WO2012083794A1 - License control method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a LICENSE control method and device. The corresponding method comprises making statistics on a usage amount of LICENSE in a sampling period; accumulating the usage amount of LICENSE of each sampling period, to obtain a total usage amount of LICENSE; when the total usage amount of LICENSE exceeds a threshold, controlling the current usage amount of LICENSE.

Description

 TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a LICENSE control method and apparatus, and belongs to the field of communication technologies. BACKGROUND When a telecommunications carrier purchases a communication device, it usually needs to purchase a certain amount of license items (LICENSE) for each service. When a certain service exceeds the LICENSE corresponding to the service, the service will be restricted, so the LICENSE needs to be controlled. . The existing LICENSE control method generally controls the usage of the current LICENSE value. Take the number of users LICENSE as an example. When the number of users is less than the value of LICENSE, the user is allowed to access. When the number of users is greater than the value of LICENSE, the user is prohibited from accessing.

 The number of users cannot be the same every moment, and the number of users is different at different times and every day. If the number of LICENSEs purchased by the operator is small, although the cost is saved, there will be many users unable to access during the peak period; if the number of LICENSEs purchased by the operator is large, although the quality of service to the users can be guaranteed at most times, However, at the low peak, there will be more LICENSEs not used by users, resulting in wasted LICENSE resources.

 Therefore, since the existing LICENSE control technology only controls the usage of the LICENSE value at the current time, it cannot solve the problem that the quality of service cannot be guaranteed at the peak time or the purchased LICENSE resource is wasted at a low peak time. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention provide a LICENSE control method, which solves the guaranteed service quality at the peak time of the service by controlling the usage of the LICENSE in a certain period of time, and avoids wasting LICENSE at the low peak of the service.

 A LICENSE control method, including:

Statistics on the usage of LICENSE during the sampling period; Statistics on the usage of LICENSE during the sampling period;

 The L I CENSE usage in each sampling period is accumulated to obtain the total L I CENSE usage; when the total LICENSE usage exceeds the threshold, the current LICENSE usage is controlled. A LICENSE control device, comprising:

 a sampling statistics unit for counting LICENSE usage during a sampling period; a sampling and accumulating unit for accumulating LICENSE usage in each sampling period to obtain a total LICENSE usage;

 The determining control unit is configured to control the current LICENSE usage amount when the total LICENSE usage exceeds a threshold.

 It can be seen from the technical solution provided by the foregoing embodiments of the present invention that the usage of the LICENSE in a certain period of time is counted and compared with the threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, the current usage of the LICENSE is controlled, so that the operator purchases LICENSE not only guarantees the quality of service at peak business, but also avoids wasting LICENSE at the peak of the business. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some of the present invention. For the embodiments, those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings according to the drawings without any creative labor.

 1 is a schematic flowchart of a LICENSE control method according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a method for controlling a number of users LICENSE according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a LICENSE control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. detailed description The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without departing from the inventive scope are the scope of the present invention.

 Embodiments of the present invention provide a LICENSE control method for controlling LICENSE according to LICENSE usage in an existing telecommunication operating device, and the applicable device includes devices in the entire communication domain, such as a router, a server, and the like. The embodiment is specifically described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the method may specifically include:

 Step 1 1 . Count the LICENSE usage during the sampling period.

 Specifically, the corresponding LICENSE usage may be the usage of the number of users LICENSE, or the usage of the traffic LICENSE. The corresponding predetermined sampling period may be a predetermined period of time, which may be in units of every second, every ten seconds, every minute, hour, week, month, year, or any other set period of time.

 If the traffic is used as an example, when the communication device receives or sends a data, the size of the data is counted. The statistical result is the usage of the flow rate LICENSE. The sampling period is 1 minute. The communication device is within 1 minute. The total data size received or transmitted is the amount of traffic LICENSE used during the sampling period.

 For example, if the number of users is LICENSE and the predetermined sampling period is 1 minute, the communication device counts the total number of users accessing the communication device within 1 minute every 1 minute. The total number of users in the statistics is the sampling period. The number of users within the LICENSE usage.

 In step 12, the LICENSE usage in each sampling period is accumulated to obtain the total LICENSE usage.

The cumulative use of the LICENSE in each sampling period may be performed by accumulating the LICENSE usage within a sampling period used in a predetermined period, to obtain the LICENSE usage amount in the predetermined period, wherein the predetermined period may be a predetermined period, such as one day, one month, or one quarter, etc.; or Accumulating the LICENSE usage in each sampling period that has been counted on the communication device to obtain the total LICENSE usage on the communication device, that is, when the communication device starts working, it starts to count the LICENSE in the sampling period of the device. The usage amount is used to accumulate the LICENSE usage in each sampling period that has been counted to obtain the total LICENSE usage on the communication device.

 Specifically, if the flow rate LICENSE, the predetermined period is daily, and the sampling period is 1 minute, the communication device accumulates the flow rate LICENSE in each minute in one day, thereby obtaining the total number of users in the predetermined period LICENSE The amount of usage, the unit is the data unit (for example, GB).

 If the number of users is LICENSE, the predetermined period is 1 day, and the number of sampling periods is 1 minute, the communication device accumulates the number of users LICENSE in each minute in one day, thereby obtaining the total number of users in the predetermined period LICENSE The usage amount, the unit is the user number unit X time unit (for example, thousands of users X days).

 Step 13. When the total LICENSE usage exceeds the threshold, the current LICENSE usage is controlled.

 Determining whether the total LICENSE of the communication device exceeds the threshold, and if so, the current

The LICENSE usage is controlled. If it is not exceeded, the current LICENSE usage is not controlled.

 The main body for determining whether the total LICENSE of the communication device exceeds the threshold may be the communication device itself, or other devices, such as a network management device.

 If the statistical LICENSE usage is the LICENSE usage for a predetermined period, then the threshold is the threshold for the predetermined period; if the statistical LICENSE usage is the total LICENSE usage, then the threshold is the total threshold. The threshold may be the number of users allowed to access in a predetermined time or in total, or the traffic allowed within a predetermined time or in total.

Specifically, the threshold may be determined according to the description of the number of users or the traffic in the working log of the specific device. For example, the threshold of the traffic LICENSE of a cell broadband router may be 1000 (GBx days) or the threshold of the number of users LICENSE may be 200 (a User χ天). Can also be purchased according to the operator Depending on the number of LICENSEs purchased, the total threshold can be less than or equal to the total number of LICENSEs purchased. The threshold in the predetermined period can be set according to the operator's control policy based on the total number of LICENSEs purchased by the operator. If the operator purchases a total of 100,000 LICENSE (X months), the total threshold can be 100,000 (X months) or 98,000 (X months), assuming the predetermined period is 1 day, then the reservation The threshold in the period may be 3,000 (X days) or 4 thousand (X months).

 Taking the traffic LICENSE as an example, if the predetermined period is 1 month, when the sampling period is 1 day, the threshold of the flow LCENSE of the predetermined period is 10000 GB. Since the sampling period is 1 day, it means that the usage of the volume is counted every day. When the 10th day is reached, the total flow rate of LICENSE obtained in step 12 is 5000 GB (that is, the total flow rate accumulated to the 10th day), and the width of the flow rate LICENSE is 10000 GB. At this time, the usage of the total flow rate LICENSE is less than the threshold value. , the communication device does not have any control over the traffic access (allowing new users to access); when the 28th day, the total traffic LICENSE obtained in step 12 is 11000 GB, and the usage of the total traffic LICENSE is greater than the threshold. Then, the communication device needs to control the traffic after the 28th day, and the corresponding control strategy may be to limit the uplink and downlink transmission speed or reduce the number of data transmission threads.

 Taking the number of users LICENSE as an example, referring to FIG. 2, if the usage amount of the total number of users LICENSE obtained in step 12 is the usage amount of the number of users LICENSE at time t1, the usage amount of the total number of users LICENSE at this time is equal to the user of the left side of tl The area of the quantity usage area, the size of which is 7000 (thousands of users X days), and the threshold of the number of users LICENSE (the horizontal line, the ordinate line, the vertical line corresponding to the time t2, and the actual number of users corresponding to the time t2 LICENSE) The area enclosed by the usage line is 10000 (thousands of users X days). When the time of t1 is reached, the usage of the number of users LICENSE is less than the value of the cabinet, the communication device does not have any control over the traffic access (allowing new User access); When the time t2 is reached, the usage of the number of users LICENSE is 10000 (thousands of users X days). At this time, the threshold has been reached, the communication device needs to control the number of users, and the corresponding control strategy can be It is forbidden that a certain proportion of new users access or disconnect the user who has not performed any operation for a certain period of time.

In this embodiment, by controlling the amount of LICENSE usage in a certain period of time, the peak correction page can be guaranteed (Article 91). At the moment, the quality of service can be guaranteed, and at the low peak, no LICENSE is wasted.

 In another case, in this embodiment, it is also possible to provide a technical solution for obtaining a new threshold by purchasing a new LICENSE value when the purchased LICENSE value has been used up or only a small amount remains. As shown, the method may specifically include:

 The implementation process of the steps 31-33 is similar to the steps 1 to 13 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, and details are not described herein.

 In step 34, a new threshold is constructed based on the added LICENSE, and the current LICENSE usage is controlled when the total LICENSE usage exceeds the new threshold.

 Specifically, after judging the total LICENSE usage by the threshold of step 33, if the purchased LICENSE has been used up, or a small amount of balance needs to continue to purchase LICENSE, then a new threshold needs to be formed according to the newly purchased LICENSE, wherein The newly purchased LICENSE constitutes new thresholds including:

 The newly purchased LICENSE and the originally purchased LICENSE are accumulated, and the accumulated result is taken as a new threshold. At this time, the total LICENSE usage is the original LICENSE usage plus the new LICENSE usage; or

 The sum of the newly purchased LICENSE and the remaining LICENSE (if the original purchased LICENSE has left) constitutes a new threshold. At this time, the total LICENSE usage needs to continue counting from the current time.

 Determine whether the total LICENSE usage exceeds the new threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, the current LICENSE usage is controlled. If the new threshold is not exceeded, the current LICENSE usage is not required to be controlled.

In some specific situations, such as the Golden Week holiday, small holiday, and new contracted users to join the service, the operator should consider purchasing more LICENSE as appropriate. If the user does not renew after the contract expires, the operator will You can consider purchasing less LICENSE, so that the operator can estimate the purchase amount of LICENSE in the latter cycle by counting the usage of LICENSE in the previous cycle, and then flexibly manage LICENSE to realize the guarantee of user service quality. It also avoids the waste of LICENSE. specific:

 If the traffic LICENSE is taken as an example, when the re-operator purchases the LICENSE and the new threshold is 2000 GB, the usage of the total traffic LICENSE is re-evaluated. At this time, the usage of the total traffic LICENSE is 1500 GB becomes less than the threshold. Then, the communication device cancels prohibiting a certain proportion of new users from accessing or disconnecting the connection with the user who has not performed any operation for a certain period of time, and re-allowing new users to access; if the total traffic LICENSE usage is 2200 GB, then If the usage of the total traffic LICENSE is greater than the threshold, the communication device needs to control the traffic. The number of users is LICENSE. For example, when the increased threshold is 12000 (thousands of users), the total number of users is LICENSE. Judging by the usage amount, when the total number of users of LICENSE is 10000 (thousands of users X days), the situation becomes less than the threshold, then the communication device cancels prohibiting a certain percentage of new users from accessing or cutting off and not within a certain period of time. Operation such as connection of the user performing any operation, re-allowing new users to access; when the reduced threshold is 5000 ( When the number of users is X days, the usage of the total number of users LICENSE is re-evaluated. At this time, the usage of the total number of users LICENSE is 7000 (thousands of users X days) becomes greater than the threshold, and the communication device needs The number of users is controlled, and the corresponding control strategy may be to prohibit a certain proportion of new users from accessing or disconnecting users who have not performed any operation for a certain period of time.

 Using the method provided in the above embodiment, the operator can determine the LICENSE to be purchased in the latter cycle based on the usage of LICENSE in the previous cycle. Sampling this method can not only ensure the quality of the service during the peak period of the business, but also achieve the low peak period of the business without causing waste of resources.

 It should be noted that those skilled in the art may understand that all or part of the steps in implementing the foregoing method embodiments may be performed by a program to instruct related hardware, and the corresponding program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The above-mentioned storage medium may be a read only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk or the like.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides a LICENSE control device, as shown in FIG. Specifically, the sampling and counting unit 41, the sampling and accumulating unit 42 and the judging control unit 43 are used, and the sampling and counting unit 41 is configured to perform statistics on the LICENSE usage amount in the sampling period; the sampling and accumulating unit 42 is used to use the LICENSE in each sampling period. The amount is accumulated to obtain the total LICENSE usage; the judgment control unit 43 is configured to control the current LICENSE usage when the total LICENSE usage exceeds the threshold.

 Optionally, any one of the following subunits is included in the sample accumulation unit 42:

 a first accumulating subunit for accumulating LICENSE usage in each sampling period within a predetermined period;

 The second accumulation sub-unit is used to accumulate the LICENSE usage in each of the counted sampling periods.

 Optionally, the sampling statistics unit 41 includes a traffic statistics sub-unit for counting the traffic used in the sampling period, and the LICENSE usage includes the usage of the traffic LICENSE.

 Optionally, a flow control subunit is included in the judgment control unit 43 for limiting the uplink and downlink transmission speed or reducing the number of data transmission threads.

 Optionally, the sample statistics unit 41 includes a user number statistics sub-unit for counting the number of users accessing the sampling period, and the LICENSE usage includes the usage of the number of users LICENSE.

 Optionally, the judging control unit 43 includes a user number control sub-unit for prohibiting a new user of the predetermined ratio from accessing or disconnecting the user who has not performed any operation within a predetermined time.

 Optionally, the apparatus may further include an update determining unit configured to construct a new threshold according to the added LICENSE, and control the current LICENSE usage when the total LICENSE usage exceeds a new threshold.

 The specific implementation of the processing functions of the units included in the above LICENSE control device has been described in the previous method embodiments, and the description thereof will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that, in the foregoing device embodiments, the included units are only divided according to functional logic, but are not limited to the foregoing division, as long as the corresponding functions can be implemented; The names are only for the purpose of distinguishing between each other and are not intended to limit the hair. The scope of protection.

 In this embodiment, the threshold value is used to control the usage of the LICENSE in the predetermined period, so that the operator can reasonably allocate the purchased LICENSE value within a predetermined period, which not only improves the service quality at the peak of the service, but also avoids the low peak in the service. Waste LICENSE

 The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Although different embodiments have adopted different technical features to solve the technical problems raised by the present invention, these embodiments are different implementation methods under the same inventive concept. The scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that are easily conceivable within the scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present invention should be determined by the scope of protection of the claims.

Claims

Rights request A LICENSE control method, characterized in that:  Statistics on the license item LICENSE usage during the sampling period;  The LICENSE usage is accumulated for each sampling period to obtain the total LICENSE usage; when the total LICENSE usage exceeds the threshold, the current LICENSE usage is controlled.  2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the LICENSE usage load port in each sampling period comprises:  Accumulating LICENSE usage during each sampling period within a predetermined period; or  Accumulate all LICENSE usage for each sample period that is counted.  3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the counting of the usage of the LICENSE in the sampling period comprises:  Counting the traffic used during the sampling period, the LICENSE usage includes traffic The amount of LICENSE used.  The method according to claim 3, wherein the controlling the current LICENSE usage includes limiting uplink and downlink transmission speeds or reducing the number of data transmission threads.  5. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the counting of the usage of the LICENSE in the sampling period comprises:  The number of users accessed during the sampling period is counted, and the LICENSE usage includes the usage of the number of users LICENSE.  6. The method of claim 5, wherein the controlling the current LICENSE usage comprises prohibiting a predetermined proportion of new users from accessing or disconnecting a user who has not performed any operation for a predetermined time. 7. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the method further comprises: constructing a new threshold according to the added LICENSE, and when the total LICENSE usage exceeds When the new threshold is described, the current LICENSE usage is controlled.  8. A LICENSE control device, comprising:  a sampling statistics unit for counting LICENSE usage during a sampling period; a sampling and accumulating unit for accumulating LICENSE usage in each sampling period to obtain a total LICENSE usage;  The determining control unit is configured to control the current LICENSE usage amount when the total LICENSE usage exceeds a threshold.  9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein: the sampling accumulating unit comprises: a first accumulating subunit for accumulating LICENSE usage in each sampling period in a predetermined period; or  The second accumulation sub-unit is used to accumulate the LICENSE usage in each of the counted sampling periods.  The device according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the sampling and statistics unit comprises: a traffic statistics subunit, configured to collect traffic used in the sampling period, and the LICENSE usage includes use of the traffic LICENSE the amount.  The device according to claim 10, wherein the determining control unit comprises: a flow control sub-unit for limiting the uplink and downlink transmission speed or reducing the number of data transmission threads. The apparatus according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the sampling statistics unit comprises: a user number statistics subunit, configured to count the number of users accessed during the sampling period, and the LICENSE usage amount includes a user The number of LICENSE usage.  The device according to claim 12, wherein the determining control unit comprises: a user number control sub-unit, configured to prohibit a predetermined proportion of new users from accessing or cutting off users who have not performed any operation within a predetermined time Connection.  14. The apparatus according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the apparatus further comprises: an update determining unit, configured to construct a new threshold according to the added LICENSE, and when the total When the LICENSE usage exceeds the new threshold, the current LICENSE usage is controlled.