WO2012129868A1

WO2012129868A1 - Method and apparatus for controlling terminal communication, and management server

Info

Publication number: WO2012129868A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/077504
Authority: WO
Inventors: 李慧; 陈宜龙; 郭建伟; 张晓娜; 赵文强
Original assignee: 海尔集团公司; 青岛海尔电子有限公司
Priority date: 2011-03-29
Filing date: 2011-07-22
Publication date: 2012-10-04
Also published as: CN102724165A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for controlling terminal communication, and a management server; the method comprises: the server engine of a terminal receives a service request message initiated by an application of the terminal and sends the service request message to a management server; the server engine receives feedback information returned by the management server, the feedback information contains the identifiers of all the services that can be used by the terminal and the address information corresponding to each service, moreover, the address information of each service is the application server address of each service storing the corresponding service information; the server engine saves the feedback information, sending the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message to the application, and, when the application of the terminal subsequently initiates other service request messages, returning the address information of the service corresponding to the other service request to the application according to the saved feedback information.

Description

Control method and device for terminal communication, and management server

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for controlling communication of a terminal, and a management server. Background technique

With the development of the Internet, many devices can further communicate with the network on the basis of completing their basic functions, thereby further improving the performance of the device, strengthening the management of the device, and making the device more rich and complete.

For example, many current televisions are able to communicate with the network on the basis of playing television programs. With the continuous enrichment of business types, in order to enable network TVs to use these services normally, there are more and more types of applications built into network TVs, and functions are becoming more and more complex. Each network function is separately connected to the background server, making the background server The management of web applications is very complex and needs to be managed separately for each application. Specifically, H does not have one TV installed with application A, application B, application C, and application D, application A corresponds to service Α, application B corresponds to service Β, application C corresponds to service C, and application D corresponds In service D, if the user wants to use the service, the application A sends a request message to the network, the server authenticates the television, determines whether the television terminal can use the application A, and if the television terminal passes the authentication, allows The application A of the television terminal acquires the service information of the service A. After that, if the user also wants to use the service, the application A will also send the request to the server, and the server determines that the television terminal is allowed to use the service, and the service information of the service A is sent to the application A.

When the user wants to use the service, the application B sends a request message to the network, and the server authenticates the television. If the television terminal passes the authentication, the application B of the television terminal is allowed to obtain the service information of the service B. Similarly, if the user wants to use Service C, Service D, the server needs to authenticate the TV terminal according to the request sent by the corresponding application.

When the number of built-in applications of the TV terminal is large, the number of authentications will be very large, occupying more network resources, and causing an increase in the processing load of the server, which will increase the server application. The complexity of line management.

In view of the high complexity of the application process of the network terminal in the related art and the network communication, and the complexity of the application management on the server side, an effective solution has not been proposed yet. Summary of the invention

The present invention provides a terminal communication control method and apparatus, and a management server, which can avoid the problem that the application of the network terminal in the related art and the network communication are performed in a large number of times, and the complexity of the application is managed on the server side. Multiple executions of the authentication process reduce the complexity of managing the application by the server.

The technical solution of the present invention is implemented as follows:

According to an aspect of the present invention, a control method of terminal communication is provided.

The method includes: the server engine of the terminal receives the service request message initiated by the application of the terminal, and sends the service request message to the management server; the server engine receives the feedback information returned by the management server, where the feedback information includes all services that the terminal can use. And the address information corresponding to each service, and the address information of each service is an address of an application server that stores the service information corresponding to the service; the server engine saves the feedback information, and sends the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message To the application, and after the application of the terminal initiates another service request message, the address information of the service corresponding to the other service request is returned to the application according to the saved feedback information.

The service request message includes the identifier of the terminal and the service identifier, and after the server engine sends the service request message to the management server, the method further includes: the management server performs authentication according to the terminal identifier terminal, and determines all the terminals can use. The management server obtains the identifier and address information of all services that the terminal can use, and sends the obtained identifier and address information to the server engine through the feedback information.

The management server obtains address information of all services that the terminal can use: for each service that the terminal can use, the management server acquires an address of the at least one application server corresponding to the service according to the load of the application server corresponding to the service. Address information for the business.

After the server engine saves the feedback information, if the validity period of the saved feedback information ends, The method further includes: the server engine sends an address update request message to the management server, and the management server sends the address information of all services that the terminal can use to the server engine by using an address update message; the server engine saves the address update message as feedback information, And replace the feedback information that has been saved before.

After the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message is sent to the application, the method further includes: the application accessing the corresponding service server according to the address information returned by the server engine, and acquiring the service information of the service.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a control device for terminal communication, the device being provided on the terminal side.

Specifically, the apparatus may include: a receiving module, configured to receive an application initiated service request message of the terminal, and configured to receive feedback information returned by the management server in response to the service request message, where the feedback information includes all the terminals that can be used by the terminal. The identifier of the service and the address information corresponding to each service, and the address information of each service is an address of an application server that stores the service information corresponding to the service; and the sending module is configured to send the received service request message to the management server; a storage module, configured to store feedback information received by the receiving module, and a processing module, configured to send address information of a service corresponding to the service request message included in the feedback information returned by the management server to the application, and then launch the other service by the application of the terminal In the case of the request message, the address information of the service corresponding to the other service request is returned to the application according to the feedback information saved by the storage module.

The sending module in the device may be further configured to send an address update request message to the management server if the validity period of the feedback information saved by the storage module ends; and the receiving module is further configured to receive, by the receiving management server, the message in response to the address update request message. The address update message, wherein the address update message includes address information of all services that the terminal can use; the storage module is further configured to save the address update message as feedback information, and replace the previously saved feedback information.

According to an aspect of the invention, a management server is also provided.

The management server includes: a receiving module, configured to receive a service request message initiated by an application of the terminal, where the service request message includes an identifier of the terminal; an authentication module, configured to perform authentication according to the terminal identifier terminal; and a determining module, configured to be in the terminal In the case of authentication, all services that the terminal can use are determined; an acquisition module is used to acquire the standard of all services that the terminal can use. And the address information; the sending module is configured to send the obtained identifier and address information to the server engine through the feedback information.

The receiving module is further configured to receive an address update request message from the terminal. The obtaining module is further configured to: obtain, according to the address update request message, the address information of all services that the terminal can use, and send the information to the terminal by using the address update message by the sending module.

And the acquiring module is specifically configured to obtain, according to a load of the application server corresponding to the service, an address of the at least one application server corresponding to the service, as the address information of the service, for each service that can be used by the terminal.

With the present invention, after the terminal performs one authentication, the server engine on the terminal side can know all the services that the terminal can use. After the application of the terminal requests to use a certain service, the server does not need to be authenticated by the management server. The content saved by the server engine (including all the services that the terminal can use and the corresponding address information) can determine whether the terminal is allowed to use the service, and notify the application of the address information of the service if it is determined to be permitted to use, thereby It effectively avoids the problem that each time the service is initiated, the network needs to be used, and the management server needs to be authenticated and judged, which can effectively reduce the network load, and can also reduce the load of the management server and reduce the complexity of managing multiple applications. DRAWINGS

1 is a flowchart of a method of controlling terminal communication according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flow chart showing an example of processing of a method of controlling communication of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block diagram of a control device for terminal communication according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a block diagram of a management server in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. detailed description

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a control method of terminal communication is provided.

As shown in FIG. 1, a control method for communication of a terminal (for example, a television) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes:

Step S101: The server engine of the terminal receives a service request message initiated by the application of the terminal, And sending a service request message to the management server;

Step S103: The server engine receives the feedback information returned by the management server, where the feedback information includes an identifier of all services that the terminal can use and address information corresponding to each service, and the address information of each service is used to store the service corresponding to the service. The address of the application server of the business information;

Step S105, the server engine saves the feedback information, sends the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message to the application, and if the application of the terminal initiates another service request message (regardless of what application is initiated), if the application For the application corresponding to the service that can be used by the terminal, the terminal can return the address information of the service corresponding to the service request to the application according to the saved feedback information.

With the above processing, after the terminal performs one authentication, the server engine on the terminal side can know all the services that the terminal can use. After the application of the terminal requests to use a certain service, it is not necessary to perform authentication through the management server. The content saved by the server engine (including all the services that the terminal can use and the corresponding address information) can determine whether the terminal is allowed to use the service, and notify the application of the address information of the service if it is determined to be permitted to use, thereby It effectively avoids the problem that each time the service is initiated, the network needs to be used, and the management server needs to be authenticated and judged, which can effectively reduce the network load, and can also reduce the load of the management server and reduce the complexity of managing multiple applications.

For example, H does not have application A, application B, application C, and application D installed. Application A corresponds to service Α, application B corresponds to service Β, application C corresponds to service C, and application D corresponds to service D. If the application A sends a service request message, the server engine sends a cover request message to the management server; if the management server knows that the service available to the terminal is service A, service B, service C, and service D, the service A will be , the service B, the service C, and the service D, the corresponding address information is returned to the server engine through the feedback message, the server engine saves the feedback message, and returns the address information of the service A and the corresponding application server to the application A, so that The application A obtains the service information of the service A according to the address information. Moreover, once the server engine saves the feedback information, since the saved feedback message includes the address information of the service corresponding to the application A, the application B, the application C, and the application D, the application A, the application B, the application C, and the application D Which service sent the service request message, the server engine can be based on the saved The address information is provided to the application that sent the request without communicating with the management server, and the management server is not required for authentication and address acquisition. If the application E is installed on the terminal and the corresponding service is not enabled, the server engine cannot provide corresponding service information for the application E.

The service request message may include the identifier of the terminal and the service identifier, and after the server engine sends the service request message to the management server, the management server performs authentication according to the terminal identifier terminal, and determines all the terminals can use. Specifically, the terminal may determine whether the terminal is legal, and determine all the services that the terminal can use when it is determined to be legal; after that, the management server obtains the identifier and address information of all services that the terminal can use, and passes the feedback information. Send the obtained identification and address information to the server engine.

When the management server obtains the address information of all the services that the terminal can use, for each service that the terminal can use, the management server can acquire the at least one application server corresponding to the service according to the load of the application server corresponding to the service. The address is the address information of the service.

That is, if the management server determines that the terminal can use the service port, the service A, the corresponding application server (also referred to as a service server) includes a first server and a second server, and the management server can determine the first server and The load of the second server, if the load of the first server is lower than the second server, the address information of the first server is used as the address information of the service A, and is sent to the server engine through the feedback information.

If the load of the first server and the second server are both very low, the address information of the two servers may be fed back to the server engine. When the server engine needs to provide address information to the corresponding application A of the service A, the address may be randomly selected. Select an address information as the address information of the service A.

Preferably, even if the load of all application servers currently corresponding to one application is relatively low, for which the management server only obtains the only optimal application server address corresponding to the application (service).

Moreover, after the server engine saves the feedback information, if the validity period of the saved feedback information ends, the server engine sends an address update request message to the management server, and the management server sends the address information of all services that the terminal can use to the address update message to the address update message. Server engine; the server engine saves the address update message as feedback information and replaces it before Feedback information saved.

In this way, dynamic address acquisition and distribution can avoid the problem of unbalanced application server load, improve the efficiency of service processing, and optimize network load sharing.

In addition, the validity period of the above feedback information can be flexibly set according to requirements, for example, one hour, two hours, 30 minutes, and the like can be selected. In addition, when the terminal installs a new service, or uninstalls an old service, or the service life of a service already installed by the terminal ends, the server engine may send an address update request message to update address information of all available services saved by the server engine. .

After each server engine sends the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message to an application, the application can access the corresponding service server according to the address information returned by the server engine and obtain the service information of the service. For example, if the service is a weather service, the weather application initiates a request and communicates with the weather service server based on the address information returned by the server engine to obtain weather information.

As shown in FIG. 2, it is assumed that the above terminal is a television set, and the weather application is taken as an example. When the user uses the television, the processing procedure is as follows:

Start the TV; the user can click on the weather icon (click on the launched web application), the launched web application will request the server engine; the server engine will send the request of the web application to the management server (also known as the background server); The management server manages the request. Specifically, the management server can authenticate the TV first (whether it is a TV produced by its own manufacturer), and then authorize the function. If the authorization succeeds, the application server address list (all network applications available for the TV) The service address, for example, weather application, news application, stock application, etc., is sent to the server engine, so that the server engine can transmit the requested service address information to the television application, and complete the application of the network application to start the television end. The specific information of the weather is obtained through the service address, and the service address points to the application service platform, for example, temperature, wind direction, etc., and the data is stored in the application service platform.

Through the above processing, it is possible to determine whether the terminal is allowed to use the service according to the content saved by the server engine (including all the services that the terminal can use and the corresponding address information), and notify the address information of the service to the user if it is determined that the use is permitted. The application effectively avoids the need to use the network for each business initiated, and requires the management server to authenticate and The problem of judgment can effectively reduce the network burden, and can also reduce the load of the management server and reduce the complexity of managing multiple applications. In addition, the address information can be realized by periodically or under certain conditions to update the content saved by the server engine. Dynamic distribution helps to rationally utilize network resources and balance network load.

If there is no client application engine, the terminal software will communicate directly with the server, and a lot of code needs to be added to the terminal software. For example, when the terminal is authenticated, applied, and managed, different platforms need to rewrite this code. Ensuring the uniformity of the code will increase the amount of work required to develop and write the code. However, after the server engine is introduced in the present invention, most communication with the server is performed by the server engine. Therefore, it is not necessary to set different codes for different applications, and the server engine of the related function can be embedded for different platforms, thereby further improving the terminal. The efficiency of using different applications; in addition, the client's server engine can be upgraded separately to extend its functionality.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a control device for terminal communication, which is provided on a terminal side, and the control device for communication of the terminal can be considered equivalent to the server engine.

As shown in FIG. 3, the control device for terminal communication according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiving module 31, configured to receive a service request message initiated by an application of the terminal, and configured to receive feedback information returned by the management server in response to the service request message. The feedback information includes an identifier of all the services that the terminal can use and address information corresponding to each service, and the address information of each service is an address of an application server that stores the service information corresponding to the service; Connected to the receiving module 31, configured to send the received service request message to the management server;

The storage module 33 is connected to the receiving module 31 and the sending module 32, and is configured to store feedback information of the receiving module receiving 31;

The processing module 34 is connected to the receiving module 31 and the sending module 32, and is configured to send the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message included in the feedback information returned by the management server to the application, and then the application of the terminal initiates another service request message. In the case, the address information of the service corresponding to the other service request is returned to the application according to the feedback information saved by the storage module 33.

a storage module 32, connected to the receiving module 31, for storing feedback information; The sending module 32 of the device may be further configured to send an address update request message to the management server if the validity period of the feedback information saved by the storage module ends;

The receiving module 31 is further configured to receive an address update message returned by the management server in response to the address update request message, where the address update message includes address information of all services that the terminal can use;

Correspondingly, the storage module 32 is further configured to save the address update message as feedback information and replace the feedback information that has been previously saved.

In the case that the terminal sends the service request message to the management server for authentication for the first time, the feedback information returned by the management server includes the address information of the service requested this time, and also includes the address information of other services that the terminal can use, and the processing module 34 The address information of the service of the current request included in the feedback information received by the receiving module 31 may be directly sent to the application; the feedback information may be saved first by the storage module 33, and the service requested this time may be saved in the saved feedback information. The address information is sent to the corresponding application, at which point the processing module 34 can be further connected to the storage module.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a management server is also provided.

As shown in FIG. 4, the management server according to an embodiment of the present invention includes:

The receiving module 41 is configured to receive a service request message initiated by the application of the terminal, where the service request message includes an identifier of the terminal;

The authentication module 42 is connected to the receiving module 41 for performing authentication according to the terminal identification terminal, and the determining module 43 is connected to the authentication module 42 for determining all services that the terminal can use when the terminal passes the authentication;

The obtaining module 44 is connected to the determining module 43 for acquiring identifier and address information of all services that the terminal can use;

The sending module 45 is connected to the obtaining module 44, and is configured to send the acquired identifier and address information to the server engine through the feedback information.

The receiving module 41 is further configured to receive an address update request message from the terminal, and the obtaining module 44 is further configured to: obtain, according to the address update request message, address information of all services that the terminal can use, and send, by the sending module 45, an address update message. Send to the terminal.

Preferably, the obtaining module 44 is specifically configured to use, for each service that can be used by the terminal, according to the corresponding For the load of the application server of the service, the address of the at least one application server corresponding to the service is obtained as the address information of the service (preferably, the obtaining module may acquire only the address of one application server as the address information of the service).

By cooperating with the device by the foregoing management server, it is also possible to determine whether to allow the terminal to use the service according to the saved content (including all services that the terminal can use and the corresponding address information), and to determine the permission to use the service. The address information is notified to the application, thereby effectively avoiding the problem that each time the service is initiated, the network needs to be used, and the management server needs to be authenticated and judged, which can effectively reduce the network load, and can also reduce the load of the management server, and reduce the load on the management server. The complexity of the application management; In addition, by periodically or under certain conditions to update the content saved by the server engine, dynamic distribution of address information can be realized, which helps to rationally utilize network resources and balance network load.

In summary, with the above technical solution of the present invention, it is possible to determine whether to allow the terminal to use the service according to the content saved by the server engine (including all the services that the terminal can use and the corresponding address information), and determine the permitted use. In this case, the address information of the service is notified to the application, thereby effectively avoiding the problem that the network needs to be authenticated and judged by the management server for each service initiated, which can effectively reduce the network load and also reduce the management server. The load reduces the complexity of managing multiple applications. In addition, by periodically updating the content saved by the server engine under certain conditions, dynamic distribution of address information can be realized, which helps to rationally utilize network resources and balance network load.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Any modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc., which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention, should be included in the present invention. Within the scope of protection.

Claims

Claim

A control method for terminal communication, comprising:

The server engine of the terminal receives the service request message initiated by the application of the terminal, and sends the service request message to the management server;

The server engine receives the feedback information returned by the management server, where the feedback information includes an identifier of all services that the terminal can use and address information corresponding to each service, and the address information of each service is An address of an application server that stores service information corresponding to the service;

The server engine saves the feedback information, and sends the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message to the application, and after the application of the terminal initiates another service request message, according to the saved The feedback information returns the address information of the service corresponding to the other service request to the application.

The control method according to claim 1, wherein the service request message includes an identifier of the terminal and a service identifier, and after the server engine sends the service request message to the management server The method further includes:

The management server performs authentication according to the terminal identifier, and determines all services that the terminal can use;

And the management server obtains the identifier and the address information of all the services that the terminal can use, and sends the obtained identifier and the address information to the server engine by using the feedback information.

The control method according to claim 2, wherein the management server obtains address information of all services that the terminal can use, including:

For each service that the terminal can use, the management server acquires an address of at least one application server corresponding to the service as the address information of the service according to the load of the application server corresponding to the service.

The control method according to claim 1, wherein after the server engine saves the feedback information, if the saved validity period of the feedback information ends, The method further includes:

The server engine sends an address update request message to the management server, and the management server sends address information of all services that the terminal can use to the server engine through an address update message;

The server engine saves the address update message as feedback information and replaces the feedback information that has been previously saved.

The control method according to claim 1, wherein after the address information of the service corresponding to the service request message is sent to the application, the method further comprises: the application returning according to the server engine The address information accesses the corresponding service server and obtains the service information of the service.

A control device for terminal communication, which is disposed on the terminal side, wherein the control device comprises:

a receiving module, configured to receive an application initiated service request message of the terminal, and configured to receive feedback information returned by the management server in response to the service request message, where the feedback information includes all the terminals that the terminal can use The identifier of the service and the address information corresponding to each service, and the address information of each service is an address of an application server that stores the service information corresponding to the service;

a sending module, configured to send the received service request message to a management server, where the storage module is configured to store the feedback information received by the receiving module;

a processing module, configured to send address information of a service corresponding to the service request message included in the feedback information returned by the management server to the application, and after the application of the terminal initiates another service request message In the case, the address information of the service corresponding to the other service request is returned to the application according to the feedback information saved by the storage module.

The control device according to claim 6, wherein the sending module is further configured to: when the validity period of the feedback information saved by the storage module ends, send an address update request message to the Management server;

And the receiving module is further configured to receive an address update message that is returned by the management server in response to the address update request message, where the address update message includes address information of all services that the terminal can use; The storage module is further configured to save the address update message as feedback information and replace the feedback information that has been saved before.

8. A management server, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a service request message initiated by an application of the terminal, where the service request message includes an identifier of the terminal;

An authentication module, configured to perform authentication according to the terminal identifier of the terminal;

a determining module, configured to determine, when the terminal passes the authentication, all services that the terminal can use;

And an obtaining module, configured to obtain the identifier and address information of all the services that the terminal can use, and the sending module, configured to send the acquired identifier and the address information to the server engine by using the feedback information.

9. The management server according to claim 8, wherein:

The receiving module is further configured to receive an address update request message from the terminal, where the acquiring module is further configured to: obtain, according to the address update request message, address information of all services that the terminal can use, The sending module sends the address update message to the terminal.

The management server according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the acquiring module is specifically configured to: for each service that can be used by the terminal, obtain, according to a load of an application server corresponding to the service, The address of at least one application server of the service is used as the address information of the service.