KR100939130B1 - System and method for supporting upgrade protocol - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an upgrade protocol support system and a method for providing various upgrade protocols.

The constituent means constituting the upgrade protocol support system of the present invention for achieving the above object is a web server for supporting the HTTP to request the index of the upgradeable terminals and manage the upgrade; An upgrade protocol server supporting an upgrade protocol of upgrade target terminals; And an upgrade list management module having information necessary for upgrading of the terminals, wherein the constituent means for supporting an upgrade protocol include: a) delivering an index of upgradeable terminals from a database of a system by a web server according to an upgrade request; Doing; b) receiving a selection of terminals to be upgraded by the web server; c) the web server conveying a command to the selected terminals to upgrade from the exchange system; And d) accessing the upgrade protocol server by the terminals receiving the command to upgrade the terminal to the corresponding upgrade protocol.

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Description

Upgrade protocol support system and method thereof {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING UPGRADE PROTOCOL}

1 is a block diagram of an upgrade method according to the prior art.

2 is a block diagram of an upgrade system according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an upgrade method according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an upgrade command step applied to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an upgrade step applied to the present invention.

The present invention relates to an upgrade protocol support system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to an upgrade protocol support system and a method for providing various upgrade protocols.

In the related art, in order to upgrade the exchanger system, the ROM of the exchanger system is exchanged to replace the hardware itself, or the system is upgraded using one upgrade protocol.

Hereinafter, a conventional system upgrade method will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying FIG. 1 showing a schematic diagram of a conventional upgrade method.

There are two ways to upgrade the system offline: system operation, the administrator directly goes to the field where the system is installed, and upgrades by replacing the ROM or directly configuring the keyphone system through the serial cable.

Figure 1 (a) is a configuration diagram for upgrading remotely by using a telephone line, the administrator is to upgrade the key phone system in the form of a Peer-To-Peer through a trunk line network by a modem.

In addition, (b) of FIG. 1 shows a method in which an administrator directly upgrades TFTP or FTP using an authorized IP address in an IP terminal or an IP exchange system.

As described above, according to the related art, in order to upgrade a system, an administrator or an operator provides a method of directly exchanging a ROM or upgrading to one upgrade protocol, and is suitable for upgrading terminals to be developed later. There is a difficult point. That is, a problem arises in that it cannot be upgraded because it cannot support various upgrade protocols.

The present invention was devised to solve the problems of the prior art, and an object thereof is to provide an upgrade protocol support system and method capable of providing various upgrade protocols.

The constituent means of the present invention, the upgrade protocol support system for achieving the above object,
A web server supporting HTTP for requesting an index of upgradeable terminals and managing upgrades;
An upgrade protocol server supporting an upgrade protocol of upgrade target terminals; And
And an upgrade list management module having information necessary for upgrading the terminals.
The upgrade protocol server supports a variety of upgrade protocols, including TFTP, FTP, TELNET for upgrading the terminals,
The upgrade list of the upgrade list management module may include information of terminals, an upgrade progress state, and file information.
On the other hand, the constituent means of achieving another upgrade protocol support method of the present invention,
a) a web server delivering an index of upgradeable terminals from a database of a system according to an upgrade request;
b) the web server receiving a selection of terminals to upgrade;
c) the web server conveying a command to the selected terminals to upgrade from the exchange system; And
d) accessing the upgrade protocol server by the terminals receiving the command to upgrade the terminal to the corresponding upgrade protocol; and
Step c) is
Transmitting, by the web server, a terminal index selected by an operator to an upgrade list management module;
Delivering, by the upgrade list management module, upgrade list information to the web server based on the transferred index; And
And transmitting, by the web server receiving upgrade list information, upgrade commands to corresponding terminals.
Step d),
Connecting the terminals to the upgrade protocol server using a corresponding protocol;
Checking whether the connected terminal is an index stored in an upgrade list; And
If the index is stored as a result of the check and the upgrade proceeds if the stored index is not added to a new list after the upgrade;
At the completion of the upgrade, if the terminal sends an upgrade completion message in a packet or if there is no data transmission within a certain time period is characterized in that complete
In step d), the upgrade list management module continuously records the file transfer state in the upgrade list while the upgrade is in progress, and transmits the file transfer state when requested by the web server.

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Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the operation of the constituent means constituting the present invention and the preferred embodiment by the constituent means as described above.

2 is a block diagram of an upgrade system according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an upgrade method according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an upgrade command step applied to the present invention, and FIG. This is a procedure flow diagram regarding the upgrade steps applied to the invention.

Referring to Figure 2, a configuration diagram of the upgrade system, the operator 10 accesses the web server 21 of the IP exchanger 20 system through a web browser, selects terminals to be upgraded and upgrades thereof. The person who checks the status.

The web server 21 requests the database of the system to upgrade the index of the upgradeable terminals according to the operator's selection, and receives the index and delivers the index to the operator, and continuously upgrades the upgrade status from the upgrade list management module. Receive it and deliver it to the operator. Then, the operator processes the HTTP protocol to manage the upgrade, calls the function appropriate for the upgrade process according to the operator's choice, and changes the status and data values of the upgrade list included in the upgrade list management module.

The upgrade protocol server 22 is responsible for supporting the upgrade protocol of the corresponding terminal when the operator selects the terminal to be upgraded. That is, it processes the upgrade protocol and calls a function appropriate for the upgrade process and changes the status and data values of the upgrade list included in the upgrade list management module accordingly. The upgrade protocol server has a server such as TFTP, FTP, TELNET, etc. to support various upgrade protocols.

If there is an upgrade start command of the web server, the terminals 30 access the upgrade protocol server to upgrade to the upgrade protocol. As shown in FIG. 2, IP phone 1 is a terminal for upgrading through TFTP, IP gateway is a terminal for upgrading through FTP, and IP phone 2 is a terminal for upgrading through Telnet. Meanwhile, protocol terminals that are not defined may exist in the terminal that accesses the upgrade protocol server.

The upgrade list management module 23 has information necessary for upgrading and includes a number of functions for performing the upgrade process. These functions are called by the web server and the upgrade protocol server to perform the upgrade process. Meanwhile, the upgrade list management module includes elements of a structure called an upgrade list, which stores information of terminals, upgrade progress status, and file information. That is, it stores the overall data and state for upgrading the terminal type, version, the number of the terminal, the current upgrade state, the IP address of the terminal, the port number, the upgrade method, and file information.

Next, with reference to the accompanying Figure 3 will be described in detail the operation and preferred embodiment related to the upgrade method through the present inventors various protocols.

Once the operator has accessed the web server via a web browser to upgrade the terminals. Then, the web server requests the index of the upgradeable terminals to the database of the system according to the upgrade request of the operator, and the database of the system transmits the information of the terminal to the web server, and the web server transmits the HTML to the operator. Convert and deliver again (S40 ~ S50).

The operator receiving the information of the terminals selects the terminals to be upgraded and delivers them to the web server. Then, the web server commands the terminals selected by the operator to upgrade to the upgrade protocol (S60 ~ S70).

The terminals receiving the upgrade command access the upgrade protocol server and start upgrade with the upgrade protocol. At this time, each terminal is upgraded from the system by a file transfer protocol such as TFTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. In order to enable this, the upgrade protocol server has various upgrade protocol servers (S80).

When the terminal completes the upgrade process and the file transfer is completed, the upgrade process is terminated by sending a message to the operator that the upgrade is completed (S90).

During the upgrade process, the file is transmitted by packet unit to upgrade, and when the upgrade target terminals are all upgraded, a message indicating that the upgrade is completed is transmitted as a packet to inform the upgrade protocol server that the file transfer is completed. If you save it to the upgrade list, the web server receives it and delivers it to the operator. Or, if the upgrade completion message is not sent, if there is no data transmission within a certain time, the upgrade is regarded as completed and the completion status is stored in the upgrade list, and the web server is delivered to the operator.

During the upgrade process as described above, the upgrade list management module continuously records and stores the file transfer status in the upgrade list. When the web server requests the operator's command, the upgrade list management module continuously stores the file transfer status (upgrade progress status). The web server forwards it to the operator, who can keep track of the upgrade progress.

4 is a web server, if the terminal to be upgraded is determined according to the operator's selection, the upgrade command to the corresponding terminal, the process in detail as follows.

First, the index of the terminal to be upgraded by the operator is transferred to the upgrade list management module, which is to find information of the terminal to be upgraded. That is, to find out information such as IP address, file transfer protocol, etc. of the terminal to be upgraded (S71).

The upgrade list management module, which receives the index of the terminal to be upgraded, searches for an upgrade list based on the received index and delivers related list information to the web server (S72 ~ S73).

The web server receiving the upgrade list information of the terminals to be upgraded from the upgrade list management module performs an upgrade command step of the web server by instructing the corresponding terminals to upgrade from the system according to each upgrade protocol. S74).

5 shows a detailed procedure for the steps of upgrading the terminals after connecting to the upgrade protocol server to upgrade. Referring to the step of upgrading with reference to Figure 5 as follows.

First, the terminals receiving the upgrade command from the web server are connected to the upgrade protocol server by the corresponding protocol, and the terminal is connected to the file transfer protocol such as TFTP, FTP, and Telnet according to each terminal (S81).

If there is a connection between the terminals, the upgrade protocol server finds the IP address or MAC address of the connected terminal, and thereby checks whether the connected terminal is an index of the terminal stored in the upgrade list (S82).

If it is determined that the index is stored in the upgrade list, the upgrade is performed with information on the index of the corresponding terminal. If the index is not the index of the terminal stored in the upgrade list, the index is newly added to the upgrade list to add the index of the new terminal. Then, the upgrade proceeds with the upgrade of the terminal connected to the upgrade protocol server (S83, S84).

When the file transfer is completed by performing the upgrade, each terminal delivers an upgrade completion message indicating that the file transfer is completed to the upgrade protocol server. If the completion message does not arrive, it is considered that the upgrade is completed after a predetermined time (S85). The completion message and the like are stored in the upgrade list, and delivered according to the request of the web server, so that the operator can confirm it.

According to the present invention having the above configuration means and preferred embodiments, the operator of the IP exchange system can manage the upgrade regardless of the various protocols of all the terminals of the system, the operator is later added a new terminal of the system Even if a new upgrade protocol is applied, it is possible to effectively upgrade a new terminal by adding a new protocol server to the main exchange regardless of the protocol type.

Claims (8)

A web server supporting HTTP for requesting an index of upgradeable terminals and managing upgrades; An upgrade protocol server supporting an upgrade protocol of upgrade target terminals; And And an upgrade list management module having information necessary for upgrading the terminals. The method of claim 1, The upgrade protocol server upgrade protocol support system, characterized in that for supporting the upgrade of the various upgrade protocols including TFTP, FTP, TELNET. The method of claim 1, The upgrade list of the upgrade list management module may include information on the terminals, an upgrade progress state, and file information. a) a web server delivering an index of upgradeable terminals from a database of a system according to an upgrade request; b) receiving a selection of terminals to be upgraded by the web server; c) the web server conveying a command to the selected terminals to upgrade from the exchange system; And d) accessing the upgrade protocol server by the terminals receiving the command to upgrade the terminal to the corresponding upgrade protocol. The method of claim 4, wherein step c) Transmitting, by the web server, a terminal index selected by an operator to an upgrade list management module; Delivering, by the upgrade list management module, upgrade list information to the web server based on the transferred index; And The web server receiving the upgrade list information, the upgrade protocol support method comprising the step of transmitting an upgrade command to the corresponding terminals. The method of claim 4, wherein step d) Connecting the terminals to the upgrade protocol server using a corresponding protocol; Checking whether the connected terminal is an index stored in an upgrade list; And If the index is stored as a result of the check, the upgrade protocol support method comprising the step of performing an upgrade after adding the new list if not stored index. The method of claim 4, wherein Upon completion of the upgrade, the terminal sends an upgrade completion message in a packet or if there is no data transmission within a predetermined time, the upgrade protocol support method according to claim 1. The method of claim 4, wherein In step d), the upgrade list management module continuously records the file transfer status in the upgrade list while the upgrade is in progress, and transfers the file transfer status when requested by the web server.

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