Method for acquiring node information, and client and server

• US 8,892,711 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2010
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Bo, Ju, Fei, Yuan, Lei, Zhou, Tao, Yang, Hanling, Shen, Jian
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US13/259,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20120023216A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,673 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for acquiring node information, and a Client and a server, wherein the method includes: a Client receiving a Get command sent from a server, acquiring values of nodes in all items in the Get command, and determining that acquirement of values of nodes in partial items fails; and the Client sending to the server a response message which carries a new status value, wherein the new status value is adapted to indicate that acquirement of values of nodes in partial items fails when a Get command is executed, and the response message also carries a predetermined tag, wherein the predetermined tag is adapted to packet information of nodes in items in which acquirement of values is successful. By the above technical solution of the present invention, useful nodes can be acquired more effectively, nodes which can not be acquired can be located.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring node information, which is adapted to optimize a Get command, which contains a plurality of items, in a device management protocol, comprising:

receiving, by a Client, the Get command sent from a server, attempting to acquire by the Client values of nodes of the plurality of items in the Get command, and determining by the Client that acquirement of values of nodes in a subset of the plurality of items fails; and

sending, by the Client, to the server a response message which carries a new status value, which indicates that acquirement of values of nodes in a subset of the plurality of items fails when a Get command is executed, and the response message also carries a predetermined tag, wherein the predetermined tag which packets the information of the nodes in items in which acquirement of values is successful.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the step of the Client receiving the Get command sent from the server, the method further comprises:

setting the new status value for the Get command, which indicates that the acquirement of the values of the nodes in partial items fails.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein after the step of the Client receiving the Get command sent from the server, the method further comprises:

the Client determining that a plurality of items are contained in the Get command.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the step of the Client sending to the server the response message, the method further comprises:

the server receiving the response message and determining that the response message carries the new status value;

the server acquiring, from the predetermined tag, the information of nodes of the items in which the acquirement of the values is successful, and storing the information of nodes; and

the server executing a predetermined operation for the nodes of the items in which the acquirement of the values fails.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined operation comprises one of the following:

giving up a session with the nodes of the items in which the acquirement of the values fails; and

resending a Get command to acquire the values of the nodes of the items in which the acquirement of the values fails.

6. A Client, which is adapted to optimize a Get command, which contains a plurality of items, in a device management protocol, wherein the Client comprises a hardware processor, which executes a receiving module, an acquirement module, a first determination module and a sending module, wherein:

the receiving module is adapted to receive the Get command sent from a server;

the acquirement module is adapted to attempt to acquire values of nodes of the plurality of items in the Get command;

the first determination module is adapted to determine that acquirement of values of nodes in a subset of the plurality of items fails; and

the sending module is adapted to send to the server a response message which carries a new status value indicating that acquirement of values of nodes in a subset of the plurality of items fails when a Get command is executed, wherein the response message also carries a predetermined tag, wherein the predetermined tag which packets the information of nodes in items in which acquirement of values is successful.

7. The Client according to claim 6, wherein the hardware processor further executes a second determination module, wherein:

the second determination module is adapted to determine that a plurality of items are contained in the Get command.

8. A server, which is adapted to optimize a Get command, which contains a plurality of items, in a device management protocol, wherein the server comprises a hardware processor, which executes a sending module, a receiving module, wherein:

the sending module is adapted to send the Get command to a Client; and

the receiving module is adapted to receive, from the Client, a response message which carries a new status value indicating that attempt to acquire values of nodes of a subset of the plurality of items fails when a Get command is executed;

wherein the response message also carries a predetermined tag, wherein the predetermined tag which packets the information of nodes in items in which acquirement of values is successful.

9. The server according to claim 8, wherein the hardware processor further executes a determination module, a storage module, an execution module, wherein:

the determination module is adapted to determine that the response message carries the new status value;

the storage module is adapted to acquire, according to the predetermined tag, the information of nodes of the items in which the acquirement of the values is successful, and store the information of nodes; and

the execution module is adapted to execute a predetermined operation for the nodes of the items in which the acquirement of the values fails.

10. The server according to claim 9, wherein the execution module is adapted to execute one of the following predetermined operations:

giving up a session with the nodes in the items in which the acquirement of the values fails; and

resending a Get command to acquire the values of the nodes in the items in which the acquirement of the values fails.