WO2015117447A1

WO2015117447A1 - Methods and apparatus for dialing and disabling dialing

Info

Publication number: WO2015117447A1
Application number: PCT/CN2014/091043
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张井昆
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2014-08-28
Filing date: 2014-11-13
Publication date: 2015-08-13
Also published as: CN105376842B; CN105376842A

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for dialing and for disabling dialing are disclosed. The method for dialing comprises: a UFi device receives, in respect of a user terminal, access information used for accessing a network; determines whether said access information is the first received access information; and, upon an affirmative determination result, performs connection dialing. In the art, automatic dialing upon switching on a mobile broadband terminal causes the PDP to be in a connected state for long periods of time, thus occupying too many network resources and expending battery capacity, which shortens the standby period of the terminal. The present invention solves the described problem and thereby improves the user experience.

Description

Dialing, dialing method and device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a dialing and dialing method and apparatus.

Background technique

UFi equipment is a kind of mobile broadband terminal product. Because it is fast on the Internet and convenient to carry, it is favored by users. Users only need to access the terminal through WIFI to easily access the Internet, which is very convenient. However, the traditional dialing method of the mobile broadband terminal is that regardless of whether the user needs to access the Internet, the automatic dialing is started once the network is registered after the power is turned on, so that the PDP is in a connected state for a long time, which not only occupies too much carrier network resources but also consumes a lot of battery power. The terminal standby time is shortened, which affects the user experience.

In view of the related art, the automatic dialing of the mobile broadband terminal after power-on causes the PDP to be in a connected state for a long time, thereby consuming too much network resources and consuming a lot of battery power to shorten the standby time of the terminal, and no effective solution has been proposed yet.

Summary of the invention

The invention provides a dialing and de-dialing method and device, so as to at least solve the related art, the automatic dialing of the mobile broadband terminal after being turned on causes the PDP to be in a connected state for a long time, thereby consuming too much network resources and consuming a lot of battery power to shorten the standby time of the terminal. The problem.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a dialing method is provided, including: receiving, by a UFi device, access information used by a user terminal to access a network; determining whether the access information is the first received access information; In the case of YES, a dial-up connection is made.

Preferably, performing the dial-up connection comprises: starting a dialing timer; determining whether the dial-up connection is successful when the dial-up timer expires; deleting the dial-up timer if the dial-up connection is successful; and/or In the case that the dial-up connection fails, after the dial-up timer is extended, the dial-up connection is repeated.

Preferably, after the dialing timer is extended, repeating the dialing connection includes: determining whether the time for extending the dialing timer reaches a predetermined threshold; and if the determination result is yes, interrupting the dialing timer.

Preferably, the dial-up connection further comprises: reading a packet data protocol PDP connection status; if the PDP connection status is a connection, the dial-up connection is successful; otherwise, the dial-up connection fails.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a de-dialing method is provided, comprising: receiving, by a UFi device, disconnection information of a disconnection of a user terminal; determining whether the disconnection information is disconnection information of a last disconnection; If the result of the determination is YES, the dial-up connection is made and the PDP connection is disconnected.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a dialing apparatus is provided, which is applied to a UFi device, and includes: a first receiving module, configured to receive access information used by a user terminal to access a network; and a first determining module configured to determine Whether the access information is the first received access information; and the dialing module, if the determination result is YES, performs a dial-up connection.

Preferably, the dialing module comprises: a starting module, configured to start a dialing timer; the first determining unit is configured to determine whether the dialing connection is successful when the dialing timer expires; deleting the module, setting the dialing If the connection is successful, the dialing timer is deleted; and/or the repeating dialing module is set to repeat the dialing connection after the dialing timer is extended in the case that the dialing connection fails.

Preferably, the repeat dialing module includes: a second determining unit, configured to determine whether the time for extending the dialing timer reaches a predetermined threshold; and the interrupting module is configured to interrupt the dialing timing if the determination result is yes Device.

Preferably, the dialing module further comprises: a reading module configured to read a packet data protocol PDP connection state; in a case where the PDP connection state is a connection, the dial-up connection is successful; otherwise, the dial-up connection fails .

According to another aspect of the present invention, a de-dialing device is provided, which is applied to a UFi device, and includes: a second receiving module configured to receive disconnection information of a disconnection of a user terminal; and a second determining module configured to determine Whether the disconnection information is the last disconnected disconnection information; when the module is disconnected, if the determination result is yes, the dial-up connection is made, and the PDP connection is disconnected.

According to the present invention, the UFi device receives the access information used by the user terminal to access the network; determines whether the access information is the first received access information; and if the determination result is yes, performs a dial-up connection to solve In the related art, the automatic dialing of the mobile broadband terminal after the power is turned on causes the PDP to be in a connected state for a long time, thereby consuming too much network resources and consuming a lot of battery power to shorten the standby time of the terminal, thereby achieving the effect of improving the user experience.

DRAWINGS

The drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are intended to be a part of the invention. In the drawing:

1 is a flow chart of a dialing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flow chart of a method of de-dialing according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block diagram of a dialing device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a block diagram 1 of a dialing device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a block diagram 2 of a dialing device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 6 is a block diagram 3 of a dialing device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 7 is a block diagram of a de-dial device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a user accessing a mobile broadband terminal to access the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

9 is a flow chart of a dialing method in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

10 is a flow chart of a method of de-dialing in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

A dialing method is provided in this embodiment. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a dialing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the process includes the following steps:

Step S102: The UFi device receives the access information used by the user terminal to access the network.

Step S104, determining whether the access information is the first received access information;

In step S106, if the result of the determination is YES, the dial-up connection is made.

Through the above steps, the UFi device receives the access information used by the user terminal to access the network, determines whether the access information is the first received access information, and if the determination result is yes, dials the connection, and solves the problem. In the related art, the automatic dialing of the mobile broadband terminal after the power is turned on causes the PDP to be in a connected state for a long time, thereby consuming too much network resources and consuming a lot of battery power, so that the standby time of the terminal is shortened, thereby achieving the effect of improving the user experience.

As a preferred manner, the dialing timer is started to determine whether the dial-up connection is successful when the dial-up timer expires, and if the dial-up connection is successful, the dial-up timer is deleted; and/or, in the case that the dial-up connection fails, the dial-up timing is extended. Repeat the dial-up connection.

Preferably, after the dialing timer is extended, repeating the dialing connection includes: determining whether the time of the extended dialing timer reaches a predetermined threshold; and if the determination result is yes, interrupting the dialing timer.

As a preferred manner, the packet data protocol PDP connection status is read; if the PDP connection status is a connection, the dial-up connection is successful; otherwise, the dial-up connection fails.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a de-dialing method. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for de-dialing according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the process includes the following steps:

Step S202, the UFi device receives the disconnection information of the disconnection of the user terminal;

Step S204, determining whether the disconnection information is the disconnection information of the last disconnection;

In step S206, if the determination result is YES, the de-dial connection is performed, and the PDP connection is disconnected.

Through the above steps, the UFi device receives the disconnection information of the disconnection of the user terminal, and determines whether the disconnection information is the disconnection information of the last disconnection. If the determination result is yes, the user has no access. On the network, the UFi device performs a dial-up connection and disconnects the PDP. This reduces the load on the UFi device and reduces the burden on the network side of the carrier.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dialing device, which is applied to a UFi device, which is used to implement the above-described embodiments and preferred embodiments, and has not been described again. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the apparatus described in the following embodiments is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a dialing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the device includes: a receiving module 32, a first judging module 34, and a dialing module 36. Each module is described below.

The first receiving module 32 is configured to receive access information used by the user terminal to access the network;

The first determining module 34 is configured to determine whether the access information is the first received access information;

The dialing module 36, when set to the judgment result of YES, performs a dial-up connection.

4 is a block diagram of a dialing device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the dialing module 36 includes:

The startup module 42 is configured to start a dialing timer;

The first determining unit 44 is configured to determine whether the dial-up connection is successful when the dialing timer expires;

The deleting module 46 is configured to delete the dialing timer if the dialing connection is successful; and/or,

The repeat dialing module 48 is set to repeat the dialing connection after the dialing timer is extended in the event that the dialing connection fails.

5 is a block diagram 2 of a dialing device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the repeat dialing module 48 includes:

The second determining unit 52 is configured to determine whether the time for extending the dialing timer reaches a predetermined threshold;

The interrupt module 54 is arranged to interrupt the dialing timer if the result of the determination is YES.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram 3 of a dialing device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the dialing module 36 further includes:

The reading module 62 is configured to read the packet data protocol PDP connection state; if the PDP connection state is a connection, the dial-up connection is successful; otherwise, the dial-up connection fails.

The present invention also provides a de-dial device, which is applied to a UFi device. FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a de-dial device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the method includes:

The second receiving module 72 is configured to receive disconnection information of the disconnection of the user terminal;

The second determining module 74 is configured to determine whether the disconnection information is the last disconnected disconnection information;

The disconnection module 76 is set to determine that the result is YES, the de-dial connection is made, and the PDP connection is disconnected.

The embodiments of the present invention are further described below by way of preferred embodiments.

A mobile broadband terminal for dial-up and de- dialing according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention enables a user to dial a dial-up when a mobile broadband terminal is used, and establish a PDP link when the user no longer When the Internet access is required, dialing and disconnecting the PDP link reduces the load on the operator's network side and increases the battery life of the terminal.

The embodiment of the invention further provides a mobile broadband terminal for dialing and de- dialing on demand, comprising at least the above device. The mobile broadband terminal can determine the user's Internet access according to the WIFI access and disconnection, perform dialing and dialing, and dynamically establish a PDP link. First, after the mobile broadband terminal is powered on, through a series of initialization actions such as network registration, the entire terminal system is in the ready state; then when the user detects that the user uses a smart phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, and a desktop computer with a WIFI wireless network card, the terminal passes. When WIFI accesses the mobile broadband terminal, it will read the current WIFI access number to determine whether it is the first WIFI access user. If yes, then start a dial-on-demand timer, dial the number, and then judge the PDP connection status. If the PDP is connected, indicating that the dialing is successful, the dialing timer is deleted, and the dial-on-demand operation ends normally; If the dialing fails, the dialing is started after the timer expires, and the timer timeout period is extended. If the dialing fails, the terminal repeats the dialing, and the time interval of each dialing action is continuously extended. When the number of repetitions reaches a threshold, On the interrupt timer, the on-demand dialing process ends; if the access is not the first WIFI user, it means that the user has already accessed the WIFI before, and this time directly returns without performing other operations. When the user completes the Internet and disconnects the WIFI connection from the mobile broadband terminal, it is necessary to determine whether the last WIFI user disconnects the WIFI connection from the terminal. If yes, then there is no WIFI access user on the terminal at this time. There is no need for Internet access. At this time, the terminal will initiate a dial-up action to disconnect the PDP. If the WIFI is not the last user, there are other WIFI access users on the current terminal, indicating that there is still Internet access. , no dialing operation is performed. It should be noted that the technical solution proposed by the embodiment of the present invention is also applicable to a home wireless router.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a user accessing a mobile broadband terminal to access the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8, the user accesses the mobile broadband terminal through the WIFI to access the Internet, and 801 is the operator network base station, and the 3G/LTE network cell is deployed around. . 803 is a mobile broadband terminal, which can be registered on the carrier network and camped on the cell of the base station 801. 802 is a PDP link established by the mobile broadband terminal after dialing the registration network, and the mobile broadband terminal can share the link through the WIFI. The user can use various terminals to access the network shared by the mobile broadband terminal through WIFI, such as smart phone 804, tablet 805, notebook computer 806, desktop computer 807 with WIFI wireless network, and the like. Therefore, the mobile broadband terminal can obtain the user's Internet access requirement through the access and disconnection of the WIFI.

9 is a flowchart of a dialing method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 9, a mobile broadband terminal dials on demand. When a user needs to use a terminal such as a smart phone or a tablet computer to access the Internet, only the mobile broadband terminal is searched. After the SSID, then WIFI can be accessed. Includes the following steps:

Step S902, after the WIFI module of the mobile broadband terminal detects that the WIFI user access is successfully accessed, the event is reported to the upper dialing module;

Step S904, after receiving the event message, the dialing module reads the current terminal WIFI user access quantity;

Step S906, and then determining whether the access quantity is 1;

Step S908, if it is greater than 1, it indicates that the user has accessed before, and no other operations are required, and the process ends;

Step S910, if it is 1, it indicates that the current user is the first WIFI accessor. At this time, there is a user's Internet access requirement, and the dial-on-demand action needs to be started;

Step S912, if the dialing action sometimes fails due to an uncertain factor such as a network signal, a dialing timer is started, and the dialing is repeated when the dialing fails;

Step S914, checking the current PDP connection status before initiating the dialing command;

Step S916, if the PDP is already in the connected state, no need to dial again, delete the dialing timer, and the dial-on-demand process ends;

Step S918, if the PDP is in the disconnected state, a dialing command needs to be initiated.

After the timer expires, the PDP connection status is checked again. If the connection is successful, the dialing command is executed successfully, the timer is deleted, and the process ends. If the PDP is still disconnected, the dialing fails. You need to initiate a dialing command again. The timer timeout period is extended before the command is executed, so that the interval of subsequent repeated dialing is extended, which can improve the dialing success rate and reduce the network load caused by frequent dialing.

When the user no longer needs to access the Internet, the mobile broadband terminal will dial the dial as needed to disconnect the PDP. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a method for dialing a dialing according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 10, the process of dialing a mobile broadband terminal on demand includes the following steps:

Step S1002, after the user disconnects the WIFI connection from the mobile broadband terminal, the bottom WIFI module reports a WIFI disconnection event message to the upper dialing module;

Step S1004, after receiving the event message, the dialing module reads the current WIFI user access number;

Step S1006, and then determining the number of accesses of the WIFI user;

In step S1008, if the number of accesses is greater than 0, it indicates that there are other WIFI users accessing the current terminal, and there is also an Internet access requirement. At this time, the dialing process cannot be performed, and the dialing process ends;

In step S1010, if the number of WIFI accesses is 0, the last user on the terminal also disconnects the WIFI. At this time, there is no need for Internet access, and it is necessary to dial the dial as needed, disconnect the PDP link, and initiate a dial-up command. Previously, read the current PDP connection status;

Step S1012, determining whether the PDP is in a connected state;

In step S1014, if the PDP link has been disconnected at this time, the dial-up action is no longer needed, and the direct return is performed, and the dial-up process ends;

In step S1016, if the PDP is still in the connected state, the dial-up command is initiated, the PDP link is disconnected, and the dial-up process ends.

Through the above steps, disconnecting unnecessary PDP links without affecting the user's Internet access requirements reduces the load on the mobile broadband terminal and reduces the burden on the operator network side.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various modules or steps of the present invention described above can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device that can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device by the computing device and, in some cases, may be different from the order herein. The steps shown or described are performed, or they are separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or a plurality of modules or steps thereof are fabricated as a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

As described above, the above embodiments and preferred embodiments solve the problem that the automatic broadband dialing of the mobile broadband terminal in the related art causes the PDP to be in a connected state for a long time, thereby consuming too much network resources and consuming a lot of battery power to shorten the standby time of the terminal. In turn, the effect of improving the user experience is achieved.

Claims

A dialing method, including:

The UFi device receives the access information used by the user terminal to access the network;

Determining whether the access information is the first received access information;

When the judgment result is YES, a dial-up connection is made.
The method of claim 1 wherein the dialing connection comprises:

Start the dialing timer;

Determining whether the dial-up connection is successful when the dialing timer expires;

In the case that the dial-up connection is successful, deleting the dialing timer; and/or,

In the case where the dial-up connection fails, after the dialing timer is extended, the dial-up connection is repeated.
The method of claim 1, wherein after extending the dialing timer, repeating the dial-up connection comprises:

Determining whether the time for extending the dialing timer reaches a predetermined threshold;

In the case where the judgment result is YES, the dialing timer is interrupted.
The method of claim 1 wherein said dialing connection further comprises:

Reading the packet data protocol PDP connection status;

In the case that the PDP connection status is a connection, the dial-up connection is successful, otherwise, the dial-up connection fails.
A method of going to dialing, including:

The UFi device receives the disconnection information of the disconnection of the user terminal;

Determining whether the disconnection information is the last disconnected disconnection information;

If the result of the determination is YES, the dial-up connection is made and the PDP connection is disconnected.
A dialing device applied to UFi devices, including:

a first receiving module, configured to receive access information used by the user terminal to access the network;

a first determining module, configured to determine whether the access information is the first received access information;

The dialing module is used to determine the result of the dial-up connection.
The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said dialing module comprises:

a startup module for starting a dialing timer;

a first determining unit, configured to determine whether the dial-up connection is successful when the dialing timer expires;

a deleting module, configured to delete the dialing timer if the dial-up connection is successful; and/or,

The repeat dialing module is configured to repeat the dial-up connection after extending the dialing timer if the dial-up connection fails.
The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said repeat dialing module comprises:

a second determining unit, configured to determine whether the time for extending the dialing timer reaches a predetermined threshold;

The interrupt module is configured to interrupt the dialing timer if the determination result is yes.
The device of claim 6, wherein the dialing module further comprises:

a reading module, configured to read a packet data protocol PDP connection state; if the PDP connection state is a connection, the dial-up connection succeeds, otherwise, the dial-up connection fails.
A de-dial device applied to UFi devices, including:

a second receiving module, configured to receive disconnection information of the disconnection of the user terminal;

a second determining module, configured to determine whether the disconnection information is the last disconnected disconnection information;

When the module is disconnected and used to judge the result, the dial-up connection is made and the PDP connection is disconnected.