority acquisition process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a resource stealing process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of congestion avoidance processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of an order control process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of a specific time zone control process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 end user terminal 110 community information requesting means 120 cooperative processing means, communication section 130 community priority control section 131 community acquisition section 132 community interruption control section 133 community return control section 134 community reduction control section 140 community execution section 150 input section 160 display Unit 200 network, network resources 300 service provider 310 priority rank assigning means, priority rank assigning unit,
Priority input unit 320 Cooperative processing unit, cooperative processing unit, server communication unit 330 Community information obtaining unit with priority, community information obtaining unit with priority, community priority management unit 331 Order control unit, Order setting unit 332 Specific time zone Control unit, specific time zone control unit 340 Interception unit, interception unit 350 Congestion avoidance unit, congestion avoidance unit, network management unit 355 Network status storage unit 357 Network monitoring unit 360 Community database 365 Community priority storage unit 370 Queue management unit 380 Management method database

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Nasumi Tsuchida 3-19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Japan Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (72) Inventor Kisaku Fujimoto 3-192, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo No. Japan Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Claims (16)

[Claims] 1. A service provider based on a request for use of an information communication service by an end user,
When delivering a community, which is information for defining the range of user activity on the network, through the network and providing services including acquisition, termination, movement, interruption, and return based on the community, A community priority control method characterized by giving a priority. 2. The community priority control according to claim 1, wherein a request for the community and a delivery of the community are provided to the end user and the service provider in cooperation through the network based on the priority of the community. Method. 3. The community priority control method according to claim 1, wherein the network is dynamically monitored, and the communities are acquired in descending order of the priority according to a congestion state of the network. 4. Predicting the state of the network, and, according to the predicted congestion state of the network, reduce, suspend, or stop the use of the network in the order of the active low-priority communities. 2. The community priority control method according to claim 1, wherein the community priority control is performed to acquire a community having a high priority rank. 5. Dynamic monitoring of the resource status of the network, and reducing, stopping, or terminating active communities operating on the network according to priority, thereby avoiding congestion of the network. The community priority control method according to claim 1. 6. A community acquisition request order is managed for each priority rank assigned to the community, and the community is acquired according to the priority and the acquisition request order within the priority according to the congestion state of the network. 4. The community priority control method according to claim 1, wherein the method is performed. 7. An acquisition time of the community is set,
The community priority control method according to claim 1, wherein a community having a priority corresponding to the set time zone is acquired. 8. A network, an end user terminal that issues a use request for an information communication service via the network, and a community that is information for defining a range of activities of a user on the network based on the use request. A community management system having a service provider that provides services including delivery, termination, movement, interruption, and return based on the community, to the end user terminal via the network; A community priority control system, comprising: community information requesting means for requesting a service provider for community information; and wherein the service provider includes priority assigning means for assigning a priority to the community. 9. The end user terminal and the service provider have cooperative processing means for cooperatively requesting the community and delivering the community via the network based on the priority of the community. Community priority control system as described. 10. The service provider, wherein the service provider has priority-based community information acquiring means for dynamically monitoring the network and acquiring the communities in descending order of the priority according to a congestion state of the network. Item 9. A community priority control system according to item 8. 11. The service provider predicts a state of the network, and, in accordance with the predicted congestion state of the network, reduces the size of the network usage in the order of the community with the lowest active priority rank, temporarily, and temporarily. 9. An interception means for suspending or stopping and acquiring a community having a high priority rank.
Community priority control system as described. 12. The service provider dynamically monitors the resource status of the network, reduces, suspends, or terminates active communities operating on the network according to priority. 9. The community priority control system according to claim 8, further comprising congestion avoiding means for avoiding a congestion state. 13. The community information acquiring means with priority of the service provider manages an order of community acquisition requests for each priority rank assigned to the community, and assigns a priority and a priority according to a congestion state of the network. 11. The community priority control system according to claim 10, further comprising an order control unit that passes community information in accordance with an acquisition request order within the priority. 14. The priority-added community information acquisition means of the service provider includes a specific time zone control means for setting an acquisition time of the community and acquiring a community having a priority corresponding to the set time zone. The community priority control system according to claim 10. 15. The specific time zone control means specifies a time zone for which the frequency of use of the network resource is priced, and ranks the priority of a community closed in the time zone and the priority of which is lower than a predetermined priority. 15. The community priority control system according to claim 14, further comprising a priority changing unit that raises at least one step. 16. The priority assigning means, the importance of measuring whether the community is an important task,
Includes priority rank adjusting means for assigning a priority rank according to the necessity of measuring whether the task is indispensable for the task and the urgency of measuring whether the task is required to be executed without delay. The community priority control system according to claim 8.