KR20080029684A - Apparatus for event processing for network event in open architecture environment and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A communication network event processing device for processing network events in an open environment and a method therefor are provided to enable a communication network emulator to offer the same simulation environment as an open service environment during an open service verification process, thereby increasing efficiency of verification. A virtual terminal module(610) simulates network functions of an open service environment, and generates network events by performing functions such as call transmitting and receiving, call state, SMS(Short Message Service) sending and receiving, MMS(Multimedia Messaging Service) sending and receiving, location changing and notifying, status changing and notifying, and presence changing and notifying functions, or takes charge of terminal operation functions corresponding to the network events. A communication network event processing module(620) processes the network events occurring through the virtual terminal module.

Description

Apparatus for event processing for network event in open architecture environment and method

1 illustrates a typical structure of an open service that provides an open service standard API.

Figure 2 shows the overall configuration of an open service verification tool including a network event processing apparatus for processing network events in an open environment according to the present invention.

3 illustrates a structure of a provisioning event table for provisioning TDP and a service event table for storing service setting TDP information.

Figure 4 shows an example of the flow of a method for processing according to the present invention when a network event occurs in an open service environment.

The present invention relates to an open network, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for processing a network event for processing network events in an open environment.

The open service standard application program interface (API) provides network resources in the form of APIs through integration between heterogeneous networks. It is possible to develop communication service using open network resources in all environments where open service standard API is available. Open service standard APIs include Parlay / OSA APIs, which are standardized by the Parlay Group, and the Parlay X API, which provides an abstraction of the complex Parlay APIs, is also being released and is currently working on 3.0.

Parlay X API can be divided into Gateway Service Capability Feature (SCF) and Application Server SCF. The Gateway SCF requests to perform network functions in the communication network and handles the result. Commonly known gateway SCFs include short message function (SMS), multimedia message function (MMS), call connection function (TPC SCF), and presence function (Presence SCF).

The application server SCF takes over and handles the event information when an event (calling / status, SMS, MMS, Status / Location / Presence information change) occurs in the network. The network must support a mechanism for passing the event information to the application server SCF. In FIG. 1, which shows an example of an open network environment configuration diagram providing an open service technology, the network 300, the gateway 200 supporting the open service standard API, and the application server 100 process the network event in advance. In addition, server access and provisioning should be negotiated to enable interoperability between them.

In the existing communication network service, events such as dialing, SMS, and MMS are processed by a trigger detection point (TDP), and event information is transmitted to service logic. In an open service environment, network events such as Presence, Location, and Status should be delivered to the service application in addition to the events provided by the existing network service. The TDP mechanism of the existing intelligent network registers events in advance through the provisioning process before the events occur in the network.In the open environment, the event processing through the provisioning process and the event to be notified in the service We need a mechanism to enable or disable event notifications for.

Network emulators in open service verification tools should also provide an environment to simulate these mechanisms. The network event processing module, which constitutes the network emulator for verifying open services, should also be implemented in consideration of the event processing mechanism provided by the open service environment.

However, in the related art, there is a problem in that an open service verification tool and a network emulator considering such characteristics described above are not provided.

SUMMARY To solve the above problems, the present invention provides a network event processing apparatus and method for processing network events occurring in an open environment in a network emulator block that is a component of an open service verification tool. have.

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a computer-readable recording medium recording a network event processing method for processing network events occurring in an open environment.

Communication network event processing apparatus for processing network events in an open environment according to the present invention for solving the above technical problem, simulates the network function of the open service environment, dialing, receiving, call status, SMS sending, receiving, A virtual terminal module for generating a network event by performing a function including sending, receiving, receiving a location, changing a location, notifying a status, changing a notification, changing a presence and a notification, or in charge of a terminal operation function corresponding to the network event; And a communication network event processing module for processing a network event generated through the virtual terminal module.

At this time, the message processing module for notifying the application server of the open service standard API function of the network event processed by the communication network event processing module.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a network event processing method for processing network events in an open environment, the method including: (a) detecting a network event occurrence and determining a type of the detected event; (b) if the detected event is a provisioning event, checking whether an event is registered as a provisioning event by searching an event table; (c) acquiring provisioning event information to obtain an event processing interface address and transmitting network event information when the event is registered; (d) checking whether the service setting event is registered as a service setting event if it is not a provisioning setting event, and searching the service setting event table to confirm that the service setting event is a service setting event; (e) acquiring service setting event information including detailed information and executing an event processing routine to transmit network event information to an event processing interface; And (f) ignoring the generated and detected event when the service setting event is not a service setting event in step (d) and terminating it.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a computer-readable recording medium recording a network event processing method for processing network events in an open environment includes (a) detecting a network event occurrence and detecting the detected network event. Determining the type of event; (b) if the detected event is a provisioning event, checking whether an event is registered as a provisioning event by searching an event table; (c) acquiring provisioning event information to obtain an event processing interface address and transmitting network event information when the event is registered; (d) checking whether the service setting event is registered as a service setting event if it is not a provisioning setting event, and searching the service setting event table to confirm that the service setting event is a service setting event; (e) acquiring service setting event information including detailed information and executing an event processing routine to transmit network event information to an event processing interface; And (f) ignoring the generated and detected event when the service setting event is not a service setting event in step (d) and terminating it.

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

1 illustrates a typical structure of an open service that provides an open service standard API.

The open service network includes a lower communication network 300 such as a wired / wireless network or an internet network, a gateway (GW) 200 that interworks with network resources through an open service standard API, and an application server equipped with an open service ( AS: Application Server) (100).

The open service standard API presented in the following description of the present invention proceeds using the Parlay-X 2.0 API as an example. In addition, since the open service is already known or publicized, the content of the open service is described below without further explanation.

Figure 2 shows the overall configuration of an open service verification tool including a network event processing device (600, 620) for processing network events in an open environment according to the present invention.

In order to simulate a network structure providing an open service technology, a communication network emulator 600 according to the present invention capable of simulating a network environment with a gateway unit 400 and an application server unit 500 is required. In addition, the verification tool includes a graphic user interface and a message delivery block 700 that can show the verification result.

The network emulator 600, which is a network event processing apparatus according to the present invention, refers to a virtual terminal module 610 in charge of a function of a network terminal, a network event processing module 620 for processing a network event generated through a virtual terminal. And a message processing module 630 for interworking with blocks 400, 500, and 700, respectively.

The message processing module 630 notifies the application server 500 of the open service standard API function of the network event processed by the network event processing module 620.

The virtual terminal module 610 is a module for simulating the network function of the open service environment, and the call / receive / call status, SMS send / receive, MMS send / receive, location change / notification, status change / notification, and presence change It has the same function as / notification and all network events are generated from the virtual terminal module. The network event transmitted from the virtual terminal module 610 is delivered to the application server block 500 that is responsible for event notification processing of the open service standard API through the network event processing module 620.

The application server 500 is composed of SCFs corresponding to each network event. CallNotification / CallDirection SCF 510 for handling events related to Call, SmsNotification SCF 520 for handling events related to SMS, MmsNotification SCF 530 for handling events related to MMS, event for terminal status The TerminalStatusNotification SCF 540 includes a TerminalLocationNotification SCF 550 for an event for terminal location information, a PresenceNotification SCF 560 for an event for presence information, and the like.

In consideration of the types of network events and event notification conditions, the network event processing module 620 selects an SCF to which a network event is to be delivered and delivers event information. The network event processing module 620 includes a TDP setting routine 621, a provisioning TDP processing routine 622, and an event processing routine 623. Event notification conditions are determined by provisioning TDP information and service setting TDP information.

Call / SMS / MMS of the network events that are notified in the open service environment was able to notify the event through the existing provisioning TDP, so the provisioning TDP is basically provided and the service setting TDP is possible, but newly added by the present invention. Location / Status / Presence does not exist because there is no existing provisioning TDP.

The TDP setting routine 621 stores the setting information in consideration of both the provisioning TDP and the service setting TDP, which are two network event types considered in the open service environment.

In the case of the provisioning TDP, the service activation number and the event processing interface are included in the provisioning event table included in the graphical user interface 700 for the corresponding event (Call / SMS / MMS) before the service verifier starts the service simulation. Store the address information, and in the case of the service setting TDP, if the service setting event setting request occurs in the middle of the verification process after starting the service, the correlator, event notification target terminal number and event processing interface address information are stored in the service setting event table 800 In the case of Location / Status / Presence event, each event processing algorithm is executed using different detailed information for each network event.

Since the detailed information is different for each event, common data among the detailed information is extracted and stored in the service setting event table, and other information is transmitted to the event processing algorithm according to the present invention in the form of a message.

For example of event processing algorithm, in case of service setting TDP setting request for TerminalStatusNotification event, service sends startNotification message to request TDP setting and at this time, correlator, addresses (network event target terminal number), criteria Busy / Reachable, etc.), checkImmediate (whether you want to be notified of events immediately when a criteria event occurs), frequency (network event notification interval), duration (network event notification total time), count (network notification count) Status event processing algorithm is executed according to the detailed information to collect network events according to the algorithm processing result.

For network events collected while the event processing algorithm is running, event information is delivered to the web service, which is the event processing interface defined in the service configuration event table (800, further described in FIG. 3), and the event processing algorithm ends or the service configuration event. Upon receiving the release request, the corresponding data tuple is deleted from the service configuration event table and no longer processes the event.

Location or Presence event is processed in the same way as Status, and event processing of Call / SMS / MMS event is received only after correlator value and event notification target terminal number because service setting event details are received. It collects valid events until it passes the event information to the event processing interface Web service.

3 illustrates a structure of a provisioning event table 800 for provisioning TDP and a service event table 900 for storing service setting TDP information.

The provisioning event table 800 is composed of an event type (an event type that can distinguish Call / SMS / MMS) 801, a service activation number 802, and an event processing interface address field 803.

Since provisioning events are set up before network events occur, they store the type of event to be notified, the service activation number of the event, and the interface address, such as the web service address to call for event delivery when the event occurs. The web service interface address for event forwarding is one of the application server SCFs.

The service event table 900 includes a correlator 901 which is a unique ID used for each service setting event, a terminal number 902 which is a network event notification target, and an event processing interface address field 903.

The correlator 901 is a unique ID value set in the service configuration TDP (Location notification request, etc.) and is used to identify and process a preset TDP when an event occurs in the network. The event notification target terminal number 902 is used to check whether the network event is suitable as the information of the target terminal for collecting network events while requesting the service setting TDP. The event processing interface address field 903 is the same as the field 803 of the provisioning event table 800.

Figure 4 shows an example of the flow of a method for processing according to the present invention when a network event occurs in an open service environment.

When the network event is detected (400), the event type is checked to confirm whether the provisioning event is Call / SMS / MMS (405). In the case of a provisioning event, the event table is searched (410) for provisioning. In operation 415, the processor determines whether the event is registered as an event, acquires provisioning event information, obtains an event processing interface address, and transmits network event information (425).

If it is not a provisioning setup event, it is checked whether it is registered as a service setup event (415). When the service configuration event table is searched (430) and the service configuration event is confirmed (435), the service configuration event information is obtained with the detailed information, and a predetermined event processing routine is executed to transmit the network event information to the event processing interface. In operation 445, other events that do not correspond thereto are ignored (450).

In case of Status / Location / Presence event, only service setup TDP is defined, so check if it is service setup event and execute event processing routine.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. Examples included in the above description are introduced for the understanding of the present invention, and these examples do not limit the spirit and scope of the present invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various embodiments in accordance with the present invention in addition to the above examples are possible. The scope of the present invention is shown not in the above description but in the claims, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

In addition, it can be easily understood by those skilled in the art that each of the above steps according to the present invention can be variously implemented in software or hardware using a general programming technique.

And some steps of the invention may also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, CD-RW, magnetic tape, floppy disks, HDDs, optical disks, magneto-optical storage devices, and carrier wave (eg, Internet It also includes the implementation in the form of). The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

According to the present invention, it simulates the network function of the open service environment, including dialing, receiving, call status, SMS sending, receiving, MMS sending, receiving, Location change, notification, Status change, notification and Presence change, notification According to the present invention, a network event processing module for generating a network event by performing a function or a network terminal processing a network event generated through a virtual terminal module in charge of a terminal operation function corresponding to the network event and a virtual terminal module, The network emulator applied with the device and method is expected to improve the verification efficiency by providing the same simulation environment as the open service environment during the open service verification process.

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It simulates the network function of open service environment and performs functions including making, receiving, call status, sending SMS, receiving, sending MMS, receiving, changing location, notification, status change, notification, presence change, and notification. A virtual terminal module generating an event or in charge of a terminal operation function corresponding to a network event; And Communication network event processing apparatus for processing network events in an open environment, characterized in that it comprises a; network event processing module for processing network events occurring through the virtual terminal module. The method of claim 1, And a message processing module for notifying an application server of the open service standard API function of a network event processed by the network event processing module. The communication network event processing module, Process network events corresponding to provisioning TDP and network events corresponding to service setting TDP. A network event processing apparatus for processing network events in an open environment, comprising determining an application server SCF (Service Capability Feature) to which a network event is delivered in consideration of a network event type and an event notification condition. The method of claim 2, The communication network event processing module, A TDP setup routine for storing detailed information about a provisioning trigger detection point (TDP) event and a service configuration TDP event in a provisioning event table and a service configuration event table; A provisioning TDP processing routine for processing a provisioning TDP event using information stored in the provisioning event table for a provisioning TDP event; And An event processing routine for processing a network event by executing a predetermined event processing algorithm using detailed information on the service setting TDP event with respect to a service setting TDP event; and processing network events in an open environment. Network event processing device. The method of claim 3, The TDP setting routine is And receiving network event information corresponding to a provisioning TDP and storing it in the provisioning event table. The method according to claim 3 or 4, The TDP setting routine is stored in the provisioning event table, An event type field for identifying an event type; A service activation number field; An event processing interface address field containing a web service address to call for event delivery when an event occurs; A correlator field which is a unique ID used for each service configuration event; A number field of a terminal to be notified of network events; And An event processing interface address field containing a web service address to be called for event delivery when an event occurs. The TDP setting routine is A network event processing apparatus for processing network events in an open environment, comprising receiving network event information corresponding to a service setting TDP and storing it in the service setting event table. (a) detecting the occurrence of a network event and determining the type of the detected event; (b) if the detected event is a provisioning event, checking whether an event is registered as a provisioning event by searching an event table; (c) acquiring provisioning event information to obtain an event processing interface address and transmitting network event information when the event is registered; (d) checking whether the service setting event is registered as a service setting event if it is not a provisioning setting event, and searching the service setting event table to confirm that the service setting event is a service setting event; (e) acquiring service setting event information including detailed information and executing an event processing routine to transmit network event information to an event processing interface; And (f) if the service setting event is not the service setting event in step (d), ignoring and ending the generated and detected event. 10. The network event processing method for processing network events in an open environment. (a) detecting the occurrence of a network event and determining the type of the detected event; (b) if the detected event is a provisioning event, checking whether an event is registered as a provisioning event by searching an event table; (c) acquiring provisioning event information to obtain an event processing interface address and transmitting network event information when the event is registered; (d) checking whether the service setting event is registered as a service setting event if it is not a provisioning setting event, and checking the service setting event table to confirm that the service setting event is a service setting event; (e) acquiring service setting event information including detailed information and executing an event processing routine to transmit network event information to an event processing interface; And (f) if the service setting event is not the service setting event in step (d), ignoring and terminating the generated and detected event; and recording a communication network event processing method for processing network events in an open environment. Computer-readable recording media.

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