Integrated Business Management System For Digital TV

With the development of information and digital technology, a video-on-demand function has been implemented in the traditional broadcast television programs. Now the whole Radio and TV industry is focusing on digital television (DTV) business. One of the key problems for runners is how to effectively manage information of DTV users, increase the number of DTV users and improve economic benefits. To solve the problems above, this paper proposed an integrated business management system for digital TV to provide multi-services for users in one service platform.To make sure the reliability of services and manage efficiently, this paper uses the most popular protocols, LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) and Portal technology, to implement the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) of the integrated business management system for digital TV by combining user client, portal and LDAP. The authenticated information of users is saved into the background database of the LDAP. Validated by LDAP server, the user will be provided accessible operation purview and displayed individual page by Portal Server. The paper presents the whole system structure, functions of every part of systems and VOD in detail. The billing system implemented the AAA function of the integrated business management system.Finally the billing system implements the unified user authentication, authorization and accounting management for the integrated Digital TV Services, such as Video-on-Demand (VOD), Internet access and TV, guaranteeing network security.