KR20070104116A - Method for management of wap client provisioning document - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for managing a WAP client provisioning document is provided to manage the provisioning document effectively at a BPS(Bootstrap Provisioning System) and to improve stability when downloading the provisioning document. In a method for managing a WAP client provisioning document, a provisioning contents record is divided into a first provisioning document(101) and a second provisioning document(103). The first provisioning document includes a network connection area and a user admission area. The second provisioning document includes a network information area. The applicable provisioning document including an area of a changed part is downloaded by a cluster. The second provisioning document is generated and downloaded by the cluster, when correcting or changing the network information area. The first provisioning document is generated and downloaded by the cluster, when correcting and changing the network connection area and the user admission area.

Description

How to manage WAP client provisioning documents {METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF WAP CLIENT PROVISIONING DOCUMENT}

1 is a diagram illustrating a provisioning document configuration according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the classification according to regions specified in FIG. 1.

3 is a flowchart for explaining the main operation of the present invention.

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101: first provisioning document 103: second provisioning document

201: ClientID / Auth Key area 203: PX authentication area

205: NAPDEF area 207: Application area

The present invention relates to WAP client provisioning, and more specifically, to a provisioning document managed by BPS (Bootstrap Provisioning System), an element of a provisioning document ( This section relates to a WP client provisioning management method that can manage document content by elements.

Modern telecommunications has led to a remarkable expansion of wired and wireless networks. Computer networks, television networks, and telephone networks are experiencing unprecedented technological expansions and are being stimulated by consumer demand. Wireless and mobile networking technologies provide more flexible and faster information transfer, while focusing on the relevant consumer needs.

With the introduction of new mobile services such as WAP, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), calendar and contact synchronization, as well as many other possibilities, the number of servers and portals providing services for mobile Internet terminals continues to expand. Doing. In addition, the number of features associated with services such as multimedia support, location-based services, electronic payments, etc., is increasing. Thus, new terminals supporting new network technologies and mobile Internet services will continue to be often used as replacement devices for current subscribers. New terminals will increasingly need new or updated configuration settings before new terminals can successfully connect with a network server providing applications over the network.

However, mobile terminals are inherently limited devices. Mobile terminals typically have limited memory, storage and processing capabilities. Thus, the mobile device does not include all of the components necessary to access new or upgraded services that can be used on the network. If the mobile user wants to use new services available in the network, the terminal should be configured to use those new services. Configuring a terminal to use a service on a network is generally referred to as "provisioning" the terminal. Provisioning may be performed in the initialization settings of the mobile device or to upgrade services and applications already in use on the mobile device.

One traditional provisioning method in use today requires a retail establishment to provision a terminal for the user. However, this is inconvenient for the user. In addition, if the user decides to purchase another terminal or upgrade service, the user must return to the vendor who provisions or re-provisions the terminal. More recently advanced provisioning systems allow a user to start provisioning at a terminal. For example, a user can manually initiate provisioning on the device to be provisioned. The remote server may also initiate a communication session with the provisioning server device and provide provisioning information to the provisioning server. For example, two existing standards for remote configuration of terminals are the WAP provisioning protocol and the SyncML device management protocol. However, all of the above standards assume that the components necessary for configuration are already present in the mobile terminal. Other systems focus only on the delivery of data objects to the mobile terminal.

Existing methods of provisioning a mobile terminal thus include multiple interfaces and multiple operations to network services providing applications. This complicates provisioning especially when new service and utilization network elements increase the network further.

The present invention was created to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to manage document content for each element of a provisioning document so that provisioning management in BPS can be efficiently performed. It provides a method of provisioning management of a swap client.

In accordance with an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for managing a client provisioning document includes: provisioning document management method for transmitting provisioning information to a client in the form of an OMA client provisioning content record; The content record includes a first provisioning document having a network connection and a user authentication area; And separately into a second provisioning document having a network information area; The provisioning document to which the region for the changed part belongs is downloaded to the terminal.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the provisioning document may include, in addition to WAP browsing, an MMS related to a multimedia messaging service, a download defining a method of downloading and using various contents to a mobile phone terminal, a digital right management (DRM) for copyright management, It can be applied to any one of the WAP billing framework which defines the e-mail notification that enables the mobile phone's built-in e-mail client and the charging method for the pull / push service.

The first provisioning document unit may be divided into a client ID / Auth Key area for client authentication and a proxy (PX) authentication area for proxy authentication.

In addition, the proxy authentication area includes a PXLOGICAL area including management functions such as ProxyID, Domain, Push / pull Option, PXPHYSICAL area including management functions such as phy_ProxID, Address, WAP Version, and management functions such as PXAUTH-PW. Characterized in that it is divided into a PXAUTHINFO region including.

The second provisioning document unit is further divided into a NAPDEF region and an application region as a network information region; The NAPDEF region is characterized by including a bearer type, APN, QoS, Up / Down Speed, etc., which is a communication network or transmission method for connecting a mobile phone of a WAP gateway.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, Client Provisioning is used to achieve remote configuration of mobile devices on behalf of users in the field of carriers, device manufacturers and integration. In particular, Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) client provisioning is provisioning based on sending provisioning information to a client in the form of provisioned content records.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a provisioning document, and as shown in FIG. 1, a first provisioning document portion 101 having a network connection and a user authentication area, and a second provisioning document portion having a network information area. It consists of 103.

Provisioning documents applied to the first provisioning document unit 101 and the second provisioning document unit 103 is a WAP-related standard established and published by OMA, in addition to the most basic WAP browsing, MMS, mobile phone terminal related to multimedia messaging service Download that defines how to download and use various contents, Digital Rights Management (DRM) for copyright management, E-mail notification to operate the e-mail client embedded in the mobile phone, Full / push service It may include a WAP billing framework that defines a billing method for.

Meanwhile, as illustrated in FIG. 2, the first provisioning document unit 101 includes a Client ID / Auth Key area 201 for client authentication and a proxy (PX) authentication area 203 for proxy authentication. The second provisioning document unit 103 is divided into a NAPDEF region 205 for managing a bearer type, APN, QoS, Up / Down Speed, etc., and an application region 207 for application and protocol management. . The proxy authentication area 203 includes a PXLOGICAL area including management functions such as ProxyID, Domain, Push / pull Option, PXPHYSICAL area including management functions such as phy_ProxID, Address, WAP Version, and PXAUTH-PW. It is divided into PXAUTHINFO areas that contain management functions. In addition, it is divided into a plurality of characteristics, including a number of characteristics (Characteristics) such as Port, Validity, Bootstrap.

The provisioning document of such a structure is modified by separating the four areas described above, that is, the Client ID / Auth Key area 201, the PX authentication area 203, the NAPDEF area 205, and the APPLICATION area 207 by two. Download the provisioning document belonging to the region for the part to the terminal. For example, in the two elements constituting the first provisioning document 101, the client ID / Auth Key area 201 and the PX authentication area 203, the information such as the change of the client ID, the authentication password, the proxy ID, the domain, etc. If changed, only the above-described first provisioning document 101 is downloaded to the terminal.

On the other hand, when a change of the second provisioning document 103 occurs, for example, a communication network or transmission method for connecting a mobile phone of the WAP Gateway Bearer (Circuit Switched Data (CSD), Packet Switched Data (PSD), SMS (Short Message Service) If)) is changed, the provisioning server (unsigned) downloads only the second provisioning document 103 to the corresponding terminal. In addition, this includes changing network information such as an access point name (APN), a quality of service (QoS), and up / down speed.

3 is a flowchart for explaining the main operation of the present invention.

As shown in step S301, the provisioning server recognizes the data change of the provisioning document. In step S303, it is determined whether the changed data is a change to the network information area. The network information area represents the NAPDEF area 205 or the APPLICATION area 207 described above. Therefore, when the NAPDEF area 205 such as bearer type, APN, Qos, Up / Down Speed, or the APPLICATION area 207 such as APPID or Protocol is changed, the process proceeds to step S311.

The provisioning server generates a second provisioning document based on the change to the network information area. This records changes for each region, and enters step S309 to download the second provisioning document to the corresponding terminal. That is, instead of downloading the entire provisioning document according to the data change, only the second provisioning document part, which is the corresponding part, is downloaded to the terminal.

On the other hand, if the data change is not the network information area as determined in step S303, the process proceeds to step S305. Here, it is determined whether the data change is a network connection and a user authentication area. As a result of the determination, in the case of the network access and user authentication area, the process proceeds to step S307. The network connection and user authentication includes network connection authentication for network connection and user authentication for a user.

As described above, this represents the ClietnID / Auth Key area 201 and the proxy area 203, and the ClientID / Auth Key area 201 is client authentication information, and has PXLOGICAL having ProxyID, Domain, and Push / Pull functions. Area, PXAUTHINFO area having functions such as PXAUTH-PW, PXPHYSICAL area having functions such as Phy_ProxyID, Address, WAP Version, and the like. Therefore, when data change for each of these areas occurs, first provisioning information recorded therein is generated. In operation S309, the first provisioning information is downloaded to the corresponding terminal.

As described above, in the present invention, the first provisioning document 101 and the second provisioning document 103 are divided into a first provisioning document 101 or a second provisioning document corresponding to the modification or modification of the corresponding area. 103) is downloaded to the terminal. However, each of the above documents can be further subdivided into corresponding areas, that is, ClientID / Auth Key area 201, PX authentication area 203, NAPDEF area 205, and APPLICATION area 207. Only the area will be available for download.

For example, when a bearer is changed or an option such as APN, QoS, Up / Down Speed, etc. is changed in the provisioning server, only the NAPDEF region 205 can be downloaded to efficiently manage provisioning documents.

In addition, the provisioning document described above is limited to download, but in addition to WAP browsing, it can be applied to MMS, Digital Right Management (DRM) for copyright management, e-mail notification, WAP billing framework, etc. Of course.

As described above, in the WAP client provisioning document management method according to the present invention, by segmenting the provisioning document, and to execute the download by area for each document, more stable and efficient management is achieved when downloading the provisioning document It can be effective.

What has been described above is merely an embodiment of the present invention, and is not limited to the embodiment of the present invention, and as claimed in the following claims, without departing from the gist of the present invention, ordinary knowledge in the field to which the invention belongs. Anyone having the technical spirit of the present invention to the extent that various changes can be made.

Claims (11)

In the provisioning document management method for transmitting provisioning information to a client in the form of an OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) client provisioning content record, The provisioning content record includes: a first provisioning document having a network connection and a user authentication area; And separately into a second provisioning document having a network information area; A method for managing a provisioning document for a swap client, comprising downloading a provisioning document to which a region for a changed part belongs to a terminal. The method of claim 1 wherein the provisioning document, In addition to WAP browsing, MMS related to multimedia messaging services, downloads that define how various contents are downloaded and used on mobile phones, digital rights management (DRM) for copyright management, and e-mail clients embedded in mobile phones are operated. WAP client provisioning document management method, characterized in that applied to any one of the WAP billing framework that defines the e-mail notification, billing method for pull / push service. 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first provisioning document portion, A swap client provisioning document management method characterized by being divided into a Client ID / Auth Key area for client authentication and a Proxy (PX) authentication area for proxy authentication. The method of claim 3 The proxy authentication area includes a PXLOGICAL area including management functions such as ProxyID, Domain, Push / Pull Option, PXPHYSICAL area including management functions such as phy_ProxID, Address, WAP Version, and PXAUTH-PW. WP client provisioning document management method characterized in that it is separated into a containing PXAUTHINFO area. The method of claim 2, wherein the second provisioning document portion, WAP client provisioning document management method characterized in that the network information area divided into NAPDEF area and application area. The method of claim 5, wherein the NAPDEF region, WAP client provisioning document management method comprising a bearer type, APN, QoS, Up / Down Speed, etc., which is a communication network or transmission method for connecting a mobile phone of the WAP Gateway. The method of claim 6 wherein the Bearer type, A swap client provisioning document management method comprising any one of CSD (Circuit Switched Data), PSD (Packet Switched Data), and SMS (Short Message Service). In the provisioning document management method for transmitting provisioning information to a client in the form of an OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) client provisioning content record, a) the provisioning content record comprises: a first provisioning document having a network connection and a user authentication area; Separating into a second provisioning document having a network information area; b) determining whether the network information area has been modified or changed; c) generating the second provisioning document and downloading the second provisioning document to the terminal when the network information area is modified or changed as a result of the determination in step b); d) determining whether the network connection and user authentication area has been modified or changed; And e) when the network access and user authentication area is modified or changed as a result of the determination in step d), downloading the first provisioning document to the terminal. . The method of claim 8 wherein the provisioning document, In addition to WAP browsing, MMS related to multimedia messaging services, downloads that define how various contents are downloaded and used on mobile phones, DRM (Digital Right Management) for copyright management, and e-mail clients embedded in mobile phones can be operated. The state of the WAP client provisioning document management method, characterized in that applied to any one of the WAP billing framework that defines the billing method for e-mail notification, pull / push services. 9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first provisioning document portion, A Client ID / Auth Key area for client authentication and a proxy (PX) authentication area for proxy authentication; The proxy authentication area includes a PXLOGICAL area including management functions such as ProxyID, Domain, Push / Pull Option, PXPHYSICAL area including management functions such as phy_ProxID, Address, WAP Version, and PXAUTH-PW. WP client provisioning document management method characterized in that it is separated into a containing PXAUTHINFO area. The method of claim 10, wherein the second provisioning document portion, Divided into a NAPDEF area and an application area as a network information area; The NAPDEF region is a WAP client provisioning document management method comprising a bearer type, APN, QoS, Up / Down Speed, etc. which is a communication network or transmission method for connecting a mobile phone of the WAP Gateway.

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