KR101721004B1 - Home network system based container virtualization technology - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a home network system based on a container virtualization technology, in which a container template with an application that reflects characteristics of a user is provided based on the container virtualization technology. According to the present invention, the home network system based on the container virtualization technology includes: a home gateway (100), a service provider (200), a home network device unit (300), and an external home gateway (400). The home gateway includes: a communication service management unit (110) for managing communication with a service provider or other external home gateways (400); a container management unit (120) for managing a container of the service provider according to determination of the communication service management unit (110); a device management unit (130) for analyzing control records related to connection/control/recording of a home network device unit; and at least one data storage (140) for storing user data, container template data and application data of the service provider, and control and usage records of the home network device unit.

Description

[0001] HOME NETWORK SYSTEM BASED CONTAINER VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY [0002]

The present invention relates to a home network system based on container virtualization technology, and more particularly, to a home network system based on a container virtualization technology, which is based on a container virtualization technology, ≪ / RTI >

Responsive or user responsive service technology is a technique for optimizing services according to user characteristics such as user's physical characteristics, preference, existing service history, and the like. In the 'responsive web' technology, where the term 'responsive' is most commonly used, a web page is configured so that a web page or web site responds to the characteristics of the user and the device being used.

In recent years, Internet services such as Twitter and Facebook have expanded to mobile devices, and the number of web pages supporting mobile has been increasing, reflecting functions for system level control of mobile. Therefore, the Internet is expanding beyond the computer-only network to the mobile and embedded devices, and the web platform is the most influential protocol among the Internet. In addition, as the convergence of communication between the Internet and objects has expanded to recent issues and the number of IoT devices has increased, there is a growing need for a technology for effectively controlling the interaction with IoT devices (see Korean Patent No. 1553478).

The types of responsive services can be broadly divided into the following ways:

1) At the time of request, the user device transmits the user information in the user device to the server

2) Before the request, the user equipment pre-stores the user information in the server and provides the service based on this

3) a method of providing services according to user information configured in advance by a user device,

Of these, 1) and 2) schemes are the most common way to provide user information to a server, which allows the service provider to provide various user friendly services to the users, while user information is provided to the service provider It is exposed as it is. On the other hand, in the case of the method 3), since the user information is configured in advance, the user information can be protected, but only the limited responsive service can be provided.

Korean Patent No. 1553478 "Method and System for Controlling IoT Devices and Services"

It is an object of the present invention to provide a home network system based on container virtualization technology that can provide a user-friendly service while minimizing the exposure of information of a user will be.

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention includes a home gateway 100, a service provider 200, a home network appliance 300, and an external home gateway 400,

Home gateway

A communication service management unit 110 for managing communication with a service provider or other external home gateways 400;

A container management unit 120 for managing the container of the service provider according to the judgment of the communication service management unit 110;

A device management unit 130 for analyzing control records related to connection / control / recording of the home network device unit;

And one or more data stores 140 for storing user data, container template data and application data of the service provider, and control and use records of the home network device section.

According to a preferred embodiment, the communication service manager 110 includes a connection module 111 for defining a communication protocol and a connection range between the service provider 200 or the home gateway 100; A relay module (112) for transmitting / receiving a container template or application template data between the home gateway (100) and the home gateway (400) outside the service provider (200); And an AAA module 112 for managing authentication / authorization / accounting between the home gateway 100 and the user or service provider 200 or the external home gateway 400.

According to a preferred embodiment, the container management unit 120 receives an application template and template data for the application from the service provider 200 and manages the container.

According to a preferred embodiment, the device management unit 130 includes a connection module 131 for communicatively connecting the home gateway 100 and the home network device unit 300; A control module 132 for collecting and managing information of the home network device 300 connected to the home gateway 100; A recording module 133 for recording control contents of the home network device 300 by the control module 132; And an analysis module 134 for analyzing the control record recorded by the recording module 133 and calculating the user / situation / record / data / service context, respectively.

According to a preferred embodiment, the service provider 200 provides a container including an application to a user who uses the home gateway based on a result of analyzing the accumulated home gateway context through the device management unit 130.

According to a preferred embodiment, the service provider 200 comprises: a container relay 210 comprising one or more containers having different types of applications and executable programs and libraries of the applications; And an application template manager 220 that includes different types of applications and template data for that application.

According to a preferred embodiment, the home network device 300 is connected to the home gateway 100, the service provider 200 or the external home gateway 400 via a wireless LAN (LAN), a Zigbee or a Bluetooth (Bluetooth) As shown in FIG.

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention collects user characteristic information (personal information, behavior pattern, and the like) and provides the collected user characteristic information to the service provider, To provide services.

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention can be interworked with a service provider or a home gateway of another network through the Internet. As a result, the home appliance can provide an environment for interworking with an external Internet environment do.

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention collects and manages various user characteristic information while being located in the vicinity of the user or the user.

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention serves as a gateway for mediating a container-based application template provided by a service provider and provides a user responsive container service suited to a user characteristic.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a comparison between full virtualization and container-based virtualization.
2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a home network system based on a container virtualization technique according to the present invention.
3 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a home gateway according to the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a home gateway context of a home network system based on container virtualization technology according to the present invention.
5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the communication service management unit of the home gateway according to the present invention.
6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the container management unit of the horn gateway according to the present invention.
7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the device management unit of the home gateway according to the present invention.

Virtualization technology is a technology that makes it possible to run several independent systems on one system (host). These virtualization technologies can be classified into Full-Virtualization, represented by VMware, Hyper-V, and Kilobytes Virtual Machine (KVM), and Para-Virtualization, represented by Xen. Although these virtualization technologies require higher computing performance than general computing performance, they are difficult to use easily. However, with the large improvement of computing performance, Container-based Virtualization technology based on Linux Containers (LXC) Virtualization technology is being used in a wider area than ever before.

1 is a block diagram of a comparison between full virtualization and container-based virtualization, Conventional virtualization technologies, such as the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology, require that additional elements, such as a hypervisor that emulates the physical hardware used by the guest, This pre-virtualization environment has the advantage of being able to have the environment closest to the actual environment because a completely independent guest operates in hardware, but it consumes a relatively large amount of host resources because it emulates virtual hardware.

In Container Virtualization (Linux Container), host resources are grouped into containers (Containers) and assigned to each guest, so that they operate independently of other guests. The process of each guest is the same as the group (Which is called a 'container' because it is in a separate guest space like a cargo container). In other words, the container does not create a guest, but rather a group of resources used by the host to create various environments. Because this method does not require hardware emulation, it not only lowers overhead compared to the existing virtualization / paravirtualization, but also does not require boot-strapping, which is the process of preparing hardware and operating system. Start and stop are also done very quickly.

The home gateway of the home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention provides the user characteristic information to the service provider and the service provider provides the application container by providing the application container best suited to the user characteristic information handed over from the user Based virtualization technology to enable it to act as an active container service provider.

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

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention includes user characteristics information using a home gateway using a home gateway, an Internet of Tings (IoT) / home network device controlled by a home gateway, It stores the data usage history and provides container based user response service based on this.

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a home network system based on a container virtualization technique according to the present invention.

The home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention includes a home gateway 100, a service provider 200, a home network appliance 300, and an external home gateway 400.

3, the home gateway 100 includes a communication service management unit 110, a container management unit 120, a device management unit 130, and one or more data storage units 140.

In the framework of the home gateway 100, as shown in FIG. 4, the user characteristic information is expressed / managed in a unit of "context ", and each context is classified as follows.

① User Context

Record basic user data such as name, age, sex, date of birth, physical characteristics (visual impairment, hearing impairment).

② State Context

Information about the current state of the user such as the current location (GPS data), weather, temperature (indoor and outdoor), and the state information collected through the Internet / home network device (door lock, illumination, power supply, etc.).

③ Record Context

Data entered in the home gateway, user data usage history, control information of the object Internet / home network device unit 300, and the like.

④ Data Context

Such as multimedia information, photographs, and document information such as the time of playback of a certain image, the genre of the reproduced image, the level of image quality, and the like, as well as metadata of user data stored in the data store 140 of the home gateway.

⑤ Service Context

And records metadata about applications provided from the service provider 200 up to now.

The communication service management unit 110 implements a service access / relay function through communication with a service provider or other external home gateways 400. The communication service management unit 110 includes a connection module 111, a relay module 112, and an AAA module 113, .

The connection module 111 defines a communication protocol and connection range between the service provider or the home gateway. The home gateway 100 may maintain a connection for communication with the service provider 200 or another home gateway 400 and may send a response to a request from an external destination outside the home network, And then receive the response.

The relay module 112 implements a procedure for transmitting / receiving data (container template or application template data) required for a service between objects in a home gateway and objects outside the home network such as a service provider / another home gateway. All communication processes through the communication service management unit 110 are accompanied by sensitive information such as user characteristic information or charging information of the service provider. Therefore, this module includes a module that implements a general communication security protocol such as TLS and IPSec, and the home gateway follows the procedure of this module in all communication processes with the outside.

The Authentication, Authorization and Accounting module 113 (hereinafter referred to as "AAA module") implements authentication / authorization / accounting between the home gateway and the user or service provider 200. A plurality of users may exist in the home network, and a home gateway according to the present invention can manage data for the plurality of users. Also, the service provider 200 attempting to access the home gateway can only provide services to the user through an explicit authentication process through the module.

The operation of the communication service management unit 110 follows the flowchart shown in Fig.

The container management unit 120 implements a function for managing the container according to the judgment of the communication service management unit 110. All the services are provided by receiving the application template provided by the service provider 200 and the template data for the application And the operation of the container management unit 120 is according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

The service provider 200 analyzes the accumulated home gateway context through the device management unit 130 and provides a container including the application most suitable for the user using the home gateway based on the analyzed result.

The device management unit 130 implements a function of analyzing accumulated control records in addition to connection / control / recording of the home network device unit 300 and includes a connection module 131, a control module 132, a recording module 133, And an analysis module 134, and the operation of the device management unit 130 is according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

The connection module 131 implements a connection establishing procedure for exchanging information between the home gateway and the home network device 300 located in the home network. In addition, at the initial connection procedure, the identifiers and users of each device are mapped and all the subsequent contexts are stored in the data storage 140 for each user.

The control module 132 collects and manages information of the home network device 300 connected to the home gateway 100. The user can request control of the home network device 300 through the device management unit 130 through the service provided through the service management unit 110. [

The recording module 133 records control contents for all the home network device parts 300 through the control module 132. [

The analysis module 134 analyzes the control records recorded by the recording module 133 and calculates respective contexts such as a user / situation / record / data / service context and records them in the data store 140.

In the data store 140, not only user characteristic information but also user data such as multimedia, documents, and the like, container template data and application data distributed by the service provider 200, and user data including the object Internet device through the home gateway 100 (Multimedia playback record, document print record, etc.) accompanied with recording and control of the device control generated by controlling the home network device 300 of the home network device 300. The home gateway 100 permits only the authorized user to access the home gateway 100 from the outside through authentication, and the user who accesses through the external route can also use the service.

The service provider 200 includes a container intermediary 210 and an application template manager 220.

Container 210 includes one or more containers, each containing different types of applications and executable programs and libraries of the applications.

 The application template manager 220 includes different types of applications and template data for the respective applications.

The home network device unit 300 in the home exchanges information with each other through wireless communication such as wireless LAN (Local Area Network) / Zigbee / Bluetooth with the home gateway 100, It can be configured as an environment capable of exchanging information with the home gateway 400 or the service provider 200 existing in the network.

As described above, in the home network system based on the container virtualization technology according to the present invention, the home gateway 100 collects user characteristic information (personal information, behavior pattern, etc.) 200) without providing any direct exposure to the user.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention and various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention by those skilled in the art. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (7)

In a home network system based on a container virtualization technology including a home gateway 100, a service provider 200, a home network appliance 300, and an external home gateway 400,
The home gateway
A communication service management unit 110 for managing communication with a service provider or other external home gateways 400;
A container managing unit 120 managing a container of the service provider according to the judgment of the communication service managing unit 110;
A device management unit 130 for analyzing control records related to connection / control / recording of the home network device unit;
One or more data stores (140) for storing user data, container template data and application data of the service provider, and control and usage records of the home network appliance section,
The service provider 200
A container relay 210 including one or more containers having different types of applications, executable programs of the application, and libraries; And
And an application template manager (220) that includes template data for different types of applications and corresponding applications.
The method according to claim 1,
The communication service management unit 110
A connection module (111) for defining a communication protocol and a connection range between the service provider (200) or the external home gateway (400) and the home gateway (100);
A relay module 112 for transmitting / receiving a container template or application template data between the service provider 200 or the external home gateway 400 and the home gateway 100; And
And an AAA module (112) for managing authentication / authorization / accounting between the home gateway (100) and the user, the service provider (200) or the external home gateway (400) .
The method according to claim 1,
The container management unit 120 receives an application template and template data for the application from the application template manager 220 of the service provider 200 and manages the container. system.
The method according to claim 1,
The device management unit 130
A connection module 131 for communicatively connecting the home gateway 100 and the home network device 300;
A control module 132 for collecting and managing information of the home network device 300 connected to the home gateway 100;
A recording module 133 for recording control contents of the home network device 300 by the control module 132; And
And an analysis module (134) for analyzing the control record recorded by the recording module (133) and calculating a user / situation / record / data / service context, respectively. .
The method according to claim 1,
The service provider 200 provides a container including an application to a user who uses the home gateway based on a result of analyzing the accumulated home gateway context through the device management unit 130. [ Based home network system.
delete The method according to claim 1,
The home network appliance unit 300 is connected to the home gateway 100, the external home gateway 400 and the service provider 200 via a wireless LAN (Wireless LAN), Zigbee or Bluetooth, And a home network system based on container virtualization technology.

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