Device management scheduling method and apparatus thereof

• US 7,987,463 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2007
• Issued: 07/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Te-Hyun, Hernandez, Pablo
• Primary Examiner(s): To; Jennifer N
• Application Number:
  US11/655,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20070174446A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,646 Days
• Field of Search: 718/100, 718/101, 718/102
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

Device management commands to be executed within a terminal and conditions included within a scheduling context for executing such commands are provided to the terminal ahead of time. A server generates a scheduling context (or other type of scheduling information) that includes device management scheduled by the server to allow more effective scheduling to be performed by the terminal. A terminal receives the scheduling context from the server and performs the scheduled device management procedures accordingly.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

a first module adapted to install through a device management (DM) enabler, upon receipt from a device management (DM) scheduling enabler of a server, at least one or more scheduling contexts, each of which comprising general information and at least one scheduled device management, wherein the general information includes a first node indicating a current state of the scheduling context and a second node related to controlling a state of the scheduling context, wherein the general information further includes a validity period of the scheduling context; and

a second module adapted to perform the scheduled device management according to the scheduling context installed by the first module,

wherein a first schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a first type of scheduled device management procedure, and a second schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a second type of scheduled device management procedure,

said first and second types of scheduled device management procedures are based on a threshold-based device management or based on a periodic checking-based device management,

for said threshold-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if a throughput of a particular radio interface exceeds a first threshold, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if the throughput of the particular radio interface exceeds a second threshold, and

for said periodic checking-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set an operation mode of the terminal to an emergency mode due to a detection of an abnormal state as a result of periodic checking, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set the operation mode of the terminal to a normal mode after detecting a removal or resolving of the abnormal state as a result of periodic checking,

wherein if the validity period of the scheduling context expires, the scheduling context is automatically deleted.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the scheduling context is installed in a form of a device management tree used to perform the scheduled device management, and the device management tree has nodes and sub-nodes in a hierarchy relationship.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the general information further includes at least one of:

an identifier of the scheduling context;

a name of the scheduling context; and

a corresponding server of the scheduling context.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the state of the scheduling context is one among stopped, running, and suspended.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein upon installation of the scheduling context, the scheduling context is in a stopped state.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the scheduling context transitions to a stopped state if an error occurs while the scheduled device management is being performed, if the scheduled device management is completed, or if before performing modification or deletion due to a request from the server or a user.

7. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the state of the scheduling context can be transitioned by a user.

8. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the second node comprises at least one of an enable node, and a disable node.

9. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the second node comprises at least one among a start node, a stop node, a suspend node, and a resume node.

10. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the start node, the stop node, the suspend node, and the resume node are triggered by an execution command.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first module transmits a message to the server if there is a state transition of the installed scheduling context.

12. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the scheduling context further comprises at least one of a user interaction node that specifies an interaction with a user, a gating node that specifies whether a result from executing a command for device management should be reported to the server, and an event node that instructs whether to report a state of the terminal or an event to be occurred in the terminal to the server, and

the scheduled device management comprises a message including at least one command for device management, and a condition for executing the command.

13. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one or more scheduling contexts interwork with each other.

14. The terminal of claim 13, wherein if the second module starts a first scheduling context of the at least one or more scheduling contexts, the second module stops a second scheduling context of the at least one or more scheduling contexts.

15. The terminal of claim 1, wherein for said threshold-based device management, the first and second schedule components ignore the situations where the throughput of the particular radio interface that initially exceeds the first threshold but later falls below the first threshold is considered to be relatively small.

16. The terminal of claim 1, wherein for said periodic checking-based device management, when the terminal operation mode changes from the emergency mode to the normal mode, the second schedule component is disabled and the first schedule component is enabled.

17. A server device including a processor, the server device comprising:

a device management scheduling enabler adapted to generate at least one or more scheduling contexts, each of which comprising general information and at least one or more scheduled device management, the device management scheduling enabler further adapted to request a terminal to install the at least one or more scheduling contexts such that the scheduled device management is performed within the terminal,

wherein the general information includes a first node indicating a state of the scheduling context and a second node related to controlling a state of the scheduling context, wherein the general information further includes a validity period of the scheduling context,

a first schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a first type of scheduled device management procedure, and a second schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a second type of scheduled device management procedure,

said first and second types of scheduled device management procedures are based on a threshold-based device management or based on a periodic checking-based device management,

for said threshold-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if a throughput of a particular radio interface exceeds a first threshold, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if the throughput of the particular radio interface exceeds a second threshold, and

for said periodic checking-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set an operation mode of the terminal to an emergency mode due to a detection of an abnormal state as a result of periodic checking, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set the operation mode of the terminal to a normal mode after detecting a removal or resolving of the abnormal state as a result of periodic checking,

wherein if the validity period of the scheduling context expires, the scheduling context is automatically deleted.

18. The sever device of claim 17, wherein the second node comprises at least one of an enable node, and a disable node.

19. The server device of claim 17, wherein the second node comprises at least one among a start node, a stop node, a suspend node, and a resume node.

20. The server device of claim 17, wherein an execution command is sent to at least one among a start node, a stop node, a suspend node, and a resume node, in order to transition a state of the scheduling context within the terminal.

21. The server device of claim 20 wherein the server receives a result of the state transition of the scheduling context from the terminal, or receives an event to be occurred in the terminal.

22. The server device of claim 17, wherein for said threshold-based device management, the first and second schedule components ignore the situations where the throughput of the particular radio interface that initially exceeds the first threshold but later falls below the first threshold is considered to be relatively small.

23. The server device of claim 17, wherein for said periodic checking-based device management, when the terminal operation mode changes from the emergency mode to the normal mode, the second schedule component is disabled and the first schedule component is enabled.

24. A method for performing scheduled device management at a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, by the terminal, a request to install at least one or more scheduling contexts including general information and scheduled device management through a device management enabler, wherein the general information includes a first node indicating a current state of the scheduling context and a second node for controlling the state of the scheduling context, wherein the general information further includes a validity period of the scheduling context;

installing, by the terminal, the at least one or more scheduling contexts based on the received request; and

performing, by the terminal, the scheduled device management according to the installed at least one or more scheduling contexts,

wherein a first schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a first type of scheduled device management procedure, and a second schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a second type of scheduled device management procedure,

said first and second types of scheduled device management procedures are based on a threshold-based device management or based on a periodic checking-based device management,

for said threshold-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if a throughput of a particular radio interface exceeds a first threshold, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if the throughput of the particular radio interface exceeds a second threshold, and

for said periodic checking-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set an operation mode of the terminal to an emergency mode due to a detection of an abnormal state as a result of periodic checking, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set the operation mode of the terminal to a normal mode after detecting a removal or resolving of the abnormal state as a result of periodic checking,

wherein if the validity period of the scheduling context expires, the scheduling context is automatically deleted.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

stopping, by the terminal, the scheduling context if an error occurs while the scheduled device management is being performed, if the scheduled device management is completed or before performing modification or deletion due to a request from a server or a user.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

transmitting, by the terminal, a message to a server if there is a state transition of the installed scheduling context, or if a particular event occurs in the terminal.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the performing step comprises:

starting a first scheduling context of the at least one or more scheduling contexts; and

performing the scheduled device management according to the first scheduling context.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

stopping, by the terminal, a second scheduling context of the at least one or more scheduling contexts in response to the starting of the first scheduling context of the at least one or more scheduling contexts.

29. The method of claim 24, wherein the performing step further comprises:

starting the scheduling context;

suspending the scheduling context, if a request for suspending the started scheduling context is received; and

resuming the scheduling context, if a request for resuming the suspended scheduling context is received.

30. The method of claim 24, wherein for said threshold-based device management, the first and second schedule components ignore the situations where the throughput of the particular radio interface that initially exceeds the first threshold but later falls below the first threshold is considered to be relatively small.

31. The method of claim 24, wherein for said periodic checking-based device management, when the terminal operation mode changes from the emergency mode to the normal mode, the second schedule component is disabled and the first schedule component is enabled.

32. A method for performing scheduled device management at a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, by the terminal from a server, an execution command in any one of a start sub-node, a stop sub-node, a suspend sub-node and a resume sub-node; and

starting, stopping, suspending, or resuming, by the terminal, a scheduling context by executing the execution command at a location where the execution command is received, wherein the scheduling context has a corresponding validity period,

wherein a first schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a first type of scheduled device management procedure, and a second schedule component of the scheduling context allows the terminal to perform in a second type of scheduled device management procedure,

said first and second types of scheduled device management procedures are based on a threshold-based device management or based on a periodic checking-based device management,

for said threshold-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if a throughput of a particular radio interface exceeds a first threshold, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed if the throughput of the particular radio interface exceeds a second threshold, and

for said periodic checking-based device management, said first type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set an operation mode of the terminal to an emergency mode due to a detection of an abnormal state as a result of periodic checking, and said second type of scheduled device management procedure is performed to set the operation mode of the terminal to a normal mode after detecting a removal or resolving of the abnormal state as a result of periodic checking,

wherein if the validity period of the scheduling context expires, the scheduling context is automatically deleted.

33. The method of claim 32, further comprising:

reflecting, by the terminal, a current state of the scheduling context in a state node.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the state node has a state among any one of running, stopping, and suspending.

35. The method of claim 32, wherein for said threshold-based device management, the first and second schedule components ignore the situations where the throughput of the particular radio interface that initially exceeds the first threshold but later falls below the first threshold is considered to be relatively small.

36. The method of claim 32, wherein for said periodic checking-based device management, when the terminal operation mode changes from the emergency mode to the normal mode, the second schedule component is disabled and the first schedule component is enabled.