WO2007022676A1

WO2007022676A1 - A system for reporting and obtaining device information and the method therefor

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Publication number: WO2007022676A1
Application number: PCT/CN2006/001342
Authority: WO
Inventors: Jie Tang; Xiaoyi Dong; Hai Shen; Hongtao Gao; Xiaoqian Chai; Qi Shu; Jianzhang Cheng; Kepeng Li; Jiangshui He
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 2005-08-22
Filing date: 2006-06-15
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Also published as: CN1852102A

Abstract

A system for reporting and obtaining device information comprises device management (DM) server, device information source server and service application server, and the foresaid DM server comprises: application interface module which is used to receive the terminal information request from the service application server and query terminal information database according to the terminal information request, and transmitting querying result to the service application server; terminal interface module which is used to receive the terminal information from the device information source server and save the terminal information into terminal information database; terminal information database which is used to save the terminal information. The said device information source server is used to transmit the terminal device information to the DM server. The said service application server is used to transmit device information request to the DM server and receive the device information from the DM server. By applying the invention, the work efficiency of terminal manufacturers and operators whould be improved, and the adaptation capability of terminal device obtains strong ensuring.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to communications technologies, and in particular, to a device information reporting and acquiring system and method thereof. BACKGROUND With the development of mobile networks, mobile networks and the Internet are integrated to provide more and more value-added services for mobile network users. Users want to be able to access the network from any terminal (such as PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), laptop (laptop), mobile phone, personal computer, game controller, TV, etc.) in order to get a variety of rich information, enjoy each Mobile value-added services. However, the user does not want to be too troublesome, and does not want to manually complete the tedious work of downloading the software, setting parameters, and the like. Device management is a new technology created to meet this need.

Through the device management protocol, the device management server (DM Server) can provide users with a series of services such as terminal firmware update, device diagnosis, parameter configuration, software automatic download and installation through OTA, thus freeing users from these troublesome tasks. . For the implementation of various services on the user terminal, terminal capability adaptation may be required. For example, the firmware upgrade needs to know the provider and version of the terminal firmware, and the software download needs to know the available memory size of the terminal or the available memory size of the application. . Therefore, the device management server needs comprehensive terminal information to perform terminal adaptation.

In addition, other service application components in the mobile network also need terminal capability adaptation, such as download service, game service, etc. These service components also need various terminal information for terminal adaptation.

However, in the prior art, when a terminal of a model is released, the terminal manufacturer sends the terminal detailed information to the operator in an email manner, or sequentially logs in to each operator's Portal, and manually inputs the terminal information into the portal. . Therefore, because the whole process is not automatically completed, but by manual means, the terminal manufacturers have a lot of work. Secondly, problems such as omissions and misstatement of terminal information may be caused by human factors. Furthermore, when the terminal device information changes, the operator may not be able to Get the latest terminal information. Furthermore, because the different business components of the operator may have different

Portal, therefore, operators may need to maintain multiple terminal information databases. Each service component needs to maintain its own database separately. This will result in duplication of work and reduced work efficiency. Summary of the invention

It is an object of the present invention to provide a device information reporting and acquisition system and method thereof. It can improve work efficiency and provide a strong guarantee for the adaptation of terminal equipment.

The invention discloses a device information reporting system, which comprises a device management server and a device information source server.

The device management server includes: a terminal interface module, configured to receive terminal information sent by a device information source server, and store the terminal information in a terminal information database; and a terminal information database, configured to store terminal information;

The device information source server includes: a terminal information input unit, configured to input the reported terminal information; a terminal information encapsulating unit, configured to organize and encapsulate the terminal information according to a predetermined format; and a terminal information sending unit, configured to time the terminal information data Sent to the device management server.

The device information source server includes a terminal manufacturer server and/or a portal server.

The invention also discloses a device information reporting method, which comprises:

The device information source server sends the terminal information to the device management server;

The terminal interface module of the device management server receives the terminal information of the device information source server; the terminal interface module of the device management server stores the obtained terminal information in a database. The device information source server sends the terminal information to the device management server, and further includes: the device information source server sends the terminal information to the portal server by using an uploading interface of the login portal;

The portal server invokes the information reporting interface provided by the terminal interface module, and sends the terminal information to the device management server.

The step of the device information source server sending the terminal information to the device management server further includes: The terminal information input unit transmits the terminal information to the terminal information encapsulating unit; the terminal information encapsulating unit encapsulates the terminal information into a data packet, and sends the data packet to the terminal information sending unit;

The terminal information sending unit calls the information uploading interface provided by the terminal interface module to send the data packet to the device management server.

The step of receiving, by the terminal interface module of the device management server, the terminal information of the device information source server includes:

The terminal interface module of the device management server receives the data packet of the device information source server; and parses the data packet to obtain the terminal information.

The information reporting interface includes a network service interface, a message communication interface, a file interface, and/or an application programming interface.

The invention also discloses a device information acquisition system, which comprises a service application server and a device management server.

The device management server includes: a terminal information database, configured to store terminal information; an application interface module, configured to receive a terminal information request sent by the service application server, request a terminal information database according to the terminal information request, and send the query result to the service application. Server

The service application server is configured to send a device information request to the device management server, and receive device information sent by the device management server.

The business application server includes a game server, a download service server, and/or a multimedia message service server.

The invention also discloses a method for acquiring terminal device information, including:

The service application server sends a terminal information query request to the device management server through the information query interface;

The application interface module of the device management server queries the terminal information database according to the terminal information query request;

The application interface module sends the query result to the business application server.

The information query interface includes a network service interface, a message communication interface, a file interface, and/or Application programming interface.

The application interface module of the device management server queries the terminal information database according to the terminal information query request, and specifically includes: after receiving the query request data packet, the application interface module of the device management server parses the data packet, and queries the terminal information database to obtain the terminal device. information.

According to the present invention, the operator can collect various types of terminal information of each terminal manufacturer in a timely and convenient manner. The device management server manages and maintains the terminal information database, which can meet the terminal adaptation needs of device management. The terminal information database managed by the DM Server can meet the needs of other business application components to use terminal information. In addition, the terminal manufacturer is greatly facilitated, so that the terminal information can be automatically transmitted to the operator. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a system for reporting and acquiring terminal information of the present invention;

2 is a flow chart showing reporting terminal information from an operation side of the present invention;

3 is a flow chart showing reporting terminal information from a device information source according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the acquisition of terminal information by the service application server of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In order to facilitate the understanding and implementation of the present invention, the embodiments of the present invention are described in conjunction with the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the present invention provides a device management system, where the system includes: a device management server, a device information source server, a service application server, and a terminal device. The various components of the device management system of the present invention are described in detail below.

The device management server is configured to receive the terminal information sent by the device information source server, and then save the terminal information in the device information database; the device management server further receives the device information request of the service application server, and requests the device information database according to the device information request. Send the device information to the service application server by using the device information;

The device management server includes: a terminal interface module, configured to receive a device information source service The terminal information sent by the device, and the received terminal information is stored in the device information database; the application interface module is configured to receive the terminal device information request sent by the service application server, and query the device information database to device information according to the device information request, and then The device information is sent to the service application server; the device information database is used to store information of various types of terminal devices, including various possible terminal basic information, terminal capability information, hardware parameters, and software parameters, and the hardware parameters include Device type (PSTN phone, GSM, TV, etc.), manufacturer, model, display size, input/output capability, color support, etc. The software parameters include operating system vendor and version, e-mail/MMS/WAP client End type, multimedia capability, audio/video decoder list, multicast support capability, etc.; processing module, used to interact with the terminal device to implement device management capabilities specified in the DM specification.

a service application server, configured to generate a device information request, and send the device information request to the device management server, so that the device management server queries the device information database to obtain device information; the service application server may be a game service server, a download service server, or a multimedia message. Business server, etc.

The device information source server, which may be a terminal manufacturer server or a portal server, is configured to send terminal device information to the device management server. The device information source server includes a terminal information reporting module, and the terminal information module includes: a terminal information input unit, configured to enable a terminal manufacturer operator or other module to input the terminal information of the terminal; the terminal information encapsulating unit is configured to The terminal information is organized and encapsulated in a specific format; and the terminal information sending unit is configured to periodically send the terminal information data to the DMS.

A terminal device is a terminal device to be maintained by the device management server.

In order to upload the terminal device information of the terminal manufacturer to the device management server, the terminal interface module of the device management server is first defined.

The terminal interface module is configured to receive a data packet sent by the device information source server. The terminal interface module provides an information reporting interface, and the information reporting interface includes a web service interface, a message communication interface (such as a TCP/IP message, an HTTP message, an XML message, a network protocol message, etc.), a file interface, and an API interface. API is not limited to general local method calls, it can also make Used for remote method calls such as CORBA, RMI/IIOP, DCOM). The following uses the API interface as an example to describe the definition of the information reporting interface.

The terminal interface module provides a DevInfoReport API (application programming interface) for reporting the terminal information to the reporting component of the device information source server; and provides a DevInfoRptResp API for returning the terminal information. The definitions of these two APIs are similar to:

Void DevInfoRpt(char info[]);

The parameter is a standard XML format string or file that describes the terminal information.

Void DevInfoRpt esp(int result);

The parameter is the result of the terminal interface module processing the reported terminal information. For example, 1 indicates that the report is successful, and 0 indicates that the report fails.

After the information reporting interface of the terminal interface module is defined, the device information source server of the terminal manufacturer can call the interface to send the terminal device information to the device management server. The reporting method of the device information source server reporting the terminal device information to the device management server is described below. Device Information Source There are two methods for the server to report terminal information to the device management server: automatic transmission on the carrier side and automatic transmission on the vendor side, which are described below.

First, the method of automatically transmitting terminal information from the operator side is introduced. This method requires the operator to set an interface for receiving terminal information in the device management portal. Then, the terminal manufacturer reports the terminal information through the device management portal. The process of reporting the terminal information is described below with reference to FIG. 2 .

Step 1. The terminal manufacturer logs in to the upload interface of the portal server and writes the terminal information to the interface for receiving terminal information set in the portal.

Step 2: The portal server invokes the information reporting interface provided by the terminal interface module, such as DevInfoRpt, to send the terminal information to the terminal interface module.

Step 3. The terminal interface module parses the terminal information, and then writes the parsed device terminal information into the terminal information database.

The following describes a method for automatically transmitting terminal information from a terminal manufacturer side. In this method, the device information source server transmits terminal information to the DM Server according to a standard format through a terminal information reporting module. As shown in Figure 3, the process of 4上 is: Step 31: The device information source server writes information of a certain type of terminal to the terminal information reporting module through the terminal information input unit. At the same time, the device information source server can write the content of the terminal information input unit: the time when the terminal information is sent; the carrier code or the carrier range to which the terminal information is sent, such as China Mobile, all Chinese operators, all European operators, etc.

Step 32: The terminal information encapsulating unit organizes the terminal information into a terminal information data packet in a standard format, and then transfers the terminal information data packet to the terminal information transmitting unit.

Step 33: The terminal information sending unit invokes the information reporting interface provided by the terminal interface module, such as DevInfoRpt, to automatically send the data packet to the DM Server of the specified operator at a specified time (if provided by the terminal manufacturer). The operator can get it according to the carrier code filled in.

Step 34: The DM Server receives the terminal information data packet through the terminal interface module. When the terminal interface module receives a terminal information packet, it parses the data. And return the terminal information report result, for example, call DevInfoRptResp to return the report success or failure.

Step 35: The terminal interface module writes the parsed terminal information data into the terminal of the DM Server. The information database.

In order for the service application server to use the terminal information, the service application server can query the terminal information through the application interface module of the device management server. First, the definition of the interface in the application interface module is first introduced.

The application interface module provides an information query interface for the service application server, and the interface includes a network service interface, an information communication interface (such as a TCP/IP message, an HTTP message, an XML message, a network protocol message, etc.), a file interface, and an API interface (such as using a local device). The local interface of the method call, or the remote interface for remote method calls such as CORBA, RMI/IIOP, DCOM, etc.). The following uses the API interface as an example to illustrate the definition of the information query interface.

The application interface module provides a DevChkReq API for the terminal information query request submitted by the service application server; and provides a DevChkResp API for returning the terminal to the service application server.

1 port 'S:.

Void DevChkReq(char reqinfo[]); The parameter is a standard XML format string or file describing the terminal information query request.

Void DevChkResp(char devinfo[]);

After the information query interface of the application interface module is defined, the service application server can query the terminal information through the interface of the device management server application interface module. Next, a method for the service application server to acquire the terminal design information will be described with reference to FIG.

Step 41: After obtaining the query request instruction, the terminal information query component of the service application server collects the query parameters, and organizes the query parameters into data packets according to the query request format. The query parameters include a terminal model, a model set, a parameter, a parameter set, and the like.

Step 42: The terminal information query component of the service application server invokes a query interface provided by the application interface module, such as DevChkReq, and the special data packet is sent to the application interface module of the device management server.

Step 43: After receiving the query request data packet, the application interface module of the device management server parses the data packet, and obtains query parameters such as the terminal type and terminal parameters to be queried.

Step 44: The application interface module queries the terminal information database for terminal information according to the query parameter. Step 45: The application interface module obtains terminal information.

Step 46: The application interface module invokes the information return interface, such as DevChkResp, to send the terminal information to the service application component. Then, the terminal information query component of the service application server obtains the data packet with the terminal information, and parses the required terminal information.

In addition, for the management operation implemented by the operator through the DM mode, or the service provided by the software/service provider through the DM mode, when the terminal adaptation is required, the device management server first queries the device information database to obtain the terminal of the required model. For details, determine whether it is possible to implement related management operations or services. This makes device management more efficient.

According to the present invention, an operator can collect terminal information of various manufacturers and various models in a timely and convenient manner. The device management server manages and maintains the terminal information database, which can meet the terminal adaptation needs of device management. The terminal information database managed by the DM Server can meet the needs of other business application components to use terminal information. In addition, it greatly facilitates the terminal manufacturer to automatically send terminal information to the operator. While the invention has been described by the embodiments of the invention in the embodiments of the invention Request to limit.

Claims

Rights request

A device information reporting system, comprising a device management server and a message source server, wherein

The device management server includes: a terminal interface module, configured to receive terminal information sent by a device information source server, and store the terminal information in a terminal information database; and a terminal information database for storing terminal information;

2. The device information reporting system according to claim 1, wherein the device information source server comprises a terminal manufacturer server and/or a portal server.

A device information reporting method, which is characterized in that:

The terminal interface module of the device management server receives the terminal information of the device information source server; the terminal interface module of the device management server stores the obtained terminal information in a database.

The device information reporting method according to claim 3, wherein the device information source server sends the terminal information to the device management server, further comprising:

The device information source server sends the terminal information to the portal server;

The portal server sends the terminal information to the device management server through the information reporting interface provided by the terminal interface module.

The device information reporting method according to claim 3, wherein the step that the device information source server sends the terminal information to the device management server further comprises:

The terminal information input unit transmits the terminal information to the terminal information encapsulating unit;

The terminal information encapsulating unit encapsulates the terminal information into a data packet, and sends the data packet to the terminal information sending unit;

The terminal information sending unit sends the data packet through the information reporting interface provided by the terminal interface module. Go to the device management server.

The device information reporting method according to claim 5, wherein the step of the terminal interface module of the device management server receiving the terminal information of the device information source server comprises:

The device information reporting method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the information reporting interface comprises a network service interface, a message communication interface, a file interface, and/or an application programming interface.

8. A device information acquisition system, comprising a service application server and a device management server, wherein:

9. The device information acquisition system according to claim 8, wherein the service application server comprises a game server, a download service server, and/or a multimedia message service server.

10. A device information acquisition method, comprising:

The device information obtaining method according to claim 10, wherein the information query interface comprises a network service interface, a message communication interface, a file interface, and/or an application programming interface.

The device information obtaining method according to claim 10, wherein the application interface module of the device management server queries the terminal information database according to the terminal information query request The body includes: After receiving the query request data packet, the application interface module of the device management server parses the data packet, and queries the terminal information database to obtain the terminal device information.