TW201737662A - Flow control system and method thereof for performing the flow control in a background server to restrict the number of connections in a predetermined period of time - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a flow control system and a method thereof. The flow control system comprises a plurality of multimedia terminals, at least one manufacturer server platform and a background server platform, wherein at least one transaction number can be generated in operating the multimedia terminals, and the transaction number can be transmitted to the background server platform. The background server platform can determine whether the transaction numbers transmitted by all the multimedia terminals reach a flow control standard or not according to the transmitted transaction number. If it is determined to reach the flow control standard, the multimedia terminals can display at least one flow control page, so as to pause the operating content of an operating page. Otherwise, if it is determined not to reach the flow control standard, the multimedia terminals can be connected into the manufacturer server platform, so as to continuously operate the operating content on the operating page, and display the transaction information.

Description

Traffic control system and method thereof

The present invention relates to a traffic control system and method thereof, and more particularly to a method and structure for enabling traffic control on a multimedia terminal machine.

Recently, the XX farewell song concert was common. It was sold at 12 noon today, but the fans were too enthusiastic, causing the online booking system to crash, so many people waited for 1, 2 hours and could not buy it. The news of the ticket. This is because the server on the manufacturer side cannot accommodate the number of connections exceeding the load within a certain period of time, thus causing a system crash.

At present, it is very common to connect to the server of each manufacturer through the multimedia terminal machine for activity purchase. Therefore, consumers often get used to directly go to the multimedia terminal of the convenience store to purchase tickets, but if there are many multimedia terminals When the platform purchases the ticket at the same time, in addition to causing the server of the manufacturer to crash, it is likely to cause the server of the multimedia terminal to crash after the server.

The current common solution is that vendors have to add more servers, which has increased their bandwidth. However, such an approach cannot avoid the need to increase the cost of equipment. In addition, it is impossible to estimate whether it will not cause any more. The system crashes. If the number of connections connected at the same time is still exceeding the load, the system will still crash.

In addition, since consumers use the multimedia terminal to connect to the servers of various vendors for active purchases, if the system crashes due to too many connections connected at the same time, the loss will occur at this time. There is a lot of controversy, so there must be a good mechanism to solve this problem, otherwise it will be a big problem for consumers, manufacturers or those who provide multimedia terminal machines.

Therefore, if it is possible to connect to the server of each manufacturer, before the multimedia terminal machine, the server controls the traffic to limit the number of connections in a certain period of time, thereby controlling the connection to each manufacturer. The number of servers, so the invention should be an optimal solution.

The present invention relates to a traffic control system and a method thereof, which are capable of controlling traffic before a server of a multimedia terminal before connecting to a server of each manufacturer to limit the number of connections within a certain period of time. This is used to control the number of servers connected to each vendor.

A traffic control system includes: a plurality of multimedia terminal stations having display screens respectively disposed in different physical stores, and the multimedia terminal machine system includes an operation interface module for providing at least one An operation page, wherein when the operation page is used, at least one transaction serial number can be generated; a traffic control confirmation module is connected to the operation interface module, and can receive the traffic control message through the operation interface module The group displays at least one traffic control page on the display screen to suspend the content of the operation page; at least one vendor server platform; a background server platform, and a plurality of multimedia terminal machines and the manufacturer side The server platform is connected, and the background server platform includes a traffic control judging module, which is capable of receiving the transaction serial number transmitted by all the multimedia terminal stations when the operation page is in operation, and according to at least one traffic control Standard, judge whether the transaction serial number transmitted by all multimedia terminal stations has reached the flow Controlling standards to control whether the content of the operation page of the operation page should continue to operate; a flow control standard setting module is connected to the flow control determination module for setting traffic of different vendor server platforms a control module; a vendor connection module is connected to the traffic control judging module and the vendor server platform, and the traffic control judging module determines that the transaction serial number transmitted by the multimedia terminal device does not meet the traffic control standard , the server server platform can be connected to continue to operate the operating content on the operation page, and display transaction information; a traffic control reply module is associated with the traffic control determination module and the traffic control confirmation The module is connected, and when the traffic control judging module determines that the transaction serial number transmitted by the multimedia terminal device has reached the traffic control standard, the traffic control message can be transmitted to the traffic control confirmation module for the multimedia terminal device At least one traffic control page is displayed on the display screen to suspend the operation page being operated. Yung.

More specifically, the traffic control standard setting module can set the traffic control standard of the active webpage provided by the server platform of different vendors according to the number of simultaneous connections that the vendor server platform can withstand.

More specifically, the traffic control standard setting module can store the set traffic control standard as a vendor profile, and the background server platform further includes a vendor setting connected to the traffic control standard setting module. The file storage module is configured to store at least one vendor profile, and the traffic control standard setting module can extract the vendor profile from the vendor profile storage module to modify the traffic control standard.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is a limit on the number of transaction serial numbers within a set time. If the number of transaction serial numbers in the set time is greater than the number limit of the transaction serial number, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached, and vice versa. If the number of transaction serial numbers in the time is less than the limit of the number of the transaction serial number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number last code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not reached, and vice versa, if the generated transaction If the last code of the serial number is not the last code of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard has been reached.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number last code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached, and vice versa, if the generated transaction If the last code of the serial number is not the last code of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is more capable of setting the display time of the traffic control page.

A flow control method is: operating on a multimedia terminal machine providing an operation page, and generating at least one transaction serial number; after that, the multimedia terminal machine is connected with a background server platform, and The transaction serial number is transmitted to the background server platform; the background server platform can determine whether the transaction serial number transmitted by all the multimedia terminal stations has reached the traffic control standard according to the transmitted transaction serial number; Standard, the multimedia terminal machine can display at least one traffic control page to suspend the content of the operation page; and if it is determined that the traffic control standard is not met, the multimedia terminal machine can be connected to a vendor server platform. In order to continue to operate the content on the operation page, and display the transaction information.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is a limit on the number of transaction serial numbers within a set time. If the number of transaction serial numbers in the set time is greater than the number limit of the transaction serial number, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached, and vice versa. If the number of transaction serial numbers in the time is less than the limit of the number of the transaction serial number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number last code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not reached, and vice versa, if the generated transaction If the last code of the serial number is not the last code of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard has been reached.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number last code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not reached, and vice versa, if the generated transaction If the last code of the serial number is not the last code of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard has been reached.

More specifically, the traffic control standard is more capable of setting the display time of the traffic control page.

More specifically, the traffic control standard for setting server platforms of different vendors can be set according to the number of simultaneous connections that the vendor server platform can withstand.

Other details, features, and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiments.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , which are schematic diagrams showing the overall architecture of a traffic control system and a method thereof, and a schematic diagram of a structure of a multimedia terminal station. As can be seen from the figure, the flow control system includes a plurality of multimedia terminal stations 11 . At least one vendor server platform 3 and a background server platform 2, wherein the plurality of multimedia terminal stations 11 are respectively disposed in different physical stores 1, and the multimedia terminal station 11 includes a display screen 111, An operation interface module 112 and a flow control confirmation module 113, wherein the operation interface module 112 is configured to provide at least one transaction number when the operation page 1121 is provided, and the flow control confirmation module 113 When receiving a traffic control message, the operation interface module 112 can display at least one traffic control page 1122 on the display screen 111 to pause the content of the operation page 1121;

As shown in FIG. 3, the background server platform 2 includes a traffic control standard setting module 21, a manufacturer profile storage module 22, a traffic control determining module 23, a vendor connection module 24, and a The flow control standard setting module 21 is configured to provide a flow control standard setting operation interface 211 for setting traffic control standards of different vendor server platforms 3, because the traffic control standard setting mode The group can set the traffic control standard of the active webpage provided by different vendor server platforms according to the number of simultaneous connections that the vendor server platform can withstand, and can store the set traffic control standard as a manufacturer. Setting file

The vendor profile storage module 22 is configured to store at least one vendor profile, so the traffic control standard setting module 21 can extract the vendor profile from the vendor profile storage module 22 to modify the traffic control. standard;

The traffic control judging module 23 is capable of receiving all the transaction serial numbers transmitted by the multimedia terminal station 11 when the operation page 1121 is in operation, and determining that all the multimedia terminal stations 11 transmit according to at least one traffic control standard. Whether the transaction serial number has reached the traffic control standard to control whether the content of the operation page 1121 is continuing to operate;

When the traffic control judging module 23 determines that the transaction serial number transmitted by the multimedia terminal station 11 does not meet the traffic control standard, the vendor connection module 24 can connect to the vendor server platform 3 for the operation page. Continue to operate the content being operated on 1121 and display the transaction information;

When the traffic control determination module 23 determines that the transaction serial number transmitted by the multimedia terminal station 11 has reached the traffic control standard, the traffic control response module 25 can transmit the traffic control message to the traffic control confirmation module 113 to At least one traffic control page is displayed on the display screen 111 of the multimedia terminal station 11 to suspend the content of the operation page 1121 being operated.

The flow control method of the present invention is as shown in FIG. 4, and the steps are as follows: (1) operating on a multimedia terminal station providing an operation page, and generating at least one transaction serial number 401; (2) after the multimedia terminal The machine station is connected to a background server platform, and transmits the transaction serial number to the background server platform 402; (3) the background server platform can judge all the multimedia terminals according to the transmitted transaction serial number. Whether the transaction serial number transmitted by the station has reached the traffic control standard 403; (4) if it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached, the multimedia terminal machine can display at least one traffic control page to suspend the content 404 that the operation page is operating; (5) If it is determined that the traffic control standard is not met, the multimedia terminal machine can be connected to a vendor server platform to continue operating the content on the operation page and display the transaction information 405.

The actual implementation of the traffic control standard setting is as shown in FIG. 5A. The user can select the vendor connection name of a vendor on the traffic control standard setting operation interface 211, and then press the "deactivate" of the backend, for example, The manufacturer is "20_XX Co., Ltd._XX", and the manufacturer's connection name is "Event Ticket_XX Connection". As shown in Figure 5B, you can further set the "Connection Number", "Flow Control Message", and "Time". The setting values such as the number of segments connected and the number of seconds in the webpage are as shown in the figure. It means that the number of connections can only be 300 in 60 seconds. When the traffic control is required, the display of the traffic control page 1122 is displayed. The time is 60 seconds;

Then press "Modify Connections", as shown in Figure 5C, you can further modify the "Connections", "Flow Control Messages", "Time Zone Connections", "Page Stays" , "Back to previous page URL" and other settings.

Therefore, after the above setting, the consumer can operate the multimedia terminal station 11, as shown in FIGS. 6A to 6E, when the consumer enters the ticket center, when the "voucher activity ticket" is clicked, the user can select "purchase". Tickets, after that, select "Chen Kao's Song Kaohsiung Dome Station in 2014", as shown in Figure 6D, and once again click on "Chen Yu's Song of Kaohsiung Dome Station in 2014", you will be able to see the reading service instructions. The content, and when the user clicks "Agree, Continue Next", the multimedia terminal machine 11 automatically generates a transaction serial number and transmits it to the background server platform 2 for judging by the background server platform 2 Whether flow control is required;

When it is judged that flow control is required, as shown in FIG. 6F, the multimedia terminal station 11 displays the traffic control page 1122, and the consumer must stay in this page for 60 seconds (background setting) before Enter the screen as shown in Figure 6G, so the consumer must return to the home page to re-book.

Because the traffic control standard setting module 21 can set the traffic control standard of the active webpage provided by the different vendor server platform 3 according to the number of simultaneous connections that the vendor server platform 3 can bear, the setting examples are as follows: (1) The flow control standard is a limit on the number of transaction serial numbers within a set time. If the number of transaction serial numbers within the set time is greater than the number limit of the transaction serial number, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached, and vice versa. If the transaction serial number is less than the transaction serial number limit, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached (if it is set to 100, it means that only 100 people can connect to the transaction within a certain period of time). (2) The flow control standard is a limited transaction serial number. If the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the last number of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached. Otherwise, if the transaction serial number is generated, If the code is not the last number of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard has been reached. (If the limited transaction number is 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, if the transaction serial number is 2 codes, it means only 5 of the 99 people. Individuals can connect to the transaction). (3) The flow control standard is a limited transaction serial number. If the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the last number of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard has been reached. Otherwise, if the transaction serial number is generated, If the code is not the last number of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached (if the limited transaction number is 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, if the transaction number is 01) ~50 means that only 40 of the 50 people can connect to the transaction).

As shown in FIG. 7 , it is a first implementation diagram of a flow control judging process of the flow control system and the method thereof according to the present invention. As can be seen from the figure, the flow control standard is a limit on the number of transaction serial numbers within a set time, and therefore Checking the number of connections in the time zone. If the number of connections in the time zone has reached the upper limit, the multimedia terminal station 11 is directly returned to perform traffic control. Otherwise, if the number of connections in the time zone does not reach the upper limit, After the transaction is first written into the temporary archive, the multimedia terminal station 11 is directly returned to inform that the traffic control is not required, so that the transaction can be performed and the transaction information can be displayed.

As shown in FIG. 8 , it is a schematic diagram of the second implementation of the flow control judging process of the flow control system and the method thereof according to the present invention. As can be seen from the figure, the flow control standard is a limited transaction serial number, so the transaction serial number is checked first. Whether the last code matches the background setting condition, if the transaction serial number last code does not match the background setting condition, the multimedia terminal station 11 is directly returned to perform traffic control, and if the transaction serial number last code matches the background setting condition, then After the transaction is first written to the temporary archive, the multimedia terminal station 11 is directly returned to inform that traffic control is not required, so that the transaction can be performed and the transaction information can be displayed.

The advantages of the flow control system and method thereof provided by the present invention when compared with other conventional technologies are as follows: (1) The present invention can be connected to the server of each manufacturer before the stage of the multimedia terminal machine. The server performs traffic control to limit the number of connections in a certain period of time, thereby controlling the number of servers connected to each vendor, thereby avoiding the system crash caused by too many connections connected at the same time.

The present invention has been disclosed in the above embodiments, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Any of those skilled in the art can understand the foregoing technical features and embodiments of the present invention without departing from the invention. In the spirit and scope, the scope of patent protection of the present invention is subject to the definition of the claims attached to the present specification.

1‧‧‧ physical store
11‧‧‧Multimedia terminal machine
111‧‧‧Display screen
112‧‧‧Operation interface module
1121‧‧‧ operation page
1122‧‧‧Flow Control Page
113‧‧‧Flow Control Confirmation Module
2‧‧‧Background server platform
21‧‧‧Flow Control Standard Setting Module
211‧‧‧Flow control standard setting operation interface
22‧‧‧Manufacturer Profile Storage Module
23‧‧‧Flow Control Judgment Module
24‧‧‧Manufacturer connection module
25‧‧‧Flow Control Reply Module
3‧‧‧ Vendor server platform

[Fig. 1] is a schematic diagram showing the overall structure of a flow control system and method thereof according to the present invention. [Fig. 2] Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the architecture of a multimedia terminal station of the traffic control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 3] is a schematic diagram showing the architecture of the server platform after the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 4] is a flow chart showing the flow control flow of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 5A] Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the implementation of the flow control standard setting of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 5B] Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the implementation of the flow control standard setting of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 5C] is a schematic diagram showing the implementation of the flow control standard setting of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 6A] Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the implementation of the activity ticket purchase system of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [FIG. 6B] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an activity ticket purchase implementation of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [FIG. 6C] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an activity ticket purchase implementation of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 6D] is a schematic diagram of the activity ticket purchase implementation of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [FIG. 6E] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an activity ticket purchase implementation of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [FIG. 6F] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an activity ticket purchase implementation of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [6G] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an activity ticket purchase implementation of the flow control system and method of the present invention. [Fig. 7] Fig. 7 is a first implementation diagram of a flow control judging process of the flow control system and method thereof according to the present invention. [Fig. 8] Fig. 8 is a second embodiment of the flow control judgment flow of the flow control system and method of the present invention.

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Claims (13)

A traffic control system includes: a plurality of multimedia terminal stations having display screens respectively disposed in different physical stores, and the multimedia terminal machine system comprises: an operation interface module for providing at least one The operating page can generate at least one transaction serial number when using the operation page; a traffic control confirmation module is connected to the operation interface module for receiving a traffic control message through the operation interface The module displays at least one flow control page on the display screen to suspend the content of the operation page; at least one vendor server platform; a background server platform, and a plurality of multimedia terminal machines and the manufacturer The server platform is connected, and the background server platform comprises: a traffic control judging module, configured to receive the transaction serial number transmitted by all the multimedia terminal stations when the operation page is in operation, and according to at least one Traffic control standard, it is judged that the transaction serial number transmitted by all multimedia terminal stations is A flow control standard has been reached to control whether the content of the operation page of the operation page should continue to operate; a flow control standard setting module is connected to the flow control determination module for setting different server servers a traffic control standard of the platform; a manufacturer connection module is connected to the traffic control judging module and the vendor server platform, and the traffic control judging module judges that the transaction serial number transmitted by the multimedia terminal station is not up to The traffic control standard can be connected to the vendor server platform to continue to operate the content on the operation page and display transaction information; a traffic control reply module is associated with the traffic control determination module and the The traffic control confirmation module is connected, and when the traffic control determination module determines that the transaction serial number transmitted by the multimedia terminal device has reached the traffic control standard, the traffic control message can be transmitted to the traffic control confirmation module for the multimedia At least one traffic control page is displayed on the display screen of the terminal machine to pause the operation page The content of the operation. The traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic control standard setting module is capable of setting an active webpage provided by a different vendor server platform according to the number of simultaneous connections that the vendor server platform can withstand. Traffic control standards. The traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic control standard setting module is configured to store the set traffic control standard as a vendor profile, and the background server platform further includes a mode set with the traffic control standard a set of vendor configuration file storage modules for storing at least one vendor profile, and the traffic control standard setting module can extract the vendor profile from the vendor profile storage module to modify the traffic control standard. The traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic control standard is a transaction number limit in a set time, and if the number of transaction serial numbers in the set time is greater than the transaction serial number limit, it is determined that the traffic control has been reached. Standard, on the other hand, if the number of transaction serial numbers within the set time is less than the number limit of the transaction serial number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached. The traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number end code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not met. On the other hand, if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is not the last code of the limited transaction number, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached. The traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number end code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been met. On the other hand, if the last code of the generated transaction number is not the last number of the limited transaction number, it is judged that the traffic control standard is not reached. The traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic control standard is further capable of setting a display time of the traffic control page. A flow control method is: operating on a multimedia terminal machine providing an operation page, and generating at least one transaction serial number; after that, the multimedia terminal machine is connected with a background server platform, and The transaction serial number is transmitted to the background server platform; the background server platform can determine whether the transaction serial number transmitted by all the multimedia terminal stations has reached the traffic control standard according to the transmitted transaction serial number; Standard, the multimedia terminal machine can display at least one traffic control page to suspend the content of the operation page; and if it is determined that the traffic control standard is not met, the multimedia terminal machine can be connected to a vendor server platform. In order to continue to operate the content on the operation page, and display the transaction information. The traffic control method according to claim 8, wherein the traffic control standard is a transaction sequence number limit within a set time, and if the transaction sequence number in the set time is greater than the transaction sequence number limit, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached. On the other hand, if the number of transaction serial numbers within the set time is less than the limit of the number of the transaction serial number, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not reached. The traffic control method according to claim 8, wherein the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number end code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not reached, and vice versa. If the last code of the generated transaction serial number is not the last number of the limited transaction number, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached. The traffic control method according to claim 8, wherein the traffic control standard is a limited transaction serial number end code, and if the last code of the generated transaction serial number is the limited transaction serial number last code, it is determined that the traffic control standard is not reached, and vice versa. If the last code of the generated transaction serial number is not the last number of the limited transaction number, it is determined that the traffic control standard has been reached. The traffic control method of claim 8, wherein the traffic control standard is more capable of setting a display time of the traffic control page. The traffic control method according to claim 8, wherein the traffic control standard of the server platform of different vendors can be set according to the number of simultaneous connections that the vendor server platform can bear.