Method and device for managing release of network port of mobile terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9420626-B2
Application number	US-201314412791-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2013
Priority date	Oct 8, 2012
Publication date	Aug 16, 2016
Grant date	Aug 16, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a method for managing release of a network port of a mobile terminal, and the method includes: during a PPPoE dialup or after completion of the PPPoE dialup, network ports of a current mobile terminal are scanned; it is determined whether scanned idle network ports are released erroneously, it is determined whether restoration of connection is desired for an erroneously released network port, and the restoration of connection is implemented according to conditions of current network connection and the PPPoE dialup when the restoration of connection is desired. The present disclosure further discloses a device for managing release of a network port of a mobile terminal. The method and device make it possible to solve a problem that a network port may be released erroneously after a PPPoE connection is established in the prior art.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for managing release of a network port of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
during a Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet, PPPoE, dialup or after completion of the PPPoE dialup, scanning network ports of a current mobile terminal;
determining whether scanned idle network ports are released erroneously, determining whether restoration of connection is desired for an erroneously released network port, and implementing the restoration of connection according to conditions of current network connection and the PPPoE dialup when the restoration of connection is desired;
wherein the step of determining whether the scanned idle network ports are released erroneously comprises:
determining first whether current network ports are never allocated or idle due to being released by an upper layer application and then determining causes of being idle; if an network port is considered as being already allocated and thus can't be used normally because the network port is correlated with an upper layer application before, regarding the network port as being released erroneously; or if an network port is idle due to being released by an upper layer application but a cause of its latest release is Not Normal, regarding the network port as being released erroneously; or
selecting one of the released network ports and determining whether the selected network port is considered as being already allocated and thus can't be used normally because the network port is correlated with an upper layer application before, if Not, setting a monitoring timer for data transmission/reception of the network port; after the monitoring timer elapses, checking whether there is data transmission/reception on the network port during a set period of time, if there is no data transmission/reception, regarding the network port as not being released erroneously; if there is data transmission/reception, regarding the network port as being released erroneously.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of scanning network ports of a current mobile terminal comprises: counting all idle network ports that are not currently occupied by an application and recording causes of releasing the network ports.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of scanning is an one-time scan, a periodic scan or a scan enabled when an idle rate of network ports is lower than a certain value.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of determining whether restoration of connection is desired comprises: determining whether restoration of connection of an network port is desired to be implemented on an upper layer application corresponding to the erroneously released network port, if it is desired, implementing the restoration of connection of the network port or re-applying a new network port for the use of the upper layer application; if it is not desired, end the process.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of implementing the restoration of connection according to conditions of current network connection and the PPPoE dialup comprises: if the current network connection is interrupted, releasing all network ports, and re-performing the PPPoE dialup when the network connection returns to normal; if the current network connection and the PPPoE dialup are normal, completing PPPoE dialup connection.

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Xue Tao
• Yan Xiangyang
• Wang Bin
• Zhao Bin
• Lu Chen

Classifications

• H04L43/0811

  by checking connectivity · CPC title

• H04W76/027

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/2859 Primary

  Point-to-point connection between the data network and the subscribers (encapsulation H04L12/4633; virtual LANs H04L12/4641; routing of packets H04L45/00) · CPC title

• H04W76/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L69/168

  specially adapted for link layer protocols, e.g. asynchronous transfer mode [ATM], synchronous optical network [SONET] or point-to-point protocol [PPP] · CPC title