Method for sending information and gateway

• US 20140143414A1
• Filed: 03/05/2012
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Deng, Bing, Li, Kui, Huang, Xiaobing
• Application Number:
  US14/127,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20140143414A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/654 International mobile subscriber identity [IMSI] numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method for sending information and a gateway. The method includes that: a gateway acquires user online information; the gateway monitors a Domain Name System (DNS) domain name inquiring message, forges a DNS server returning domain name parsing response, and sends the forged response to a core network element or a user terminal browser; the gateway receives a user HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request returned by the core network element or the user terminal browser; and the gateway inquires the user online information according to the user HTTP request, adds the user online information in the user HTTP request by taking the user online information as HTTP header information, and sends the user HTTP request including the HTTP header information to an internet content and service provider. With the technical solution of an embodiment of the disclosure, the problem that the internet content and service provider fails to acquire user online information of a mobile terminal user is solved.

Claims

1. A method for sending information, comprising:

acquiring, by a gateway, user online information;

monitoring, by the gateway, a Domain Name System (DNS) domain name inquiring message on a mobile internet, forging a DNS server returning domain name parsing response, and sending the forged response to a core network element or a user terminal browser;

receiving, by the gateway, a user HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request returned by the core network element or the user terminal browser; and

inquiring, by the gateway, the user online information according to the user HTTP request, adding the user online information in the user HTTP request by taking the user online information as HTTP header information, and sending the user HTTP request including the HTTP header information to an internet content and service provider.

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

before monitoring the DNS domain name inquiring message by the gateway, acquiring, by the gateway, user log information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring the user online information by the gateway comprises:

receiving, by an HTTP header information transparent gateway, a user online message from the core network element via a user online-offline message interface, acquiring the user online information from the user online message, and storing the user online information locally;

wherein the user online information comprises information on a user IP address, a user Mobile Subscriber International ISDN (MSISDN) number, a user online time, a user International Mobile Subscriber Identification Number (IMSI), and a user location.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the acquiring the user log information by the gateway comprises:

receiving, by an HTTP header information transparent gateway, a log message sent by an exit firewall from a private network to a public network via a log message interface, and acquiring the log information obtained after Network Address Translation (NAT) of a user IP address from the log message;

wherein the log information comprises;

a user IP address, a user port number, a public network IP address of the user, a public network port number of the user, a session ID, and a session beginning time.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring the DNS domain name inquiring message and forging the DNS server returning domain name parsing response by the gateway comprises:

monitoring, by an HTTP header information transparent gateway, the DNS domain name inquiring message via an inquiring interface connecting the HTTP header information transparent gateway to a DNS, and acquiring a domain name accessed by the user from a monitored DNS parsing request;

comparing, by the HTTP header information transparent gateway, the domain name accessed by the user with multiple pre-configured domain names;

if the domain name accessed by the user matches one of the pre-configured domain names, forging, by the HTTP header information transparent gateway, the DNS server returning domain name parsing response, and setting an IP address parsed from the domain name in the parsing response as an IP address of the HTTP header information transparent gateway itself.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the inquiring the user online information according to the user HTTP request by the gateway comprises:

receiving, by an HTTP header information transparent gateway, the user HTTP request sent by the core network element or the user terminal browser via an HTTP message receiving interface, and searching the locally stored user online information for user online information corresponding to a user IP address and a request period in the user HTTP request.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein the inquiring the user online information according to the user HTTP request by the gateway comprises:

when a user IP address is a public network IP address of the user and a public network port number of the user obtained after NAT, finding, by an HTTP header information transparent gateway, log information corresponding to the public network IP address of the user and the public network port number of the user in the locally stored log information according to the public network IP address of the user and the public network port number of the user, acquiring the user IP address in the log information, and searching for user online information corresponding to the user IP address and a request period.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending the user HTTP request including the HTTP header information to the internet content and service provider comprises:

obtaining, by an HTTP header information transparent gateway, an IP address of the domain name in the user request through inquiring a DNS, and sending the user HTTP request including the HTTP header information to the internet content and service provider according to the IP address.

9. A gateway, comprising:

a user online-offline message interface module, an inquiring interface module, a message processing module, and a traffic processing module;

wherein

the user online-offline message interface module is configured to acquire user online information;

the inquiring interface module is configured to monitor a Domain Name System (DNS) domain name inquiring message;

the message processing module is configured to forge a DNS server returning domain name parsing response, and to send the forged response to a core network element or a user terminal browser; and

the traffic processing module is configured to receive a user HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request returned by the core network element or the user terminal browser, to inquire the user online information according to the user HTTP request, to add the user online information in the user HTTP request by taking the user online information as HTTP header information, and to send the user HTTP request including the HTTP header information to an internet content and service provider.

10. The gateway according to claim 9, further comprising:

a log message interface module configured to acquire user log information; and

a management module configured to store the acquired user online information and user log information.