Method, terminal, apparatus, and system for device management in network communications

• US 8,613,062 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2008
• 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: Chai, Xiaoqian, Tian, Linyi
• Primary Examiner(s): PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY
• Application Number:
  US13/277,908
• Publication Number:
  US 20120066367A1
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 726/6
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• 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 41/024 using relational databases for representation of network management data, e.g. managing via structured query language [SQL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/052 using standardised network management architectures, e.g. telecommunication management network [TMN] or unified network management architecture [UNMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation

Abstract

A method, a terminal, an apparatus, and a system for device management (DM) are provided. Specifically, a DM terminal, a DM apparatus, method for managing the terminal device are provided. The method for managing the terminal device includes the following steps: adding, by a DM terminal device, amanagement nodes in a DM tree of the DM terminal device; and recording, by the DM terminal device, MOs types supported by the DM terminal device in the management nodes added in the DM tree of the DM terminal device. Therefore, the problem that the server does not know the DM applications supported by the terminal, and in the method, a specific management operation is delivered to make the management of the server more flexible and effective.

Claims

1. A method for managing a device management (DM) terminal device operating under Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards environment, wherein DM applications are added in the DM terminal device, and the DM applications are supported by the DM terminal device, the method comprising:

adding by the DM terminal device, management nodes in a DM tree of the DM terminal device;

recording by the DM terminal device, management objects (MOs) types of the DM applications in the added management nodes, wherein each of the MOs has a corresponding MO identifier (MOID) corresponding to a respective DM application, and wherein the recording of the MOs types comprising;

storing by the DM terminal device, the corresponding MOIDs in the added management nodes, wherein each of the added management nodes in the DM tree of the DM terminal device stores a corresponding MOID;

receiving by the DM terminal device, a Get command from a DM server to acquire the corresponding MOID stored in the added management nodes; and

communicating by the DM terminal device, the acquired corresponding MOID to the DM server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the added management nodes in the DM tree of the DM terminal device comprise an internal node of the DM terminal device and a subnode of the internal node of the DM terminal device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein recording MOs types of the DM applications supported by the DM terminal device in the added management nodes comprises:

recording MOs types of the DM applications supported by the DM terminal device in the subnodes of an internal node added in the DM tree of the DM terminal device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the added management node in the DM tree of the DM terminal device comprises an internal node of the DM terminal device and a subnode of the internal node of the DM terminal device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the recording of MOs types of the DM applications supported by the DM terminal device in the management nodes comprising:

recording MOs types of the DM applications supported by the DM terminal device in the subnodes of the internal node added in the DM tree of the DM terminal device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving of the Get command from the DM server device to acquire MOIDs stored in the management nodes comprising:

receiving the Get command from the DM terminal device to acquire MOIDs stored in the subnodes of the internal node of the DM terminal device; and

wherein the communicating of the MOIDs stored in the added management node added in the DM tree of the DM terminal device to the DM server comprising;

communicating the MOIDs stored in the subnodes of the internal node of the DM terminal device to the DM server.

7. A device management (DM) terminal device which communicates to a network under Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards environment, wherein DM applications are added in the DM terminal device, and the DM applications are supported by the DM terminal device, wherein the DM terminal device comprises a processor, enabled to:

add management nodes in a DM tree of the DM terminal device;

record management objects (MOs) types of the DM applications in the added management nodes, wherein each of the MOs has a corresponding MO identifier (MOID) corresponding to a respective DM application, and wherein the recording of the MOs types comprising;

storing the corresponding MOIDs in the added management nodes, wherein each of the added management nodes in the DM tree of the DM terminal device stores a corresponding MOID;

receive a Get command from a DM server to acquire the corresponding MOIDs stored in the added management nodes; and

communicate the acquired corresponding MOID to the DM server.

8. A device management (DM) apparatus operating under Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards environment, wherein DM applications are added in a DM terminal device and the DM applications are supported by the DM terminal device, comprises a processor, enabled to:

send a Get command to the DM terminal device to acquire corresponding management object identifier (MOIDs), which are stored in added management nodes of a DM tree of the DM terminal device, and each corresponding MOID corresponds to a respective DM application, wherein the DM terminal devices records Management Object (MO) types of the DM applications in the added management nodes of the DM tree of the DM terminal device; and

determine the MOs types of the DM applications according to the acquired corresponding MOIDs which are stored in the added management nodes of the DM tree of the DM terminal device.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising at least one code section for method for managing a device management (DM) terminal device which communicates to a network in Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards environment, wherein DM applications are added in the DM terminal device, and the DM applications are supported by the DM terminal device, the at least one code section being executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform acts of:

adding management nodes in a DM tree of the DM terminal device;

recording management objects (MOs) types of the DM applications in the added management nodes, wherein each of the MOs has a corresponding MO identifier (MOID) corresponding to a respective DM application, and wherein the recording of MOs types comprising;

storing by the DM terminal device, the corresponding MOIDs in the added management nodes, wherein each of the added management nodes in the DM tree of the DM terminal device stores a corresponding MOID;

receiving by the DM terminal device, a Get command from a DM server to acquire the corresponding MOIDs stored in the added management nodes added; and

communicating, by the DM terminal device, the acquired corresponding MOIDs to the DM server.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the added management nodes in the DM tree of the DM terminal device comprise an internal node of the DM terminal device and a subnode of the internal node of the DM terminal device.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein recording MOs types supported by the DM terminal device in the management nodes comprises:

recording MOs types of the DM applications supported by the DM terminal device in the subnodes of an internal node added in the DM tree of the DM terminal device.