Reporting information to a network

• US 8,407,329 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2007
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2006
• 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): Ibrahim, Mohamed
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cloud, Joiya M
• Application Number:
  US11/657,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20070174462A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,253 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0781 Error filtering or prioritizing based on a policy defined by the user or on a policy defined by a hardware/software module, e.g. according to a severity level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0604 using filtering, e.g. reduction of information by using priority, element types, position or time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management

Abstract

For achieving device management, the terminal may select certain command execution results and transmit such to the network instead of always sending all command execution results. Accordingly, resources of the terminal and radio communication resources can be more efficiently utilized when compared to previously used device management procedures. Furthermore, since a record that is relevant to operations performed within the terminal is saved, even if a certain result of executing a particular command is not successfully transmitted to the network due to an error, the network may still be able to verify the command execution result by accessing the record that was stored in the terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a transceiver adapted to receive from a server a scheduling context including a plurality of commands for managing the mobile terminal, a plurality of conditions for executing the commands, and a plurality of gating rules, each gating rule corresponding to one of the plurality of commands and indicating whether a corresponding command result is to be reported to the server; and

a processor adapted to perform a process including

installing the scheduling context,

monitoring the plurality of conditions,

determining that one of the plurality of conditions is satisfied,

executing one of the plurality of commands corresponding to the satisfied condition,

determining, according to the gating rule, whether or not the corresponding command result is reported to the server, and

storing the corresponding command result if the gating rule indicates that the corresponding command result is to be reported to the server,

wherein the processor is adapted to repeat the process until the process is completed for each of the plurality of commands,

wherein, after the process is completed for each of the plurality of commands, the processor is further adapted to create and transmit a single report message via a radio communication, the single report message including all stored command results,

wherein, when the transmission of the single report message fails, the processor is further adapted to log a history of the transmission failure to thereby be accessed by the server,

wherein each result includes at least one of a first element identifying a result command reference number and a second element identifying a result command response code, and

wherein the gating rule includes at least one of a third element identifying a gating rule command reference number and a fourth element identifying a gating rule command response code.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein each to-be reported result includes a command kind field.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the processor is further adapted to compare the at least one of the first element and the second element from each result, with a corresponding one of the third and fourth elements to determine whether the corresponding result should be reported.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the processor is adapted to report at least one of a status, an event which has been occurred in the mobile terminal, and an error which has been occurred in the mobile terminal to the server.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4,

wherein the scheduling context includes an event reporting rule specifying whether at least one of the status, the event, and the error should be reported to the server.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, for each of the plurality of commands, the processor is adapted to log a history relevant to at least one of

whether or not the condition corresponding to the command is satisfied,

whether or not an interaction with a user of the mobile terminal with regard to the command is performed,

whether or not the command is executed, and

whether or not the corresponding result is reported.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6,

wherein the scheduling context includes a logging rule specifying at least one of whether the logging should be enabled or not, and information for a buffer in which logged data is stored.

8. A method for reporting information from a mobile terminal to a server, comprising:

receiving, by the mobile terminal from the server, a scheduling context including a plurality of commands for managing the mobile terminal, a plurality of conditions for executing the commands, and a plurality of gating rules, each gating rule corresponding to one of the plurality of commands and indicating whether a corresponding command result is to be reported to the server;

performing, by the mobile terminal, a process including

installing the scheduling context,

monitoring the plurality of conditions,

determining that one of the plurality of conditions is satisfied,

executing one of the plurality of commands corresponding to the satisfied condition,

determining, according to the gating rule, whether or not the corresponding command result is reported to the server, and

storing the corresponding command result if the gating rule indicates that the corresponding command result is to be reported to the server;

repeating the process by the mobile terminal until the process is completed for each of the plurality of commands;

after the process is completed for each of the plurality of commands, creating and transmitting a single report message from the mobile terminal to the server via a radio communication, the single report message including all stored command results; and

when the transmission of the single report message fails, logging a history of the transmission failure to thereby be accessed by the server,

wherein each result includes at least one of a first element identifying a result command reference number and a second element identifying a result command response code, and

wherein the gating rule includes at least one of a third element identifying a gating rule command reference number and a fourth element identifying a gating rule command response code.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the single report message comprises:

at least one of a status of the mobile terminal, an event which has been occurred in the mobile terminal, and an error which has been occurred in the mobile terminal.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

for each of the plurality of commands, logging a history relevant to at least one of

whether or not the condition corresponding to the command is satisfied,

whether or not an interaction with a user of the mobile terminal about executing the command is performed,

whether or not the command is executed, and

whether or not a corresponding result has been reported.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

comparing the at least one of the first element and the second element from each result, with a corresponding one of the third and fourth elements to determine whether the corresponding result should be reported.