KR101537306B1 - Data Processing System using Central Middleware Server and Method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for data processing using a central middleware server, and more specifically, to a system which set up a central middleware server and integrate user access control and data processing for the central middleware to be in charge thereof, rather than using a distributed system to process operations for user access control and data processing as in conventional RFID systems, thereby decreasing a load on a distributed middleware server, and minimizing mismatch of related data through integration of user access control and data processing to enable efficient management for operation of an RFID system.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a data processing system using a central middleware server,

The present invention relates to a data processing system and method using a central middleware server, and more particularly, to a system and method for processing data using a centralized middleware server, By integrating user access control and data processing operations to take charge of the centralized middleware server, thereby reducing the load on the distributed middleware server and integrating separate user access control and data processing operations, thereby minimizing illegal synthesis of related data, And more particularly, to a data processing system and method using a centralized middleware server that enables operation management of an RFID system.

Recently, a commonly used method for realizing a ubiquitous computing environment is to embed a computer in all objects so that the user can easily access the computer, and a method in which a user directly uses a small computer is used.

Ubiquitous computing is being developed using various types of technologies in fields such as home network, telematics, and industrial automation, and RFID technology is attracting attention as a next-generation technology for advancing the ubiquitous computing environment. Especially, in the industrial field, much research has been conducted for automation of supply chain management, inventory management, logistics management, and warehouse management using RFID technology.

In order to utilize RFID technology for various applications, RFID tag attached to identify individual objects and RFID reader for recognizing the RFID tag, collect RFID tag information recognized from many readers, remove redundant information, A middleware is required to transmit only the application program.

The RFID middleware should be able to manage and monitor not only simple tag recognition information but also readers supporting different communication methods and protocols in a consistent format.

The RFID middleware must satisfy the following requirements. First, there are heterogeneity among a plurality of different RFID reader systems, for example, a difference between supported tags and reader-to-reader protocols, and a variety of network interfaces between the reader and the host system Under the environment, the RFID hardware system must be provided with the capability to access the upper layers at the same time. This function should be provided to manage tag information collection, reader setting and remote control, and reader system monitoring in the reader recognition area.

In addition, as a large amount of information is repeatedly inputted from the RFID reader, the RFID middleware should provide a function of filtering and summarizing unnecessary information in the redundant information and application system layers.

The RFID middleware should provide a function to reliably transmit the refined and summarized tag data to the existing application system which is the data consumer. In addition, a system for providing detailed information on an individual tag-attached object using the finally recognized RFID tag information is also an indispensable element of the above-described refinement and summary process, and is considered as an object of the RFID middleware system.

1, a distributed middleware server (DMS) performs all the functions of the local middleware 100%, and a centralized middleware server (CMS) performs distributed functions of distributed middleware servers State, and all of the distributed middleware servers operated independently, and compared with the form of the local middleware structure, the data processing allocation was not distributed, so the data processing allocation amount of the middleware server did not change, It is impossible to share the RFID reader.

Accordingly, according to the distributed RFID middleware in the conventional RFID system, the load of the distributed middleware server is excessive, data illegitimate occurs according to the independent operation of the distributed middleware servers, and data sharing with other distributed middleware servers is difficult, There was a problem that the operation was obstructed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a centralized middleware server for user access control and data processing in an RFID system, Thereby reducing the load on the distributed middleware server and integrating separate user access control and data processing operations, thereby minimizing illegal synthesis of related data, thereby enabling efficient management of the operation of the RFID system.

The present invention relates to a data processing system using a central middleware server, which comprises a central middleware server for controlling user access, monitoring the status related to data processing and managing related data, A distributed middleware server for transmitting the collected RFID tag data to the central middleware server, and an RFID reader belonging to the distributed middleware server for transmitting the RFID tag data to the distributed middleware server, wherein the centralized middleware server comprises: An external interface processing means for performing an interface function with the outside through the provision of an API, and a receiving means for receiving and receiving the RFID tag data collected by the distributed middleware server through the RFID reader Take RFID tag data A central data processing means for performing specification of a distributed middleware server, a device management means for managing all the RFID readers belonging to each of the distributed middleware servers, and an access control function for each distributed middleware server Wherein the distributed middleware server comprises distributed data processing means for performing a function of receiving RFID tag data through the RFID reader belonging to the distributed middleware server, And device interface processing means for performing an interface function with the RFID reader belonging to the middleware server.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data processing method using a central middleware server, the method comprising the steps of: (A) performing a user login for access control to the central middleware server by the external interface processing means of the central middleware server; (B) the external interface processing means of the central middleware server receiving an RFID reader ID to execute a command and a command from the user terminal; (C) the external interface processing means of the central middleware server transmits the RFID reader ID to execute the command and the command to the central data processing means of the central middleware server; (D) the central data processing means of the central middleware server transmits the RFID reader ID to the device management means of the central middleware server to search for the distributed middleware server to which the RFID reader to execute the command belongs; (E) The device management unit of the central middleware server searches the distributed middleware server belonging to the RFID interrogator to execute an instruction using the RFID reader ID, and transmits a search result including the distributed middleware server ID to the center To a central data processing means of the middleware server; (F) transmitting, by the central data processing means of the central middleware server, an instruction to the device interface processing means of the corresponding distributed middleware server using the distributed middleware server ID; (G) The device interface processing means of the distributed middleware server converts an instruction according to a protocol format and transfers the converted instruction to the RFID reader. (H) the device interface processing means of the distributed middleware server receiving the RFID tag ID from the RFID reader and transmitting the received RFID tag ID to the distributed data processing means of the distributed middleware server; (I) the distributed data processing means of the distributed middleware server performs filtering, time dispatch, data pairing, and data parsing on the corresponding RFID tag; And (J) distributed data processing means of the distributed middleware server transmitting the processed data to the central data processing means of the central middleware server and being able to be delivered to the user through the external interface processing means of the central middleware server .

In the step (A), the security management means of the central middleware server manages the identity of the middleware server accessible to each user account, and acquires the authority of the user accessing the central middleware server and the distributed middleware server And a step of confirming whether or not it is possible to confirm whether or not it is possible.

According to the present invention, in the user access control and data processing in the RFID system, the centralized middleware server is integrated with the user access control and data processing operations so that the centralized middleware server is responsible for reducing the load of the distributed middleware server, By integrating user access control and data processing operations, it is possible to minimize the illegal synthesis of related data, thereby enabling an efficient operation and management of the RFID system.

1 is a reference diagram for explaining a data processing system using a conventional distributed middleware server.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a data processing system using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a reference diagram for explaining a structure of a central middleware server, a distributed middleware server, and an RFID reader according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a reference diagram related to an ERD according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a reference diagram for explaining a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 7 is a reference diagram for further illustrating a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Before describing the specific details for the practice of the invention, terms and words used in the specification and claims should be construed to enable the inventor to properly define the concept of a term in order to best describe its invention It should be interpreted as meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.

It is to be noted that the detailed description of known functions and constructions related to the present invention is omitted when it is determined that the gist of the present invention may be unnecessarily blurred.

Hereinafter, a data processing system using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2 to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a data processing system using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 illustrates a structure of a central middleware server, a distributed middleware server, and an RFID reader according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a reference diagram related to an ERD according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2, a data processing system using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a central middleware server (CMS) 100, a distributed middleware server (DMS) 200 And an RFID reader 300. The RFID reader 300 includes a reader /

The centralized middleware server 100 monitors the status related to user access control and data processing in the central middleware server in the RFID service using the data processing system according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention and integrally manages related data, (200) is connected to the RFID reader (300) to collect RFID tag data and transmit it to the central middleware server.

Specifically, the centralized middleware server 100 includes a platform management unit 110, an external interface processing unit 120, a central data processing unit 130, a device management unit 140, and a security management unit 150 .

First, the platform management unit 110 performs a function of managing a middleware component.

Next, the external interface processing unit 120 performs an interface function with the outside through provision of an API.

Next, the central data processing unit 130 receives the RFID tag data collected by the distributed middleware server 200 through the RFID interrogator 300, collects the received RFID tag data, and performs a specification definition do.

Next, the device management unit 140 performs a function of managing the entire RFID interrogator 300 belonging to each distributed middleware server 200. [

Finally, the security management means 150 performs an access control function for each distributed middleware server 200.

The centralized middleware server 100 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention directly performs an interface function with the outside by the external interface processing unit 120, The RFID reader 300 belonging to all the distributed middleware servers 200 is directly managed by the device management means 140. The device management means 140 performs the integration operation of the data received from the respective distributed middleware servers 200 by the processing means 130, The platform management means 110 manages the platform of the central middleware server 100 itself and all the distributed middleware servers 200 directly and only the user authorized by the security management means 150 And performs security management directly so as to control resources of the centralized middleware server 100 or the distributed middleware server 200. [

The distributed middleware server 200 also includes distributed data processing means 210 and device interface processing means 220.

The distributed data processing unit 210 receives the RFID tag data through the RFID interrogator 300 belonging to the distributed middleware server 200.

In addition, the device interface processing unit 220 performs an interface function with the RFID reader 300 belonging to the distributed middleware server 200.

The distributed middleware server 200 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention performs the function of filtering the RFID tag data by the distributed data processing means 210, The interface processing means 220 performs the interface function with the RFID reader 300 only.

The RFID reader 300 belongs to the distributed middleware server 200 and transmits the RFID tag data to the distributed middleware server 200.

The hierarchical structure of the central middleware server 100, the distributed middleware server 200, and the RFID reader 300 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG.

3, the central middleware server 100 is located at the top, the ID is set to 0, and the distributed middleware server 200 is located under the central middleware server 100 and illustratively includes three distributed middleware servers The RFID reader 300 is located below the distributed middleware server 200 and illustratively stores the ID of each of the distributed middleware servers 200 for each distributed middleware server 200. [ And the IDs of six RFID readers 300 are set to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, respectively.

FIG. 4 illustrates an ERD according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, a connection relationship between a user and a device can be confirmed with the middleware server as a center.

In FIG. 4, the central middleware server directly manages the access control right acquisition by the user. The user transmits the user ID and the user password to the central middleware server for login, and transmits the device ID to execute the command .

Also, the ID of the middleware server accessible by the user is managed by the central middleware server, and the central middleware server searches for the corresponding distributed middleware server by using the received device ID, and finally the command is transmitted to the corresponding device.

Hereinafter, a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5 to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. And FIG. 7 is a reference diagram for explaining a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention in more detail.

5, the external interface processing unit 120 of the centralized middleware server 100 performs user login for access control to the centralized middleware server 100 (S10).

Since the interface with the outside is managed by the centralized middleware server 100 according to the access control as in the step S10, authorization for the user accessing the RFID middleware is required for each distributed middleware server 200.

The security managing unit 150 of the centralized middleware server 100 manages the IDs of the middleware servers accessible to the respective user accounts and determines whether the user who has access to the centralized middleware server 100 and the distributed middleware server 200 And restrict access.

The registration, modification, and deletion of the RFID reader 300 can be performed only for the device of the distributed middleware server 200 in which the user has acquired the authority, and the distributed middleware server 200, It can not operate with the device of FIG.

Next, the external interface processing unit 120 of the central middleware server 100 receives the ID of the RFID interrogator 300 to execute commands and commands from the user terminal (S20).

Next, the external interface processing unit 120 of the central middleware server 100 transmits the ID of the RFID reader 300 to execute commands and commands to the central data processing unit 130 of the central middleware server 100 S30).

Next, the central data processing unit 130 of the central middleware server 100 transmits the ID of the RFID interrogator 300 to the central middleware 100 in order to search for the distributed middleware server 200 belonging to the RFID interrogator 300, To the device management means 140 of the server 100 (S40).

Next, the device management unit 140 of the central middleware server 100 searches the distributed middleware server 200 to which the RFID interrogator 300 that is to execute the command is located using the ID of the RFID interrogator 300, The search result including the ID of the server 200 is transmitted to the central data processing means 130 of the central middleware server 100 (S50).

Next, the central data processing unit 130 of the centralized middleware server 100 transmits the command to the device interface processing unit 220 of the corresponding distributed middleware server 200 using the ID of the distributed middleware server 200 (S60).

Next, the device interface processing unit 220 of the distributed middleware server 200 converts the command according to the protocol format and transmits the converted command to the RFID interrogator 300 (S70).

The device interface processing unit 220 of the distributed middleware server 200 receives the RFID tag ID from the RFID interrogator 300 and transmits the received RFID tag ID to the distributed data processing unit 210 of the distributed middleware server 200 (S80).

Next, the distributed data processing unit 210 of the distributed middleware server 200 performs filtering, time dispatch, data pairing, and data parsing on the corresponding RFID tag (S90) .

Finally, the distributed data processing means 210 of the distributed middleware server 200 transfers the processed data to the central data processing means 130 of the central middleware server 100 and processes the external interface of the centralized middleware server 100 (Step S100).

Hereinafter, a data processing method using a central middleware server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

First, as shown in Fig. 7, the login of the user is performed by the central middleware server 100, and the access control to the distributed middleware server 200 is obtained.

Then, it is determined whether the centralized middleware server 100 monitors the distributed middleware server 200 and acquires the access right to the distributed middleware server 200. If the access right is not acquired at this time, And when the access right is acquired, the authorized distributed middleware server 200 can be monitored.

Next, the central middleware server 100 performs procedures such as defining a Spec, setting a Spec setting value, registering / modifying a device, setting a device setting value accordingly, monitoring a device, and creating an account.

A list of distributed middleware servers 200 accessible from an account that is logged in by Spec definition, device registration / modification, device monitoring, account creation, etc. is performed, and device registration and account creation are determined.

At this time, when the device is registered, the device is incorporated into one of the accessible distributed middleware servers 200. If the account creation is completed, the authorized authorized accessibility of the searched distributed middleware server 200 is granted and the procedure is terminated .

If device monitoring or Spec definition is required, the device of the accessible distributed middleware server 200 is inquired, and whether the device is monitored or not is determined.

Accordingly, when the Spec definition is required, the Spec definition is completed by selecting the devices to participate in the Sepc, and when the device monitoring is required, the monitored devices are monitored.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that numerous changes and modifications can be made without departing from the invention. Accordingly, all such modifications and variations are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

100: central middleware server 110: platform management means
120: external interface processing means 130: central data processing means
140: device management means 150: security management means
200: Distributed middleware server 210: Distributed data processing means
220: Device interface processing means 300: RFID reader

Claims (3)

A data processing system using a central middleware server,
A central middleware server 100 for controlling user access, monitoring the status related to data processing and integrally managing related data,
A distributed middleware server 200 connected to the RFID reader 300 to collect RFID tag data and transmit the collected RFID tag data to the central middleware server 100,
And an RFID reader 300 belonging to the distributed middleware server 200 and transmitting the RFID tag data to the distributed middleware server 200,
The centralized middleware server 100,
A platform management means 110 for managing a middleware component,
An external interface processing unit 120 for performing an interface function with the outside through provision of an API,
A central data processing means 130 for receiving the RFID tag data collected by the distributed middleware server 200 through the RFID interrogator 300 and collecting the received RFID tag data and defining specifications,
A device management unit 140 for managing all the RFID readers 300 belonging to each of the distributed middleware servers 200,
And security management means (150) for performing an access control function for each of the distributed middleware servers (200)
The distributed middleware server (200)
Distributed data processing means 210 for receiving RFID tag data through the RFID reader 300 belonging to the distributed middleware server 200,
And a device interface processing means (220) for performing an interface function with the RFID reader (300) belonging to the distributed middleware server (200).
A data processing method using a central middleware server,
(A) the external interface processing means (120) of the central middleware server (100) performs user login for access control to the central middleware server (100);
(B) receiving, by the external interface processing means (120) of the central middleware server (100), an ID of an RFID interrogator (300) for executing commands and commands from a user terminal;
(C) The external interface processing means 120 of the centralized middleware server 100 transmits the ID of the RFID interrogator 300 to execute commands and commands to the central data processing means 130 of the centralized middleware server 100 Transmitting;
(D) The central data processing means 130 of the central middleware server 100 searches the distributed middleware server 200 belonging to the RFID interrogator 300, To the device management unit (140) of the central middleware server (100);
(E) The device management unit 140 of the central middleware server 100 transmits the distributed middleware server 200 to which the RFID reader 300 to execute an instruction using the ID of the RFID interrogator 300 belongs Transmitting a search result including the ID of the distributed middleware server 200 to the central data processing means 130 of the central middleware server 100;
(F) The central data processing unit 130 of the centralized middleware server 100 transmits the command to the device interface processing unit 220 of the corresponding distributed middleware server 200 using the ID of the distributed middleware server 200 ;
(G) transmitting, by the device interface processing means 220 of the distributed middleware server 200, an instruction converted into a command according to a protocol format and transmitting the converted command to the RFID reader 300;
(H) When the device interface processing means 220 of the distributed middleware server 200 receives the RFID tag ID from the RFID interrogator 300 and transmits the received RFID tag ID to the distributed data processing of the distributed middleware server 200 (210);
(I) The distributed data processing means 210 of the distributed middleware server 200 performs filtering, time dispatch, data pairing, and data parsing on the corresponding RFID tag ; And
(J) The distributed data processing means 210 of the distributed middleware server 200 transfers the processed data to the central data processing means 130 of the centralized middleware server 100, And allowing the data to be delivered to the user through the external interface processing unit (120).
3. The method of claim 2,
The step (A)
(A1) The security management unit 150 of the centralized middleware server 100 manages the IDs of the middleware servers accessible to the respective user accounts to access the centralized middleware server 100 and the distributed middleware server 200 And determining whether the right of the centralized middleware server is acquired.

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