Operating group resources in sub-groups and nested groups

• US 8,918,528 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Jin, Lei, Zhang, Yongjing, Gao, Ying
• Primary Examiner(s): Osman, Ramy M
• Application Number:
  US14/145,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20140115169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 357 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/206, 709/217, 709/223, 709/226, 709/229, 455/410, 455/458
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1014 based on the content of a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management

Abstract

The present invention provides a method, a group server, and an apparatus for operating a group resource; a member resource operation request sent to a member device carries an operation request identifier, so that the member device that the member resource belongs to determines, according to the operation request identifier, whether operation request identifiers stored by the member device include the operation request identifier, and processes the member resource operation request according to a determination result. Therefore, repeated processing or cyclic processing of the member resource operation request may be avoided.

Claims

1. A method for operating a group resource, comprising:

receiving an operation request directed to a member resource;

wherein, the member resource operation request carries a group resource identifier of a group resource that the member resource belongs to;

determining, according to the group resource identifier, at least one of which the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises a sub-group resource that is used as a member resource, which a member resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises the group resource identified by the group resource identifier, and which the operation request directed to the member resource is an update request;

determining that a first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource needs to be generated;

generating the first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource; and

sending a first member resource operation request to a member device that the member resource belongs to, wherein the first member resource operation request comprises the first operation request identifier, so that the member device that the member resource belongs to determines, according to the first operation request identifier, whether operation request identifiers stored by the member device comprise the first operation request identifier, and processes the first member resource operation request according to a determination result.

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

determining that the sub-group resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier is a remote group resource.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the method further comprises;

receiving a second member resource operation request, wherein the second member resource operation request comprises a second operation request identifier;

determining that a stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the second operation request identifier, and returning an error response to a sender of the second member resource operation request, or determining that the stored list of operation request identifiers does not comprise the second operation request identifier, storing the second operation request identifier, and performing an operation indicated in the second member resource operation request.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the method further comprises;

receiving a second member resource operation request, wherein the second member resource operation request comprises a second operation request identifier and a sub-group resource identifier; and

when determining that a stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the second operation request identifier, returning an error response to a sender of the second member resource operation request, or when determining that the stored list of operation request identifiers does not comprise the second operation request identifier, sending a third member resource operation request to a member device that a member resource comprised in the sub-group resource identified by the sub-group resource identifier belongs to.

5. A method for operating a group resource, comprising:

receiving a second member resource operation request;

determining that the second member resource operation request carries a second operation request identifier; and

determining whether a stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the second operation request identifier;

when determining that the stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the second operation request identifier, returning an error response to a sender of the second member resource operation request; and

when determining that the stored list of operation request identifiers does not comprise the second operation request identifier, storing the second operation request identifier, and processing the second member resource operation request.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein:

when the second member resource operation request further carries a sub-group resource identifier the processing the second member resource operation request comprises;

sending a third member resource operation request to a member device that a member resource comprised in a sub-group resource identified by the sub-group resource identifier belongs to; and

when the second member resource operation request does not carry the sub-group resource identifier, the processing the second member resource operation request comprises performing an operation indicated in the second member resource operation request.

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

receiving an operation request directed to a member resource;

wherein, the operation request directed to a member resource carries a group resource identifier of a group resource that the member resource belongs to;

determining, according to the group resource identifier, at least one of which the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises a sub-group resource that is used as a member resource, which a member resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises the group resource identified by the group resource identifier, and which the operation request directed to the member resource is an update request;

determining that a first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource needs to be generated;

generating the first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource; and

sending a first member resource operation request to a member device that the member resource belongs to, wherein the first member resource operation request comprises the first operation request identifier.

8. A group server, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive an operation request directed to a member resource, wherein, the member resource operation request carries a group resource identifier of a group resource that the member resource belongs to;

a determining module, configure to determine, according to the group resource identifier, at least one of which the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises a sub-group resource that is used as a member resource, which a member resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises the group resource identified by the group resource identifier, and which the operation request directed to the member resource is an update request, and configured to determine that the first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource needs to be generated;

a generating module, configured to generate a first operation request identifier for the member resource operation request; and

a sending module, configured to send a first member resource operation request to a member device that the member resource belongs to, wherein the first member resource operation request comprises the first operation request identifier, so that the member device that the member resource belongs to determines, according to the first operation request identifier, whether operation request identifiers stored by the member device comprise the first operation request identifier, and processes the first member resource operation request according to a determination result.

9. The group server according to claim 8, wherein:

the determining module is further configured to;

determine the sub-group resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier is a remote group resource.

10. The group server according to claim 8, wherein:

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second member resource operation request, wherein the second member resource operation request comprises a second operation request identifier; and

the group server further comprises a judging module, configured to determine at least one of;

of which a stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the second operation request identifier, and return an error response to a sender of the second member resource operation request, of which the stored list of operation request identifiers does not comprise the second operation request identifier, store the second operation request identifier, and perform an operation indicated in the second member resource operation requestor send a third member resource operation request to a member device that a member resource comprised in a sub-group resource identified by the sub-group resource identifier belongs to.

11. An apparatus for operating a group resource, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a second member resource operation request;

a determining module, configured to determine that the member resource operation request carries a second operation request identifier; and

a judging module, configured to determine whether a stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the operation request identifier;

wherein, when the judging module determines that the stored list of operation request identifiers comprises the second operation request identifier, the judging module returns an error response to a sender of the second member resource operation request; and

when the judging module determines that the stored list of operation request identifiers does not comprise the second operation request identifier, the judging module stores the second operation request identifier and processes the second member resource operation request.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:

when the second member resource operation request further carries a sub-group resource identifier, the judging module processes the second member resource operation request comprises;

sending a third member resource operation request to a member device that a member resource comprised in a sub-group resource identified by the sub-group resource identifier belongs to; and

when the second member resource operation request does not carry a sub-group resource identifier, the judging module processes the second member resource operation request comprises;

performing an operation indicated in the second member resource operation request.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:

the receiving module is further configured to receive an operation request directed to a member resource, and the operation request directed to a member resource carries a group resource identifier of a group resource that the member resource belongs to and the apparatus further comprises;

a determining module, configured to determine, according to the group resource identifier, at least one of which the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises a sub-group resource that is used as a member resource, which a member resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises the group resource identified by the group resource identifier, and which the operation request directed to the member resource is an update request; and

the determining module is further configured to determine that a first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource needs to be generated;

a generating module, configured to generate the first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource; and

a sending module, configured to send a first member resource operation request to a member device that the member resource belongs to, wherein the first member resource operation request comprises the first operation request identifier.