Method for limiting quantity of location information request flows in location service

• US 20060094446A1
• Filed: 10/06/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Duan, Xiaoqin
• Application Number:
  US11/244,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20060094446A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5022 Workload threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/10 Flow control between communication endpoints
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for restricting Location request flow in location service, related to flow control technique. The method includes: after receiving Location request sent by LCS Client, LCS Server verifying whether the number of current Location request task is more than Maximum Location request task, if yes, LCS Server rejects to process current Location request; otherwise, LCS Server process the Location request. On the one hand, LCS Server can set different Maximum Location request task for different LCS Clients, and restrict Location request number sent by the LCS Client; on the other hand, LCS Server can control whether to continue processing subsequent Location request according to self processing capacity, so as to protect system performance security of LCS Server when facing collision of large number of Location requests.

Claims

1. A method for restricting Location request flows in location service, comprising the following steps:

A. after receiving Location request sent by LCS (Location Service) Client, LCS Server verifies whether number of current Location request task is more than the Maximum Location request task, if yes, goes to step C, otherwise, goes to step B;

B. LCS Server processes the Location request;

C. LCS Server rejects to process the current Location request.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

said Maximum Location request task in step A is the Maximum Location request task of the LCS Client;

said step A is;

after receiving Location request sent by LCS Client, LCS Server verifies whether the number of current Location request task sent by LCS Client is more than Maximum Location request task of this LCS Client, if yes, goes to step C, otherwise, goes to step B.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said Maximum Location request task being set according to priority level of LCS Client.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the Maximum Location request task in step A is total Maximum Location request task in LCS Server;

said step A is;

after receiving Location request sent by LCS Client, LCS Server verifies whether the total number current Location request tasks is more than total Maximum Location request task in LCS Server, if yes, goes to step C, otherwise, goes to step B.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

said Maximum Location request task in step A comprises;

Maximum Location request task of LCS Client and total Maximum Location request task in LCS Server;

said step A comprising the following steps;

A1. after receiving Location request sent by LCS Client, LCS Server verifies whether the number of current Location request task sent by LCS Client is more than Maximum Location request task of the LCS Client, if yes, goes to step C, otherwise, goes to step A2;

A2. LCS Server verifies whether the total number of current Location request is more than total Maximum Location request task in LCS Server, if yes, goes to step C, otherwise, goes to step B.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein after step C, the method further comprises:

LCS Server returns response message to the LCS Client that Location request is rejected.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein in the step C2, after said LCS Server directly rejects to process current Location request, further comprising:

LCS Server returns response message to the LCS Client that Location request is rejected.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said step C further comprises the following steps:

C1. LCS Server decides the reject mode is totally reject or partly reject, if totally, goes to step C2, if partly, goes to step C3;

C2. LCS Server directly rejects to process the current Location request;

the flow control processing is finished;

C3. LCS Server accepts the current Location request in range of Maximum Location request task, and processes the accepted Location request.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein in the step C2, after said LCS Server directly rejects to process current Location request, further comprising:

LCS Server returns response message to the LCS Client that Location request is rejected.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said response message carrying corresponding error cause value.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein step C3, after said LCS Server accepts the current Location request in the range of Maximum Location request task, further comprises:

negotiating with the LCS Client of which Location request is rejected, determining whether to detain processing the rejected Location request or to cancel the operation.

12. The method according to claim 4, wherein said total number current Location request tasks comprises the number of to-be-processed Location request tasks and the number of under-processed Location request task.

13. The method according to claim 5, wherein said total number current Location request tasks comprises the number of to-be-processed Location request tasks and the number of under-processed Location request task.

14. The method according to claim 4, wherein said total Maximum Location request task in LCS Server is the maximum number of Location request task confined by processing capacity of LCS Server.

15. The method according to claim 5, wherein said total Maximum Location request task in LCS Server is the maximum number of Location request task confined by processing capacity of LCS Server.