WO2014176992A1 - Procédé d'ouverture de session iptv, serveur d'accès et terminal - Google Patents

Procédé d'ouverture de session iptv, serveur d'accès et terminal Download PDF

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WO2014176992A1
WO2014176992A1 PCT/CN2014/075758 CN2014075758W WO2014176992A1 WO 2014176992 A1 WO2014176992 A1 WO 2014176992A1 CN 2014075758 W CN2014075758 W CN 2014075758W WO 2014176992 A1 WO2014176992 A1 WO 2014176992A1
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苏金规
曹传东
周春燕
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/24—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests
    • H04N21/2408—Monitoring of the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. client requests
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/231—Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
    • H04N21/23109—Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/24—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests
    • H04N21/2405—Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the server, e.g. server load
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/258—Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
    • H04N21/25808—Management of client data
    • H04N21/25816—Management of client data involving client authentication

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  • the present invention relates to the field of an interactive network television system (also referred to as an IPTV system), and more particularly to a method, an access server, and a terminal for IPTV login.
  • an IPTV system also referred to as an IPTV system
  • IPTV terminal login is first authenticated and load balanced by the main EPG (Electronic Program Guide), and then logged into the edge EPG to start the service.
  • EPG Electronic Program Guide
  • the number of users is getting larger and larger, but as the number of users increases, the pressure on the main EPG is increasing, and the performance and stability requirements of the main EPG will become higher and higher.
  • the technical problem to be solved by the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a method for IPTV login, an access server, and a terminal, so as to alleviate the pressure of the primary EPG and improve the concurrency and stability of the primary EPG.
  • an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for logging in to an interactive network television, including:
  • the login service After receiving the login request, the login service is loaded to a main electronic program guide according to the specified condition. If the load to the main electronic program guide is abnormal, the next main electronic program guide is polled until a main electronic program is polled. The guide continues to provide login services.
  • the specified condition includes any one of the following: a weight of the main electronic program guide, an IP range of the main electronic program guide, and a status of the main electronic program guide.
  • the load to the main electronic program guide exception includes:
  • an embodiment of the present invention further provides an access server, where
  • a configuration module configured to configure more than two main electronic program guides
  • the login module is configured to, after receiving the login request, load the login service to a main electronic program guide according to the specified condition, and if the load to the main electronic program guide is abnormal, poll the next main electronic program guide until the polling is A main electronic program guide continues to provide login services.
  • the access server further has the following features:
  • the login module is further configured to include any of the following: the weight of the main electronic program guide, the IP range of the main electronic program guide, and the status of the main electronic program guide.
  • the access server further has the following features:
  • the login module is further configured to load to the main electronic program guide exception comprising: loading to the primary electronic program guide timeout; or the status of the primary electronic program guide is abnormal.
  • an embodiment of the present invention further provides a method for logging in to an interactive network television, including:
  • the edge electronic program guide If the information of the edge electronic program guide is received, the edge electronic program guide is registered; if the login failure information is received, the edge electronic program guide that was successfully registered last time is registered according to the pre-stored address information.
  • the foregoing method has the following features: the initiating a login request to the access server includes:
  • a login request is initiated to the corresponding access server according to the pre-stored access server address.
  • the embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the method includes: an initiating module, configured to initiate a login request to an access server;
  • the login module is configured to log in to the edge electronic program guide if the information of the edge electronic program guide is received; and if the login failure information is received, log in to the edge electronic program guide that was successfully registered last time according to the pre-stored address information.
  • the terminal further has the following features:
  • the initiating module is further configured to initiate a login request to the corresponding access server according to the pre-stored access server address.
  • the embodiment of the present invention provides a PTV login method, an access server, and a terminal, which can reduce the pressure of the main EPG and improve the concurrency and stability of the main EPG.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an access server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an IPTV login according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a flowchart of processing of an access server according to an embodiment of the present invention. Preferred embodiment of the invention
  • the IPTV system in this embodiment includes: an IPTV terminal, an access server, a main EPG, an edge EPG, and a service management system, wherein
  • IPTV terminal A device with a set-top box function implemented by a set-top box or software implemented by IPTV hardware, which will be described in detail below;
  • Access server Set to load the IPTV terminal login request to the primary EPG, as described in detail below;
  • Master EPG Set to user login authentication and edge EPG load balancing
  • Edge EPG A system set up to provide indexing and navigation for various services
  • Service Management System Set to provide user login authentication, edge EPG load balancing, user broadcast Release authentication and business data synchronization.
  • Network management server Set to collect alarm information, and send alarm short messages to notify the project maintenance personnel.
  • the access server can be set up with the main EPG (deployed on the same server), or it can be set up (distributed on different servers); When combined, the primary EPG of the access server is deployed, and its polling weight can be set smaller than other primary EPGs, reducing the pressure on the server.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an access server according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the access server in this embodiment includes:
  • a configuration module configured to configure more than two main electronic program guides
  • the login module is configured to, after receiving the login request, load the login service to a main electronic program guide according to the specified condition, and if the load to the main electronic program guide is abnormal, poll the next main electronic program guide until the polling is A main electronic program guide continues to provide login services.
  • the login module is further configured to include any one of the following: a weight of the main electronic program guide, an IP range of the main electronic program guide, and a status of the main electronic program guide.
  • the login module is further configured to load to the main electronic program guide exception including: loading to the main electronic program guide timeout; or the status of the main electronic program guide is abnormal.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the terminal in this embodiment includes:
  • the initiating module is configured to initiate a login request to the access server
  • the login module is configured to log in to the edge electronic program guide if the information of the edge electronic program guide is received; and if the login failure information is received, log in to the last successfully registered edge electronic program guide according to the pre-stored address information.
  • the initiating module is further configured to initiate a login request to the corresponding access server according to the pre-stored access server address.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart of successful IPTV login according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the method includes the following steps:
  • Step 101 The IPTV terminal reads an address of a Uniform Resoure Locator (Uniform Relocation Locator).
  • the IPTV terminal stores two URL addresses, the URL1 stores the access server address, and the URL 2 last login succeeds the edge EPG address.
  • Step 102 The IPTV terminal initiates a login request to the access server.
  • Step 103 The access server performs load balancing and loads the load to a primary EPG.
  • Step 104 The access server requests the host EPG to be loaded to perform user login authentication.
  • Step 105 The primary EPG requests the service management system to perform user login authentication and load balancing of the edge EPG.
  • Step 106 The service management system performs edge EPG load balancing.
  • Step 107 The service management system returns the edge EPG information to the primary EPG;
  • Step 108 The primary EPG returns the edge EPG information to the IPTV terminal.
  • Step 109 The IPTV terminal logs in to the edge EPG.
  • Step 110 Write an edge EPG address to the IPTV terminal.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an IPTV login according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the method includes the following steps:
  • Step 201 The IPTV terminal reads the URL of the access server.
  • the IPTV terminal stores two URL addresses, URL1 stores the address of the access server, and URL2 stores the edge EPG address that was successfully registered last time;
  • Step 202 The IPTV terminal initiates a login request to the access server.
  • Step 203 The access server performs load balancing, all the main EPGs are abnormal, or the access server is abnormal, and the load balancing fails.
  • the access server can be configured with multiple primary EPGs.
  • the access server only provides load functions, does not perform user information authentication and load balancing of edge EPGs, and improves performance and concurrency.
  • Step 204 The access server returns the information of the login failure to the IPTV terminal.
  • Step 205 The access server sends the alarm information of the load balancing failure to the network management server.
  • Step 207 The IPTV terminal logs in to the edge EPG.
  • FIG. 6 is a flowchart of processing of an access server according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the steps are as follows:
  • Step 301 The access server accepts a login request of the IPTV terminal.
  • Step 302 The access server performs load balancing according to the configuration.
  • the operator configures all the primary EPG information on the access server, which may include: the IP address, weight, and timeout time of the primary EPG.
  • the access server accepts the status report information of the primary EPG and maintains the status of all primary EPGs.
  • Load balancing can be based on the weight of the primary EPG. The greater the weight, the more likely the load is.
  • the weight can be configured according to the hardware configuration and processing capabilities of the machine. The better the hardware, the greater the weight.
  • the load balancing can also be load-balanced according to the IP segment configured by the primary EPG.
  • the load is delivered to the primary EPG.
  • Step 303 Determine whether the status of the primary EPG to which the load is balanced is normal, if yes, go to step 304, otherwise go to step 305;
  • Step 304 The status of the primary EPG is normal, and the subsequent login service is continued;
  • Step 305 The status of the primary EPG is abnormal, and the next primary EPG is polled;
  • Steps 304 and 305 are repeated until a normal primary EPG is polled for the login service to improve stability. If the access server accesses the primary EPG that is timed out, it will poll the next primary EPG and continue to provide the login service. If all the primary EPGs are abnormal, the IPTV terminal directly accesses the edge EPG address that was successfully logged in and sends an alarm message to the project maintenance personnel.
  • the embodiment of the present invention reduces the login pressure of the main EPG by deploying multiple main EPGs, improves the concurrency and stability of the main EPG, and improves the competitiveness of the IPTV.
  • the embodiment of the invention provides a PTV login method, an access server and a terminal, which can reduce the pressure of the main EPG and improve the concurrency and stability of the main EPG.

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L'invention concerne un procédé d'ouverture de session PTV, un serveur d'accès et un terminal. Le procédé comprend : la configuration de plus de deux guides de programme électroniques principaux ; et après la réception d'une demande d'ouverture de session, le chargement d'un service d'ouverture de session sur un guide de programme électrode en conformité avec une condition désignée, et si le chargement du guide de programme électronique principal est anormal, l'appel du guide de programme électrode principal suivant jusqu'à ce que l'appel du guide de programme électronique principal continue à fournir le service d'ouverture de session. Les modes de réalisation de la présente invention peuvent atténuer la pression des principaux EPG et améliorer la capacité et la stabilité simultanées des principaux EPG.
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