WO2011107022A1

WO2011107022A1 - Data card and method for dial-up networking

Info

Publication number: WO2011107022A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/071445
Authority: WO
Inventors: 李斌
Original assignee: 华为终端有限公司
Priority date: 2010-03-03
Filing date: 2011-03-02
Publication date: 2011-09-09
Also published as: CN101826967A; CN101826967B

Abstract

A data card and method for dial-up networking are disclosed by embodiments of this invention, which relate to the field of network technology. With the embodiments of this invention, the procedure of data card dial-up networking is simplified and the user experience is improved. The method for dial-up networking provided by the embodiments of this invention includes the following steps: the communication connection between a data card and a user terminal is established; in answer to the action of a switch, the data card initiates the network connection by calling prestored dial-up networking programs and network connection parameters, thus the user terminal is connected to the network, wherein the switch is positioned on the main body of the data card. The technical solution provided by the embodiments of this invention can be applied to any data cards capable of dial-up networking.

Description

Data card and dial-up method

The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 2010-1011 684 7.8, filed on Jan. 3, 2010, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of network technologies, and in particular, to a data card and a method for dial-up using the data card. Background technique

At present, the technology of dial-up via a data card (such as a USB modem) has matured, mainly by installing a background software on a PC (Personal Computer), and when the information interaction between the data card and the data card is normal, that is, A network connection can be established; in addition, other data services for the data card can be implemented by operations on the background software.

However, after inserting the data card into the host of the PC, the background software needs to wait for the data card to be initialized before dialing and establishing an Internet connection. In this way, the process from the power-on of the data card to the establishment of the network connection takes a long time and requires the user to wait for a long time; Moreover, if the interaction time between the data card and the background software is too long or abnormal, A short-lived background software stuck state that affects the user experience. Summary of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a data card and a dial-up method for simplifying the process of dialing a data card to access the network and improving the user experience.

In order to achieve the above object, the embodiment of the present invention adopts the following technical solutions:

A data card includes a data card body and a switch disposed on the data card body; wherein the data card body includes:

a communication unit, configured to establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal;

a storage unit, configured to save a dial-up Internet program and network connection parameters;

a processing unit, configured to respond to the action of the switch by calling a dialing in the storage unit The network program and network connection parameters are used to initiate a network connection to allow the user terminal to access the network or disconnect the network.

A dial-up method includes:

Establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal;

The data card responds to the switch action by invoking a pre-stored dial-up Internet program and network connection parameters to initiate a network connection to enable the user terminal to access the network;

The switch is located on a main body of the data card.

The data card and the dial-up method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can directly initiate a network connection through a switch provided on the data card, without performing related operations for starting a network connection through the background software on the user terminal; When the user terminal sends the network connection indication to the data card, the waiting process of the user when the network connection is performed is shortened, and the user experience is improved. DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only the present invention. For some embodiments, other drawings may be obtained from those skilled in the art without departing from the drawings.

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a data card in Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

2 is a schematic structural diagram of a data card in Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of a dial-up Internet access method according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a dial-up Internet access method according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a dial-up Internet access method according to Embodiment 5 of the present invention. detailed description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative work are within the scope of the present invention.

The data card and the dial-up method provided by the embodiment of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Said.

Embodiment 1: As shown in FIG. 1 , the data card provided in this embodiment includes a data card body 110 and a switch 120 disposed on the data card body 110. The specific implementation form of the switch 120 may be but not limited to The data card body 110 includes: a button, a knob, and the like;

The communication unit 111 is configured to establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal, the storage unit 112 is configured to save a dial-up Internet program and a network connection parameter, and the processing unit 113 is configured to respond to the switch 120. The action is initiated by invoking a dial-up Internet program and network connection parameters in the storage unit 112 to enable the user terminal to access the network or disconnect the network.

With the data card provided in this embodiment, the network connection can be initiated directly through the switch provided on the data card body without performing related operations for starting the network connection through the background software on the user terminal; thus, the user can be omitted. The time when the terminal sends the network connection indication to the data card shortens the waiting process when the user performs the network connection, and improves the user experience.

Embodiment 2: The data card shown in Fig. 2 is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In this implementation, the data card includes a data card body 210 and a switch 220 disposed on the data card body 210. The data card body 210 includes:

The communication unit 211 is configured to establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal; the storage unit 212 is configured to save a dial-up Internet program and a network connection parameter; the profile includes an access point name (Access Point Name) , APN), user name and user password, etc., which may be written into the storage unit 212 of the data card when the data card is shipped from the factory or before the first use; or may be used in the data card In the process, the corresponding parameter is set by the background software on the user terminal and saved in the storage unit 212 of the data card. The processing unit 213 is configured to respond to the action of the switch 220 by calling the storage unit 212. The dial-up Internet program and profile are used to initiate a network connection to allow the user terminal to access the network or disconnect the network. Specifically, the switch may have the following two implementation manners: First, the switch 220 is a button, and the processing unit 213 is configured to respond to the switch 220 if the current user terminal does not establish a network connection. The action is initiated by invoking a dial-up Internet program and profile in the storage unit 212 to enable the user terminal to access the network;

In the case that the current user terminal has established a network connection, the processing unit 213 is configured to disconnect the current network connection in response to the action of the switch 220.

Secondly, the switch 220 includes an open button 221 and a close button 222. Then, the processing unit 213 can include an access module 2131 and a disconnect module 2132.

The access module 2131 is configured to initiate a network connection by calling a dial-up Internet program and a profile in the storage unit 212 in response to the action of the open button 221, so that the user terminal accesses the network; The module 2132 is configured to disconnect the current network connection in response to the action of the close button 222.

The specific implementation of the above switch is described by taking a button as an example, but the actual situation is not limited thereto; for example, the rotation of the knob can be used to distinguish the operation of the opening or closing.

In the above description, it is repeatedly mentioned that the processing unit 213 calls the profile in the storage unit 212 to start the network connection process; if only one profile is stored in the storage unit 212, the processing unit 213 directly calls this. a profile; if the storage unit 212 stores a plurality of profiles for different operators, the data card also needs to set an identification unit 214;

The identification unit 214 is configured to identify a current network ID (network identification code) of the operator that provides the network service, for example, the network ID of China Mobile is 46000, and notify the processing unit of the identified network ID. 213. Then, the processing unit 213 may acquire and invoke a profile corresponding to the network ID from the storage unit 212 according to the network ID to start a network connection process. The user terminal is further connected to the network. If the background software of the dial-up Internet is installed on the user terminal, the data card may further include a reporting unit 215, for reporting the current network status to the user terminal connected to the data card. To ensure that the background state is synchronized with the data card. For example, after the network connection is successfully established, the reporting unit 215 in the data card reports information such as "accessed network" or "connected to the network" to the user terminal; After the network connection of the user terminal is opened, the work unit 215 reports information such as "disconnected network" or "network connection disconnected" to the user terminal. In addition, the data card further includes a saving unit 216, configured to save, by the user terminal, a profile that successfully establishes a network connection into the storage unit 212; When the data card in the dial-up network is dial-up, the corresponding profile can be directly called from the storage unit 212 without passing through the background input on the user terminal. With the data card provided in this embodiment, when the user wants to establish a network connection, the switch on the data card can be directly used for dialing, so that once the data card interacts with the user terminal, the data channel can be directly established and accessed for the user terminal. The network server establishes a network connection; since the dial-up mode does not depend on the background software on the user terminal, the number of software installed on the user terminal can be reduced, and the space and memory resource occupancy rate can be reduced; even if the terminal exists The background software, the background software also needs to process the current network status reported by the data card in real time, and grasp the interaction between the data card and the background software.

Therefore, using the data card provided in this embodiment to perform dial-up Internet access can simplify the process of dial-up Internet access, appropriately shorten the connection time, and also eliminate the long-term waiting time between the background and the data card or the user's persistent waiting when an abnormality occurs, thereby improving the user. Experience.

As shown in FIG. 3, the dial-up method provided in this embodiment includes the following steps: 301. Establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal. After the data card is inserted into the corresponding interface of the user terminal, the data card first completes power-on and initialization, and then attempts to establish a communication connection with the user terminal. 302. The data card responds to the switch action, and initiates a network connection by using a pre-stored dial-up Internet program and a network connection parameter to enable the user terminal to access the network. The switch is located on the main body of the data card. The number of the above steps is not used to limit the execution order; for example, the execution time of step 301 and step 302 may be cross-exited, and the data card may first determine whether the data card and the user terminal have been established in response to the switching action. The communication connection, if established, initiates the dial-up process; if not, attempts to establish a communication connection with the user terminal while attempting to connect the user terminal to the network to save time. Through the dial-up Internet access method provided in this embodiment, the network connection of the dial-up Internet connection can be directly activated through the switch provided on the data card body, without performing the related operation of starting the network connection through the background software on the user terminal; The time for issuing the network connection indication to the data card by the user terminal is omitted, the waiting process for the user to perform the network connection is shortened, and the user experience is improved. Embodiment 4: The dial-up method shown in FIG. 4 is a specific method embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the data card used for dial-up Internet access includes a data card body and a switch disposed on the data card body. Specifically, the dial-up Internet access method, as shown in FIG. 4, specifically includes the following steps. :

401. Insert the data card into the interface corresponding to the user terminal to complete the power-on and initialization process of the data card.

402. Establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal. 403. The user presses a switch on the data card to initiate a network connection establishment request. If both the open button and the close button are provided on the data card, then in step 403, the user presses the open button on the data card.

404. The data card responds to the switch action by invoking a pre-stored dial-up Internet program and a network connection parameter (rofile) to initiate a network connection to enable the user terminal to access the network. Specifically, the pre-stored dial-up Internet program may be written into the storage unit of the data card before the data card is shipped or before the first use; the pre-stored profile includes an APN, a username, and a user password, which may be Write to the data card before the data card is shipped or before the data card is used for the first time. In the storage unit, during the use of the data card, the corresponding parameters are set by the background software on the user terminal and saved in the storage unit of the data card.

If only one profile is stored in the storage unit of the data card, the data card can directly invoke the profile; and if the storage unit of the data card stores multiple profiles for different operators, data is needed. The card first acquires and identifies the network ID of the operator currently providing the network service, for example, the network ID of China Mobile is 46000, and then calls the corresponding profile according to the identified network ID; and if the storage unit holds For multiple profiles of the same carrier, the profile can be determined by first referring to the network ID, and then a profile is randomly selected from the callable profile or the profile is invoked according to the priority of different profiles.

405. When the user terminal does not need to access the network, the user may press the switch on the data card again to disconnect the current network connection.

If both the open button and the close button are provided on the data card, then in step 405, the user presses the close button on the data card to disconnect the current network connection.

The numbers of the steps in the above method description are not used to define the execution order between different steps; for example, step 402 and step 403 can be performed interactively, and the user can press the data card and the user terminal to establish a communication connection. The switch initiates a network connection request; or may initiate a network connection request by pressing a switch before establishing a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal, in this case, once the data card and the user terminal are normal Interaction, you can directly establish a data channel for the user terminal and access the network server. Through the dial-up method provided in this embodiment, the switch provided on the data card body can be directly used to initiate the network connection of the dial-up Internet without performing the related operation of starting the network connection through the background software on the user terminal; The time for the network connection indication to be sent to the data card by the user terminal can be omitted, the waiting process for the user to perform the network connection is shortened, and the user experience is improved; and at the same time, the dial-up connection method does not need to depend on the user terminal. The background software can reduce the number of software installed on the user terminal and reduce the space and memory resource usage.

Embodiment 5: The dial-up method shown in FIG. 5 is another specific method embodiment of the present invention. In this implementation For example, the data card used for dial-up Internet access includes a data card body and a switch disposed on the data card body; and at the same time, a background software for dial-up Internet access is installed on the user terminal. Specifically, the dial-up method, as shown in FIG. 5, specifically includes the following steps:

501. Insert the data card into the interface corresponding to the user terminal to complete the power-on and initialization process of the data card.

502. Establish a communication connection between the data card and the user terminal.

503. The user presses a switch on the data card to initiate a network connection establishment request.

If both the open button and the close button are provided on the data card, then in step 503, the user presses the open button on the data card.

504. The data card responds to the switch action by invoking a pre-stored dial-up Internet program and a network connection parameter (rofile) to initiate a network connection to enable the user terminal to access the network.

Specifically, the pre-stored dial-up Internet program may be written into the storage unit of the data card before the data card is shipped or before the first use; the pre-stored profile includes an APN, a username, and a user password, which may be Before the data card is shipped to the storage unit of the data card before the first use of the data card, or during the use of the data card, the corresponding parameters are set and saved by the background software on the user terminal. Into the storage unit of the data card.

505. After the user terminal is connected to the network, the data card reports the current network status to the background software of the user terminal, that is, reports information such as “accessed network” or “connected to the network” to the background software. Then, the background software synchronously refreshes the background interface and notifies the user that the Internet is available. 506. The user operates the data card by using a background software; the data card responds to the operation and feeds back a response message to the background software.

507. When the user terminal does not need to access the network, the user may press the switch on the data card again to disconnect the current network connection.

If both the open button and the close button are provided on the data card, then in step 507, the user presses the close button on the data card to disconnect the current network connection.

508. After disconnecting the network, the data card reports the current network status to the background software of the user terminal, that is, reports information such as “disconnected network” or “network connection disconnected” to the background software; and then, the background software Synchronize the background interface and notify the user that the current network is unavailable.

In this embodiment, since the background software for dial-up Internet access is installed on the user terminal, when the dial-up connection request is initiated or disconnected, the background software can also be implemented. Then, in this embodiment, the establishment and disconnection of the network connection may be implemented by using a hardware manner, or may be implemented by a software manner, or may be implemented by a combination of software and hardware; for example, a dial can be used to initiate dialing. The Internet process, when the network connection needs to be disconnected, the background software is used to send a command to disconnect the network to the data card; or, the background software is used to start the dial-up Internet process, and the switch is used to disconnect the network.

If the dial-up network process is started through the background software, in the process of establishing a network connection, the data card can directly call the saved profile from the storage unit, or directly use the profile newly input by the user. For the latter case, after the network connection is established, the data card can synchronously save the profile input through the user terminal and successfully establishing the network connection to the storage unit of the data card; thus, the next time the switch is used When dialing up, you can directly call the corresponding profile from the storage unit of the data card.

The numbering of the steps in the above method description is not intended to limit the order of execution between the different steps. The dial-up method provided in this embodiment can directly use the switch on the data card to dial when the user wants to establish a network connection, so that once the data card interacts with the user terminal, the data channel can be directly established for the user terminal. Accessing the network server to establish a network connection; since the dial-up connection method does not need to rely on the background software on the user terminal, the number of software installed on the user terminal can be reduced, and the space and memory resource occupancy rate can be reduced; even in the terminal There is a background The software and the background software only need to process the current network status reported by the data card in real time, and grasp the interaction between the data card and the background software. Therefore, the dial-up method provided in this embodiment can simplify the process of dial-up Internet access, appropriately shorten the connection time, and can also eliminate the long-term waiting time between the background and the data card or the user's persistent waiting when an abnormality occurs, thereby improving the user experience.

The data cards involved in the above embodiments are all required to be plugged into the user terminal to complete the power-on and initialization process; for some existing wireless connections and users through WiFi (Wireless Fidelity, wireless compatibility authentication) For the data card in which the terminal communicates, the solution provided in the embodiment of the present invention is also applicable, and therefore should also fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the present invention can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary hardware platform, and of course, can also be implemented entirely by hardware. Based on such understanding, all or part of the technical solution of the present invention contributing to the background art may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a storage medium such as a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or the like. A number of instructions are included to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention or portions of the embodiments.

The above is only a specific embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention. All should be covered by the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present invention should be determined by the scope of the claims.

Claims

Rights request

A data card, comprising: a data card body and a switch disposed on the data card body;

The data card body includes:

And a processing unit, configured to initiate a network connection by calling a dial-up network program and a network connection parameter in the storage unit to enable the user terminal to access the network or disconnect the network connection in response to the action of the switch.

The data card according to claim 1, wherein the data card further comprises: a reporting unit, configured to report a current network connection status to a user terminal that establishes a connection with the data card.

The data card according to claim 1, wherein the data card further comprises: a saving unit, configured to save network connection parameters input through the user terminal and successfully establishing a network connection to the In the storage unit.

The data card according to claim 1, wherein the data card further comprises an identification unit for identifying a current network identity code of an operator providing the network service;

The processing unit is specifically configured to invoke a network connection parameter corresponding to the network identity identifier of the operator in the storage unit.

5. The data card of claim 1 wherein:

When the user terminal does not access the network, the processing unit is configured to access the network in response to the action of the switch;

When the user terminal has accessed the network, the processing unit is configured to disconnect the current network connection in response to the action of the switch.

The data card according to claim 1, wherein the switch comprises an on button and an off button;

The processing unit includes:

An access module, configured to respond to the action of the open button by calling a dial in the storage unit The Internet program and the network connection parameter are used to initiate a network connection, so that the user terminal accesses the network; and the disconnection module is configured to disconnect the current network connection in response to the action of the closing button.

7. A dial-up method, characterized in that:

The switch is located on a main body of the data card.

8. The dial-up method according to claim 7, further comprising: when the user terminal has established a network connection, the data card responds to the switch action and disconnects the current network connection.

The method for dial-up access according to claim 7 or 8, further comprising: reporting the current network connection status to the user terminal; the network connection status comprises: accessing the network, or being disconnected The internet.

10. The dial-up method according to claim 7, further comprising: saving the network connection parameters input through the user terminal after successfully establishing the network connection.

The dial-up method according to claim 7, wherein before the network connection is initiated by calling the pre-stored dial-up Internet program and the network connection parameter, the method further includes:

Identifying the current network identity of the operator providing the network service;

The calling the pre-stored dial-up Internet program and the network connection parameter comprises: calling a pre-stored dial-up network program and a network connection parameter corresponding to the identified network identity code to initiate a network connection.

The dial-up method according to claim 7, wherein the network connection parameter comprises an access point name, a username, and a user password.