BROKERAGE SERVER FOR SUPPORTING FAST DATA ACCESS FOR USER TERMINAL, METHOD OF OPERATING BROKERAGE SERVER, USER TERMINAL AND METHOD OF OPERATING USER TERMINAL

• US 20110093554A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIN, Kyoung-heun
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,697 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services

Abstract

A service providing system using a brokerage server that supports fast data access according to a location of a user terminal when the user terminal uses a data center on the Internet is provided. The brokerage server receives an alarm message indicating that the user terminal has moved, from the user terminal, and generates a service quality alarm when the number of the received alarm messages exceeds a previously set number. The brokerage server determines a location of the user terminal as the service quality alarm is generated, and reallocates a data center capable of providing fast data access among a plurality of data centers according to the determined position.

Claims

1. A brokerage server, comprising:

a communication unit configured to;

receive, from a user terminal, an alarm message indicating that the user terminal has moved; and

generate a service quality alarm in response to a number of the received alarm messages exceeding a previously set number; and

a location analyzer configured to;

determine a location of the user terminal as the service quality alarm is generated; and

allocate a data center capable of providing data access to the user terminal among a plurality of data centers according to the determined position.

2. The brokerage server of claim 1, wherein the location analyzer is further configured to:

determine the location of the user terminal using an IP address of the user terminal included in the received alarm message; and

allocate a data center closest to the determined location of the user terminal among the plurality of data centers as a data center for the user terminal.

3. The brokerage server of claim 1, further comprising:

a data center information database configured to manage location information and time zone information of the plurality of data centers according to two or more regional hierarchical structures,

wherein the location analyzer is further configured to;

search for at least one data center belonging to a time zone to which the user terminal belongs using time zone information of the user terminal included in the received alarm message, and

provides information for the searched data center to the user terminal via the communication unit.

4. The brokerage server of claim 1, wherein the location analyzer is further configured to:

allocate the data center to the user terminal using an IP address of the user terminal delivered from the user terminal in response to the user terminal accessing for the first time;

manage the allocated data center as a home data center;

allocate a new data center to the user terminal using location information of the user terminal included in the received alarm message in response to the service quality alarm being generated while the user terminal is using the home data center; and

manage the new data center as a visit data center.

5. The brokerage server of claim 4, further comprising:

a home-data-center location information database configured to store location information of the home data center; and

a visit-data-center location information database configured to store location information of the visit data center.

6. The brokerage server of claim 1, wherein the location analyzer is further configured to:

analyze location information included in the alarm message received from the user terminal during a previously set period; and

determine a move pattern of the user terminal.

7. The brokerage server of claim 6, wherein the location analyzer is further configured to:

determine the movement pattern to be a temporary movement in response to the user terminal using the visit data center during a first period;

determine the movement pattern to be a return after a temporary movement in response to a new alarm message being received from the user terminal and the allocated data center being determined to be a home data center from location information of the user terminal included in the new alarm message, after the movement pattern is determined to be the temporary movement;

determines the movement pattern to be a permanent movement in response to the user terminal using the visit data center during a second period longer than the first period; and

determine the movement pattern to be a re-movement in response to a new alarm message being received from the user terminal and a newly allocated data center being determined to be neither the home data center nor the visit data center from location information of the user terminal included in the new alarm message, after the movement pattern is determined to be the temporary movement.

8. The brokerage server of claim 7, further comprising a data controller configured to control data of the user terminal stored in at least one data center allocated to the user terminal, according to the determined movement pattern.

9. The brokerage server of claim 8, wherein the data controller is further configured to:

copy the data of the user terminal stored in the home data center to the visit data center in response to the movement pattern of the user terminal being the temporary movement;

delete the copied data from the visit data center in response to the movement pattern of the user terminal being the return after a temporary movement;

move all pieces of the data of the user terminal stored in the home data center to the visit data center in response to the movement pattern of the user terminal being the permanent movement; and

move all pieces of the data of the user terminal copied to the visit data center to a new visit data center allocated by the location analyzer in response to the movement pattern of the user terminal being the re-movement.

10. The brokerage server of claim 1, further comprising:

a group information database configured to store location information of user terminals in each group;

wherein the location analyzer is further configured to;

search for location information of at least one other user terminal in a group to which the user terminal belongs from the group information database, and

allocate one data center, comprising a shortest average distance from the user terminals in the group, as a data center for the user terminals belonging to the group.

11. The brokerage server of claim 10, wherein the location analyzer is further configured to allocate a plurality of data centers belonging to the same or adjacent time zones to the user terminals belonging to the group.

12. A user terminal connected to a plurality of data centers and a brokerage server supporting fast data access for a user terminal by allocating at least one of the plurality of data centers, the user terminal receiving data from the allocated data center and comprising:

a controller configured to;

sense a movement of the user terminal; and

generate an alarm message indicating that the user terminal has moved, in response to the movement of the user terminal being sensed; and

a communication unit configured to transmit the generated alarm message to the brokerage server.

13. The user terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to:

confirm whether a time zone of the user terminal has been changed; and

sense that the user terminal has moved in response to the time zone of the user terminal having been changed.

14. The user terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to:

generate a distance confirmation message;

transmit the generated distance confirmation message to the allocated data center; and

sense the movement of the user terminal using a response time of the data center responding to the distance confirmation message.

15. The user terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the distance confirmation message using an HTTP head message.

16. The user terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to generate an alarm message comprising an IP address and time zone information of the user terminal.

17. The user terminal of claim 12, further comprising a GPS receiver configured to receive GPS location information;

wherein the controller is further configured to generate an alarm message comprising the GPS location information.

18. A method of operating a brokerage server, the method comprising:

receiving an alarm message, from a user terminal, indicating that the user terminal has moved;

generating a service quality alarm in response to a number of the alarm messages received from the user terminal exceeding a previously set number;

determining a location of the user terminal as the service quality alarm is generated; and

allocating a data center capable of providing fast data access to the user terminal among a plurality of data centers, according to the determined position.

19. A method of operating a user terminal connected to a plurality of data centers and a brokerage server allocating a data center capable of providing fast data access to the user terminal among the plurality of data centers, the user terminal receiving data from the data center and the method comprising:

sensing a movement of the user terminal;

in response to the movement being sensed, generating an alarm message indicating that the user terminal has moved; and

transmitting the generated alarm message to the brokerage server.