MOBILE TERMINAL AND ACCESS POINT NAME MANAGING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130294392A1
• Filed: 04/11/2012
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yu, Zhongwen
• Application Number:
  US13/979,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20130294392A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a multiple access point name (APN) managing method is disclosed in the present invention, and the method includes: receiving a connection request from an expansion type application program; acquiring an APN type information corresponding to the expansion type application program from a predetermined APN expansion table; activating a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) in accordance with the APN type information corresponding to the expansion type application program; establishing a connection of the expansion type application program for executing the expansion type application program. The present invention implements the expansion type application program to predetermine the APN type information and writes in the APN expansion table, so the mobile terminal can support multiple APNs to satisfy the requirement from different carriers and different application program.

Claims

1. A multiple access point name (APN) managing method of a mobile terminal, characterized in that, comprises:

receiving a connection request from an expansion type application program;

acquiring an APN type information corresponding to the expansion type application program from a predetermined APN expansion table;

activating a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) in accordance with the APN type information corresponding to the expansion type application program; and

establishing a connection of the expansion type application program for executing the expansion type application program.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, before the step of receiving the connection request from the expansion type application program, further comprises a step of:

converting an expansion APN information to be a configuration file and the APN expansion table in accordance with a definition of the application program.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that, the step of converting the expansion APN information to be the configuration file and the APN expansion table in accordance with the definition of the application program further comprises a step of:

converting by the customizing tool to obtain the configuration file and the APN expansion table.

4. A multiple access point name (APN) managing method of a mobile terminal, characterized in that, comprises:

step a, setting an APN expansion table, wherein the APN expansion table comprises an expansion type APN type information;

step b, requesting by an application program to establish a connection of the application program when a user requires executing the application program;

step c, acquiring an APN type information of the application program from the APN expansion table when the application program is an expansion type application program;

step d, activating a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) in accordance with the APN type information of the application program; and

step e, starting to use and establishing a connection of the application to execute the application program.

5. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that, the step a further comprises a customizing function step, in the customizing function step, the expansion APN information and a definition of such a type of expansion APN information given by the application program are converted into a configuration file and the APN expansion table of the application program.

6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that, the configuration file comprises an expansion type APN type and the APN expansion table comprises a practical definition of the expansion type application program.

7. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that, the expansion type application program comprises a streaming media application program and a mail application program.

8. A mobile terminal comprising:

an APN managing module having an APN expansion table, the APN expansion table including an expansion type APN type information;

a connection managing module reading an APN type information from the APN managing module, and

a connection monitoring module receiving a data connection control command and transmitting the same to the connection managing module,

wherein when a user requests to execute an application program, the application program requests to establish a connection of the application program, and when the application program is an expansion type application program, the APN type information of the application program is acquired from the APN expansion table by the APN managing module and returned to the APN managing module, the connection managing module activates a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) in accordance with the APN type information of the application program, the connection of the application program is started and established and the application program is executed.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, characterized in that, the connection monitoring module is configured to monitor an expansion type data connection status.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, characterized in that, the mobile terminal further comprises a customizing tool which is configured to convert the expansion APN information and a definition of such a type of expansion APN information given by the application program into a configuration file and the APN expansion table of the application program.