JPH07334440A - Communication operation selecting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to use also a line in a different communication rate system to reduce a communication rate by shortening the connection time in the case of a connection time meter rate system and selecting and executing communication operation for reducing communication data volume in the case of an information volume meter rate system. CONSTITUTION:This communication operation selecting system is constituted of a communication information storing file 60 previously storing the sort of a line to be used in each communication destination to be connected, a communication rate system inspecting part 61 for inspecting a communication rate system for a line to be used based upon information stored in the file 60, a communication operation selecting part 62 for selecting the communication operation of the connection time meter rate system or that of the information volume meter rate system, a connection time following system communication operation processing part 70 for executing communication operation when the line is in the connection time meter rate system, and an information volume meter rate system communication operation processing part 71 for executing communication operation when the line is in the information volume meter rate system.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication operation selection method, and more particularly to a communication operation selection method when selecting a communication operation in an application program that provides inter-computer communication.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an application program that provides computer-to-computer communication, communication operations such as connection connection, release, and data communication are created by a fixed procedure. From the relationship between the connection connection time and the communication data amount, either the connection time pay-as-you-go system or the information amount pay-as-you-go system was advantageous for the communication charge, and the line of the advantageous communication charge system was fixedly used. Or, if the line to be used is decided in advance, in order to further reduce the communication charge in the communication charge system, in the case of a connection time metered line, the communication operation is performed to shorten the connection connection time as much as possible, In the case of the information-volume-based line, the application program was created so as to perform the communication operation so that the communication data amount becomes as small as possible. That is, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the application program and the line type.
Had a relationship.

FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of an application program for providing inter-computer communication according to the conventional OSI, which is composed of a computer system 1 and a wide area network 20.

The computer system 1 includes users 30, 31, and 32 indicating a program or an operator that uses the OSI communication procedure, an OSI communication application program 4 that uses the communication procedure of the OSI upper layer, and a communication procedure of the OSI upper layer. The OSI upper layer control unit 8 for controlling and the line control unit 90 for controlling the communication procedure are provided.
The SI communication application program 4 is used by the user 30,
The OSI communication function providing unit 5 that provides the OSI communication function to the terminals 31 and 32 is configured.

When the user 30 wants to request some processing from the communication partner, the OSI communication function providing section 5 is requested to perform some processing. The OSI communication function providing unit 5 performs a certain communication operation regardless of the connection partner and makes a processing request to the OSI upper layer control unit 8. The OSI upper layer control unit 8 is the line control unit 9
Data communication is realized by using 0. With the above operation, the function requested by the user 30 is realized. When the line types are different, the communication operation performed by the OSI communication function providing unit 5 is also different, and the system configuration is such that the OSI communication application program 4 is a different item.

[0006]

The above-mentioned conventional application program for providing inter-computer communication has a problem in that lines with different communication charge systems cannot be used when lines are limited. In addition, when a line whose communication charge is low due to the communication charge system is fixedly used, if a line with a different communication charge system is used, the communication charge will be high due to the communication operation, which is uneconomical. It was

Further, since the type of line to be used and the application program correspond to each other one by one, if the application programs provide different functions, the usage method of the application program user also varies from line to line. there were.

An object of the present invention is that an application program that provides inter-computer communication is conscious of the communication charge system of the line used, and if the communication charge system is a connection time pay-as-you-go system, the application program user's usage time In order to shorten the connection time, the communication operation to connect and release the connection each time communication is needed is performed. If the communication fee system is the information amount pay-as-you-go system, set the communication data amount to the use operation of the application program user. By selecting and executing communication operations that reduce the number of communication operations, it is possible to use lines with different communication charge systems at the same time without changing the functions provided to application program users, and to reduce the communication charges. It is to provide a selection method.

[0009]

According to the communication operation selection method of the present invention, a communication information storage file storing, for each communication partner, address information of the communication partner and the type of line used for communication, and the communication information storage file. Communication charge system investigation unit that investigates the communication charge system of the line to be used from the address information of the communication partner based on the file, and the communication charge system of the line used when connecting the connection by referring to the investigation result of the communication charge system investigation unit A communication operation selecting means for selecting a connection time metered communication operation or an information amount metered communication operation, and an application program user's application when the connection time metered communication operation is selected by the communication operation selecting means. To shorten the connection connection time with respect to the usage time,
A connection time metered communication operation processing unit that executes a communication operation that connects and disconnects a connection each time communication is required,
When the communication operation selecting means selects a communication operation for information amount-based metering, it is configured to include an information amount-based metered communication operation processing unit that executes a communication operation that reduces the communication data amount.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a communication operation selection system of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the communication operation selection system of this embodiment shows a communication control system for controlling the OSI communication procedure. The computer system 1, the wide area networks 20 and 21, and the local area network 22 are shown. Composed of and.

The computer system 1 includes users 30, 31, and 32 indicating a program or an operator using the OSI communication procedure, an OSI communication application program 4 using the communication procedure of the OSI upper layer, and a communication procedure of the OSI upper layer. The OSI upper layer control unit 8 for controlling and the line control units 90, 91, 92 for controlling the communication procedure for each network are provided, and the OSI communication application program 4 is provided to the users 30, 31, 32. The OSI communication function providing unit 5 that provides the OSI communication function, the communication information storage file 60 that stores the address information of the communication partner and the type of line to be used for each communication partner that is connected in advance, and the communication information storage file 60 Investigate the communication charge system of the line used from the address of the communication partner based on the information Shin and pricing survey unit 61, the communication operation selecting unit 6 for selecting whether communication charge system by connection time metered communication operation of the communication operation if the information amount metered circuit to use
2, a connection time metered communication operation processing unit 70 that executes a communication operation when the line is a connection time metered system, and an information amount metered communication operation processing unit 71 that executes a communication operation when the line is an information amount metered system. It is configured to include and.

When the user 30 wants to request some processing from the communication partner, the OSI communication function providing section 5 requests the processing together with the address information of the communication partner. The OSI communication function providing unit 5 passes the address information of the communication partner connected to the communication fee system examining unit 61. Communication information storage file 6
0 indicates the address and the line type to be used for each of the communication partners 1, 2, 3 and 4 in advance as shown in the configuration diagram showing an example of the configuration of the communication information storage file in the communication operation selection method of the present embodiment of FIG. It is registered, and the communication fee system investigation unit 61 searches the communication information storage file 60 using the address of the communication partner as a key, and obtains the line type used for communication with the communication partner. Further, the charge system is judged from the line type and passed to the communication operation selection unit 62. The communication operation selection unit 62 determines from the charge system whether to perform the connection time metered communication operation or the information amount metered communication operation, and according to the result, the connection time metered communication operation processing unit 70 or the information amount metered communication operation. The processing unit 71 uses the OSI upper layer control unit 8.

The connection time pay-as-you-go communication operation processing unit 70 performs connection connection with the communication partner at the time of the first processing request,
Performs the requested processing, but immediately disconnects the connection regardless of whether or not the user 30 makes another request. When the user 30 performs some processing on the processing result and makes a further request as a result, the connection is made again, the requested processing is performed, and the connection is immediately disconnected. By performing such a communication operation, the connection connection time can be minimized with respect to the total time required for the user 30 to make a processing request to the communication partner.

The amount-of-information-based communication operation processing unit 71 makes a connection with the communication partner at the time of the first processing request and performs the requested processing. In this case, whether the user 30 further requests the next processing or not. Regardless, the connection remains connected. When the user 30 performs some processing on the processing result and makes a further request as a result, connection connection is not necessary and only the requested processing is performed. The connection is disconnected when the user 30 no longer needs to process the communication partner. By performing such a communication operation, the total amount of communication data required for the user 30 to make a processing request to the communication partner can be minimized.

In the above-described embodiment, OSI is used as an application program for providing inter-computer communication.
Although the example of the communication application program has been given, it is needless to say that the processing is not limited to this and may be processing of another communication procedure.

[0018]

As described above, the communication operation selection method of the present invention has a communication information storage file that stores the address information of the communication partner and the line type to be used for each communication partner, and when the connection is established, the communication information storage file is stored. It investigates the communication charge system of the line used for communication with the communication partner and selects either the connection time pay-per-use communication operation or the information amount pay-per-use communication operation depending on the communication charge system. There is an effect that lines with different communication charge systems can be used at the same time without changing the provided function and the communication charge can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a communication operation selection system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the configuration of a communication information storage file in the communication operation selection method of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram of an application program that provides conventional communication between computers.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Computer System 4 OSI Communication Application Program 5 OSI Communication Function Providing Section 8 OSI Upper Layer Control Section 20, 21 Wide Area Network 22 Local Area Network 30, 31, 32 User 60 Communication Information Storage File 61 Communication Charge System Survey Section 62 Communication Operation selection unit 70 Connection time metered communication operation processing unit 71 Information amount metered communication operation processing unit 90, 91, 92 Line control unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A user who indicates a program or an operator that uses the OSI communication procedure, an OSI communication application program that uses the communication procedure of the OSI upper layer, and an OSI upper layer control unit that controls the communication procedure of the OSI upper layer. The OSI communication application program is composed of a line control unit that controls the communication procedure for each network, and the OSI communication application program communicates with the OSI communication function providing unit that provides the OSI communication function to the user and for each communication partner to be connected in advance. Communication information storage file that stores the address information of the other party and the type of line used, and based on the information in the communication information storage file, investigate the communication charge system of the line used from the address of the other party Department,
Depending on the communication charge system of the line to be used, the communication operation selection section that selects connection-time-based communication operation or information-volume-based communication operation, and connection-time-based usage that executes the communication operation when the line is connection time-based A communication operation selection method comprising: a communication communication operation processing unit; and an information amount usage-based communication operation processing unit that executes a communication operation when a line is in an information amount usage-based system. 2. A communication information storage file that stores, for each communication partner, address information of the communication partner and the type of line used for communication, and from the address information of the communication partner based on the communication information storage file. Depending on the communication charge system investigation unit that investigates the communication charge system of the line and the communication result system of the line used when connecting the connection by referring to the investigation result of the communication charge system investigation unit, the connection time-based communication operation or the information amount usage-based system In order to shorten the connection connection time with respect to the usage time of the application program user when the communication operation selection means for selecting whether the communication operation is selected, and the connection time metered communication operation is selected by the communication operation selection means, A connection time metering communication operation processing unit that executes a communication operation that connects and disconnects a connection each time communication is required, and the communication operation And an information amount-based communication operation processing unit that executes a communication operation that reduces the communication data amount with respect to the usage operation of the application program user when the information amount-based communication operation is selected by the work selection means. The communication operation selection method according to claim 1, wherein: