Shared terminal identification system using a network packet and processing method thereof

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for authenticating, monitoring, and managing all terminals connected to a wireless / wired network to use Internet. A shared terminal management system comprises a management server, a charging server, a central server, a central authentication G / W server, and a proxy server, and assigns a terminal identification value for every terminal that uses Internet, authenticates terminals by reading and analyzing the assigned terminal identification value, monitors and manages shared terminals used as being connected to one line to classify lines into a basic line and an additional line, and charges for the additional line. The shared terminal identification system for identifying and managing terminals connected to one Internet line comprises a subscriber line authentication unit, a packet collecting unit, a first packet analyzing unit, an element packet transmission unit, a data management unit and a terminal determining unit.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a system and method for identifying, monitoring, and managing all terminals connected to a wireless / wired network to use Internet to assign a terminal identification value for every terminal that uses Internet, authenticate terminals by reading and analyzing the assigned terminal identification value, monitor and manage shared terminals used as being connected to one line.[0002]The present invention relates to a shared terminal management system comprising a management server, an accounting server, a central server, a central authentication gateway (G / W) server, and a proxy server, to classify lines into a basic line and an additional line, and charges for the additional line and a processing method thereof, by using a terminal identification technology of inserting a terminal identification value for each terminal into a registry value or a setting file of an operating system (OS) or a cookie value which are referred by a web br...

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Benefits of technology

[0024]According to an embodiment of the present invention, an availability status and sharing number of a line can be easily obtained, and an Internet service provider can uniformly provide all subscribers with right to use their own line.

[0025]Further, an unauthorized user can be tracked and a web cut-off or charging can be made by generating a database of detected IP information of users, so that, in an economic aspect, charging can be calculated and claimed with respect to an amount of traffic caused by a plurality of hosts of each subscriber, and thus the Internet service provider can cover loss cost due to an ethical use and can provide service subscribers with a right service.

Problems solved by technology

Owing to a recently rapid development and popularity of Internet technology, Internet has been easily used by anyone at present so that Internet user population has explosively increased, and Internet access methods and ways to use a network tend to have been complicated and diverse.

In a current price system in which it currently costs about 30,000 won to connect one floating public IP (Internet IP) address for Internet access, and it additionally costs more than 10,000 won for additional IP, it is uneconomical to assign a plurality of public IP addresses to a plurality of hosts, and there is a difficulty in failing to solve a depletion and shortage of limited IP addresses.

However, network traffic overload and hacking, virus, or worm having a malicious object due to an increase in thoughtless network sharing become problems, which make it difficult to grasp a line availability status and sharing rate of a service provider and cause economical loss such as new facility expansion cost due to an increase in the corresponding network traffic, investment loss, and maintenance cost, and thus a problem in that line availability right is not uniformly provided to subscribers occurs.

Accordingly, to track a user who incurs the problem of the thoughtless network sharing, although it is important to settle expense loss by obtaining an actual IP address of the user, catching and analyzing the number of clients actually available for each line, establishing a management policy such as a selective allowance or shutoff with respect to the corresponding line, and separately charging loss expenses due to the traffic overload, no practical and detailed solution or method has not yet been proposed.

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