METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR SERVICE NEGOTIATION

• US 20110238840A1
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2008
• 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: Chen, Shan, Liu, Jianfeng, Li, Yan, Tang, Jie, Wang, Huan, Chang, Heng, Shi, Xiaomin, Ma, Qifeng
• Application Number:
  US13/072,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238840A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5006 Creating or negotiating SLA contracts, guarantees or penalties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5051 Service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services in real time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5058 Service discovery by the service manager
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

The present invention discloses a service negotiation method, system and device. The service negotiation method includes: obtaining a service negotiation request that contains multiple services; obtaining a requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request; and selecting a target service according to the requirement processing result, generating a service negotiation result corresponding to the service negotiation request, and returning the service negotiation result. The present invention enables the service network to support service negotiation under multiple service requirements and meets the needs of service interactions and the requirements of the negotiation requester. With the present invention, the success rate of service negotiation is increased and the user satisfaction is enhanced.

Claims

1. A service negotiation method, comprising:

obtaining a service negotiation request that contains multiple services;

obtaining a requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request; and

selecting a target service according to the requirement processing result, generating a service negotiation result corresponding to the service negotiation request, and returning the service negotiation result.

2. The service negotiation method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request comprises:

sending a requirement query request to one or more than one function device that maintains service requirement information of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request; and

receiving a requirement processing result returned by the one or more than one function device in response to the requirement query request.

3. The service negotiation method of claim 2, wherein the step of sending the requirement query request to the one or more than one function device that maintains the service requirement information of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request comprises:

determining the one or more than one function device that needs to perform query and contains the service requirement information of the multiple services, according to the service negotiation request; and

sending the requirement query request to the one or more than one function device.

4. The service negotiation method of claim 2, wherein the step of selecting the target service according to the requirement processing result comprises:

processing the requirement processing result according to the service negotiation request or a policy preset by a system to select the target service.

5. The service negotiation method of claim 3, wherein the step of sending the requirement query request to the function device comprises:

querying Quality of Service (QoS) information of the multiple services;

querying functional information of the multiple services; and

/or

querying service dynamic information of the multiple services.

6. The service negotiation method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request comprises:

sending a requirement query request to a home service router of the multiple services; and

receiving a requirement processing result returned by the home service router of the multiple services in response to the requirement query request.

7. The service negotiation method of claim 6, wherein the home service router of the multiple services forward only the requirement query request to function devices and receive and forward the requirement query result returned by the function devices in response to the requirement query request.

8. The service negotiation method of claim 7, wherein, before the home service router of the multiple services forwards only the requirement query request to the function devices,

the home service router of the multiple services determines one or more than one function device that needs to perform query and contains service requirement information of the multiple services in response to the requirement query request.

9. The service negotiation method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining there is an unidentifiable service requirement according to the requirement processing result returned by the function device and publishing the unidentifiable service requirement.

10. The service negotiation method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request comprises:

requesting service requirement information of the multiple services from a home service router of the multiple services, so that the home service router of the multiple services returns a requirement processing result corresponding to the service requirement information.

11. The service negotiation method of claim 10, wherein the step of returning the requirement processing result corresponding to the service requirement information comprises:

determining, by the home service router of the multiple services, a function device to be queried in response to the service requirement information of the multiple services and sending a requirement query request that carries the service requirement information to the function device;

receiving a requirement processing result returned by the function device in response to the requirement query request; and

sending the requirement processing result to a negotiation agent.

12. The service negotiation method of claim 10, wherein the step of requesting the service requirement information of the multiple services from the home service router of the multiple services comprises:

obtaining, by the negotiation agent, a target service to be processed from the service negotiation request; and

sending a target service negotiation request to the home service router of the multiple services, and requesting service requirement information of the target service to be processed.

13. The service negotiation method of claim 10, wherein the service negotiation request comprises one or more of the following information items:

service network addresses of the multiple services, service identifiers of the multiple services, service requirement information of the multiple services, a requirement corresponding to the selection of the target service, and a requirement corresponding to the negotiation process.

14. The service negotiation method of claim 10, wherein the service negotiation result comprises one or more of the following information items:

a service network address of the target service, a service identifier of the target service, and a negotiation log.

15. A service negotiation system, comprising:

a negotiation agent, configured to;

obtain a service negotiation request that contains multiple services, obtain a requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request, select a target service according to the requirement processing result, generate a service negotiation result in response to the service negotiation request, and return the service negotiation result.

16. The service negotiation system of claim 15, further comprising:

a service router, configured to;

receive and forward a requirement query request sent by the negotiation agent, and receive and forward the requirement processing result to the negotiation agent.

17. The service negotiation system of claim 15, further comprising:

a service router, configured to;

receive a request of the negotiation agent, and return a requirement processing result corresponding to the service requirement information of the multiple services to the negotiation agent.

18. The service negotiation system of claim 15, wherein the negotiation agent is an independent function entity or is integrated into a service combination engine, or integrated into a service router.

19. A negotiation agent, comprising:

a negotiation request analyzing unit, configured to;

obtain a service negotiation request that contains multiple services, and analyze the request to obtain a target service to be processed and a negotiation requirement;

a target service negotiating unit, configured to;

request service requirement information of the target service from a home service router of the target service to be processed, and receive a requirement processing result returned by the home service router of the target service in response to the service requirement information of the target service; and

a negotiation result generating unit, configured to;

select a target service according to the requirement processing result, generate a service negotiation result corresponding to the service negotiation request, and return the service negotiation result.

20. The negotiation agent of claim 19, further comprising:

a negotiation process controlling unit, configured to generate a target service negotiation request according to the negotiation requirement in the service negotiation request and the target service to be processed obtained by the negotiation request analyzing unit.