WO2007108783A1 - Systeme d'auto-approvisionnement destine a des passerelles multimedias situees sur le site d'un client utilise pour les communications multimedias par le biais du protocole internet - Google Patents

Systeme d'auto-approvisionnement destine a des passerelles multimedias situees sur le site d'un client utilise pour les communications multimedias par le biais du protocole internet Download PDF

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WO2007108783A1
WO2007108783A1 PCT/TR2007/000004 TR2007000004W WO2007108783A1 WO 2007108783 A1 WO2007108783 A1 WO 2007108783A1 TR 2007000004 W TR2007000004 W TR 2007000004W WO 2007108783 A1 WO2007108783 A1 WO 2007108783A1
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Metin Ismail Taskin
Mujdat Pakkan
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Airties Kablosuz Iletisim Sanayi Ve Dis Ticaret A.S.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L65/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication
    • H04L65/10—Architectures or entities
    • H04L65/102—Gateways
    • H04L65/1023—Media gateways
    • H04L65/103—Media gateways in the network
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L65/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication
    • H04L65/10—Architectures or entities
    • H04L65/102—Gateways
    • H04L65/1033—Signalling gateways
    • H04L65/104—Signalling gateways in the network
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/01—Protocols
    • H04L67/12—Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
    • H04L67/125—Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks involving control of end-device applications over a network
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/34—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications involving the movement of software or configuration parameters 

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  • This invention is about an embedded system that allows customer premise media gateways that communicate (transmit and receive) multimedia (voice, video, music, data) with a service provider over the Internet provider to automatically configure themselves to be able to perform this communication and the software associated with this system.
  • customer premise media gateways that communicate (transmit and receive) multimedia (voice, video, music, data) with a service provider over the Internet provider to automatically configure themselves to be able to perform this communication and the software associated with this system.
  • a patent numbered WO9933228A1 has been noted to also propose an aotu- provisioning system for cable modems' provisioning.
  • the auto-provisioning system described in that patent only covers cable modems' configuration and uses DHCP protocol instead of downloading a file. It does not propose any method for other types of media gateway devices mentioned in this invention.
  • Figure 2- Sample media gateway internal architecture (block diagram)
  • Figure 3- Sample flow diagram (for the download model)
  • Figure 4 - Sample flow digram (for the send model)
  • the internal architecture of a media gateway device (3) that will embed the auto- provisioning system described in this invention is presented in Figure 2 as a block diagram.
  • the media gateway device's interaction with other systems is presented in Figure 1.
  • the media gateway (3) primarily consists of the following elements: provisioning interface (7), configuration file (8), media interface (9), flash (permanent) memory (10), and RAM (temporary) memory (11).
  • the media interface (7) of the media gateway accepts packets from an IP network (12) and forwards them to different media equipment using special protocols (6).
  • Configuration comprises of all the settings and their values for the media gateway (3) to be able to perform its functionality. Examples to such settings are:
  • server information for the media service is not limited to the above and any setting that is required for the media gateway (3) to perform its functionality may be included in the configuration.
  • the auto-provisioning system described in this invention is embedded into media gateway devices (3) and its flows are described in Figure 3.
  • the provisioning interface (7) When the media gateway (3) starts, first the provisioning interface (7) is activated (14). Then, if the provisioning status check (15) indicates no provisioning, the provisioning interface connects (16) to the provisioning server (1) using the IP protocol (5). This connection is made at the application level independent of the physical transport (ADSL, cable, Ethernet etc) to the server.
  • the connection may utilize a proprietary protocol developed between the media gateway (3) and the media server (2) or a standard protocol (such as tftp, ftp, sftp, tcp, udp, XML 5 SOAP etc).
  • an authentication function (17) may be employed and hence unauthenticated entities may be prohibited from connecting to the media server (1) and download unauthenticated configuration information.
  • the provisioning interface (7) After the provisioning interface (7) makes the connection to the provisioning server (1) and authentication is performed, it checks for new configuration (18) for itself and if found, it downloads (19) this new configuration (8) from the provisioning server.
  • the configuration may be in any proprietary format agreed upon between the media gateway (3) and the provisioning server (1) or follow a standard. All the media gateways (3) that connect to the provisioning server (1) may download the same configuration or different configuration may be downloaded for each gateway. To accomplish the latter, an identifier is added to each media gateways 's (3) configuration that uniquely identifies the device. Examples of such unique identifiers are device serial numbers or MAC addresses.
  • the provisioning interface (7) places (20) the downloaded configuration (8) in the RAM (volatile) memory (11) of the media gateway (3). Then it checks the format of the configuration (21). If the configuration is in the right format (22), then it places (23) the configuration (8) into flash (permanent) memory (10) so that the downloaded configuration is not lost after a device shutdown. After all these steps are successfully completed, the provisioning interface (7) informs (24) the provisioning server (1) about successful provisioning.
  • the media interface (9) of the media gateway (3) uses the configuration (8) placed in RAM (volatile) memory (11) to communicate the media received from media server (2) across the IP network (12) over IP protocol (5) to the customer premise media equipment (4) using their special protocols (6).
  • the configuration downloaded to the media gateway (3) may sometimes require updates.
  • the provisioning interface (7) of the media gateway (3) connects (16) to the provisioning server (1) periodically (25) even if the provisioning status chec (15) indicates the device is provisioned. If the provisioning server (1) has new configuration for the media gateway (8), then the provisioning interface (7) downloads this new configuration as described before.
  • the auto-provisioning system described in this invention can be altered to have the provisioning server (1) send (27) the configuration to the media gateway (3) rather than the media gateway downloading the configuration from the provisioning server.
  • the flow diagram for this method is presented in Figure 4.
  • the advantage of this method is that the configuration changes may be pushed from the provisioning server (1) to the media gateways (3) faster and when needed.
  • the provisioning server (1) stores the address of the media gateway (3) for later access. This address may be the IP address for the IP protocol (5), however the method would work for other addressing schemes for other protocols.
  • the provisioning interface (7) of the media gateway (3) behaves as a server and waits for any update messages from the provisioning server (1).
  • the provisioning server (1) determines if a configuration update needs to be sent to the media gateway (3). When there is an update (25), it connects (26) to the media gateway (3) and sends (27) the configuration (8) to the media gateway. This configuration may also be in any format agreed upon between the provisioning server (1) and the media gateway (3). In order to prevent unauthorized access to the media gateways(3), an authentication function (17) may also be used in this method.
  • the provisioning server (1) authenticates itself to the media gateway (3) during the connection and after the media gateway accepts the connection, it can send (27) the configuration (8).
  • the provisining interface (7) checks (21, 22) the format of the configuration sent by the provisioning server (1) and then places (20, 23) them in RAM and flash memory.
  • the auto-provisining system described in this invention may use either of these two methods to allow the media gateway to get its configuration and perform its functions without requiring its user to get involved in any complicated setup procedures. This increases customer satisfaction and widens the customer potential.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un système embarqué qui permet à des passerelles multimédias (3) situées sur le site d'un client qui communiquent (transmettent et reçoivent des éléments multimédias (voix, vidéo, musique, données)) avec un fournisseur de services par le biais du fournisseur d'accès Internet de se configurer automatiquement de manière à pouvoir réaliser cette communication. La présente invention concerne également le logiciel associé à ce système. Le système d'auto-approvisionnement décrit dans la présente invention est caractérisé par les éléments principaux suivants : un dispositif de passerelle multimédia (3) qui communique des éléments multimédias à l'équipement multimédia de l'utilisateur (4), un logiciel embarqué qui réside dans la passerelle multimédia, un serveur d'approvisionnement (1) qui réside au sein du réseau du fournisseur de services, la passerelle multimédia (3) téléchargeant sa configuration à partir dudit serveur d'approvisionnement (1) en utilisant un protocole de communication spécial ou le serveur d'approvisionnement envoyant la configuration à la passerelle multimédia.
PCT/TR2007/000004 2006-03-21 2007-01-26 Systeme d'auto-approvisionnement destine a des passerelles multimedias situees sur le site d'un client utilise pour les communications multimedias par le biais du protocole internet WO2007108783A1 (fr)

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