KR100627916B1 - Integrated management method of mobile terminal information and device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for integrated management of mobile terminal information. The present invention includes the steps of: A) receiving information on whether the mobile terminal supports the UA profile (Profile), and the device information (Device Information) for the mobile terminal by the integrated management device; B) determining whether to approve the device information in the integrated management device; C) The integrated management apparatus extracts the subscriber ID and the device ID from the log file generated when the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet network, and compares the subscriber ID and the device ID with previously stored data. Updating the device ID; D) When the mobile terminal accesses a content providing device through the wireless Internet network for downloading content, the integrated management device receives a message requesting the device information corresponding to the subscriber ID from the content providing device. Making a step; F) the integrated management device comprising the step of transmitting the inquiry result of the device information to the content providing device, it is possible to provide the optimum content according to the performance of the mobile terminal of the subscriber.

Content provider, mobile terminal, terminal information, subscriber information

Description

Method and device for integrated management of mobile terminal information TECHNICAL FIELD AND Apparatus For Integrating And Managing Information of Mobile Terminal

1 illustrates a system for servicing content to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied according to device information.

2 is a schematic structural diagram of an integrated management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an internal configuration diagram of a terminal information management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 to 6 are flowcharts illustrating a method for integrated management of mobile terminal information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: subscriber terminal

120: communication network

150: content providing device

170: external server

200: integrated management device

300: central management unit

310: content provider access device

330: subscriber information detection device

350: interface device

400: service management device

500: subscriber management device

510: first database

600: terminal information management device

601: operator grade management unit

603: terminal manufacturer management unit

605: terminal information approval unit

607: automatic update management unit

609: subscriber ID-device ID management unit

610: second database

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system for providing a wireless Internet, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for managing information of a mobile terminal required to provide content according to the performance of the mobile terminal.

In general, when a mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet and requests content, the content provider provides the mobile terminal with content selected by the user regardless of the capability of the mobile terminal.

That is, regardless of how many colors are supported by the mobile terminal, how many chords are used, and whether the mobile terminal supports hardware and software capable of executing game contents requested by the user of the mobile terminal. Content has been provided to mobile terminals.

As the innovative development of mobile terminals and the development of contents suitable for the performance of mobile terminals are actively progressed, content providers have suggested the necessity of providing differentiated contents according to the performance of mobile terminals.

As a solution to this problem, a terminal vendor stores and manages device information, and content providers requiring device information have used the device information. However, there has been a problem that there is no method for verifying device information updates of terminal manufacturers.

In addition, when a new subscription or a device change is performed through the dealership to update the device information, the device information of the mobile terminal through the dealership is updated.

However, since it takes a predetermined time to collect the information of the mobile terminal collected from the dealer and store it in the database, there is a problem that the service is not performed when the subscriber accesses the wireless Internet system with the mobile terminal during the predetermined time. I have been.

When content providers want to provide content to a mobile terminal through the wireless Internet, they contact a portal platform that integrates and manages the mobile device's device information. The URI (Unique Resource Identify), User Agent, Inquiries have been made by terminal ID such as Phone Type.

However, if the terminal ID is unknown or unknown, information about the mobile terminal cannot be inquired and contents based on the information on the mobile terminal cannot be provided. In addition, if a customer who is using voice communication through a mobile terminal but does not subscribe to the wireless internet wants to use the wireless internet, there is a need for providing content to the mobile terminal of the customer. have.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for managing information of a mobile terminal required to provide content according to the performance of the mobile terminal.

Integrated management method of mobile terminal information according to the first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object,
A) receiving, by the integrated management device, information on whether the mobile terminal supports the UA profile, and device information about the mobile terminal;
B) determining whether to approve the device information in the integrated management device;
C) The integrated management apparatus extracts the subscriber ID and the device ID from the log file generated when the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet network, and compares the subscriber ID and the device ID with previously stored data. Updating the device ID;
D) When the mobile terminal accesses a content providing device through the wireless Internet network for downloading content, the integrated management device receives a message requesting the device information corresponding to the subscriber ID from the content providing device. Doing; And

F) the integrated management device comprising the step of transmitting the inquiry result for the device information to the content providing device.

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An integrated management device for mobile terminal information according to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object,
A terminal information approval unit configured to receive and manage the approval of the device information from an operator terminal authorized according to a predetermined rule in response to a request for registration of device information for the mobile terminal;
Automatically update the subscriber ID or the device ID according to the comparison result by extracting the subscriber ID and the device ID from the log file generated when the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet network and comparing it with previously stored data. Date management; And

Manage the subscriber ID or the device ID updated from the automatic update management unit, retrieve device information of the mobile terminal requested based on the subscriber ID from the content providing device to obtain a device ID corresponding to the subscriber ID. And a subscriber ID-device ID management unit for reading out and transmitting the same to the content providing device.

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Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an optimal content according to the performance of the mobile terminal of the subscriber.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 illustrates a system for servicing content to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile communication system includes a communication network 120 and an integrated management device 200. In another application, the content providing device 150 and / or the external server 170 may move the mobile communication system. It is included in the communication system.

The communication network 120 includes a wired network and a wireless network, and connects the subscriber terminal 100, the content providing device 150, and the external server 170.

The subscriber station 100 includes both a mobile phone capable of wireless communication, a mobile communication terminal including a PDA, and a computer capable of wired communication.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the subscriber station 100 is a mobile terminal, and for convenience of explanation, the subscriber station 100 will be described below with reference to the mobile terminal, and the reference number is also given to the same as the subscriber terminal 100. Although described, the subscriber station 100 is not limited to the mobile terminal.

Content providers of the present invention are providers who want to provide a subscriber terminal 100 with a service including contents and applications composed of various data to a subscriber terminal through a mobile communication system.

The integrated management device 200 has an open structure including a content provider access device, a central management device, a transmission device, and an interface device, so that the portal platform with flexibility and modularity that can be implemented together with other solutions. (Portal Platform).

In addition, the integrated management device 200 supports global regulations related to wireless business such as WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).

In addition, the integrated management device 200 may start the service faster by integrating and managing the content provider, the service and content of the content provider, and the menu of the subscriber. In addition, the integrated management device 200 provides an authentication model based on service-based subscription and CP policy.

The integrated management apparatus 200 provides a search engine for a mobile terminal, and provides a swap page so that a search by a keyword and a search using a code can be performed to a subscriber's mobile terminal.

The content providing device 150 receives an account in the integrated management device 200 through the communication network 120 and registers a service to be provided to the subscriber station 100. At this time, the integrated management device 200 performs the overall management necessary for providing the service, that is, the content provided by the content providing device 150 to the subscriber terminal (100).

The integrated management device 200 is connected to an external server 170, and examples of the external server 170 include a billing server and a subscriber management server.

2 illustrates a system for integrating and managing mobile terminal information to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

As illustrated, the integrated management device 200 includes a content provider access device 310, a central management device 300, a subscriber information sensing device 330, and an interface device 350.

The subscriber information detecting device 330 detects a subscriber ID of the mobile terminal 100 connected to the integrated management device 200 through a wireless network. In addition, the subscriber information detecting device 330 is a subscriber information of the other mobile terminal, i.e., a phone call, when a user connected to the integrated management device 200 through a wired network wants to transmit predetermined content to another mobile terminal. The user requests the number, receives the telephone number input by the user, and transmits the number to the content providing apparatus 150.

Since the phone number is necessary for the content provider to provide a service, the phone number is always transmitted to the content providing device 150, and the content providing device 150 accesses the content provider accessing device 310 using the received phone number. , Send a query.

The content provider access device 310 receives a device information inquiry request message transmitted by the content providing device 150. The device information inquiry request message is a predetermined message for inquiring device information of the mobile terminal 100 based on a subscriber ID.

The content provider access device 310 determines whether the received device information inquiry request message is valid, and transmits the device information received from the terminal information management device 600 to the content providing device 150.

In addition, the central management apparatus 300 includes a service management apparatus 400, a subscriber management apparatus 500, and a terminal information management apparatus 600.

The subscriber management device 500 is connected to a regulation related server (not shown) through the interface device 350. The regulation-related server stores a telephone number, a customer ID, a subscriber's phone type, and the like of a wireless communication network and / or a wireless Internet subscriber, and periodically stores the subscriber management device 500 through the interface device 350. To the first database 510).

In addition, the subscriber management apparatus 500 may include subscriber information subscribed to only a wireless communication network, subscriber information subscribed to a first database 510 for managing subscriber information subscribed to the wireless Internet as well as wireless communication network, and a mobile telephone network. It is configured to include a database (not shown) for management.

Therefore, the terminal information management apparatus 600 interoperates with the subscriber management apparatus 500 and manages terminal information corresponding to the subscriber.

As shown in FIG. 3, the terminal information management apparatus 600 includes an operator grade management unit 601, a terminal manufacturer management unit 603, a terminal information approval unit 605, an automatic update management unit 607, and a subscriber ID-device ID. It includes a management unit 609, and a second database 610.

The device information of the mobile terminal 100 may be registered by an operator and a terminal manufacturer, and finally stored in the second database 610 by an operator having a predetermined authority with respect to the registered device information.

Accordingly, the terminal information management apparatus 600 may assign an operator grade manager 601 for managing a grade of an operator and a terminal manufacturer's account, and a terminal maker manager 603 for managing information on a terminal manufacturer to which an account is assigned. It is provided.

In the terminal information approval unit 605, an operator authorized according to a predetermined rule for a request for registration of device information for the mobile terminal 100 by an operator or a terminal manufacturer determines whether to approve the device information. . The approved device information is stored in the second database 610.

The registration request of the device information is input by the operator whether the mobile terminal supports the UA profile, and is performed by requesting registration of the generated RDF file. The UA profile is standardized by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), and the UA profile includes device capability information required to receive content or resources. The RDF file is formed in the structure of a component and an attribute, or in the structure of a component, a sub-component, and an attribute. In addition, the content of the device information follows the format defined in the schema of the RDF file.

The automatic update management unit 607 extracts the subscriber ID and the device ID by using the log file, compares the subscriber ID and the device ID, and updates the subscriber ID or device ID according to the comparison result. In this case, the log file is generated by the swap gateway 130 when the mobile terminal 100 accesses the wireless Internet network, and is periodically transmitted to the terminal information management apparatus 600.

The subscriber ID-device ID manager 609 manages the subscriber ID or device ID updated from the automatic update manager 607. In addition, when the device information of the mobile terminal 100 is requested from the content providing device 150 based on the subscriber ID, the subscriber ID-device ID management unit 609 retrieves the device information of the mobile terminal and the subscriber ID. The device ID corresponding to the device ID is read and transmitted to the content providing device 150.

The device information of the mobile terminal includes at least one of hardware of the mobile terminal input by a terminal manufacturer or an integrated management device operator, information related to software stored in the mobile terminal, and a handset platform. do.

The operating state of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

After selecting whether the mobile terminal supports the UA profile, which is a device information standard defined by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), and requests registration of the device information for the mobile terminal 100 (S100).

In more detail, there is a first application example for requesting registration of device information by an operator and a second application example for requesting registration of device information by a terminal manufacturer.

According to the first application example, when the operator wants to register the device information through the operator's terminal, the operator transmits a web page for registering the device information to the operator's terminal (S110).

Through the web page, the operator sets whether or not to support the UA profile, and requests registration of a pre-generated RDF file (S120, S130).

According to a second application example, a terminal manufacturer requests a web page for registering device information of the mobile terminal 100 through a web browser and transmits the web page to a terminal of the terminal manufacturer.

At this time, the terminal manufacturer should be logged on (LOG ON) with their account. The same as the following steps S120 and S130.

When a request message for registering device information is received from an operator or a terminal manufacturer, after the contents of the device information are confirmed by an authorized operator according to a predetermined rule, it is determined whether to approve the device information (S200). .

5, the step S200 will be described in more detail.

According to a predetermined rule, the authorized operator checks the contents of the device information requested for registration, and determines whether to support the UA profile provided by the OMA standard (S210 and S220).

As a result of determination, when the mobile terminal 100 does not support the UA profile, input a phone type, which is an example of a terminal identifier defined by a wireless Internet operator or a carrier, and optional when the mobile terminal 100 supports the UA profile. Input the phone type (S240, S230).

The URI of the information on the mobile terminal is automatically generated by the operator, or the URI is automatically generated (S260, S270).

In addition, when the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet network, the terminal information management apparatus 600 receives a log file generated by the swap gateway and periodically and preferably transmitted in real time (S300).

The subscriber ID and the device ID are extracted from the log file and compared with the data stored in the log file, and the different data, that is, the subscriber ID and / or the device ID, are updated according to the comparison result (S400 and S500).

Referring to Figure 6, the steps S400 and S500 will be described in more detail.

The terminal information management apparatus 600 reads the format of the device information field included in the log file and determines whether the device information field is a standard format (S410 and S420).

The device information field is information of the terminal itself embedded in the mobile terminal 100. In addition, in the terminal information field, there is a UA profile designated by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and a user agent designated by each communication company before specifying the standard in the OMA. An example of a terminal identifier defined by the carrier or the operator of the wireless Internet is a phone type.

Therefore, if the format of the device information field is inquired and the user information or the phone type is extracted from the device information field (S430).

However, when the format of the device information field is a standard set by the OMA, a unique resource identification (URI), which is one of device IDs, is extracted from the device information field (S440). The device ID is device information of a mobile terminal including a URI, a user agent, and a phone type.

In addition, the terminal information management apparatus 600 reads the format of the subscriber information including the log file and determines whether the terminal information is in a valid format (S450, S510).

If the format of the subscriber information is not a valid format, the automatic update of the present invention is not executed. However, if the format of the subscriber information is a valid format, subscriber information is extracted from the log file (S520).

The terminal information management apparatus 600 determines whether or not the subscriber information exists in the first database 510 in cooperation with the subscriber management apparatus 500 (S530).

In another application example, information required by the terminal information management apparatus 600 among subscriber information subscribed to the wireless network may be filtered and stored in a predetermined database for management.

As a result of the determination in step S530, when the subscriber's telephone number does not exist in the first database, the device information extracted from the log file is mapped to the subscriber information to map the device ID. It is stored in the second database 610 (S550).

However, as a result of the determination in step S530, if the subscriber's telephone number exists in the first database, whether the same information as the URI extracted from the log file in the second database or the phone type of the mobile terminal exists. Inquire (S540).

If the same information exists as a result of the inquiry in step S540, there is no need to update, but if the same information, that is, URI or phone type of the mobile terminal does not exist, the terminal information corresponds to the subscriber information. And store it in the second database 610 of the terminal information management device 600 (S560, S570, S580).

When the mobile terminal 100 accesses the content providing device 150 through the swap gateway 130 to download the content, the content providing device 150 receives device information of the mobile terminal based on the subscriber ID. Request to the integrated management device 200 (S600, S700).

The terminal information management device 600 of the integrated management device 200 stores a subscriber ID and a device ID corresponding to the subscriber ID. Therefore, the device information inquiry requested from the content providing device 150 is searched for device information based on the subscriber ID, and the search result is transmitted to the content providing device (S800).

As described in detail above, according to the integrated management method of the mobile terminal information of the present invention, a smooth wireless Internet service is performed even for a subscriber to which the operator first subscribes to the wireless Internet system.

In addition, not only customers who use the mobile terminal but do not subscribe to the wireless Internet system, the present invention may transmit or present contents to the mobile terminal by accessing the wireless Internet system by wire.

In addition, when inquiring information on the mobile terminal, not only can be inquired by a handset ID such as a URI (Unique Resource Identify), a user agent, or a mobile terminal type, but also a subscriber's mobile phone number or service subscription. The information of the mobile terminal can be inquired using the customer ID set at the time.

Therefore, even when the handset ID for the mobile terminal is unknown or unknown, information about the mobile terminal can be inquired, thereby providing content based on the information on the mobile terminal at any time.

In addition, the wireless Internet operator directly generates and manages information on the mobile terminal, and even if the terminal makers generate the information on the mobile terminal, a more accurate and reliable database is established by performing the approval procedure for the generated mobile terminal information. can do.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the technical field to which the present invention belongs without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the following claims. Anyone skilled in the art will have the technical idea of the present invention to the extent that various modifications or changes are possible.

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A) receiving, by the integrated management device, information on whether the mobile terminal supports the UA profile, and device information about the mobile terminal; B) determining whether to approve the device information in the integrated management device; C) The integrated management apparatus extracts the subscriber ID and the device ID from the log file generated when the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet network, and compares the subscriber ID and the device ID with previously stored data. Updating the device ID; D) When the mobile terminal accesses a content providing device through the wireless Internet network for downloading content, the integrated management device receives a message requesting the device information corresponding to the subscriber ID from the content providing device. Doing; And F) The integrated management device comprises the step of transmitting the inquiry result of the device information to the content providing device integrated management method of the mobile terminal information. The method of claim 1, wherein step A) A-1a) requesting, by the operator terminal, a web page for registering device information of the mobile terminal to the integrated management apparatus; A-1b) inputting whether the mobile terminal supports a UA profile (User Agent Profile) through the web page received by the operator terminal; And A-1c) registering the device information generated as an RDF file in the operator terminal to the integrated management device. The method of claim 1, wherein step A) A-2a) requesting a web page for registering device information of the mobile terminal to the integrated management device through the web browser of the terminal manufacturer; A-2b) inputting whether the mobile terminal supports a user agent profile (UA profile) through the web page; And A-2c) the terminal manufacturer generating the device information as an RDF file and registering in the integrated management device. The method of claim 2 or 3, wherein the method And g) modifying or changing the device information by accessing the integrated management device through a web browser of the operator terminal or the terminal manufacturer. The method of claim 4, wherein in step A-1b) or step A-2b), The integrated management device transmits a web page for inputting the phone type of the mobile terminal to the operator terminal when the mobile terminal does not support the UA profile, and optionally selects the phone type when the mobile terminal supports the UA profile. And transmitting a web page for input to the operator terminal. The method of claim 5, wherein the device information of the mobile terminal is represented by an RDF file, and the content of the device information follows a format defined in a schema of the RDF file. . 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the RDF file comprises a component and an attribute. The method of claim 7, wherein step C) C-1) receiving, by the integrated management device, a log file generated by the mobile terminal accessing a wireless Internet network; C-2) extracting subscriber ID and device ID from the log file; C-3) determining whether the subscriber ID exists in a first database for managing subscriber information subscribed to the wireless Internet; C-4) if the subscriber ID does not exist in the first database, storing the device ID corresponding to the subscriber ID in a second database managing device information of the mobile terminal; C-5) if the subscriber ID exists in the first database, querying the device ID corresponding to the subscriber ID in the second database; And C-6) when the device ID stored in the second database is not the same as the device ID extracted from the log file, performing update of the device ID. Way. The method of claim 8, wherein the device ID is generated by substituting any one of a unique resource identify (URI) defined by an OMA standard, a user agent defined by an operator, and a phone type. Integrated management method of mobile terminal information, characterized in that. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the subscriber information is any one of a MIN, a MDN, and a client ID defined in the OMA. The method of claim 10, wherein the log file, Integrated management method of mobile terminal information, characterized in that periodically received from the swap gateway. The method of claim 11, wherein step D) D-1) the mobile terminal accessing a content providing device through the wireless Internet network to download the content; D-2) generating, by the content providing device, a device information inquiry request message using the subscriber ID of the mobile terminal and transmitting the generated device information inquiry request message to the integrated management device; D-3) when the integrated management device determines whether the device information inquiry request message is valid and transmits the device information inquiry request message to a terminal information management device that manages the device information; And D-4) retrieving the device information corresponding to the subscriber ID in the terminal information management device. The method of claim 12, wherein the subscriber ID is, And the mobile terminal is obtained by accessing the wireless internet or by inputting a telephone number of the mobile terminal by a user accessing a web site. The method of claim 13, wherein the method is In determining whether the device information inquiry request message is valid in step D-2), the content provider access device determines whether the format of the device information inquiry request message is valid and whether the authority of the content provider is valid. Integrated management method of the mobile terminal information, characterized in that. delete The method of claim 12, wherein the method is D-5) when the device information inquiry request message is invalid in step D-3), transmitting the message indicating that the device information is not valid to the content providing device. Way. A terminal information approval unit configured to receive and manage the approval of the device information from an operator terminal authorized according to a predetermined rule in response to a request for registration of device information for the mobile terminal; Automatically update the subscriber ID or the device ID according to the comparison result by extracting the subscriber ID and the device ID from the log file generated when the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet network and comparing it with previously stored data. Date management; And Manage the subscriber ID or the device ID updated from the automatic update management unit, retrieve device information of the mobile terminal requested based on the subscriber ID from the content providing device to obtain a device ID corresponding to the subscriber ID. And a subscriber ID-device ID management unit for reading out and transmitting the same to the content providing device. The method of claim 17, wherein the registration request of the device information, And inputting whether the mobile terminal supports the UA profile by the operator terminal and performing registration by requesting registration of a pre-generated RDF file. 19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the RDF file comprises a component and an attribute. 20. The apparatus of any one of claims 17 to 19, wherein the device is The terminal manufacturer management unit for generating an account at the request of the terminal manufacturer, and transmits the device information for the mobile terminal uploaded by the terminal manufacturer to the terminal information approval unit of the mobile terminal information, characterized in that Integrated management device. The method of claim 20, wherein the device, A subscriber information sensing device for obtaining a subscriber ID of a mobile terminal to receive contents through the wireless internet network; And It further comprises a content provider access device for receiving the device information inquiry request message to determine the validity to send the device information of the mobile terminal based on the subscriber ID, and transmits the device information to the content providing device. , And the subscriber ID-device ID management unit reads the device information and transmits the device information to the content provider access device when the device information inquiry request message is valid.

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