Method used for hypertext transfer protocol network, and broadband network gateway

• US 10,225,318 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Hengjun, Niu, Lehong, Huang, Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Kenneth W
• Assistant Examiner(s): C, BadriNarayanan
• Application Number:
  US14/975,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20160105483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,173 Days
• Field of Search: 713181
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method used for an HTTP network, including: receiving, by a BNG, a first HTTP request sent by user equipment; adding, by the BNG, an identifier of the BNG to the first HTTP request, to obtain a second HTTP request; sending, by the BNG, the second HTTP request to an application server; receiving, by the BNG, a third HTTP request sent by the application server, where the third HTTP request includes location information of an image for creating a virtual machine; and obtaining, by the BNG, the image according to the location information, and creating, by the BNG, the virtual machine in the BNG according to the image.

Claims

1. A method used for a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a broadband network gateway (BNG), a first HTTP request sent by a user equipment;

adding, by the BNG, an identifier of the BNG to the first HTTP request, to obtain a second HTTP request, wherein the second HTTP request is used to obtain location information of an image for creating a virtual machine;

sending, by the BNG, the second HTTP request to an application server;

receiving, by the BNG, a third HTTP request sent by the application server, wherein the third HTTP request comprises the location information of the image and configuration information of the virtual machine, wherein the location information of the image comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) identifying how to access the image stored in a network server or comprises a directory in which the image is stored in the BNG;

obtaining, by the BNG, the image according to the location information of the image; and

creating, by the BNG, the virtual machine in the BNG according to the image and the configuration information, wherein the created virtual machine runs on the BNG.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, after creating the virtual machine in the BNG according to the image, the method further comprises:

sending, by the BNG, a first HTTP response to the application server, wherein the first HTTP response is a response corresponding to the third HTTP request, and the first HTTP response comprises an identifier of the virtual machine;

receiving, by the BNG, a second HTTP response sent by the application server, wherein the second HTTP response is a response corresponding to the second HTTP request, and the second HTTP response comprises the identifier of the virtual machine; and

forwarding, by the BNG, the second HTTP response to the user equipment.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifier of the BNG comprises a host name of the BNG, an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the BNG, or a uniform resource locator (URL) for identifying how to access the BNG.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second HTTP request comprises a message-digest (MD), wherein the MD is obtained by performing an encryption operation on the identifier of the BNG according to a message-digest algorithm 5 (MD5).

5. A method used for a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a broadband network gateway (BNG), a first HTTP request sent by user equipment, wherein a virtual machine runs on the BNG;

adding, by the BNG, an identifier of the virtual machine to the first HTTP request, to obtain a second HTTP request, wherein the second HTTP request is used to obtain location information of an application server end;

sending, by the BNG, the second HTTP request to an application server;

receiving, by the BNG, a command that is sent by the application server, wherein the command is used to deploy the application server end on the virtual machine, and the command comprises the location information of the application server end, and the location information of the application server end comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) identifying how to access the application server end or comprises a directory in which the application server end is stored in the BNG; and

deploying, by the BNG, the application server end on the virtual machine according to the command.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein after the deploying, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the BNG, a first HTTP response sent by the application server, wherein the first HTTP response comprises the identifier of the virtual machine, and the first HTTP response is a response corresponding to the second HTTP request; and

forwarding, by the BNG, the first HTTP response to the user equipment.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the identifier of the virtual machine is carried in a header field or a payload of the first HTTP response.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the identifier of the virtual machine comprises a host name of the virtual machine, an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the virtual machine, or a uniform resource locator (URL) for identifying how to access the virtual machine.

9. A broadband network gateway (BNG), comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions to;

receive a first Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request sent by user equipment;

add an identifier of the BNG to the first HTTP request to obtain a second HTTP request, wherein the second HTTP request is used to obtain location information of an image for creating a virtual machine;

send the second HTTP request to an application server;

receive a third HTTP request sent by the application server, wherein the third HTTP request comprises the location information of the image and configuration information of the virtual machine and the location information of the image, wherein the location information of the image comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) identifying how to access the image stored in a network server or comprises a directory in which the image is stored in the BNG; and

obtain the image according to the location information of the image in the third HTTP request, and create the virtual machine in the BNG according to the image and the configuration information, wherein the created virtual machine runs on the BNG.

10. The BNG according to claim 9, wherein the program further includes instructions to:

send a first HTTP response to the application server, wherein the first HTTP response is a response corresponding to the third HTTP request, and the first HTTP response comprises an identifier of the virtual machine;

receive a second HTTP response sent by the application server, wherein the second HTTP response is a response corresponding to the second HTTP request, and the second HTTP response comprises the identifier of the virtual machine; and

forward the second HTTP response received by the third receiver to the user equipment.

11. The BNG according to claim 9, wherein the identifier of the BNG comprises a host name of the BNG, an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the BNG, or a uniform resource locator (URL) for identifying how to access the BNG.

12. The BNG according to claim 9, wherein the second HTTP request comprises a message-digest (MD), wherein the MD is obtained by performing an encryption operation on the identifier of the BNG according to a message-digest algorithm 5 (MD5).

13. A broadband network gateway (BNG), comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for;

receive a first Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request sent by user equipment, wherein a virtual machine runs on the BNG;

add an identifier of the virtual machine to the first HTTP request to obtain a second HTTP request, wherein the second HTTP request is used to obtain location information of an application server end;

send the second HTTP request to an application server;

receive a command that is sent by the application server, wherein the command is used to deploy the application server end on the virtual machine, and the command comprises the location information of the application server end, and the location information comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) identifying how to access the application server end or comprises a directory in which the application server end is stored in the BNG; and

deploy the application server end on the virtual machine according to the command.

14. The BNG according to claim 13, wherein the program further includes instructions to:

receive a first HTTP response sent by the application server, wherein the first HTTP response comprises the identifier of the virtual machine, and the first HTTP response is a response corresponding to the second HTTP request; and

forward the first HTTP response to the user equipment.

15. The BNG according to claim 14, wherein the identifier of the virtual machine is carried in a header field or a payload of the first HTTP response.

16. The BNG according to claim 13, wherein the identifier of the virtual machine comprises a host name of the virtual machine, an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the virtual machine, or a uniform resource locator (URL) for identifying how to access the virtual machine.