Information providing service control system

• US 20080046593A1
• Filed: 01/24/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Mizuma, Keiji, Ando, Tatsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/657,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20080046593A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/10 of different types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

In order to deliver information from an information transmission terminal to multiple user terminals in a specific area regardless of a type of an access network, a system includes managing location information of areas that the plurality of user terminals are located in association with multiple URIs; sending, in response to a first inquiry, the plurality of URIs associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the first inquiry being created based on the location information of the specific area entered from the information transmission terminal; managing the plurality of URIs of the user terminals in association with multiple IP addresses; and sending, in response to a second inquiry from the information transmission terminal, the plurality of IP addresses associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the second inquiry being created based on the URIs sent in response.

Claims

1. An information providing service control system integrating access networks of different types with an IP (Internet Protocol) core network for being able to deliver information from an information transmission terminal to multiple user terminals in a specific area by using an IP address regardless of the type of the access network, comprising:

a first management module for managing location information of areas that the plurality of user terminals are located in association with multiple URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers);

a first resolution module for sending, in response to a first inquiry, the plurality of URIs associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the first inquiry being created based on the location information of the specific area entered from the information transmission terminal;

a second management module for managing the plurality of URIs of the user terminals in association with multiple IP addresses; and

a second resolution module for sending, in response to a second inquiry from the information transmission terminal, the plurality of IP addresses associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the second inquiry being created based on the URIs sent in response.

2. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, further comprising an analyzing module for discriminating a first message or a second message and determining a transferring destination of the discriminated message, the first message being for having the first resolution module resolve the URIs based on the location information, the second message being for having the second resolution module resolve the IP addresses based on the URIs.

3. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, wherein the first management module, the first resolution module, the second management module, and the second resolution module are placed in at least one DNS (Domain Name System) server.

4. An information providing service control system according to claim 2, wherein the first management module and the first resolution module are placed in a first DNS (Domain Name System) server, the second management module and the second resolution module are placed in a second DNS server, and the analyzing module is placed in a third DNS server.

5. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, wherein the first inquiry is a DDDS (Dynamic Delegation Discovery System) query and the second inquiry is a DNS (Domain Name System) query.

6. An information providing service control system according to claim 2, wherein the first message and the second message are DNS (Domain Name System) messages.

7. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, wherein the access networks of different types include multiple types of access networks selected from a wired access network and wireless access networks, the wireless access network including a wireless LAN (Local Area Network), a mobile phone network, and a WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) network.

8. An information providing service control system according to claim 7, wherein the access networks of different types further include wired access networks.

9. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, wherein the location information of the areas that the plurality of user terminals are located and the location information of the specific area entered from the information transmission terminal are mapped on to an E.164 phone number system, and the first resolution module resolves the URIs through an ENUM procedure.

10. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, wherein the location information of the areas and the location information of the specific area contain identifiers for identifying the areas and the specific area, and identifiers for identifying the types of the access networks.

11. An information providing service control system according to claim 4, further comprising a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server which has a conversion table for conversion between a physical address of a base station of a wireless access network or a physical address of a default gateway of a wired access network, serving as the access network, and location information of the base station or the default gateway,

wherein the DHCP server sends, along with an allocated IP address, the location information of the base station of the wireless access network to be accessed or the location information of the default gateway of the wired access network, as the location information of the area that the user terminal is located, in response to an inquiry that is made by the user terminal when the user terminal receives radio waves from the base station or an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) response from the default gateway and that contains an obtained physical address of the base station of the wireless access network or of the default gateway.

12. An information providing service control system according to claim 4, further comprising a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server which has a conversion table for conversion between a physical address of a base station of a wireless access network serving as the access network and location information of the base station,

wherein, when the user terminal is handed over from one base station of the wireless access network to another base station and makes an inquiry created from a physical address of the base station to which the user terminal is handed over, the DHCP server sends, in response to the inquiry, along with an allocated IP address, the location information of the base station as the location information of the area that the user terminal is located, and enables the user terminal to send and register the location information to the first DNS server.

13. An information providing service control system according to claim 4, further comprising a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server which has a conversion table for conversion between a physical address of a base station of a wireless access network serving as the access network and location information of the base station,

wherein, when the user terminal is capable of accessing different types of the wireless access networks and chooses the physical address of the base station of the wireless access network that covers a narrower area and allows fine location identification, rather than the wireless access network with which the user terminal actually communicates, or when the user terminal makes an inquiry created from the obtained plurality of physical addresses, the DHCP server sends, in response to the inquiry, the location information of the base station as the location information of the area that the user terminal is located, and enables the user terminal to send and register the location information to the first DNS server.

14. An information providing service control system according to claim 4, further comprising a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server which has a conversion table for conversion between a physical address of a base station of a wireless access network serving as the access network and location information of the base station,

wherein the user terminal monitors a radio wave strength of a wireless access network that covers a narrower area, rather than a wireless access network with which the user terminal actually communicates, and when the radio wave strength of a base station that has had the highest radio wave strength becomes weaker than that of another base station and the user terminal makes an inquiry created from the physical address of the base station that now has the highest radio wave strength, the DHCP server sends, in response to the inquiry, the location information of the base station of the highest radio wave strength as the location information of the area that the user terminal is located, and enables the user terminal to send and register the location information to the first DNS server.

15. An information providing service control system according to claim 4, further comprising a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server which has a conversion table for conversion between a physical address of a base station of a wireless access network serving as the access network and location information of the base station,

wherein, when the user terminal moves from one location to another location causing the IP address to change, the DHCP server requests the first DNS server to update the location information of the area that the user terminal is located, and makes automatic IP address update possible through a DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) function.

16. An information providing service control system according to claim 1, wherein the first management module dynamically updates data to be managed by setting a timer for each piece of entry data and deleting entry data that has expired.

17. An information providing service control method integrating access networks of different types with an IP (Internet Protocol) core network for being able to deliver information from an information transmission terminal to multiple user terminals in a specific area by using an IP address regardless of the type of the access network, comprising:

managing location information of areas that the plurality of user terminals are located in association with multiple URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers);

sending, in response to a first inquiry, the plurality of URIs associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the first inquiry being created based on the location information of the specific area entered from the information transmission terminal;

managing the plurality of URIs of the plurality of user terminals in association with multiple IP addresses; and

sending, in response to a second inquiry from the information transmission terminal, the plurality of IP addresses associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the second inquiry being created based on the URIs sent in response.

18. An information providing service control method according to claim 17, further comprising:

discriminating a first message or a second message and determining a transferring destination of the discriminated message, the first message being for resolution of the URIs based on the location information of the area that the user terminals are located, the second message being for resolution of the IP addresses based on the URIS.