Method, device and system for producing small window at client in broadband data intelligent network

• US 7,788,320 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2006
• Issued: 08/31/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Yue, Zhou, Chao, Zhai, Huachun, Zhu, Chengfang, Hou, Dongdong, Lou, Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): Neurauter, Jr.; George C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fearer; Mark D
• Application Number:
  US11/510,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20070055750A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,467 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/219, 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2881 IP/Ethernet DSLAM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and a client for producing a small window at the client in a broadband data intelligent service, comprising: pre-setting a first module and a second module; while a user needs to use data service, obtaining, by the first module, the IP address of the client, and sending the IP address and authentication information input by the client to the portal server; upon receiving a past authentication message from the portal server, the first module making the second module to operate; and generating, by the second module, a small window to display the access information of the client and provide the user with operation buttons. Moreover, the present invention also discloses a method a device and a system for generating a user interface for a client terminal in a communication network.

Claims

1. A method for producing a small window at a client in a broadband data intelligent network, the broadband data intelligent network comprising the client and a portal server, the method comprising:

pre-setting a first module and a second module at the client;

when a user needs to use a data service of the broadband data intelligent network, obtaining, by the first module, the IP address of the client, and sending the IP address and authentication information input by the user to the portal server;

upon receiving a past authentication message from the portal server, the first module making the second module to operate;

generating, by the second module, the small window at the client to display access information of the client and provide the user with operation buttons;

controlling the user'"'"'s usage of the data service with the small window, comprising;

sending, by the second module, handshaking messages periodically to the portal server, wherein the portal server is configured to;

set an off-line reason of the user in a user record to a non-blank value after receiving a forced off-line message from an Integrated Service Control Center (ISCC) or a message from the client indicating the user has actively logged off;

check whether an off-line reason of the user in the user record of a database is blank;

if yes, return to the second module a handshaking successful response message; and

otherwise, return to the second module a handshaking failed response message; and

continuing to send handshaking messages periodically to the portal server by the second module in the case of receiving the handshaking successful response message, or ceasing the user'"'"'s access of the data service and displaying the off-line reason of the user in the small window by the second module in the case of receiving the handshaking failed response message.

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

pre-setting a shared memory at the client, which can be accessed by both the first module and the second module.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein,

upon receiving the message indicating that the authentication has been successful from the portal server, the first module writes a piece of information associated with the data service accessed by the user into the shared memory;

and

the second module reads the access information of the user from the associated information in the shared memory, and displays the access information of the user in the small window.

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

after obtaining the IP address of the client, sending, by the first module, the IP address of the client to the ISCC via the portal server requesting for the user information; and

if the ISCC determines that the user has not been successfully authenticated, generating, by the portal server, an authenticating page for the user to input a name and a password of the user; and

otherwise, directly making, by the first module, the second module to operate.

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

re-sending a handshaking message by the second module, once the second module fails to receive the handshaking response message from the portal server within a preset period of time; and

displaying an abnormal network connection in the small window by the second module, if the second module still fails to receive the handshaking response message after re-sending the handshaking message for preset times.

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

searching a user record in an on-line user link list by the portal server, upon receiving the handshaking message from the client;

checking, by the portal server, whether the off-line reason in the user record of the database is blank, if the portal server finds the user record;

returning, by the portal server, to the second module a response message for creating the user information, if the portal server fails to find out the user record; and

sending, by the second module, to the portal server a handshaking message for creating the user information, upon receiving the response message.

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

before sending the handshaking message, determining whether the data service is accessed by a web authentication mode, if yes, carrying out the steps of sending the handshaking messages; and

otherwise, displaying a message corresponding to the access mode of the user in the small window directly.

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

scanning the user records in the on-line user data link list periodically by the portal server;

placing the user record relating to the client in a to-be-deleted queue, if the portal server fails to receive the handshaking message from the client;

traversing the user records in the to-be-deleted queue; and

sending to each client relating to the user records in the to-be-deleted queue an off-line message and deleting the user records from the on-line user data link list.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

presetting a maximum value of failure times for handshaking;

changing failure times of handshaking if no handshaking message is received from the client within a preset period of time; and

placing the user record relating to the client into the to-be-deleted queue, when the value of the failure times of handshaking equals to the preset maximum value.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

before sending an off-line message to the user, determining whether it is necessary to send an off-line message to the client, if yes, carrying out the steps of sending the off-line message;

otherwise, deleting the user record relating to the client from the on-line user data link list directly.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein, the step of determining whether it is necessary to send the off-line message to the client comprises:

comparing whether the portal server'"'"'s IP address of the user record in the database is the same as its own IP address.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the first module and the second module are integrated in the client of the user.