Service control network system

• US 7,424,538 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2003
• Issued: 09/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takase, Masaaki, Igarashi, Yoichiro, Kakemizu, Mitsuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, KHANH Q
• Application Number:
  US10/715,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20040111521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,758 Days
• Field of Search: 709/225, 709/226, 709/242, 370/352, 707/10
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

To provide a service customized for each user and for each application, when user host terminal H1 communicates with user host terminal H2 using VoIP, the terminal H1 transmits a service initiation message to service execution units SN1 and SN2. By this message, the service execution unit SN1 and SN2 require service information L-SPC (A) and service information G-SPC (A), both information regards to VoIP service of the term H1, to authentication server A1 respectively. The service execution unit SN1 and SN2 execute a service based on L-SPC (A) and G-SPC (A) respectively. Doing this, service execution unit may provide a service customized for each user and for each application.

Claims

1. A service control network system comprising:

a service execution unit providing a service to a terminal unit; and

a server managing service information specifying the service to be provided to the terminal unit,

said service execution unit further comprising;

a request transmission section transmitting to the server a reference request for the service information corresponding to either a service initiation request or a registration request, on receipt of said service initiation request or said registration request from the terminal unit; and

a service provision section providing the service to the terminal unit based on the service information referred to due to the reference request transmitted from the request transmission section,

and said server comprising;

a service information transmission section transmitting to the service execution unit the service information corresponding to the reference request transmitted from the service execution unit

wherein said service control network system is divided into at least a first domain accommodating the server and the terminal unit, and a second domain,

the service information includes first service information LSPC (Local Service Profile Cache) which is referred to in the case the service execution unit is accommodated in the first domain, or in the case the service execution unit is accommodated in the second domain and the terminal unit moved into the second domain, and second service information G-SPC (Global Service Profile Cache) which is referred to in the case the service execution unit is accommodated in the second domain and the terminal unit is either accommodated in the first domain or moved into a domain other than the first domain or the second domain.

2. The service control network system according to claim 1,

wherein

the request transmission section in the service execution unit transmits either a reference request for the first service information L-SPC either when said service execution unit is accommodated in the first domain or when said service execution unit is accommodated in the second domain and the terminal unit moved into the second domain, or a reference request for the second service information when said service execution unit is accommodated in the second domain and the terminal unit is accommodated in the first domain or moved to the domain other than the first domain or the second domain.

3. The service control network system according to claim 2,

wherein, in the second domain, a second server having a relation of trust with the server is accommodated, and

when the service execution unit is accommodated in the second domain, the request transmission section transmits the reference request to the second server, and the second server transfers the reference request to said server.

4. A service control network system according to claim 1 including a first domain, a first server accommodated in said first domain, a first service execution unit, and a terminal unit, wherein

said first server comprises:

a storage section storing first service information L-SPC specifying a service to be provided to the terminal unit; and

a service information transmission section transmitting the first service information L-SPC stored in the storage section to the first service execution unit, based on a reference request for the first service information L-SPC, on receipt of said reference request from the first service execution unit,

and said first service execution unit comprises;

a first request transmission section transmitting the reference request for the first service information L-SPC corresponding to a service initiation request or a registration request to the first server, on receipt of said service initiation request or said registration request from the terminal unit; and

a first service provision section providing the service to the terminal unit based on the first service information L-SPC referred to due to the request transmitted from the first request transmission section.

5. The service control network system according to claim 4, further including a second domain, and a second server and a second service execution unit respectively accommodated in said second domain,

wherein the storage section further stores second service information G-SPC specifying the service to be provided to the terminal unit, and the service information transmission section transmits the second service information stored in the storage section to the second server based on a reference request for the second service information G-SPC, on receipt of said reference request from the second server,

the second service execution unit comprises:

a second request transmission section transmitting to the second server the reference request for the second service information G-SPC corresponding to a service initiation request, on receipt of said service initiation request from the terminal unit; and

a second service provision section providing the service to the terminal unit based on the second service information G-SPC referred to due to the request transmitted from the second request transmission section, and

the second server comprises;

a transfer section transferring to the first server the reference request transmitted from the second request transmission section, and also transferring to the second service execution unit the second service information G-SPC transmitted from the first server.

6. A service control network system according to claim 1, including a first domain accommodating a first server and a terminal unit, and a second domain, to which the terminal unit moves, accommodating a second server and a second service execution unit,

wherein said first server comprises:

a storage section storing first service information L-SPC specifying a service to be provided to the terminal unit; and

a service information transmission section transmitting the first service information L-SPC stored in the storage section to the second server based on a reference request for the first service information L-SPC, on receipt of said reference request from the second server,

said second service execution unit comprises;

a second request transmission section transmitting to the second server the reference request for the first service information L-SPC corresponding to a service initiation request or a registration request, on receipt of said service initiation request or said registration request from the terminal unit; and

a second service provision section providing the service to the terminal unit based on the first service information L-SPC referred to due to the request transmitted from the second request transmission section, and

said second server comprises;

a transfer section transferring to the first server the reference request transmitted from the second request transmission section, and transferring to the second service execution unit the first service information L-SPC transmitted from the first server.

7. The service control network system according to claim 6,

wherein, there are multiple second domains, and multiple server and execution units in the second domains.