KR101066615B1 - Method and linkage server with outside plural server - Google Patents

Abstract

A plurality of server linkage methods and a linkage server are disclosed. An interworking server interworking with a plurality of external affiliate servers, the interworking server comprising: at least one service interworking module interworking with each external affiliate server to generate an application for using a service provided by the affiliate server; And a gateway module configured to receive a linkage request message including affiliated partner identification information and linkage information from the target affiliated server, and output the linkage information to the target service linkage module corresponding to the partner identification information. Therefore, port expansion can be minimized when interworking with a plurality of external affiliate servers through one interworking server.

Interlocking, Server, Affiliate

Description

Multiple server linkage method and linkage server {Method and linkage server with outside plural server}

The present invention relates to a server interworking method, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus capable of minimizing port expansion of an interlocking server when interworking one interworking server and a plurality of external affiliated servers.

With the rapid development of mobile communication technology, various services such as financial services and game services are provided through mobile communication networks in addition to existing voice communication services.

Conventionally, when an external alliance server and an interworking server are interworked through their own communication network, ports for each of the alliance servers are allocated to the interworking server, and secure communication with the alliance server is performed through the corresponding port. However, since the maximum number of physical ports that can be allocated in one coordinated server is limited to eight, there is a difficulty in linking a plurality of affiliated servers.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus capable of minimizing port expansion when interlocking a plurality of external affiliate servers through a single interlocking server.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus capable of providing interworking information to an application according to the type of chip mounted or mounted in a terminal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an interlocking server interworking with a plurality of external affiliated servers.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an interworking server interoperating with a plurality of external affiliate servers, the interworking server comprising: at least one service interworking module for interworking with respective external affiliate servers to generate an application for using a service provided by the affiliate server; And a gateway module configured to receive a linkage request message including affiliated partner identification information and linkage information from a target affiliated server and output the linkage information to a target service linkage module corresponding to the partner identification information, wherein the target service linkage module is included. Is one of the one or more service interworking modules, and generates and transmits a service update application to the terminal by using the interworking information, wherein the service update application is executed in a smart card mounted or driven in the terminal to provide the interworking information. An interworking server characterized in that the registration setting may be provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for providing a service in association with a plurality of affiliate servers is provided.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing a service by interworking with a plurality of affiliate servers, the interworking server, the method comprising: receiving an interworking request message including affiliate identification information and interworking information from the affiliate server; Extracting the affiliated company identification information and the linkage information from the linkage request message, respectively; Driving a service interworking module corresponding to the affiliated company identification information and acquiring card type information of a smart card mounted or mounted in a terminal through the driven service interworking module; Generating a service update application using the linkage information according to the card type information through the driven service linkage module; And transmitting the service update application to a user terminal.

By providing a plurality of server interworking method and interworking server according to the present invention, there is an advantage that can be minimized port expansion when interworking through a single interlocking server for a plurality of external alliance server.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage that can provide interworking information to the application according to the type of chip mounted or mounted on the terminal.

As the invention allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all transformations, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the related known technology may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view schematically showing a system for interworking a plurality of external application servers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a terminal 110, a base station 115, a switch 120, a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN: hereinafter referred to as GGSN), Interworking server 140 and one or more affiliate server 150.

The terminal 110 is a device for receiving various services provided by the mobile communication provider through a communication network. For example, in addition to the basic mobile phone service, the terminal 110 may be provided with various additional services by interworking with an external affiliate server 150 through a corresponding interworking server 140 through a mobile communication network.

For example, the terminal 110 is a conventional terminal capable of performing voice communication and data communication through a mobile communication network, and may include a mobile phone, a PDA, a smart phone, a mobile broadcast system (MBS) phone, and the like.

The terminal 110 accesses the interworking server 140 through a communication network and generates and transmits a financial service request message of an arbitrary financial company. Here, the financial service request message includes financial company identification information. Accordingly, the base station (not shown) may transmit the financial service request message to the exchange 120.

The base station 115 receives location information of the terminal 110, registrant information, and a short message transmitted from the terminal 110. For example, the base station 115 may be configured to include a base station transmitter (BTS), a base station controller (BSC), and a repeater (not shown). have.

The base station transmitter is arranged in units of cells and performs a function of transmitting a message requested by the terminal 110 to the switch 120 via the base station controller. In addition, the base station transmitter detects the position of the terminal 110 existing in the cell area under the control of the base station transmitter and performs location registration.

The base station transmitter receives location information of the base station transmitter from a global positioning system (GPS). The base station transmitter transmits the location information to the terminal 110 using the system parameter message of the forward link call channel. The terminal 110 may register new location information by calculating the location of the terminal 110 using the location information of the base station transmitter of the cell to which the terminal 110 belongs. Location registration is a process of informing the switch 120 of the location, status, identifier, slot period, and other characteristics of the terminal 110 through the base station transmitter, when the base station transmitter attempts to set up an incoming call to the terminal 110. It is possible to effectively call the terminal 110. Such location registration is performed when the terminal 110 is powered on or off, the terminal 110 moves the exchange period, or the parameter of the terminal 110 is changed.

The base station controller performs various functions required for radio call processing such as handoff while controlling and managing a plurality of base stations. The base station controller also transmits subscriber information of the location registered terminal to the exchange 120.

The switch 120 has a control function and an interworking function with a public telephone network and another network switch so that the wireless base stations can be efficiently operated. That is, the exchange 120 transmits the message requested by the terminal 110 to the companion server 140.

The GGSN 130 supports mobility management of the terminal 110, an outgoing / incoming call processing procedure, and a session management and authentication function for processing data packet transmission and reception in order to support a general packet radio service. In addition, the GGSN 130 checks the data call received from the subscriber terminal 110 and transmits it to the interworking server 140, and establishes a session for data call transmission between the corresponding interworking server 140, the terminal 110 ) Provides a packet data service.

The interworking server 140 includes one or more service interworking modules for interworking with one or more external affiliate servers 150. The interworking server 140 may interwork with an external affiliated server 150 through a communication network through a service interworking module to provide a service through the mobile communication network to the terminal 110. Each service interworking module linked to each affiliate server 150 may generate a service security module and transmit the generated service security module to the terminal 110 so that various services provided by each affiliate server 150 may be serviced through its own communication network. Hereinafter, the service interworking module will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In addition, the interworking server 140 receives an interlocking request message including the affiliated identification information and the interlocking information from the affiliated server 150, and uses the interlocking information through the service interlocking module set corresponding to the affiliated identification information. Can be generated.

Hereinafter, the interlocking server 140 will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Each affiliate server 150 is connected to the interworking server 140 through a communication network, and when a new service is registered in the affiliate server 150 or a service provided through the affiliate server 150 is changed, an association request is made. A message is generated and transmitted to the interworking server 140. Here, the interworking request message includes affiliated company identification information and interworking information as described above. The affiliate identification information may be a corporate name of an affiliate corresponding to the affiliate server 150. In addition, the interworking information is information about a service newly registered in the affiliate server 150 or information about a changed service.

In order to facilitate understanding and explanation, it will be briefly assumed that the affiliate server 150 is a bank server. In order for bank A to provide financial services for the bank A to the terminal 110 through a mobile communication network, a separate chip (for example, a smart card) issued through the bank A and the mobile communication network is provided to the terminal 110. Mounted or mounted. Through this, the terminal 110 may receive various services provided by the A bank through the mobile communication network. However, suppose Bank A develops and services a new service (for example, a VM). Since the information on the new service is not registered in the chip mounted or mounted on the terminal 110, there is a problem that the service cannot be used through the mobile communication network. Accordingly, the bank A server transmits the information on the new service to the interworking server 140, the interlocking server 140 generates a service update application to use the service through the terminal 110, the terminal 110 ) Can be sent. Subsequently, the terminal 110 may register a new service of bank A by driving a service update application on the corresponding chip.

2 is a diagram schematically illustrating an internal configuration of an interworking server interworking with a plurality of affiliate servers according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically illustrating an internal configuration of a gateway module according to an embodiment of the present invention. Drawing.

Referring to FIG. 2, the interworking server 140 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a gateway module 210, a service interworking module 220, a storage module 230, and a control module 240.

The gateway module 210 receives an interworking request message from each affiliate server 150 through a communication network, analyzes the corresponding interworking request message, and outputs interworking information to a corresponding service interworking module.

In addition, when the gateway module 210 receives a service providing request message including affiliate identification information from the terminal 110 through a communication network, the gateway module 210 transmits the corresponding service providing request message to the affiliate server 150 corresponding to the affiliate identification information. It performs the function.

Hereinafter, the gateway module 210 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

Referring to FIG. 3, the gateway module 210 includes a communication unit 310, an analysis unit 320, an information acquisition unit 330, and a control unit 340.

The communication unit 310 is connected to a plurality of external affiliated servers 150 or one or more terminals 110 through a communication network to perform a function of transmitting and receiving data.

For example, the communication unit 310 may receive a linkage request message from an affiliate server through a communication network. In addition, the communication unit 310 may transmit the service update application to the terminal 110 under the control of the control unit 340.

The analyzing unit 320 analyzes the interworking request message input through the communication unit 310, extracts the affiliated company identification information and the interworking information, and transmits them to the information obtaining unit 330.

For example, the interworking request message is composed of a header part and a body part (payload). Affiliate identification information is included in the header portion of the linkage request message according to a preset agreement, and the linkage information is included in the body portion.

Accordingly, the analysis unit 320 extracts data from the header portion of the interworking request message and obtains it as affiliate identification information. In addition, the analysis unit 320 may obtain data extracted from the body portion of the interworking request message as interworking information and transmit the data to the information acquisition unit 330.

Affiliate identification information is identification information for identifying an affiliated company linked to the associated server 140 and the service, and may be an affiliated corporation name, an affiliated company name, or the like. For example, when each affiliate server 150 is a server that provides financial services, the affiliate identification information may be a first bank, a second card company, a third securities company, or the like.

As described above, the interworking information may be one or more of new service information or changed service information, subscriber information, and security information newly registered in each affiliate server 150.

The information acquiring unit 330 may identify identification information of a service interworking module (hereinafter referred to as a target service interworking module for convenience of understanding and explanation) corresponding to the partner identification information extracted through the analysis unit 320. Acquire.

For example, the information acquisition unit 330 may acquire the identification information of the corresponding target service interworking module by searching the table to which the identification information of the service interworking module for each affiliate identification information is mapped.

For another example, the information acquisition unit 330 may request and obtain identification information about a module linked to the affiliated company identification information from an HLR (not shown) or an application server (not shown) therein.

The control unit 340 performs a function of controlling internal components (eg, the communication unit, the analysis unit 320, the information acquisition unit 330, etc.) of the gateway module 210 according to the embodiment of the present invention. do. In addition, it performs a function of outputting interworking information as identification information of the target service interworking module obtained through the information obtaining unit 330.

Again, referring to FIG. 2, each service interworking module 220 performs a function of generating a service update application by using interworking information according to a request of each affiliate server 150.

That is, each service interworking module 220 stores server security information and subscriber information for each affiliate server 150, and may generate a service update application using the stored information and interworking information.

The service update application may be provided in the form of an applet that can be executed or driven in a smart card mounted or mounted in each terminal 110. In addition, the service update application may install / register a certificate necessary for using the service provided by the affiliate server 150 through the mobile communication network to the smart card.

In the present specification, the service update application is described as being provided in the form of an apple on the assumption that the smart card mounted or mounted on the terminal 110 is a Java card. However, when the smart card is not a Java card, the smart card is recognized and installed. Naturally, it can be provided in a possible form.

To this end, each service interworking module 220 may store information on a smart card issued in cooperation with each affiliate server 150 in each terminal 110 or may be separately acquired through HLR.

That is, the service interworking module 220 may obtain card information on the smart card mounted or driven in the terminal 110 and generate a service update application in a form corresponding to the corresponding card information.

The storage module 230 stores an algorithm necessary for operating the interworking server 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention, a table in which the identification information of the service interworking module for each partner identification information is mapped, and the like.

The control module 240 controls the internal components (eg, the gateway module 210, the service interworking module 220, the storage module 230, etc.) of the interworking server 140 according to the embodiment of the present invention. Perform the function.

In addition, the control module 240 performs a function of providing the service update application generated by the service interworking module 220 to the terminal 110 through the gateway module 210.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of interworking server updating information by interworking with a plurality of affiliated servers according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, for convenience of understanding and explanation, a method of enabling a new service newly registered in any affiliate server 150 to be available in a terminal will be described. In addition, each step described below is performed by each internal component of the interlocking server 140, but will be collectively described as the interlocking server 140 for the convenience of understanding and explanation.

In operation 410, the interworking server 140 receives an interworking request message including partner identification information and interworking information from the target affiliate server.

As described above, the affiliate identification information may be an affiliate corporation name, a service name, or the like corresponding to the target affiliate server for identifying the target affiliate server. In addition, the interworking server may include at least one of service information, subscriber information, and security information.

In step 415, the interworking server 140 analyzes the interworking request message to extract affiliate identification information and interworking information, respectively.

As described above, the interworking server 140 may extract data from the header portion of the interworking request message, and output the data as affiliate information. In addition, the interworking server 140 may extract data from the body of the interworking request message and output the data as interworking information.

In operation 420, the interworking server 140 obtains identification information of the target service interworking module corresponding to the extracted affiliated company identification information.

In step 425, the interworking server 140 drives the corresponding target service interworking module by using the identification information of the target service interworking module.

In operation 430, the companion server 140 generates a service update application using the linkage information through the driven target service linkage module and transmits the generated service update application to the terminal 110.

That is, the interworking server 140 obtains card information (eg, card operating system and card type information) for the smart card mounted or mounted in the terminal 110 through the driven target service interworking module. Subsequently, the interworking server 140 may generate a service update application based on the card information obtained through the driven target service interworking module.

For example, suppose the card information is a Java card. The driven target service interworking module may generate a service update application in the form of an applet that can be run on a Java card.

Although the above has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below It will be appreciated that modifications and variations can be made.

1 is a view schematically showing a system for interworking a plurality of external application servers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram schematically illustrating an internal configuration of a linked server linked to a plurality of affiliated servers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 schematically illustrates an internal configuration of a gateway module according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of interworking server updating information by interworking with a plurality of affiliated servers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (9)

In the interlocking server interlocked with a plurality of external affiliate server, At least one service interworking module that interworks with external affiliate servers to generate an application for using a service provided by the affiliate server; And A gateway module for receiving a linkage request message including affiliated partner identification information and linkage information from a target affiliated server, and outputting the linkage information to a target service linkage module corresponding to the partner identification information, The gateway module, A communication unit receiving the interworking request message from the target affiliated server; An analysis unit for analyzing the linkage request message and extracting the affiliated company identification information and the linkage information, respectively; An information obtaining unit for obtaining identification information of a target service interworking module mapped in correspondence with the affiliate identification information; And A control unit for transmitting the interworking information to the target service interworking module by using the identification information of the target service interworking module, The target service interworking module is any one of the one or more service interworking modules, and generates a service update application using the interworking information and transmits the generated service update application to the terminal. The service update application is run on a smart card mounted or driven in the terminal linked server, characterized in that for setting the registration information. The method according to claim 1, The interworking server may include one or more of new service information or changed service information, subscriber information, and security information registered in the target affiliate server. delete The method according to claim 1, And the target service interworking module obtains card type information on the smart card from a home location register or a terminal and generates the service update application using an application according to the acquired card type information. In the interlocking server provides a service in conjunction with a plurality of affiliated servers, Receiving a linkage request message including affiliated partner identification information and linkage information from the affiliated server; Extracting the affiliated company identification information and the linkage information from the linkage request message, respectively; Obtaining identification information of a service interworking module corresponding to the affiliate identification information; Driving a service interworking module corresponding to the obtained identification information of the service interworking module; Generating a service update application using the linkage information according to card type information through the driven service linkage module; And Transmitting the service update application to a user terminal. 6. The method of claim 5, The user terminal is a service interworking method, characterized in that for registering a new service on the smart card is issued or linked to the user terminal is issued in conjunction with the affiliated server using the service update application. The method according to claim 6, The service update application is a service interworking method, characterized in that provided in the form of an applet. 6. The method of claim 5, The interworking information is a service interworking method, characterized in that it includes new service information that is newly serviced in the affiliated server and security information for using the new service. delete

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