KR100888233B1 - System for Operating Applications On Mobile Terminal Using Meta Language and Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using a meta language. The application driving system of a mobile terminal using a meta language according to the present invention uses an application in a mobile terminal using a meta language. A system for driving a plurality of applications, the application comprising a meta-language text file as a basic property of the application including application identification information for identifying the application and execution file location information for designating an execution file location of the application. An application profile storage module for storing as a profile (generated for each application); The attribute of the instance is included as an instance profile (created for each instance), which is a text file in a meta language, including the application identification information of the currently running application and the instance identification information identifying an instance created by the currently running application. An instance profile generation module for generating; An instance profile storage module configured to store the instance profile generated by the instance profile generation module; And an application driving module for driving the application by using the application profile and the instance profile.

Description

System for Operating Applications On Mobile Terminal Using Meta Language and Method Thereof}

1 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a screen on which a plurality of applications are driven in a mobile terminal.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an application driving system of a mobile terminal using a meta language according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a portion of an application profile according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a portion of an application profile according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a portion of an application profile according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an instance profile according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of driving an application of a mobile terminal using a meta language according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: mobile terminal 110, 112, 114: application

120: application profile storage module

130: instance profile creation module

140: instance profile storage module

150: application drive module

160: application profile update module

170: instance profile transfer module

The present invention relates to an application driving system and a driving method of a mobile terminal using meta language. More specifically, by using an application profile and an instance profile generated as a meta-language-type text file in driving a plurality of applications, a mobile terminal using a meta language capable of securing device compatibility and simplifying an OS for driving an application may be used. It relates to an application driving system and a driving method.

With the development of mobile terminals, a system for simultaneously driving a plurality of applications on a screen of a mobile terminal similar to a personal PC environment has been developed. An example of such an application is a widget application. A widget application refers to a small program having a small data size, and is provided as a desktop icon in an environment such as a PC to create a small space on a background screen. It refers to various applications that occupy. Widget application is a widget application to perform various functions from widget application that provides decorative effects such as clock and frame function to information type widget application such as email notification, RSS reception of specific homepage information, real time weather information, and real time traffic information. This is still being developed.

On the other hand, with the development of IT technology, the data processing capacity and storage capacity of mobile terminals such as mobile communication terminals such as CDMA or GSM and information IT devices such as PDAs or laptops that provide wireless data access functions, expansion of display capacity, and With the advancement of the mobile terminal, a service for executing various widget applications on the standby screen has been proposed. In particular, in the "smart pass" provided by the applicant "intromobile", as shown in Figure 1 as a standby screen application of the terminal, a plurality of information-type widget applications (110, 112, 114, 116) simultaneously on the screen of the mobile terminal 100 It provides the ability to drive.

For example, the news widget application 110 receives a news updated from a news providing server, such as a newspaper, news portal or broadcaster site, which is provided through a communication network such as the Internet, and provides the user with a data push method or a data pull method. More specifically, the title and summary of the news may be transmitted to the mobile terminal by a data push method, and when the user selects the news title, the details may be updated by the data pool method. The blog widget application 112 receives a content updated in its own blog from a blog service server that provides a user's blog site in a data push method or a data pull method, and provides the user with the weather widget application 114. According to the cycle, the weather information service server receives the weather information and provides it to the user.

In order to run a plurality of applications such as a widget application, an operating system (O / S) such as Windows or Linux in a PC environment is required. However, the operating system of the mobile terminal is not unified with each other and not only depends on the type of the terminal, such as mobile phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. Even if the same type of terminal is different for each terminal company and model to provide such application application services To do this, an application driving system must be developed according to the operating system of each terminal to which a service is to be provided. In addition, such application services are often not embedded at the time of terminal manufacturing. However, in order to add such functions later, an application driving system and a driving method that can be integrated into all existing terminal operating systems are urgently required.

In particular, the operating system for running a plurality of applications controls the application through a complex kernel system.In the case of an operating system of a mobile terminal, the operating system is designed around an application that is initially embedded, so that a plurality of application applications such as a widget application may be used. At the same time, matching a drive system with an existing operating system is very difficult and requires a lot of time and money to develop.

In addition, when a user uses a plurality of terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs, there is a problem in that application driving environments are not synchronized between a plurality of terminals of the same user because they use different application driving systems.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, and is generated by the application profile and the application drive for the attributes of the application that is the core information of the application driving environment in the form of text using a relational meta language such as RDF (Resource Description Framework) By providing an instance profile for the property of an instance, it is possible to provide an application driving system and a driving method of a mobile terminal using a meta language that can be integrated into most mobile terminals regardless of the type, make, and model of the mobile terminal. The purpose.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the application profile and the instance profile are not only present as data of the terminal kernel implemented with a complicated memory address, but are easily copied and transmitted in a meta-language form that can be intuitively related to interpretation. The application driving system is generated in the form of a text file, the application driving system further comprises an instance profile transmission module for transmitting the instance profile to the other terminal by using a meta language that can synchronize the driving environment between devices and It is another object to provide a driving method.

Finally, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the application profile includes not only various attribute information but also information of parent application, sibling application, predecessor application, and child application. Another object of the present invention is to provide an application driving system and a driving method of a mobile terminal using a meta language that can be modeled.

In order to achieve the above object, a system for driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using a meta language according to the present invention is a system for driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using meta language. An application profile for storing a basic property of the application including an application identification information for identifying an application and execution location information designating an execution file location of the application as an application profile (generated for each application), which is a text file in a meta-language form; Storage module; The attribute of the instance is included as an instance profile (created for each instance), which is a text file in a meta language, including the application identification information of the currently running application and the instance identification information identifying an instance created by the currently running application. An instance profile generation module for generating; An instance profile storage module configured to store the instance profile generated by the instance profile generation module; And an application driving module for driving the application by using the application profile and the instance profile.

A method of driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using a meta language according to an embodiment of the present invention, in the method of driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using meta language, includes: The mobile terminal generates basic attributes of the application including application identification information for identifying the application for the application and executable file location information for designating the location of the executable file of the application as an application profile which is a text file in a meta language. Storing the first step; A second step of driving, by the mobile terminal, the application with reference to the application profile according to the application driving command by a user; Instance profile (generated for each instance) which is an instance identification information identifying an instance created according to the driving of the application and an attribute of the instance including the application identification information of the application that generated the instance in a meta-language text file. A third step of generating and storing the same; And a fourth step of maintaining a driving state of the application by using the application profile and the instance profile.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 illustrates an application driving system of a mobile terminal 100 using a meta language according to an embodiment of the present invention. The application driving system according to the present invention includes an application profile storage module 120, an instance profile generation module 130, an instance profile storage module 140, and an application driving module 150.

The application profile storage module 120 may meta-base basic attributes of the corresponding application 110 including application identification information for identifying the application 110 and executable file location information for designating an executable file location of the application 110. A function of storing the application profile 200 (generated for each of the applications 110, 112, and 114), which is a text file in a language format.

The meta-language may be a 'computer language defining data for data' and RDF, a language for relational databases, or a mark-up language used on the web. In a typical operating system such as Windows, the application profile 200 is represented as a complex form of data in which pointers on a plurality of memory addresses are listed, so that an interface with a device using another operating system is not possible. The description of 200) in the form of a meta-language text file such as RDF provides an effect that can be used equally under different operating systems, and uses the relational database for each data constituting the application profile 200 from the text file. Since it can be easily extracted and used, it can be easily shared with other mobile terminals without requiring a complicated operating system design separately from the basic operating system of the mobile terminal.

3 to 5 show an example of creating an application profile 200 of the weather widget application 114 as a text file in RDF format according to an embodiment of the present invention. Although the application profile 200 is divided into arbitrary lengths for convenience of description, the application profile 200 of FIGS. 3 to 5 is preferably implemented as a single text file. In line 6 (201) of FIG. 3, application name information (Widget: Name) of "Weather", and in line 7 (202), application type information (widget: Type) of "Information", which means an information type application, is 8 In line 203, an application identifier (widget: ID) defined as five hexadecimal digits is defined. In line 9, line 204, a plurality of applications displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal when the application 114 is driven. (110,112) Priority information (widget: Priority) of "3" which is information on priority, and application description information (widget: Description) of "Local weather Notice" describing the application 114 is shown in 10 rows 205. Are each defined.

Referring to FIG. 4, the application profile 200 will be described in succession. In the meta-language form, if the parent application (widget: PatentWidget) accompanying the application 114 is present in the third and fourth rows 211, the parent application ( If the parent application identification information, which is the identification information of widget: PatentWidget, is defined, and the 9th to 12th lines 222 include the child application (widget: ChildWidget) accompanied by the application 114, the child application (widget: ChildWidget) A sibling application that is identification information of a sibling application (widget: SiblingWidget) when the child application identification information, which is identification information, is defined, and lines 17 and 18 have an sibling application (widget: SiblingWidget) in the application 114. In the 23 and 24 lines 242, the identification information is defined, and in the preceding application (widget: Pre If there is a cedenceWidget), the preceding application identification information, which is identification information of the preceding application (widget: PrecedenceWidget), is defined.

 By such a relational technology, the mobile terminal 100 defines a parent, a child, a sibling, and a preceding application similarly to a window of a general PC environment without a separate complicated operating system, and provides various driving effects.

Hereinafter, the application profile 200 will be described with reference to FIG. 5. In lines 3 to 5 252, instance identification information for identifying an instance (widget: Instance) generated by the application 114 is defined. Detailed description of the instance (widget: Instance) and the instance identification information will be described later.

Next, in line 8 262, driving status information (widget: Status) of the current application 114 is defined. The application driving status information (widget: Status) is a viewing state in which the application 114 has no operation or operation, a streaming state in which the application 114 receives streaming data, and the application 114 It can be implemented to designate any one of a plurality of driving states including a network state which is a state connected to a network, and an operation state which is a state where the application 114 operates data. On the other hand, the application driving status information (widget: Instance) is updated by the instance profile 300 described later.

Next, in the ninth row 263, the installation date information (widget: FirstRegisterTime) of the first application 110 is displayed, and in the tenth row 264, the driving time information (widget: LastOperationTime) of the most recent application 110 is displayed. 265, the location information (widget: Binary) on the file directory of the executable file of the application 110, and line 12, 266, the workspace location when there is a workspace on the file directory for the application 110 to process data. Information (widget: WorkSpace) is defined respectively.

The instance profile 300 generation module 130 includes the application identification information of the currently running application 110 and the instance identification information identifying the instance generated by the currently running application 110 in a meta-language. It performs the function of generating as an instance profile 300 (created for each instance) which is a text file of the form.

The instance is data describing the driving state of the current application 110 generated by the driving of the application 110. 6 shows an instance of an instance profile 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention, for example, when the clock application 116 running the current time is executed. In line 6 301, instance identification information (widget: InstanceID) of the corresponding instance consisting of 9 hexadecimal digits is shown, and in line 7 302, application identification information (widget: ProfileID) of the application 116 which generated the instance. (Information identical to widget: ID in FIG. 3), the time information (widget: FirstOperationTime) at which the instance occurred in 8 rows 303, and the plurality of applications 110, 112, 114, and 116 overlap each other on the screen in 9 rows 304. Depth information (widget: DisplayDepth) that specifies the on-screen depth of the application 116 that created the instance, and 10 lines 305 specify the on-screen coordinates of the application 116 that created the instance. In coordinate line (widget: Distance), in line 11 (306), size information (widget: Size) specifying the size on the screen of the application 116 that generated the instance is defined, respectively.

More preferably, as shown in the instance profile 300 in the same manner as the application profile 200, in line 12 307, the location information (widget: Binary) on the file directory of the executable file of the application 116 is displayed. In 308, if there is a workspace on the file directory for the application 116 to process the data, the location information (widget: WorkSpace) of the workspace may be defined. According to this embodiment, there is an effect that the task can be efficiently performed with reference only to the instance profile 300 in a task such as additional execution of the application 110 without referring to the application profile 200.

The instance profile storage module 140 performs a function of storing the instance profile 300 generated by the instance profile generation module 130 and may be implemented as a separate component from the above-described application profile storage module 120 or mutually. It may be implemented in an integrated form.

The application driving module 150 uses the meta information of the application profile 200 and the instance profile 300 to drive the applications 110, 112, 114, and 116.

On the other hand, when the instance profile 300 is generated by the driving of the application 110, as shown in Figure 5 in the application profile 200, information about the instance identification information 252 and the current driving state of the application 110 It is preferable to further include an application profile update module 160 for adding the in-drive state information 262 as a meta-language form. According to this embodiment, the mutual search between the application profile 200 and the instance profile 300 is easy, and the application driving module 150 may generate matching table information between the separate application profile 200 and the instance profile 300, and the like. Provides effects that do not need

Meanwhile, an instance profile stored in an instance profile storage module through a communication network by a user's request so that a user who uses a plurality of mobile terminals 100 can implement the current application driving state in his or her specific terminal in the same manner in other terminals. It is preferable to further include an instance profile transmission module 170 for transmitting 300.

7 illustrates a method of driving a plurality of applications 110 in a mobile terminal 100 using a meta language according to the present invention. The method of driving an application 110 according to the present invention includes, first, application identification information for identifying at least an application 110 for a plurality of applications 110, 112, 114, and 116 installed in the mobile terminal 100, and an execution file location of the application 110. A first step (S10) of generating and storing the basic attributes of the corresponding application 110 including the execution file location information for specifying the application profile 200, which is a text file in a meta-language form, is stored.

Next, the mobile terminal 100 performs a second step (S20) of driving the application 110 with reference to the application profile 200 according to a command of driving the application 110 by the user, and the application of the application 110. The instance profile 300 (instance), which is a text file in a meta-language form, includes attributes of the instance, including instance identification information for identifying an instance created by driving and application 110 identification information of the application 110 that generated the instance. Generated by the mobile terminal), and performs the third step S30 of generating and storing the mobile terminal.

Finally, a fourth step S40 of maintaining the driving state of the application 110 is performed using the application profile 200 and the instance profile 300.

In this case, the application profile 200 and the instance profile 300 is preferably stored in the form of a text file in the RDF format.

More preferably, after the third step S30, the instance identification information and the driving state information, which is information on the current driving state of the application 110, are added to the application profile 200 that generated the instance as a meta-language form. By further including a fifth step S50 of updating the application profile 200, the relationship between the application profile 200 and the instance profile 300 may be further increased.

In addition, after the fourth step (S40) to synchronize the driving environment between the plurality of terminals, it is preferable to further include a sixth step (S60) for transmitting the instance profile 300 through the communication network at the request of the user.

An application driving system and a driving method of a mobile terminal using a meta language according to the present invention, using a relational meta language such as RDF (Resource Description Framework), the application profile of the attribute of the application that is the core information of the application driving environment in the form of text And by generating an instance profile for the attribute of the instance generated by the application running, it provides an effect that can be integrated to most mobile terminals regardless of the type, manufacturer, model, etc. of the mobile terminal.

The application driving system and method for driving a mobile terminal using meta language according to an embodiment of the present invention are not merely present as data of a terminal kernel in which an application profile and an instance profile are implemented with a complex memory address, but are intuitive and related. Meta-interpretable meta-language is created as a text file that is easy to copy and transfer, and the application driving system may further include an instance profile transmission module for transmitting the instance profile to other terminals to synchronize the driving environment between devices. Provide the effect.

Finally, the application driving system and driving method of the mobile terminal using the meta language according to another embodiment of the present invention, the application profile includes at least a variety of attribute information, as well as the information of the parent application, sibling application, preceding application, child application at least The use of resources provides the effect of modeling an operating system similar to a typical PC environment in mobile terminals.

In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention are disclosed for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art will be able to make various modifications, changes, additions, etc. within the spirit and scope of the present invention, such modifications and modifications belong to the scope of the claims You will have to look.

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A system for driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using meta language, Storing a basic property of the application including application identification information for identifying the application and execution file location information designating an execution file location of the application as an application profile (generated for each application) which is a text file in a meta-language form; An application profile storage module; The attribute of the instance is included as an instance profile (created for each instance), which is a text file in a meta language, including the application identification information of the currently running application and the instance identification information identifying an instance created by the currently running application. An instance profile generation module for generating; An instance profile storage module configured to store the instance profile generated by the instance profile generation module; And Application driving system for a mobile terminal using a meta-language, characterized in that it comprises a ;; an application driving module for driving the application using the application profile and the instance profile. The method of claim 1, wherein the application profile and the instance profile, An application driving system of a mobile terminal using a meta language, characterized in that stored in the form of a text file of the RDF format. The system of claim 1, wherein the application driving system comprises: An application profile updating module configured to add, as a meta language, driving state information, which is information about the instance identification information and the current driving state of the application, to the application profile when the instance profile is generated by the driving of the application; Application driving system of a mobile terminal using a meta language, characterized in that the. The method of claim 3, wherein the driving state information, A viewing state in which the application does not have a separate operation or operation, a streaming state in which the application receives streaming data, a network state in which the application connects to a network, and the application calculates data. An application driving system of a mobile terminal using a meta language, characterized in that any one of a plurality of driving states including an operation state which is a state is specified. The system of claim 1, wherein the application driving system comprises: And an instance profile transmission module for transmitting the instance profile stored in the instance profile storage module through a communication network at the request of a user. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the application profile, Application name information that is information about a name of the application; Application type information which is information on the application type; And Driving the application of the mobile terminal using a meta-language, further comprising, as a meta-language, priority information which is information on the priority between the plurality of applications displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal when the application is driven. system. delete The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the instance profile, Coordinate information specifying coordinates on a screen of the application that generated the instance; Size information for designating a size on the screen of the application that generated the instance; Depth information designating a depth on a screen of the application that generated the instance when a plurality of the applications overlap each other on a screen; And Execution file location information designating the location of the executable file of the application that generated the instance; Meta-language application driving system of the mobile terminal further comprising a. In the method of driving a plurality of applications in a mobile terminal using a meta language, The basic property of the application includes application identification information for identifying the application and executable file location information for designating an executable file location of the application, for a plurality of the applications installed in the mobile terminal. A first step of generating and storing the respective mobile terminal in the application profile; A second step of driving, by the mobile terminal, the application with reference to the application profile according to the application driving command by a user; Instance profile (generated for each instance) which is an instance identification information identifying an instance created according to the driving of the application and an attribute of the instance including the application identification information of the application that generated the instance in a meta-language text file. A third step of generating and storing the same; And And a fourth step of maintaining the driving state of the application by using the application profile and the instance profile. The method of claim 9, wherein the application profile and the instance profile, A method for driving an application of a mobile terminal using a meta language, characterized in that stored in the form of a text file in the RDF format. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein after the third step, And a fifth step of updating the application profile by adding the instance identification information and the driving state information, which is information on the current driving state of the application, in meta-language form to the application profile that generated the instance. An application driving method of a mobile terminal using a meta language. The method of claim 9 or 10, after the fourth step, And a sixth step of transmitting the instance profile through a communication network at the request of a user. delete The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the instance profile, Coordinate information specifying coordinates on a screen of the application that generated the instance; Size information for designating a size on the screen of the application that generated the instance; Depth information designating a depth on a screen of the application that generated the instance when a plurality of the applications overlap each other on a screen; And Execution file location information designating the location of the executable file of the application that generated the instance; Meta-language form further comprising the method of driving an application of a mobile terminal using a meta-language.

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