CN101296101B - Optimization method and system for conference business notification - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for optimizing a conference service notification mechanism, wherein the method includes the following steps: setting a proxy policy corresponding to at least one user in the network; The notification message from the server is processed accordingly. Therefore, through the optimization method and system of the present invention, the deficiency of the existing conference service notification mechanism can be made up for, and a flexible conference service notification mechanism can be provided for users, so as to meet various needs of users.

Description

Optimization method and system for conference business notification

technical field

The present invention relates to the communication field, more specifically, to a method and system for optimizing a conference service notification mechanism in the next generation network (NGN).

Background technique

In the next generation network (NGN) with IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as the core, the initial session protocol (SIP) is used as the service control protocol, and various communication services can be controlled by the user's intelligent terminal and the operator in the network. The application server (AS) cooperates to complete.

Figure 1 shows a typical service implementation architecture in the next generation network, in which, the application server (AS) (there may be multiple ASs, each used for different services) communicates with the service-call session control function of the user's home network through an interface (S-CSCF) connected, the SIP service control message (marked with a dotted line) between user terminal A and user terminal B will flow through the proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) in the respective visited network and in the home network Service-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) and application server (depending on the type of user service, may pass through different application servers), and the application server can realize rich services through various processing of service control messages. User terminal A and user terminal B use service messages to exchange and negotiate the media parameters supported by both parties, and establish an IP media stream connection (marked by a solid line) between the two. The IP media stream is used to transmit data such as call voice packets. If the application server is equipped with a media processing function, a media stream connection can also be established between the user terminal and the application server to realize man-machine dialogue services, such as automatic voice services of banks.

Fig. 2 is a typical flowchart of a conference service in the prior art. For the sake of simplification, network devices such as agent-CSCF and service-CSCF are omitted in FIG. 2 . Among them, the conference service server is used to provide conference service functions for all users, and can establish a conversation path with multiple users at the same time, and send the audio to each user after mixing. As shown in Figure 2, it includes the following steps:

In steps S201-S206, user B first sends an invitation request to the conference service server to create a conference resource;

Step S207, establishing a call between user B and the conference service server;

Steps S208-S209, user B sends a conference invitation request to the conference service server, requesting the conference service server to invite user C to join the conference;

Steps S210-S211, the conference service server accepts the response; and

In steps S212-S218, the conference service server sends a call invitation request to user C according to the request of user B, and establishes a call between the conference service server and user C, so that user C joins the conference.

In addition, user B may continue to send a conference invitation request to the conference service server, requesting the conference service server to invite other users to join the conference. Other users may also actively send a session invitation request to the conference service server to establish a call with the conference service server (similar to steps S201-S206), thereby joining the conference.

After joining the conference, the user can exit the conference by releasing the call with the conference service server. There may be many users participating in a meeting. When a user joins the meeting, he may be concerned about which users join or exit the meeting.

In the prior art, NGN users can obtain these information by subscribing to conference events. As shown in Figure 3, the following steps are included:

Step S301, user A successfully joins the conference;

Steps S302-S303, user A sends a subscription request to the conference service server;

Steps S304-S305, the conference service server returns a subscription acceptance response;

Step S306, other users join or exit the meeting;

Steps S307-S308, the conference service server sends a notification message to user A, the message body contains information such as user number, user action (joining or exiting the conference); and

In steps S309-S310, user A returns a notification confirmation response to confirm receipt of the notification message.

When there are a large number of users participating in the meeting, each user (especially the user who joins the meeting first) will receive a large number of notification messages. The user may only care about the participation of some other users, but the joining of these users /Exit notifications can get drowned out by a large number of notification messages. If the user does not want to receive so many notification messages, he can only unsubscribe or unsubscribe from the meeting event; once the user cancels the subscription of the meeting event, the user will not receive any notification about other users joining or exiting the meeting, and cannot know the current meeting How many users join, also can't know whether other users concerned joined this meeting.

In short, the notification mechanism in the prior art is too simple to meet the special needs of users. Aiming at the above problems, the present invention proposes a corresponding method and system for optimizing the conference service notification mechanism, which can better meet the needs of users.

Contents of the invention

Therefore, in order to overcome the above problems, the present invention provides a method and system for optimizing a conference service notification mechanism, so as to better meet the needs of users.

One aspect of the present invention provides a method for optimizing a conference service notification mechanism, which may include the following steps: setting a proxy strategy corresponding to at least one user in the network; The notification message from the server is processed accordingly.

The method may also include modifying the proxy policy of at least one user during the meeting.

Wherein, the corresponding processing includes: when at least one user's proxy policy is satisfied, sending a notification message to at least one user; and when at least one user's proxy policy is not satisfied, ignoring the notification message, or waiting until at least one user's proxy policy is satisfied When the policy is selected, send a notification message to at least one user.

In addition, proxy policies corresponding to at least one user may be set to be the same or different as required.

The proxy policy can be set by the conference organizer, the conference service provider, or the user himself.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the proxy strategy may include one or a combination of the following: a times limit strategy, used to set the maximum number of notification messages sent to the user; a frequency limit strategy, used to set the interval between notification messages sent to the user; The minimum time interval; the blacklist restriction strategy is used to set the user numbers that do not need to be sent to the user; and the white list restriction strategy is used to set the user numbers that need to be sent to the user.

When the frequency limit strategy is adopted, multiple notification messages within the minimum time interval are combined into one message for sending.

Another aspect of the present invention also provides a conference service notification optimization system including a conference service server, which may include: a conference notification agent module, configured to set a proxy strategy respectively corresponding to at least one user in the network, and according to The proxy policy is used to process the notification message from the conference service server accordingly.

The conference notification proxy module includes: an access interface for setting or modifying proxy policies.

The proxy policies corresponding to at least one user may be the same or different as required. The proxy policy can be set by the conference organizer, the conference service provider, or the user himself.

In addition, the proxy strategy may include one or a combination of the following: times limit strategy, used to set the maximum number of notification messages sent to users; frequency limit strategy, used to set the minimum time interval between notification messages sent to users; The list restriction strategy is used to set the user numbers that do not need to be sent to the user; and the white list restriction strategy is used to set the user numbers that need to be sent to the user.

In the optimized system, the conference notification agent module combines multiple notification messages within the minimum time interval into one message and sends it under the condition of frequency limitation strategy.

Wherein, the conference notification proxy module is set separately or integrated in the conference service server.

Therefore, the optimization method and system of the present invention can make up for the deficiencies of the existing conference service notification mechanism, provide users with a flexible conference service notification mechanism, and facilitate meeting various needs of users.

Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings described here are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention and constitute a part of the application. The schematic embodiments of the present invention and their descriptions are used to explain the present invention and do not constitute improper limitations to the present invention. In the attached picture:

FIG. 1 is an architecture diagram for implementing services in a next-generation network in the prior art;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow diagram of a conference business process in the prior art;

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow diagram of the process of user subscribing to conference events in the prior art;

Fig. 4 is the flow chart of the method for optimizing conference business notification according to the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a schematic flow diagram of an optimization method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a schematic flow diagram of an optimization method according to a second embodiment of the present invention; and

Fig. 7 is a block diagram of a system for optimizing conference business notification according to the present invention.

Detailed ways

The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the preferred embodiments described here are only used to illustrate and explain the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention.

The present invention sets a conference notification agent module in NGN, which can be set independently or integrated in the conference service server. When set separately, it is necessary to make the notification message sent by the conference service server to the user pass through the conference notification proxy module (like the application server A in FIG. 3 ). This can be achieved through existing technologies. For example, message filtering criteria are set at the S-CSCF, so that the user's conference event subscription request is first sent to the conference notification agent module for processing, so that the notification message sent by the conference service server will also pass through this module.

The conference notification proxy module can adopt the same proxy strategy for all users or different proxy strategies for each user as required. The conference notification proxy module can provide an access interface for operators, conference service providers or conference organizers to set a unified proxy policy, or for users to set their own personalized proxy policies.

The proxy strategy supported by the conference notification proxy module may include the following strategies:

1) Times limit strategy: set the upper limit of the number of notification messages sent to the user. In a meeting, if the number of notification messages exceeds this upper limit, the conference notification agent module will no longer send notification messages to the user;

2) Frequency limitation strategy: set the frequency upper limit for sending notification messages to users (that is, the minimum time interval between two notification messages). In a conference, if the time interval between two notification messages generated by the conference service server is less than This minimum time interval, the conference notification proxy module will cache the next notification message until the time interval from the last notification message is greater than the minimum time interval before sending it to the user, and if during the waiting period, the conference service server generates a new message notification messages, the conference notification proxy module can combine multiple notification messages that have not been forwarded, and forward them to the user as one notification message;

3) Blacklist strategy: set some user numbers, and the conference notification proxy module will not forward the notification messages of these users joining or exiting the conference to the users. These user numbers can be set by the user themselves, or can be set by the conference organizer or the conference Unified settings for service providers;

4) Whitelist strategy: set some user numbers, for the notification message of joining or exiting the meeting of other users except these users, the meeting notification proxy module will not forward to the user, these user numbers can be set by the user themselves (for example, the user can Some users that it cares about are placed on the whitelist), and it can also be set uniformly by the conference organizer or the conference service provider (for example, the important participants of the meeting are placed on the whitelist).

The above strategies can be used alone or in combination.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a method for optimizing conference service notification according to the present invention. As shown in Figure 4, the following steps are included:

Step S402, setting a proxy policy corresponding to at least one user in the network; and

Step S404, according to the proxy policy of at least one user, correspondingly process the notification message from the conference service server.

The method may also include modifying the proxy policy of at least one user during the meeting.

Wherein, the corresponding processing includes: when at least one user's proxy policy is satisfied, sending a notification message to at least one user; and when at least one user's proxy policy is not satisfied, ignoring the notification message, or waiting until at least one user's proxy policy is satisfied When the policy is selected, send a notification message to at least one user.

In addition, proxy policies corresponding to at least one user may be set to be the same or different as required.

The proxy policy can be set by the conference organizer, the conference service provider, or the user itself, and it can include one or a combination of the following: the number of times limit policy is used to set the maximum number of notification messages sent to the user; the frequency limit policy is used to It is used to set the minimum time interval between notification messages sent to users; the blacklist restriction strategy is used to set user numbers that do not need to be sent to users; and the whitelist restriction strategy is used to set user numbers that need to be sent to users.

When the frequency limit strategy is adopted, multiple notification messages within the minimum time interval are combined into one message for sending.

Fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart of an optimization method according to the first embodiment of the present invention. For the sake of simplicity, only the conference event notification message to user A is considered in the figure. As shown in Figure 5, it includes the following steps:

Step S501, user A joins the conference;

In steps S502-S503, user A sends a conference event subscription request to the conference service server, and the request message passes through the conference notification proxy module, and user A has set the proxy policy he needs in the conference notification proxy module in advance, for example, user A Adopt the whitelist strategy, set user B and user D as whitelist users, in addition, user A can also modify the proxy strategy during the meeting;

Steps S504-S505, the conference service server returns a subscription acceptance response to user A;

Step S506, user B joins the conference;

Step S507, the conference service server sends a notification message to user A, notifying "user B joins the conference";

Step S508, the conference notification proxy module checks the proxy policy of user A, and finds that user B belongs to the white list user, then forwards the notification message to user A;

Steps S509-S510, user A returns a notification confirmation response;

Step S511, user C joins the conference;

Step S512, the conference service server sends a notification message to user A, notifying "user C joins the conference"; and

In step S513, the conference notification proxy module checks the proxy policy of user A, and finds that user C does not belong to the white list user, then does not forward the notification message to user A, but directly returns a notification confirmation response.

Fig. 6 is a schematic flowchart of an optimization method according to a second embodiment of the present invention. For simplicity, only the conference event notification message to user A is considered in this figure. As shown in Figure 6, the following steps are included:

Step S601, user A joins the meeting;

In steps S602-S603, user A sends a conference event subscription request to the conference service server, and the request message passes through the conference notification proxy module, and user A has set the proxy policy he needs in the conference notification proxy module in advance, for example, user A The frequency limit policy is adopted, and the time interval between two notification messages is required to be no less than 15 seconds. In addition, user A can also modify the proxy policy during the meeting;

In steps S604-S605, the conference service server returns a subscription acceptance response to user A;

Step S606, user B joins the conference;

Step S607, the conference service server sends a notification message to user A, notifying "user B joins the conference";

Step S608, the conference notification proxy module checks the proxy policy of user A, and finds that this is the first notification message, then forwards the notification message to user A;

Steps S609-S610, user A returns a notification confirmation response;

Step S611, the conference notification proxy module sets a timer for user A with a duration of 15 seconds;

Step S612, user C joins the meeting;

Step S613, the conference service server sends a notification message to user A, notifying "user C joins the conference";

Step S614, the conference notification agent module checks the proxy strategy of user A, finds that user A adopts the frequency limit strategy, and the timer time set in step S611 has not expired, then stores the notification message, and does not forward the notification message to user A temporarily, and at the same time Return a notification confirmation response to the conference service server;

Steps S615-S617, same as user C, for the notification message ("user D joins the conference") sent by the conference service server to user A, the conference notification agent module also stores it;

Step S618, the timer time set in step S611 is up;

Step S619, the conference notification agent module combines the two stored notification messages ("user C joins the conference" and "user D joins the conference") into one message (that is, the message body contains both the user C joins the conference and the user D joins the conference information), and then forwarded to user A;

Step S620, user A returns a notification confirmation message; and

In step S621, the conference notification agent module sets a timer with a duration of 15 seconds for user A, so as to control the sending time interval of the next notification message.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a system 700 for optimizing conference business notification according to the present invention. As shown in Figure 7, the system 700 includes: a conference service server 702; and a conference notification agent module 704, which is used to set a proxy policy respectively corresponding to at least one user in the network, and according to the proxy policy, respond to the conference service server from the conference service The notification message is processed accordingly.

The meeting notification agent module 704 includes: an access interface 7042, used for setting or modifying agent policies.

The proxy policies corresponding to at least one user may be the same or different as required. The proxy policy can be set by the conference organizer, the conference service provider, or the user himself.

In addition, the proxy strategy may include one or a combination of the following: times limit strategy, used to set the maximum number of notification messages sent to users; frequency limit strategy, used to set the minimum time interval between notification messages sent to users; The list restriction strategy is used to set the user numbers that do not need to be sent to the user; and the white list restriction strategy is used to set the user numbers that need to be sent to the user.

In this optimized system, the conference notification agent module 704 combines multiple notification messages within the minimum time interval into one message and sends it under the condition of adopting the frequency limitation strategy.

Those skilled in the art should understand that the conference notification proxy module 704 can be set independently or integrated in the conference service server 702 .

To sum up, the solution of the present invention can make up for the deficiency of the existing conference service notification mechanism, provide users with a flexible conference service notification mechanism, and facilitate meeting various needs of users.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. For those skilled in the art, the present invention may have various modifications and changes. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (12)

1. the optimization method of the conference service notice in the next generation network is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:

Setting is corresponding to the proxy policies of at least one user in the network; And

According to described at least one user's proxy policies, the notification message from the convention business server is carried out respective handling, wherein, described respective handling comprises:

When satisfying described at least one user's proxy policies, described notification message is sent to described at least one user; And

When not satisfying described at least one user's proxy policies, ignore described notification message, or wait for when satisfying described at least one user's proxy policies, described notification message is sent to described at least one user.

2. optimization method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, and is further comprising the steps of:

In conference process, revise described at least one user's proxy policies.

3. optimization method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, as required, is set to identical or different corresponding to described at least one user's described proxy policies.

4. optimization method according to claim 3 is characterized in that:

Described proxy policies is provided with by meeting organizer, convention business supplier or user oneself.

5. optimization method according to claim 4 is characterized in that, described proxy policies comprises following a kind of or its combination:

The number of times restriction strategy is used to be provided with the maximum quantity that sends described notification message to the user;

The frequency limitation strategy is used to be provided with the minimum interval between the described notification message that the user sends;

The blacklist restriction strategy is used to be provided with the Subscriber Number that does not need to user's transmission; And

The white list restriction strategy, being used to be provided with need be to the Subscriber Number of user's transmission.

6. optimization method according to claim 5 is characterized in that:

When adopting described frequency limitation strategy, many notification messages in the described minimum interval are combined into a piece of news send.

7. the optimization system of the conference service notice in the next generation network comprises the convention business server, it is characterized in that described optimization system also comprises:

The notice of meeting proxy module, be provided with separately or be integrated in the described convention business server, be used for being provided with at least one user's who corresponds respectively to network proxy policies, and according to described proxy policies, notification message from described convention business server is carried out respective handling, wherein, described respective handling comprises:

When satisfying described at least one user's proxy policies, described notification message is sent to described at least one user; And

When not satisfying described at least one user's proxy policies, ignore described notification message, or wait for when satisfying described at least one user's proxy policies, described notification message is sent to described at least one user.

8. optimization system according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described notice of meeting proxy module comprises:

Access interface is used for being provided with or revising described proxy policies.

9. according to claim 7 or 8 described optimization system, it is characterized in that described proxy policies corresponding to described at least one user is identical or different as required.

10. optimization system according to claim 9 is characterized in that:

Described proxy policies is provided with by meeting organizer, convention business supplier or user oneself.

11. optimization system according to claim 9 is characterized in that, described proxy policies comprises following a kind of or its combination:

The number of times restriction strategy is used to be provided with the maximum quantity that sends described notification message to the user;

The frequency limitation strategy is used to be provided with the minimum interval between the described notification message that the user sends;

The blacklist restriction strategy is used to be provided with the Subscriber Number that does not need to user's transmission; And

The white list restriction strategy, being used to be provided with need be to the Subscriber Number of user's transmission.

12. optimization system according to claim 11 is characterized in that:

Described notice of meeting proxy module is combined into a piece of news with many notification messages in the described minimum interval and sends under the situation that adopts described frequency limitation strategy.

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