WO2012079380A1

WO2012079380A1 - Communication method, device and system based on converged mobile and fixed networks

Info

Publication number: WO2012079380A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/078509
Authority: WO
Inventors: 吴骏
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2010-12-15
Filing date: 2011-08-17
Publication date: 2012-06-21
Also published as: CN102143474A

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention are a communication method, device and system based on converged mobile and fixed networks. The method comprises the following steps: a converged fixed network Number Portability Management System (NPMS) receives a request for querying routes and attributions of a calling number and a called number, wherein the request is sent by a converged transfer point; and after analyzing the calling number and the called number, the converged NPMS sends the route and attribution messages of the calling number and the called number to the converged transfer point. The converged NPMS uniformly maintains information of the calling number and the called number of a service layer and a routing layer. Therefore, when a fixed network number and a mobile network number request services, the converged NPMS carries out unified analysis and processing, thus avoiding the problem of inconsistent data resulted from the processing which is executed by two sets of systems separately.

Description

Convergence-based mobile and fixed network communication method, device and system

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201010590017.9, entitled "Communication Method, Equipment and System for Mobile and Fixed Network Based on Fusion", submitted by the Chinese Patent Office on December 15, 2010. This is incorporated herein by reference.

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of network communication technologies, and in particular, to a communication method, device and system based on convergence for mobile and fixed networks.

BACKGROUND Currently, in order to facilitate users to freely select operators with better services, countries have introduced NP (Number Portability) technology.

The current NP includes the following four types:

1) Mobile Number Portability (MNP): It means that the user can transfer from one mobile operator to another without changing the mobile number;

2) Fixed Number Portability (FNP): The user can transfer from one fixed network operator to another fixed network operator without changing the fixed network number.

3) Fixed network users are converted to mobile users without changing the fixed network number;

4) Mobile users are converted to fixed network users without changing the mobile number.

A user transfers from one carrier to another, which is a port-in for the transfer to the operator and a port-out for the transferred operator. For example, for the number M, it belongs to the operator eight. When the user carries the number M to the operator B, it is Port-out for A and Port-in for B.

At present, in order to achieve number consistency management, a unified number management center (CRDB, Central Reference Database) is established in the country where number portability is carried out to manage the number attribution between operators. The technology of mobile and fixed network convergence in the prior art will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, the figure is a system structure diagram of a mobile and fixed network convergence in the prior art. The system includes a CRDB 101, a distributor 102, a Number Portability Management System (NPMS) 103, a Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) 104, and a Fixed Network Service Switching Point (SSP). Service Switch Point 105, mobile NPMS 106, mobile CRM 107, and STP (Signaling Transfer Point) 108.

The system sets up a distributor 102 between the CRDB 101 and the operator (the fixed network NPMS 103 and the mobile NPMS 106) for decomposing NP requests from the fixed network or mobile.

If it is found to be a fixed network number, the distributor 102 forwards the request to the fixed network NPMS 103 and updates the fixed number routing information on the mobile STP 108. If it is found to be a mobile number, the distributor forwards the request to the mobile NPMS 106 and simultaneously updates the mobile number routing information on the fixed network STP 105. The mobile NPMS 106 is responsible for notifying the mobile STP 108 to change the routing information, and the fixed network NPMS 103 is responsible for notifying the fixed network STP 105 to change the routing information.

It can be seen that when the fixed network number and the mobile number are used for service request, the fixed network STP and the mobile STP need to be separately triggered for number analysis, and then transferred to the correct operator for processing.

Therefore, the fusion of fixed network and mobile in the prior art has the following disadvantages: The same number needs to be maintained on both the fixed network and the mobile system, and data inconsistency is likely to occur between the two systems. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method, device, and system for a mobile and fixed network based on convergence. The service requests of the mobile number and the fixed network number are maintained by a system, and the data inconsistency is not caused.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for communication between a fused mobile and a fixed network, including: a fused fixed-line number portability management system NPMS receives a route and attribution of an queried calling number and a called number sent by a fused transit point The NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called number, and sends the routing and home messages of the calling number and the called number to the fused transfer point.

The embodiment of the invention further provides a merging mobile and fixed network communication device, comprising: a receiving unit, an analyzing unit and a sending unit; and the receiving unit is configured to receive the query calling number and the nick sent by the fused transfer point The routing and attribution request of the number is called; the analyzing unit is configured to analyze the calling number and the called number received by the receiving unit to obtain routing and attribution of the calling number and the called number The sending unit is configured to send the routing and home message of the calling number and the called number to the fused transit point.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a fused mobile and fixed network communication system, including:

NPMS and the fused MPLS point; the fused transfer point is configured to receive a request for routing and attribution of the calling number and the called number sent by the mobile or fixed network, and send the request to the fused NPMS; The fused NPMS is configured to analyze the calling number and the called number, and send the obtained routing number and the calling number of the calling number and the called number to the fused transfer point.

The above technical solution provides a communication method, device and system based on mobile and fixed network convergence. The method unifies the mobile NPMS and the fixed network NMPS into a fused NPMS, and unifies the mobile STP and the fixed network SSP into a fusion transfer point. The fused NPMS uniformly maintains the information of the calling number and the called number of the service layer and the routing layer, instead of maintaining the number routing information by the mobile STP and the fixed network SSP respectively. And the merged transfer point does not undertake the analysis function of the calling number and the called number. The NPMS is unified to analyze the calling number and the called number, and then the analysis result is sent to the merged transfer point for the next step. Process. It can be seen that when the fixed network number and the mobile number are used for service request, the integrated NPMS performs unified analysis and processing, thereby avoiding the problem of data inconsistency caused by the two systems respectively. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of a system for combining mobile and fixed networks in the prior art;

2 is a flow chart of a flowchart of Embodiment 1 of the method of the present invention;

3 is a signaling diagram of another embodiment of the method of the present invention;

Figure 4 is a structural view of an embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the system of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, a communication method based on mobile and fixed network convergence is implemented in an embodiment of the present invention, including:

The fused fixed network number portability management system NPMS receives the request for routing and attribution of the calling party number and the called number sent by the fused transfer point; the fused NPMS analyzes the calling number After the called number and the called number, the routing and home message of the calling number and the called number are sent to the fused transfer point.

The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 2, the figure is a flowchart of Embodiment 1 of a communication method based on mobile and fixed network convergence provided by the present invention.

The fusion-based mobile and fixed network communication method provided by the embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

S201: The fused fixed network number portability management system NPMS receives the request for routing and attribution of the calling party number and the called number sent by the fused transfer point;

S202: After analyzing the calling number and the called number, the fused NPMS sends the routing and home message of the calling number and the called number to the fused transfer point.

The invention provides a communication method, device and system based on mobile and fixed network convergence. The method unifies the mobile NPMS and the fixed network NMPS into a fused NPMS, and unifies the mobile STP and the fixed network SSP into a fusion transfer point. The fused NPMS uniformly maintains the information of the calling number and the called number of the service layer and the routing layer, instead of the routing information of the SSP and the fixed network of the fixed network respectively. And the merged transfer point does not undertake the analysis function of the calling number and the called number. The NPMS is unified to analyze the calling number and the called number, and then the analysis result is sent to the merged transfer point for the next step. Process. It can be seen that when the service request is made by the fixed network number and the mobile number, the NPMS performs unified analysis and processing, thereby avoiding the problem of data inconsistency caused by the two systems respectively.

In the communication method provided by the present invention, the fused NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called number, which are specifically:

The fused NPMS adds an identifier to the called number and the calling number respectively according to a predetermined protocol with the fused switching point, and the identifier is used to indicate the called operator of the called number and the calling number.

The fused NPMS and the converged transit point predetermine the protocol, which specifies the identification rules for the identity.

The following describes how the fused NPMS adds the identity to the calling number and the called number.

In this embodiment, the NPMS is added with a prefix in front of the calling number and the called number header as an example.

Table 1 Number attribution table Mobile number operator type

23456789 A Mobile

14567890 B Mobile

34567890 B The number attribution table shown in Table 1 of the fixed network is already stored in the fused NPMS. The fused NPMS can know the attribution of the calling number and the called number from its own number attribution table according to the calling number and the called number. Operator.

The fused NPMS adds the identification of the calling number and the called number that have been found. For example, the format is as follows:

Carrier A, prefix = SG; prefix SG indicates that the number is the number of another carrier A; carrier B, prefix = LC; prefix LC indicates that the number is the carrier's own number.

Adding the prefix to the number indicates that the number has been analyzed by the merged NPMS. The prefix information may also be stored in the number attribution table shown in Table 1.

It can be understood that the identifier may be a letter, a number, a combination of letters and numbers, and the like. Detailed instructions. This embodiment is described by taking a user initiated call charging request as an example.

Referring to FIG. 3, the figure is a signaling diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present invention. S1: The user initiates a call request, and the request is received by a base station (not shown) and then forwarded to a Base Station Controller (BSC);

S2: After receiving the user's call request, the BSC sends a trigger message to the Mobile Switching Center (MSC).

S3: After receiving the trigger message, the MSC sends a query route and a home message to the fused transit point, where the message includes the calling number and the called number.

S4: The fused routing point sends the query routing and the home message to the fused NPMS; S5: The fused NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called number to obtain a routing and homing message of the calling number and the called number;

S6: The fused NPMS sends the encapsulated calling number and the called number routing and home message to the fused transit point. S7: The fused switch point sends the message encapsulated by the calling number and the called number to a Service Control Point (SCP) or a Charging System (0CS) to trigger charging.

S8: The SCP or the OCS determines the charging matrix according to the calling number and the called number, and determines whether the calling number can continue the call according to the billing amount or credit of the calling number; if the calling number or credit is sufficient to authorize the next one The communication fee of the billing cycle allows the call, otherwise the call is rejected, and the calling number is played or the current balance is insufficient.

S9: When the SCP or the OCS confirms that the calling number can continue the call, the continuation message is sent to the MSC;

S10: The MSC sends a message to the network device of the home operator of the called number.

It can be understood that the above steps are introduced by taking the calling number as a mobile number as an example, and the same applies to the case where the calling number is a fixed number. Among them, the SSP can be replaced by SSP, and other steps are similar, and will not be described here.

It can be seen from the above steps that the mobile and fixed network convergence based communication method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the fused transfer point sends the call charging request to the fused NPMS, and the NPMS pairs the calling number and the called party. The number is queried. In this way, the number is maintained by the fused NPMS. If the number needs to be updated, the information in the fused NPMS can be directly modified. This avoids the problem of data inconsistency caused by the maintenance of the numbers by the two systems.

The embodiment of the invention further provides a merging mobile and fixed network communication device, and the communication device is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 4, the figure is a structural diagram of a fused mobile and fixed network communication device provided by the present invention. The fused mobile and fixed network communication device provided by the embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiving unit 401, an analyzing unit 402, and a sending unit 403;

The receiving unit 401 is configured to receive a request for routing and attribution of the calling calling number and the called number sent by the fused transit point;

The analyzing unit 402 is configured to analyze a calling number and a called number received by the receiving unit to obtain a routing and a home message of the calling number and the called number; The sending unit 403 is configured to send the routing and home message of the calling number and the called number to the fused transit point.

The communication device provided by the embodiment of the present invention can uniformly maintain the information of the calling number and the called number, and analyzes the calling number and the called number according to the request of the user to obtain a routing and home message. In this way, when the mobile number and the fixed network number are merged, it is only necessary to perform an inquiry on the communication device, so that the data inconsistency caused by the maintenance of the number between the mobile and fixed network systems can be avoided.

The analyzing unit 402 provided by the embodiment of the present invention includes a called number analysis subunit, and is configured to add an identifier to the called number and the calling number respectively according to a predetermined protocol with the merged transit point, where the identifier is used to indicate the called number. And the home operator of the calling number.

The fused transfer point can identify the operator to which the number belongs by the identification of the calling number and the called number.

The identifier may be a letter, a number, a combination of letters and numbers, and the like. Based on the communication device provided above, the present invention also provides a communication system based on mobile and fixed network convergence.

Referring to FIG. 5, the figure is a structural diagram of a fixed network and mobile convergence communication system provided by the present invention. The fixed network and mobile convergence communication system provided by the present invention comprises: a fused NPMS 501 and a fusion transfer point 502;

The fused transfer point 502 is configured to receive a request for routing and attribution of the calling number and the called number sent by the mobile or fixed network, and send the request to the fused NPMS 501;

The fused NPMS 501 is configured to analyze the calling number and the called number, and send the obtained routing number and the calling number of the calling number and the called number to the fused switching point 502.

In the communication system provided by the embodiment, the fused switching point 502 forwards the mobile or fixed network service request to the fused NPMS 501 for analysis and processing, and the fused NPMS 501 returns the processing result to the fused transfer point 501, the fused transfer point. 501 is sent to the home operator for follow-up process. This saves the interaction process with the terminal STP or SSP. The routing and home messages of all numbers are uniformly maintained by the fused NPMS 501. The modification of the information of all the numbers only needs to be performed on the fused NPMS 501, which reduces the difficulty of the fusion between the fixed number and the mobile number. Moreover, the fused NPMS 501 uniformly manages routing and homing, and avoids the problem of data inconsistency caused by routing and homing of the mobile number and the fixed network respectively. The NPMS 501 analyzes the calling number and the called number, and specifically adds: an identifier is added to the calling number and the called number according to a protocol agreed with the fused switching point 502, where the identifier is used to indicate the calling number. And the home operator of the called number.

After the NPMS adds the identifier to the calling number and the called number, the routing and home messages of the calling number and the called number are stored in the form of a list. In this way, when the same number is queried next time, it is no longer necessary to analyze, and the number can be known directly from the number attribution table.

The fused NPMS adds an identifier to the calling number and the called number, specifically, adding a prefix before the calling number and the called number.

The logo is a combination of letters, numbers, or letters and numbers.

A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps in implementing the above method embodiments can be completed by a program instructing related hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The content of each embodiment of the aforementioned communication method may be included. The storage medium referred to herein is, for example, a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or the like.

In summary, the method for communication based on mobile and fixed network convergence provided by the embodiment of the present invention unifies the mobile NPMS and the fixed network NMPS into a fused NPMS, and unifies the mobile STP and the fixed network SSP into a fusion transfer point. . The fused NPMS maintains the information of the calling number and the called number of the service layer and the routing layer, instead of the SSP and fixed network SSP maintenance number routing information respectively. And the merged transfer point does not undertake the analysis function of the calling number and the called number. The NPMS is unified to analyze the calling number and the called number, and then the analysis result is sent to the merged transfer point for the next step. Process. It can be seen that when the service request is made by the fixed network number and the mobile number, the integrated NPMS performs unified analysis and processing, thereby avoiding the problem of data inconsistency caused by the two sets of system processing. .

A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps of implementing the foregoing embodiments may be completed by a program instructing related hardware, and the program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and the program is executed. The method includes the following steps: The fused fixed network number portability management system NPMS receives the request for routing and attribution of the calling party number and the called number sent by the fused transit point; the fused NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called party After the number, the calling number will be

Routing and attribution messages for the code and called number are sent to the fused transit point

Claims

Claim

A fusion-based mobile and fixed network communication method, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:

The fused fixed network number portability management system NPMS receives the request for routing and attribution of the calling party number and the called number sent by the fused transfer point;

After the fused NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called number, the routing and home messages of the calling number and the called number are sent to the fused transfer point.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fused NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called number, and is specifically:

The method according to claim 2, wherein the adding the identifier is specifically: adding a prefix before the called number or the calling number header.

A converged mobile and fixed network communication device, comprising: a receiving unit, an analyzing unit, and a transmitting unit;

The receiving unit is configured to receive a request for routing and attribution of the calling calling number and the called number sent by the fused transit point;

The analyzing unit is configured to analyze a calling number and a called number received by the receiving unit to obtain a routing and a home message of the calling number and the called number;

The sending unit is configured to send the routing and home message of the calling number and the called number to the fused transit point.

The communication device according to claim 4, wherein the analyzing unit comprises a called number analysis subunit, configured to separately add the called number and the calling number according to a predetermined protocol with the merged transfer point. Identification, the identifier is used to indicate the called number and the home operator of the calling number.

6. A fixed network and mobile convergence communication system, comprising: a fused NPMS and a fused transition point;

The fused transfer point is configured to receive a request for routing and attribution of the calling number and the called number sent by the mobile or fixed network, and send the request to the fused NPMS; The fused NPMS is configured to analyze the calling number and the called number, and send the obtained routing number and the calling number of the calling number and the called number to the fused transfer point.

The communication system according to claim 6, wherein the fused NPMS analyzes the calling number and the called number as follows: according to a predetermined agreement with the fused transit point, the calling party The number and the called number are added with an identifier, which is used to indicate the calling number and the home operator of the called number.

The communication system according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the fused NPMS adds a identifier to the calling number and the called number, and lists the routing and attribution messages of the calling number and the called number. The form is stored.

The communication system according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the fused NPMS adds an identifier to the calling number and the called number, specifically, adding a prefix before the calling number and the called number.

10. The communication system according to claim 9, wherein the identification is a combination of letters, numbers, or letters and numbers.