KR100933775B1 - Method and system for managing asset information of mobile communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

An asset information management method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving facility work information for a mobile communication facility, and storing whether the work history included in the facility work information is valid and storing the facility work information. .

Description

Method and system for managing asset information of mobile communication system

1 is a view showing a management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a portable terminal transmits facility work information to a data processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of managing asset information of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 to 8 illustrate a user interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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10: portable terminal 110: data processing device

120: database server 130: display device

The present invention relates to asset information management of a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a method and system for managing asset information of a mobile communication system.

Due to the development of mobile communication, mobile phones such as cellular phones and PCS phones are widely used, and mobile communication service providers are equipped with mobile communication facilities such as base stations, relay stations, and exchanges in each region, and manage and maintain them. have.

However, since the number of mobile communication facilities ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions, and the types thereof are also very diverse, it is difficult to grasp the change history of each mobile communication facility.

Accordingly, there is a demand for a technology that can more easily manage asset information of a mobile communication system.

It is an object of the present invention to more easily manage asset information of a mobile communication system.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, the asset information management method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of receiving facility work information for a mobile communication facility, and whether the work history included in the facility work information and the facility work information It includes the step of storing.

In order to achieve the above object, the management system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a data processing device for receiving facility work information for a mobile communication facility, and whether the work history included in the facility work information validity and the facility work information Includes a database server to store it.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the drawings.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but can be implemented in various different forms, and only the embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a management system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The management system 100 may include a data processing device 110, a database server 120, and a display device 130. The illustrated management system 100 can be used to manage mobile communication facilities.

When the mobile terminal 10 performs a work on a mobile communication facility (hereinafter referred to as "working work"), the information about the work (hereinafter referred to as "working work information") of the work is transferred to the data processing device 110. Can transmit Here, the mobile communication facility may include various devices constituting a mobile communication system such as a base station, an exchange station, a repeater, an IT server, and the like. Facility work also includes the concept of adding new mobile communication facilities and repairing, retrofitting, decommissioning, and moving existing mobile communication facilities. In addition, there may be various equipment work required to maintain, maintain, and manage the mobile communication system, and the present invention is not limited by the type of equipment work.

The portable terminal 10 may be owned by an operator who performs facility work. That is, a portable terminal that can be used for each operator can be allocated. Although FIG. 1 illustrates one portable terminal 10 in order to briefly describe an embodiment of the present invention, the number of portable terminals 10 may also vary according to the number of workers. An example of such a portable terminal 10 is PDA (Personal Digital Assistants). However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and portable digital processing devices such as a mobile phone or a notebook computer may be used as the portable terminal 10 described in the present invention without being limited thereto.

The data processing apparatus 110 may manage asset information of the mobile communication system by using facility work information transmitted from the portable terminal 10. The asset information of the mobile communication system is used to manage the operation status of the mobile communication facilities constituting the mobile communication system (eg, whether the mobile communication facilities of the mobile communication facilities are in operation, the business headquarters in charge of the mobile communication facilities, etc.) and the operation. History (e.g., repair, replacement, change history such as movement of mobile communication facilities, etc.). An asset information management process performed by the data processing apparatus 110 will be described in more detail later with reference to FIG. 3.

Meanwhile, the data processing device 110 may provide a user interface for guiding access to asset information stored in the database server 120 at the request of an administrator. The display device 130 may display a user interface provided from the data processing device 110.

Although not shown in FIG. 1, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the management system 100 may further include a computing device (eg, a desktop computer or a laptop computer) relaying the data processing device 110 and an administrator. Can be. The administrator may request information necessary for the data processing device 110 using the computing device, and the information provided from the data processing device 110 may be delivered to the display device 130 via the computing device. That is, when a manager wants to access asset information such as viewing or editing asset information, the user interface for guiding the asset information may be provided by the data processing device 110 as described above, but may also be provided by the computing device.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process in which the portable terminal 10 transmits facility work information to the data processing device 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the portable terminal 10 may acquire a facility identifier of a mobile communication facility where an operator intends to perform a facility work (S210). The facility identifier may be expressed in numbers, letters, or a combination thereof, and may be previously assigned a unique value for each mobile communication facility in order to identify the mobile communication facility.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a mobile communication facility may be equipped with a label indicating an equipment identifier and readable by an electronic device. Examples of the label may include a bar code or an RFID tag. The portable terminal 10 may include a function of a label reader capable of electronically reading a facility identifier recorded on a label, such as a bar code reader or an RFID reader. Thus, when the worker approaches the label attached to the mobile communication facility, the portable terminal 10 can obtain the facility identifier of the mobile communication facility. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, the operator directly inputs the identifier of the mobile communication facility to the portable terminal 10 by using a button or a touch screen provided in the portable terminal 10, so that the portable terminal 10 identifies the facility identifier of the mobile communication facility. It is also possible to obtain an embodiment.

Thereafter, the portable terminal 10 may receive a work history performed on the mobile communication facility from the worker (S220). The work history may represent specific contents of the facility work performed by the worker. For example, a request for repair, board registration, rack demolition confirmation, and unattached equipment registration may be included in the work history. Of course, the work history is not limited thereto, and various work details may exist according to the contents of the facility work performed by the worker. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the work history may be expressed in the form of an identification symbol.

Processes S210 and S220 may be performed before the operator starts the installation work, during the installation work, or after completing the installation work.

When a request for transmission of facility work information is input from an operator (S230), the portable terminal 10 may transmit facility work information to the data processing device 110 (S240). Of course, even if there is no separate request, such as the process S230, when the process S210 and S220 is performed, it is also possible for the embodiment that the process S240 is automatically performed.

The facility work information transmission path between the portable terminal 10 and the data processing device 110 is not limited to the wireless communication system, Wibro, etc., as well as a mobile communication system based on CDMA or WCDMA. In addition, the process of FIG. 2 may be performed by each worker's portable terminal whenever workers perform facility work throughout the mobile communication system.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the facility work information transmitted from the portable terminal 10 to the data processing device 110 may include a terminal identifier, an operator identifier, a facility identifier, a job history, location information, a job number, and the like. Can be.

The terminal identifier is a value that is uniquely assigned to the portable terminal 10 and can be used to distinguish the portable terminal 10, and the worker identifier is a value that can be assigned to the worker and used to distinguish the worker.

The facility identifier and the job description are as described above, and the location information may indicate a location where the facility work is performed (that is, the location of the mobile communication facility). To this end, the portable terminal 10 may include a position measurement function such as a global positioning system (GPS) module. The operation of acquiring the location information by the portable terminal 10 may be performed before the process S240 of FIG. 2 is performed.

The job number is an identifier used to distinguish the equipment work performed by the worker from the equipment work performed by the same worker at different times or the equipment work performed by another worker. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the job number may be set to a date and time when the facility work is performed and a connection value of the terminal identifier. For example, when the portable terminal 10 having a terminal identifier of 0167890123 transmits job information on a facility job performed on April 23, 2007, 18:54:48, the job number may be determined as 200704231854480167890123. Of course, this is only one embodiment, so the job number does not have to be generated by this rule. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the job number may be assigned by the portable terminal 10 before transmitting the facility job information.

Of course, the plant operation information does not have to include all the information described above. Facility work information may include some of these, or may further include other information. As an example, since the portable terminal 10 is not shared by several workers but used by a specific worker, the data processing device 110 maps between the worker identifier of each worker and the terminal identifier of the portable terminal used by the worker. If the information is held in advance, the portable terminal 10 may include only one of the operator identifier and the terminal identifier in the installation work information.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of managing asset information of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When receiving the equipment work information transmitted from the portable terminal 10 (S310), the data processing device 110 may check the validity of the work history included in the equipment work information (S320).

In order to check the validity, the data processing apparatus 110 may check the latest work history of the mobile communication facility corresponding to the facility identifier included in the facility work information through the database server 120. Thereafter, the data processing apparatus 110 may determine whether the recent work history and the current work history represent facility work that may be performed sequentially.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the mapping information for the work history that can be performed successively for each work history is registered in advance, and the data processing apparatus 110 may determine the validity of the work history by using the same. have. For example, if 이동 Rack Move Check ＇is set as a job history that can be performed after the＇ Rack Demolition Check ＇, the new work history for the mobile communication facility whose recent work history is＇ Rack Demolition Check ＇ If it is this "rack movement confirmation", the data processing apparatus 110 can determine that the new work history is valid (determine the validity confirmation result as "success"). However, if the new work details are "delivery confirmation", the data processing apparatus 110 may determine that the new work details are not valid (the validity check result is determined as "failure").

After the validation of the process S320, the data processing device 110 may check whether the validation result is a failure (S330). If the validation result is unsuccessful, the data processing apparatus 110 transmits the information indicating that the work history is incorrect to the portable terminal 10 that transmits the facility work information (S340), and transmits the facility work information to the database server 120. Can be stored (S350). Validation results can also be saved when storing plant operation information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the information transmitted in step S340 may be a short message based on SMS or a multimedia message based on MMS. Accordingly, the portable terminal 10 can display the information that the work history is wrong. The operator can retransmit the plant work information by checking the displayed information and entering the correct work history performed.

On the other hand, if the verification result validation result in step S330 is successful, the data processing device 110 may store the facility work information in the database server 120 (S360). At this time, the validity check result may be stored together with the facility operation information.

Thereafter, the data processing apparatus 110 may update asset information of the mobile communication system stored in the database server 120 using the facility work information (S370). As described above, asset information may include the operational status and operational history of mobile communication facilities. The asset information may be the result of facility work performed by an operator (for example, when a mobile facility is moved to another area or destroyed). Can be reflected in.

The operator of the mobile communication system may have a business headquarters for each region in which the mobile communication facility is located. By using the location information included in the facility operation information, the operator of the mobile communication facility that is subject to the facility operation belongs to the jurisdiction of which business headquarters. Able to know. When updating the asset information in step S370, it is also possible to record the asset changes of each business headquarters, through which it is possible not only to collectively manage the entire asset information of the mobile communication system, but also to manage the asset information for each business headquarters. have.

Through such a process, asset information or facility work information of the mobile communication system recorded in the database server 120 may be displayed through the display device 130 at the request of an administrator.

4 is a diagram illustrating a user interface 400 for guiding access to information stored in a database server 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment and the following embodiments, an update operation of asset information performed in step S370 of FIG. 3 will be referred to as a main operation.

The illustrated user interface 400 includes a monitoring area 410, a facility type division area 420, a data output division area 430, and an error processing division area 440. The administrator can enter or select a search condition in each area.

According to the present exemplary embodiment, the monitoring area 410 may input at least one of a business headquarter, a job number, a job history, a facility identifier, an operator, a reception date, and a reception time as a search condition.

In the facility type division area 420, a type of a mobile communication facility to be searched may be selected, and in the data output division area 430, a job result may be selected based on a main job. For example, the administrator can select whether an error occurs during the main task, whether the main task is completed successfully, or whether the main task is not performed as a search condition.

In addition, in the error processing division area 440, a result of the manager's processing of an error generated during the main operation may be selected as a search condition.

5 illustrates an example of a user interface that the display apparatus 130 can display when the administrator requests a search for job history information using a reception date in the user interface 400.

The illustrated embodiment shows a user interface 500 for providing facility work information received by the data processing device 110 on a table 26 April 2007. The user interface 500 illustrated in FIG. 5 includes a job number 510, an identification symbol 520 and a description 530 indicating a job history, a number 540 indicating the number of mobile communication facilities targeted for facility work, It includes a status 550 indicating whether the validity check succeeds or fails, and whether the main task succeeds or fails, a worker identifier 560, and a business headquarters name 570. In the state 550 item, &quot; S &quot; indicates success, &quot; S &quot; indicates failure. In addition, various pieces of information may be further included in the user interface 500, such as a date when a validity check is performed, a date and time during which a main job is performed, and whether or not a worker is notified of a job history whose validation result is a failure.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the administrator selects a job number in the user interface 500 illustrated in FIG. 5, information about a mobile communication facility where facility work corresponding to the selected job number is performed may be provided. . Of course, a specific function icon (not shown) may be selected after the job number is selected, or information about the mobile communication facility may be provided through one or more steps of pop-up or screen switching. This may be understood as well in the case of providing the other information below.

The information on the mobile communication facility may include a changed history of the corresponding mobile communication facility on the day, and an example thereof is illustrated in FIG. 6. FIG. 6 shows a change history 600 dated April 23, 2007 of a mobile communication facility with facility identifier # 1781704001A000003303. The administrator may check the history information 620 before and after the change for each item of the field 610 in the change history 600.

In addition, the information on the mobile communication facility may include details of the mobile communication facility such as specifications, delivery date, administrative responsibility department, and the like, and an example thereof is illustrated in FIG. 7.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a manager selects a job number to be inquired in the user interface 500 illustrated in FIG. 5, the data processing apparatus 110 uses equipment job information corresponding to the job number. Information on the process of performing the main task may be provided. 8 illustrates a process of performing a main operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The administrator may check the main work performing process 810 of the data processing apparatus 110 for the facility work information having a job number of “200704231854480167891940” through the user interface 800 illustrated in FIG. 8. If an error occurs during the main operation, the administrator may check at which stage the error occurs through the user interface 800 and take appropriate measures corresponding to the identified error.

In addition, a user interface may be provided for inquiring a facility work history for each operator, inquiring and changing low data, and inquiring and editing information stored in other database server 120. You can access and manage the information you want through the interface.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. You will understand that. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive.

According to the method and system for managing asset information of the mobile communication system of the present invention as described above, there is an effect of facilitating asset management of the mobile communication system.

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An asset management method comprising the operation status and operation history of mobile communication facilities including various devices constituting a mobile communication system, Receiving facility work information on a mobile communication facility from a portable terminal owned by an operator who performs facility work; And Determining whether the work history is valid according to whether the work history included in the facility work information can be sequentially performed following the recent work history; And And storing the facility work information and the validity. The method of claim 1, And after the determining of the validity, if the work history is not valid, transmitting information indicating that the work history is not valid to the portable terminal that has transmitted the facility work information. The method of claim 2, Information indicating that the work history is not valid is transmitted through a text message or a multimedia message. The method of claim 1, And updating the asset information by using the facility work information when the work history is valid after the determining of the validity. delete The method of claim 1, And providing a user interface including the stored facility work information and asset information of a mobile communication system including the mobile communication facility after storing the facility work information and the validity. The method of claim 1, The facility work information is a job history indicating a terminal identifier of a portable terminal transmitting the facility work information, a job number for identifying the facility work information, a facility identifier of the mobile communication facility, and a facility job performed on the mobile communication facility. And at least one of a worker identifier of a worker who performed the facility work and location information indicating a location where the facility work is performed. A management system for managing asset information including operational status and operational history of mobile communication facilities including various devices constituting a mobile communication system, A data processing apparatus for receiving facility work information on the mobile communication facility from a portable terminal owned by an operator who performs facility work; And And a database server storing the facility work information and whether the work history is valid according to whether the work history included in the facility work information can be performed sequentially after a recent work history. The method of claim 8, And the data processing device transmits information indicating that the work history is not valid to the portable terminal that transmitted the facility work information when the work history is not valid as a result of determining whether the database server is valid. The method of claim 8, And the data processing apparatus updates asset information of a mobile communication system including the mobile communication facility by using the facility job information when the work history is valid as a result of determining whether the database server is valid. delete The method of claim 8, And the data processing apparatus provides a user interface that includes the stored facility task information and asset information of a mobile communication system including the mobile communication facility. The method of claim 8 or 12, The facility work information is a job history indicating a terminal identifier of a portable terminal transmitting the facility work information, a job number for identifying the facility work information, a facility identifier of the mobile communication facility, and a facility job performed on the mobile communication facility. And at least one of a worker identifier of a worker who performed the facility work and location information indicating a location where the facility work is performed.

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