METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE OF GROUP SESSION

• US 20090070417A1
• Filed: 11/12/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2006
• 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: SUN, Qian, BAO, Hongqing, ZHAO, Yang, TIAN, Linyi, SONG, Xuefei, PENG, Chenghui
• Application Number:
  US12/269,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070417A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services

Abstract

A system and method for realizing group talk QoE includes the following: a group talk control server determining the group talk QoE type according to preset QoE type corresponding with a group when group talk is established; and the group talk control server configuring the established talk characteristic, according to the QoE type corresponding with the group. A system for realizing group talk QoE includes a user device, a shared group server for storing group information and a group talk control server.

Claims

1. A method for implementing Quality of Experience (QoE) of a group session, comprising the steps of:

determining, by a group session control server, a QoE type of a group session, in accordance with preset QoE type information corresponding to the group, when the group session is established; and

configuring, by the group session control server, properties of the established session, in accordance with the QoE type of the group.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

setting QoE types corresponding to respective groups in a shared group server through a XML document management client.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of setting QoE types corresponding to respective groups in a shared group server through a XML document management client comprises:

sending, by the XML document management client, to the shared group server a group QoE configuration request message carrying configuration information; and

storing, by the shared group server, the configuration information.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of setting the QoE types corresponding to the respective groups in the shared group server through the XML document management client comprises:

performing, by the shared group server, after receiving the group QoE configuration request message, an authorization check of QoE configuration in accordance with a requester ID in the request message.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the configuration information comprises:

a group identifier and a QoE type corresponding to the group identifier.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein:

the configuration information further comprises;

a member QoE mandatory flag, indicating whether to validate a QoE type of a user; and

the method further comprises;

validating, by the shared group server, a QoE type of a user to be added into a group stored in the shared group server when the user is added into the group through the XML document management client.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the step of validating by the shared group server the QoE type of the user to be added into the group comprises:

comparing a level of the QoE type of the user with that of the QoE type of the group; and

adding the user into the group if the level of the QoE type of the user is above or equal to that of the QoE type of the group;

or

rejecting addition of the user into the group if the level of the QoE type of the user is lower than that of the QoE type of the group.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein:

when the user to be added into the group is in the same domain as the shared group server, obtaining, by the shared group server, the QoE type of the user locally;

when the user to be added into the group is not in the same domain as the shared group server, the shared group server accessing user QoE configuration information in a domain where the user is located to obtain the QoE type of the user or setting the QoE type of the user directly to be a minimum level.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

validating, by the group session control server, QoE types of respective members in the group when the user initiates the group session.

10. The method according to claim 2, comprising:

by the group session control server, obtaining from the shared group server the QoE type of the group for which the group session is to be established, and determining the QoE type as the QoE type of the group session.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the group session control server determines the QoE type of the group session through a QoE negotiation procedure.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the group session control server determining the QoE type of the group session through the QoE negotiation procedure comprises:

initiating, by a user, a group session request to the group session control server;

sending, by the group session control server, an invitation message sequentially to respective members in the group; and

determining, by the group session control server, the QoE type of the group session, in accordance with QoE type levels, in response messages received from the respective members.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

when the group session request message carries session QoE type mandatory information designated by the user, the group session control server, after determining the QoE type of the group session, checking whether a level of the QoE type of the group session is lower than that of an initial QoE type; and

when the level of the QoE type of the group session is lower than that of the initial QoE type, determining that the establishment of the session fails.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the group session control server determining the QoE type of the group session through the QoE negotiation procedure comprises:

after receiving the group session request message, the group session control server determining an invitation QoE type, and putting the determined invitation QoE type information and the session QoE type mandatory information into an invitation message;

after receiving the invitation from the group session control server, the respective members in the group determining whether to accept the session invitation, in accordance with their own QoE type configuration information and the invitation QoE type information; and

when the session invitation is accepted, returning their own QoE type information to the group session control server in response messages.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein:

determining an initial QoE type designated by the user as the invitation QoE type if the group session request message carries the initial QoE type information; and

when the group session request message carries no initial QoE type information designated by the user, obtaining, by the group session control server, the QoE type of the group through the shared group server, and determining the QoE type of the group as the invitation QoE type.

16. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

configuring QoE mapping information in the group session control server in advance, wherein the QoE mapping information comprises a QoE type and session property parameters corresponding to the QoE type;

inquiring about the QoE mapping information, in accordance with the QoE type of the group session, and obtaining the session property parameters, wherein the session property parameters comprises network quality of service and session priorities; and

configuring properties of the established session, in accordance with the session characteristics parameters.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the step of configuring the properties of the established session, in accordance with the session property parameters, comprises:

determining a level of quality of service of the established session, in accordance with network quality of service parameters; and

processing preferentially a session request with a higher priority, in accordance with session priority parameters.

18. A system for implementing Quality of Experience of a group session, comprising:

a user device, adapted to initiate a group session;

a shared group server, adapted to store group information, the group information comprising lists of group members and group Quality of Experience QoE types; and

a group session control server, adapted to control the group session requested by the user device, in accordance with the group information stored in the shared group server, and to configure properties of the established group session, in accordance with the QoE type corresponding to the group.

19. A group session control server, comprising:

a group information obtainment module, adapted to obtain QoE types of a group and users, in accordance with a group session request message received from a user device;

a QoE mapping module, adapted to store QoE mapping information, the QoE mapping information comprising a QoE type and session property parameters corresponding to the QoE type; and

a session control module, adapted to obtain the QoE mapping information from the QoE mapping module, in accordance with the QoE type of the group, and to configure properties of the group session to be established, in accordance with the QoE mapping information.

20. The group session control server according to claim 19, further comprising:

a group information storage module, adapted to store group information, the group information comprising lists of group members and group Quality of Experience QoE types;

wherein;

the group information obtainment module obtains the QoE types of the users and the group from the group information storage module.