CN102231671A

CN102231671A - Method for upgrading upgrade object, apparatus, equipment and system thereof

Info

Publication number: CN102231671A
Application number: CN2011101466698A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴小辉
Original assignee: Shanghai Synacast Media Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Synacast Media Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2011-06-01
Filing date: 2011-06-01
Publication date: 2011-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 2031-06-01
Also published as: CN102231671B

Abstract

A method for upgrading an upgrade object, an apparatus, equipment and a system thereof are disclosed. The scheme comprises the following steps: acquiring related information of the object to be upgraded; acquiring upgrade target version information which corresponds to the related information of the object; acquiring upgrade files which are needed by the object to be upgraded from current version information to the upgrade target version information; upgrading the object according to the upgrade files. In the scheme of the invention, the version to which the object needs to be upgraded is determined according to the related information of the object so that problems of upgrade failure or upgrade incompletion and the like can be avoided, wherein the problems are caused by large difference between a highest version that the object can be upgraded to and a current version of the object. And the upgrade files that the object does not need are not acquired from network equipment so that data downloading amounts of user equipment can be reduced.

Description

Be used to treat method, device, equipment and the system that upgrading object is upgraded

Technical field

The present invention relates to networking technology area, relate in particular to a kind of method, device, equipment and system that upgrading object is upgraded that be used to treat.

Background technology

The system that moves in the subscriber equipment, application software etc. often need upgrading.But current upgrading mode commonly used is for upgrading to the various version unification highest version in the prior art, this kind method can't solve the incompatible grade that may occur in escalation process dangerous, cause the waste of user resources and server resource, increased the unnecessary time spending of user.Especially on the platform comparatively closely of software and hardware combining, tend to influence the upgrading of software, the inconvenience that causes the user to use owing to the difference of hardware platform.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of method, device, equipment and system that upgrading object is upgraded that be used to treat.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of method that upgrading object is upgraded that is used to treat in subscriber equipment, wherein, this method may further comprise the steps:

A obtains the object-related information of described object to be upgraded;

B obtains and the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly;

C obtains described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information by current version information;

D comes described object to be upgraded is upgraded according to described upgrade file.

According to another aspect of the present invention, also provide a kind of assisting user equipment that is used in the network equipment to treat the method that upgrading object is upgraded, wherein, this method may further comprise the steps:

A obtains the object-related information from object to be upgraded in this subscriber equipment of subscriber equipment;

B is by selecting in a plurality of predetermined object correlated conditions and described object-related information matched object correlated condition, with the version information of the selected object correlated condition correspondence upgrading target version information as described object to be upgraded;

C carries out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

According to an aspect of the present invention, also provide a kind of object update device that upgrading object is upgraded that is used to treat in subscriber equipment, wherein, this object update device comprises:

First information deriving means is used to obtain the object-related information of described object to be upgraded;

The first version deriving means is used to obtain and the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly;

The first file deriving means is used to obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information by current version information;

Update device is used for coming described object to be upgraded is upgraded according to described upgrade file.

According to another aspect of the present invention, also provide a kind of assisting user equipment that is used in the network equipment to treat the auxiliary update device that upgrading object is upgraded, wherein, this auxiliary update device comprises:

Second information acquisition device is used for obtaining the object-related information from this subscriber equipment object to be upgraded of subscriber equipment;

The second version deriving means, be used for selecting and described object-related information matched object correlated condition, with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence upgrading target version information as described object to be upgraded by a plurality of predetermined object correlated conditions;

Final controlling element is used for carrying out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

Compared with prior art, the present invention has the following advantages: 1) determine the version that object to be upgraded will upgrade to by the object-related information according to object to be upgraded, avoided the upgradeable highest version version current with it of object to be upgraded to differ the upgrading failure that too much causes or upgrade problem such as incomplete.And, and can avoid object to be upgraded to obtain its unwanted upgrade file from the network equipment blindly, reduce the data download of subscriber equipment.Further, the method according to this invention can also be upgraded by the part of module of selecting for the treatment of in the upgrading object, saves update time, has improved efficient; 2) the method according to this invention, by obtaining the control information of upgrading scope, the subscriber equipment that satisfies the control information of described upgrading scope is upgraded, have stronger specific aim, especially can satisfy the demand of among a small circle, some versions being tested; 3) the present invention can obtain the required upgrade file of subscriber equipment upgrading by the network equipment, has simplified the operation of subscriber equipment more; And the function of obtaining upgrade file and storage upgrade file can be able to be scattered in a plurality of network equipments, avoid causing this network equipment situation that over-burden, guaranteed reliability of the invention process owing to operations being concentrated on a network equipment.

Description of drawings

By reading the detailed description of doing with reference to the following drawings that non-limiting example is done, it is more obvious that other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become:

Fig. 1 is used to treat the system topological figure that upgrading object is upgraded for one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 2 is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded for one aspect of the invention in subscriber equipment;

Fig. 3 is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded for a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 4 is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded for another preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded for another aspect of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded for a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 7 is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded for a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 8 is the structural representation that is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object upgrades of one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 9 is the structural representation that is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object upgrades of a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Figure 10 is the structural representation that is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object upgrades of another preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 11 is the structural representation that assisting user equipment is treated the auxiliary update device that upgrading object upgrades that is used for of another aspect of the present invention;

Figure 12 is the structural representation that assisting user equipment is treated the auxiliary update device that upgrading object upgrades that is used for of a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Figure 13 is the structural representation that assisting user equipment is treated the auxiliary update device that upgrading object upgrades that is used for of a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Same or analogous Reference numeral is represented same or analogous parts in the accompanying drawing.

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the present invention is described in further detail.

What Fig. 1 had illustrated one aspect of the invention is used to treat the system topological figure that upgrading object is upgraded.Wherein, system according to the present invention comprises at least one subscriber equipment and at least one network equipment, and each subscriber equipment is connected by network with one or more network equipments.Wherein, to in subscriber equipment, be used to treat the device that upgrading object upgrades and be called the object update device, to be used for assisting user equipment and treat the device that upgrading object upgrades and be called auxiliary update device in the network equipment, the subscriber equipment that described system comprised and the network equipment comprise following arbitrary situation:

1) comprises the object update device in the subscriber equipment;

2) comprise auxiliary update device in the network equipment;

3) comprise in the subscriber equipment and comprise auxiliary update device in the object update device and the network equipment.

Wherein, described subscriber equipment includes but not limited to computer, smart mobile phone, PDA, IPTV etc.The described network equipment includes but not limited to server group that single network server, a plurality of webserver are formed or based on the cloud that is made of a large amount of computers or the webserver of cloud computing (Cloud Computing), wherein, cloud computing is a kind of of Distributed Calculation, a super virtual machine of being made up of the loosely-coupled computer collection of a group.Described network includes but not limited to the Internet, wide area network, metropolitan area network, local area network (LAN), VPN network, wireless self-organization network (Ad Hoc network) etc.

Need to prove; the described subscriber equipment and the network equipment are only for giving an example; other subscriber equipmenies existing or that may occur from now on, the network equipment or network also should be included in the protection range of the present invention, and be contained in this with way of reference as applicable to the present invention.

What Fig. 2 had illustrated one aspect of the invention is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded in subscriber equipment.The method according to this invention comprises step S11, step S12, step S13 and step S14.

In step S11, the object update device obtains the object-related information of object to be upgraded.

Wherein, described object to be upgraded includes but not limited to the object that need upgrade such as operating system, application software and all kinds of executable files etc. of installing or be stored in subscriber equipment, for example, and set top box operations system, mobile video software etc.

Wherein, the object-related information of object to be upgraded comprises and this object to be upgraded itself or relevant information such as its corresponding device, affiliated environment.Preferably, the object-related information of object to be upgraded comprises following at least one:

1) fileinfo of described object to be upgraded, described fileinfo comprise the current version information of described object to be upgraded at least, and preferably, described fileinfo also comprises the identifying information of described object to be upgraded, for example title of object to be upgraded etc.;

2) the device id information of subscriber equipment under the described object to be upgraded, described device id includes but not limited to the ID of each hardware in the subscriber equipment, for example chip id, mainboard ID, Flash internal memory ID etc.;

3) the vendor id information of subscriber equipment under the described object to be upgraded, described vendor id information can independently be set by the production firm of subscriber equipment, or distributes to described production firm by the service provider that described upgrade service is provided;

4) the running environment information of described object to be upgraded; This running environment information is used for sign or describes residing hardware of this object to be upgraded or software environment, and preferably, hardware or software environment that this running environment information identifies or describes include but not limited to: a) be configured in the different hardware platforms in the subscriber equipment; B) the current preset running mode that adopts of system of subscriber equipment etc. under the object to be upgraded.

5) area information of subscriber equipment region under the described object to be upgraded; For example, described area information comprises the network ip address of subscriber equipment.

Particularly, the object update device mode of obtaining the object-related information of described object to be upgraded includes but not limited to:

1) obtains the object-related information that prestores in the described subscriber equipment;

2) obtain the information of subscriber equipment in real time; For example, the object update device obtains interface by default information and obtains vendor id information; Again for example, the object update device is determined the network ip address of this subscriber equipment by obtaining the network interface card information of described subscriber equipment.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention those skilled in the art should understand that, any implementation of obtaining the object-related information of described object to be upgraded all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Then, in step S12, the object update device obtains and the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly.Wherein, described upgrading target version information comprises the version information that described object to be upgraded should upgrade to; Preferably, described upgrading target version information also comprises the network appliance address information of obtaining the described upgrade file corresponding with version information.

For example, user device IP address is IP1 under the object to be upgraded that described object update device obtains in step S11, and described object update device obtains a plurality of upgrading target version information that this locality prestores, and the IP address of the scalable object of each upgrading target version information difference correspondence; Then, the object update device compares the IP address of IP1 and described each scalable object, obtain the address of corresponding IP be the scalable object Obj1 of IP1, then the object update device with the pairing upgrading target version of described scalable object Obj1 information as with described object to be upgraded under the user device IP address IP1 target version information of upgrading accordingly.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention those skilled in the art should understand that, any obtaining and upgrade the accordingly implementation of target version information of described object-related information all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Then, in step S13, the object update device obtains described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information by current version information.

Particularly, described object update device obtains described object to be upgraded is included but not limited to by the mode that current version information upgrades to the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information:

1) directly obtain with step S12 in the corresponding upgrade file of upgrading target version information that obtains.

For example, according to the upgrading target version information version3.5 that in step S 12, obtains, from the network equipment, download the upgrade file compressed package corresponding with version3.5.

2) obtain the upgrade file tabulation corresponding, and, obtain corresponding upgrade file according to described upgrade file tabulation with the upgrading target version information that obtains among the step S12.

For example, according to the upgrading target version information version3.5 that in step S12, obtains, from the network equipment, obtain the upgrade file tabulation corresponding with version3.5; Then, the object update device is by the upgrade file of downloading in this network equipment or other network equipments in the described upgrade file tabulation.

Again for example, according to the upgrading target version information version3.5 that in step S12, obtains, obtain the upgrade file tabulation corresponding that this locality prestores, and search to obtain each upgrade file in this upgrade file tabulation that prestores in this locality according to this upgrade file tabulation with described version3.5.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any obtaining upgrades to the implementation of the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information with described object to be upgraded by current version information, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Then, in step S14, the object update device is treated upgrading object according to upgrade file and is upgraded.

As one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, comprise a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, described step 13 further comprises step 131 (figure does not show).

In step S131, the object update device is according to the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of upgrading target version information cause, to come selected scalable module is upgraded according to the upgrade file based on described upgrading target version information acquisition.

For example, object to be upgraded comprises 5 scalable module Mod1 to Mod5, and the object update device obtains upgrading target version information version4.1 in step S12, and obtains the upgrade file tabulation of this upgrading target version information version4.1 correspondence; Then, the object update device is searched and acquisition and Mod1, Mod3 and these 3 upgrade files that scalable module is corresponding of Mod4 in described upgrade file tabulation, then the object update device is downloaded and described 3 upgrade files that scalable module is corresponding according to described upgrade file tabulation, upgrades with described 3 scalable modules for the treatment of in the upgrading object.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any according to the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, with the implementation of coming according to upgrade file selected scalable module is upgraded based on described upgrading target version information acquisition, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

As one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, the object update device is after step S12, go back execution in step S16 (figure does not show), step S17 (figure does not show) and step S18 (figure does not show) before the step S13, and abovementioned steps 13 further comprises step 132 (figure does not show).

Step S11 and step S12 illustrated in the aforementioned embodiment, and be contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

In step S16, when can obtain described upgrading target version information in step S12 the time, the object update device provides upgrading selection information to the user.For example, to the user shows " upgrading? " information.

Need to prove that when the object update device can not obtain described upgrading target version information in step S12, the object update device can for example, directly withdraw from escalation process according to the default setting executable operations; The information etc. of again for example, showing " need not upgrading " to the user.Those skilled in the art should determine described mode according to the default setting executable operations according to actual conditions and demand, repeat no more.

Then, in step S17, the object update device obtains the user selects feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information.

For example, according to user's input information and/or selection operation information, obtain user's feedback information.

Then, in step S18, the object update device judges whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing.For example, when the user's input information that obtains in step S17 when the object update device was "No", the object update device was judged and is not carried out upgrading processing; The selection operation information that obtains the user when the object update device in step S17 is when selecting this option of "Yes", and upgrading processing is carried out in the judgement of object update device.

Then, in step S132, when judging that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing, the object update device obtains upgrade file, upgrades to treat upgrading object.

Wherein, the object update device obtains the mode of upgrade file, obtain object to be upgraded identical with object update device among the step S13 of previous embodiment by the mode that current version information upgrades to the required upgrade file of upgrading target version information, and comprise by reference therewith, repeat no more.

Then, step S14 illustrated in the aforementioned embodiment, and is contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

The method according to this invention, determine the version that object to be upgraded will upgrade to by object-related information, thereby avoided the upgradeable highest version version current of object to be upgraded to differ the upgrading failure that too much causes or upgrade problem such as incomplete with it according to object to be upgraded.And, and can avoid object to be upgraded to obtain its unwanted upgrade file from the network equipment blindly, reduce the data download of subscriber equipment.Further, the method according to this invention can also be upgraded by the part of module of selecting for the treatment of in the upgrading object, saves update time, has improved efficient.

What Fig. 3 had illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded.The method according to this invention comprises step S11, step S15, step S121, step S13 and step S14.

Step S11 illustrated in embodiment illustrated in fig. 2 aforementioned, and is contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

In step S15, the object update device obtains the control information of upgrading scope.Wherein, this upgrading scope control information comprises at least one version information and upgrades to the required object correlated condition of each version information in described at least one version information.Wherein, described object correlated condition comprises the object-related information scope of the object that need upgrade to the version information corresponding with it.

Preferably, described object correlated condition comprises following at least one:

1) fileinfo of applicable object, wherein, described applicable object is the object that need upgrade to the version information of this object correlated condition correspondence; Described fileinfo comprises the version information that described applicable object is current at least, and preferably, described fileinfo also comprises the identifying information of described applicable object, for example title of applicable object etc.

2) the device id information of subscriber equipment under the described applicable object; Described device id includes but not limited to the ID of each hardware in the subscriber equipment, for example chip id, mainboard ID, Flash internal memory ID etc.

3) the vendor id information of subscriber equipment under the described applicable object; Described vendor id information can independently be set by the production firm of subscriber equipment, or distributes to described production firm by the service provider that described upgrade service is provided.

4) the running environment information of described applicable object; This running environment information is used for sign or describes residing hardware of this applicable object or software environment, and preferably, hardware or software environment that this running environment information identifies or describes include but not limited to: a) be configured in the different hardware platforms in the subscriber equipment; B) the current preset running mode that adopts of system of subscriber equipment etc. under the applicable object.

5) the regional extent information of subscriber equipment region under the described applicable object; For example, described regional extent information comprises the network segment of the affiliated subscriber equipment region of applicable object.

Particularly, the described object update device mode of obtaining the control information of upgrading scope includes but not limited to: 1) the object update device obtains the control information of upgrading scope from the network equipment; 2) the object update device obtains and is pre-stored in local upgrading scope control information.

Need to prove that described step S11 and step S15 there is no sequencing.The object update device can first execution in step S11 execution in step S15 again, also can first execution in step S15 execution in step S11, perhaps executed in parallel step S11 and step S15 again.

In step S121, select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in the object correlated condition that the object update device is comprised by the control information of described upgrading scope, with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence as described upgrading target version information.

For example, the object-related information that the object update device obtains in step S11 comprises that the current version information of object to be upgraded is version4.7, and the IP address of described object to be upgraded is 10.100.125.36; And the upgrading scope control information that the object update device obtains in step S15 is as shown in table 1 below:

Table 1

Then the object update device judges that the object correlated condition that mates with the object-related information of object to be upgraded is " current version a scope: version3.0 to version4.9; Network segment 10.100.125.0 under the IP address ", and with the version information version5.0 of this object correlated condition correspondence as upgrading target version information.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in any object correlated condition that comprises by the control information of described upgrading scope, with with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence implementation as described upgrading target version information, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Step S13 and step S14 illustrated in embodiment illustrated in fig. 2 aforementioned, and be contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

As one of preferred version of present embodiment, wherein, step S15 further comprises step S151 (figure does not show).

In step S151, the object update device obtains the control information of described upgrading scope according to the area information of described subscriber equipment affiliated area.

Particularly, described object update device is according to the area information of described subscriber equipment affiliated area, and the mode of obtaining the control information of described upgrading scope includes but not limited to:

1) the object update device is inquired about in one that prestores or the control information of multinomial upgrading scope according to described area information, to obtain the upgrading scope control information corresponding with described area information.

2) the object update device is determined the network equipment corresponding with described area information, obtains the control information of corresponding upgrading scope from the described network equipment.

For example, the area information that the object update device obtains is IP2, and then the object update device is according to the list of server addresses that prestores, and sends upgrade request to the server that is positioned at the same network segment with IP2, to obtain the upgrading scope control information on this server.

3) the object update device is sent to the network equipment with described area information, to obtain the upgrading scope control information corresponding with area information.

For example, the object update device is sent to the network equipment with the area information IP2 that obtains.The network equipment is carried out respective handling according to described area information IP2, obtaining the upgrading scope control information corresponding with IP2, and should the control information of upgrading scope feed back to the object update device by this network equipment or other network equipments.Then, the object update device receives the upgrading scope control information from this network equipment or other network equipments.

Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine area information is carried out the mode of respective handling according to actual conditions and demand, for example, in the multinomial upgrading scope control information of the network equipment self storage, inquire about with the acquisition upgrading scope control information corresponding, and the control information of described upgrading scope is fed back to the mode of object update device with described range information; Again for example, described range information is forwarded to other network equipments to obtain the upgrading scope control information corresponding with described range information, and the control information of described upgrading scope is fed back to mode of object update device etc. by these other network equipments, do not repeat them here.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any area information according to described subscriber equipment affiliated area, obtain the implementation of described upgrading scope control information, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

The method according to this invention, by obtaining the control information of upgrading scope, the subscriber equipment that satisfies the control information of described upgrading scope is upgraded, has stronger specific aim, especially can satisfy the demand of among a small circle, some versions being tested, and by the version information that the control information of described upgrading scope comes clear and definite each current version to upgrade to, the unstable equivalent risk of having avoided the user blindly to upgrade may bringing of system.

What Fig. 4 had illustrated another preferred embodiment of the present invention is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded in subscriber equipment.Scheme according to present embodiment comprises the subscriber equipment and the network equipment, and wherein, described scheme comprises step S11, step S12, step S13 and step S14, and wherein, described step S12 further comprises step S122 and step S123.

Step S11 illustrated in embodiment illustrated in fig. 2, and is contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

Then, in step S122, the object update device is sent to the network equipment with described object-related information.

Then, the network equipment receives described object-related information, and closes the upgrading scope control information of knot self storage, determines and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in the object correlated condition that is comprised by the control information of described upgrading scope; Then, the network equipment is the version information of the determined object correlated condition correspondence upgrading target version information as described object-related information, and with described upgrading target version feedback information to the object update device.

Then, in step S123, the object update device obtain network equipment feedback with the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly.

Need to prove that the network equipment described in the step S122 can be the different network equipments with the network equipment described in the step S123.For example, the object update device sends object-related information to network equipment Ser1 in step S122, and network equipment Ser2 is according to the area information of object update device, described object-related information is forwarded to and the nearer network equipment Ser2 in object update device belonging network zone, and feeds back described upgrading target version information to described object update device by network equipment Ser2.Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine to be determined and the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly by the network equipment according to actual conditions and demand, and, do not repeat them here the mode of described upgrading target version feedback information to the object update device.

Then, step S13 and step S14 illustrated in embodiment illustrated in fig. 2, and be contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

The method according to this invention, finish the object correlated condition that obtains with the object-related information coupling by the network equipment, obtain the process of the upgrading target version information of described object-related information correspondence, reduced the operation of subscriber equipment, saved the space of subscriber equipment.

Fig. 5 has illustrated that another aspect of the present invention is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded.Wherein, the method according to this invention comprises step S21, step S22 and step S23.

In step S21, auxiliary update device obtains the object-related information from object to be upgraded in this subscriber equipment of subscriber equipment.

Wherein, the object-related information of object to be upgraded comprises and this object to be upgraded itself or relevant information such as its corresponding device, affiliated environment.Preferably, the object-related information of object to be upgraded comprises following at least one: the 1) fileinfo of described object to be upgraded; 2) the device id information of subscriber equipment under the described object to be upgraded; 3) the vendor id information of subscriber equipment under the described object to be upgraded; 4) the running environment information of described object to be upgraded; 5) area information of subscriber equipment region under the described object to be upgraded.

Wherein, object to be upgraded above-mentioned 1) to 5) every information described in detail in step S11 embodiment illustrated in fig. 2, and is contained in this with way of reference, do not repeat them here.

Then, in step S22, auxiliary update device is by selecting and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in a plurality of predetermined object correlated conditions, with the version information of the selected object correlated condition correspondence upgrading target version information as described object to be upgraded.

Wherein, described upgrading target version information comprises the version information that described object to be upgraded should upgrade to; Preferably, described upgrading target version information also comprises the network appliance address information of obtaining the described upgrade file corresponding with version information.

Wherein, described object correlated condition comprises the object-related information scope of the object that need upgrade to the version information corresponding with it.Preferably, described object correlated condition comprises following at least one: the 1) fileinfo of applicable object, and wherein, described applicable object is the object that need upgrade to the version information of this object correlated condition correspondence; 2) the device id information of subscriber equipment under the described applicable object; 3) the vendor id information of subscriber equipment under the described applicable object; 4) the running environment information of described applicable object; 5) the regional extent information of subscriber equipment region under the described applicable object.

Wherein, the object correlated condition above-mentioned 1) to 5) every information described in detail in step S15 embodiment illustrated in fig. 3, and is contained in this with way of reference, do not repeat them here.

Wherein, described auxiliary update device is by selecting and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in a plurality of predetermined object correlated conditions, to select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in the object correlated condition that the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence is comprised by the control information of described upgrading scope as object update device among the mode of the upgrading target version information of described object to be upgraded and the step S121 embodiment illustrated in fig. 3, so that the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence is similar as the mode of described upgrading target version information, do not repeat them here.

Then, in step S23, auxiliary update device is carried out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

Particularly, described auxiliary update device is carried out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, includes but not limited to so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the mode of the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information:

1) auxiliary update device sends to described subscriber equipment with described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information;

For example, the auxiliary update device upgrading target version information version5.5 that will be obtained in step S22 is sent to subscriber equipment.Subscriber equipment receives described upgrading target version information version5.5, and inquires about to obtain the upgrade file corresponding with version5.5 in the multinomial upgrade file that prestores.

Again for example, the upgrading target version information that auxiliary update device is obtained in step S22 comprises the download address HTTP1 of version information version5.5 and institute's respective upgrades file thereof, and auxiliary update device is sent to subscriber equipment with described upgrading target version information.After then subscriber equipment receives described upgrading target version information, obtain the upgrade file corresponding with version information version5.5 from described download address HTTP1.

2) auxiliary update device obtains upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information, and described upgrade file is sent to described subscriber equipment.This implementation will be described in detail in subsequent figure 6.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, anyly carry out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the implementation of the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

The method according to this invention, can determine the version that object to be upgraded will upgrade to according to the object-related information of object to be upgraded, thereby avoid the upgradeable highest version version current of object to be upgraded to differ the upgrading failure that too much causes or upgrade problem such as incomplete with it.And the main process of this method realizes at the network equipment, has alleviated the burden of subscriber equipment.

What Fig. 6 had illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded.Wherein, according to the scheme of present embodiment, comprise step S21, step S22 and step S23, wherein, described step S23 further comprises step S231 and step S232.

Step S21 and step S22 are described in detail in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, and are contained in this by reference, repeat no more.

Then, in step S231, auxiliary update device obtains described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information.

Particularly, the described auxiliary update device mode of obtaining described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information includes but not limited to:

1) auxiliary update device obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described upgrading target version information in one or more upgrade files of self storing.

2) auxiliary update device obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described upgrading target version information from storage other network equipments corresponding to the upgrade file of each version information.Preferably, the upgrade file corresponding to different editions information is stored in the different network equipments; More preferably, the different upgrade files corresponding to same version information are stored in the different network equipments.

For example, auxiliary update device is version5.5 according to the upgrading target version information that obtains among the step S22, the upgrade file corresponding with version5.5 inquired about and obtained to then auxiliary update device from the network equipment Ser3 of the pairing upgrade file of predetermined each version information of storage.

Again for example, for the upgrading target version information version5.5 that auxiliary update device obtains in step S22, auxiliary update device obtains the local upgrade file tabulation List5.5 corresponding with described upgrading target version information that prestores earlier; Then, auxiliary update device obtains each required upgrade file according to the download address that upgrades to each required upgrade file of version5.5 that comprises among the List5.5 from described download address.

Need to prove, above-mentioned for example only for technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention those skilled in the art should understand that, anyly obtain the implementation of described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Then, in step S232, auxiliary update device sends to described subscriber equipment with described upgrade file.

Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine described upgrade file is sent to the mode of described subscriber equipment according to actual conditions and demand, repeat no more.

As one of preferred version of present embodiment, comprise a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, described step S231 further comprises step S2311 (figure does not show), described step S232 further comprises step S2321 (figure does not show).

In step S2311, auxiliary update device is according to selecting the scalable module of needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, and obtains the selected scalable module required upgrade file of upgrading.

Wherein, auxiliary update device is similar according to the mode of the scalable module of selecting needs to upgrade in the described a plurality of scalable modules of upgrading target version information cause according to object update device among the mode of the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause and the aforementioned step S131 embodiment illustrated in fig. 2, its distinctive points only is that this step by the auxiliary update device execution that is contained in the network equipment, does not repeat them here.Only described auxiliary update device is obtained at this upgrade mode of required upgrade file of selected scalable module is described.

Particularly, auxiliary update device obtains the upgrade mode of required upgrade file of selected scalable module is included but not limited to:

1) auxiliary update device obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described scalable module in one or more upgrade files of self belonging network device storage.

2) auxiliary update device obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described upgrading target version information from storage other network equipments corresponding to the upgrade file of each scalable module.Preferably, the upgrade file corresponding to the scalable module of difference is stored in the different network equipments; More preferably, the different upgrade files corresponding to same scalable module are stored in the different network equipments.

Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine that described auxiliary update device obtains the mode of the upgrade file corresponding with described upgrading target version information from storage other network equipments corresponding to the upgrade file of each scalable module, do not repeat them here according to actual conditions and demand.

Then, in step S2321, auxiliary update device sends to described subscriber equipment with the identification information and the described upgrade file of selected scalable module.Wherein, the identification information of described scalable module includes but not limited to that the title of scalable module, scalable module are with respect to the unified numbering of band upgrading object etc.; Preferably, the identification information of described scalable module also can comprise the positional information of described scalable module in subscriber equipment, and for example, it is medium that described scalable module is positioned at the file File1 of subscriber equipment.

Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine that described auxiliary update device with the mode that the identification information and the described upgrade file of selected scalable module sends to described subscriber equipment, does not repeat them here according to actual conditions and demand.

The method according to this invention is obtained the required upgrade file of subscriber equipment upgrading by the network equipment, has simplified the operation of subscriber equipment more; And the function of obtaining upgrade file and storage upgrade file can be able to be scattered in a plurality of network equipments, avoid causing this network equipment situation that over-burden, guaranteed reliability of the invention process owing to operations being concentrated on a network equipment.

What Fig. 7 had illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention is used to treat the method flow diagram that upgrading object is upgraded.According to the scheme of present embodiment, comprise step S21, step S22, step S24, step S25, step S26 and step S23, wherein, described step S23 further comprises step S234.

Then, in step S24, when auxiliary update device can obtain described upgrading target version information in step S22, auxiliary update device sent upgrading selection information to described subscriber equipment.For example, to subscriber equipment send be used for subscriber equipment to the user shows " upgrading to target version? ", select the information whether upgrade for the user.

Need to prove that when auxiliary update device can not obtain described upgrading target version information in step S22, auxiliary update device can for example, directly withdraw from escalation process according to the default setting executable operations; Again for example, to the prompting of user feedback " need not upgrading " etc.Those skilled in the art should determine described mode according to the default setting executable operations according to actual conditions and demand, do not repeat them here.

Then, subscriber equipment receives from the upgrading of described auxiliary update device and selects information, and it is represented to the user, selects performed input operation and/or the selection operation of information to obtain the user according to described upgrading.

In step S25, auxiliary update device obtains described subscriber equipment is selected feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information.

For example, auxiliary update device obtains from the user's input information of subscriber equipment and/or selection operation information, as user's feedback information.

Then, in step S26, auxiliary update device judges whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out described corresponding operating.

For example, when the user's input information from subscriber equipment of assisting update device to obtain in step S25 was "No", corresponding operating was not carried out in auxiliary update device judgement; The selection operation information that obtains the user when auxiliary update device in step S25 is when selecting this option of "Yes", and corresponding operating is carried out in auxiliary update device judgement.

Then, in step S234, when judging that according to described feedback information needs are carried out described corresponding operating, auxiliary update device is carried out described corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

Wherein, described auxiliary update device is carried out described corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the mode of the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information, in the described step S23 of Fig. 5 embodiment, the described step S231 of Fig. 6 embodiment and step S232, described in detail, and be contained in this by reference, repeat no more.

The method according to this invention can determine whether upgrading according to user's autonomous selection, thereby makes auxiliary update device need not at every turn all complete updating operation, has alleviated the operation burden of auxiliary update device, and has met user's user demand more.

Fig. 8 has illustrated the structural representation that is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object upgrades of one aspect of the invention.The method according to this invention comprises first information deriving means 11, first version deriving means 12, the first file deriving means 13 and update device 14.

First information deriving means 11 obtains the object-related information of object to be upgraded.

Wherein, described object to be upgraded includes but not limited to such as installing or be stored in the object that operating system, application software and all kinds of executable files etc. of subscriber equipmenies need be upgraded under the first information deriving means 11, for example, set top box operations system, mobile video software etc.

Particularly, first information deriving means 11 mode of obtaining the object-related information of described object to be upgraded includes but not limited to:

1) first information deriving means 11 obtains the object-related information that prestores in the described subscriber equipment;

2) first information deriving means 11 obtains the information of subscriber equipment in real time; For example, first information deriving means 11 obtains interface by default information and obtains vendor id information; Again for example, first information deriving means 11 is determined the network ip address of this subscriber equipment by obtaining the network interface card information of described subscriber equipment.

Then, first version deriving means 12 obtains and the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly.Wherein, described upgrading target version information comprises the version information that described object to be upgraded should upgrade to; Preferably, described upgrading target version information also comprises the network appliance address information of obtaining the described upgrade file corresponding with version information.

For example, user device IP address is IP1 under the object to be upgraded that first information deriving means 11 obtains, and first version deriving means 12 obtains a plurality of upgrading target version information that this locality prestores, and the IP address of the scalable object of each upgrading target version information difference correspondence; Then, first version deriving means 12 compares the IP address of IP1 and described each scalable object, obtain the address of corresponding IP be the scalable object Obj1 of IP1, then first version deriving means 12 with the pairing upgrading target version of described scalable object Obj1 information as with described object to be upgraded under the user device IP address IP1 target version information of upgrading accordingly.

Then, the first file deriving means 13 obtains described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information by current version information.

Particularly, the described first file deriving means 13 obtains described object to be upgraded is included but not limited to by the mode that current version information upgrades to the required upgrade file of described upgrading target version information:

1) the first file deriving means 13 directly obtains the corresponding upgrade file of upgrading target version information that obtains with first version deriving means 12.

For example, the upgrading target version information version3.5 that the first file deriving means 13 obtains according to first version deriving means 12 downloads the upgrade file compressed package corresponding with version3.5 from the network equipment.

2) the first file deriving means 13 obtains the corresponding upgrade file tabulation of upgrading target version information that obtains with first version deriving means 12, and according to described upgrade file tabulation, obtains corresponding upgrade file.

For example, the upgrading target version information version3.5 that the first file deriving means 13 obtains according to first version deriving means 12 obtains the upgrade file tabulation corresponding with version3.5 from the network equipment; Then, the first file deriving means 13 is by the upgrade file of downloading in this network equipment or other network equipments in the described upgrade file tabulation.

Again for example, the upgrading target version information version3.5 that the first file deriving means 13 obtains according to first version deriving means 12, obtain the upgrade file tabulation corresponding that this locality prestores, and search to obtain each upgrade file in this upgrade file tabulation that prestores in this locality according to this upgrade file tabulation with described version3.5.

Then, update device 14 is treated upgrading object according to upgrade file and is upgraded.

As one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, comprise a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, the described first file deriving means 13 further comprises the first subfile deriving means (figure does not show).

The first subfile deriving means is according to the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of upgrading target version information cause, to come selected scalable module is upgraded according to the upgrade file based on described upgrading target version information acquisition.

For example, object to be upgraded comprises 5 scalable module Mod1 to Mod5, first version deriving means 12 obtains upgrading target version information version4.1, and the first subfile deriving means obtains the upgrade file tabulation of this upgrading target version information version4.1 correspondence; Then, the first subfile deriving means is searched and acquisition and Mod1, Mod3 and these 3 upgrade files that scalable module is corresponding of Mod4 in described upgrade file tabulation, then the first subfile deriving means is downloaded and described 3 upgrade files that scalable module is corresponding according to described upgrade file tabulation, upgrades with described 3 scalable modules for the treatment of in the upgrading object.

As one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, also comprise generator (figure do not show), the first feedback deriving means (figure does not show), first judgment means (figure does not show) in the object update device and be contained in the second subfile deriving means (figure does not show) in the first file deriving means 13.

When first version deriving means 12 can obtain described upgrading target version information, generator provided upgrading selection information to the user.For example, to the user shows " upgrading? " information.

Need to prove that when first version deriving means 12 can not obtain described upgrading target version information, the object update device can for example, directly withdraw from escalation process according to the default setting executable operations; The information etc. of again for example, showing " need not upgrading " to the user.Those skilled in the art should determine described mode according to the default setting executable operations according to actual conditions and demand, repeat no more.

Then, the first feedback deriving means obtains the user selects feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information.

For example, the first feedback deriving means obtains user's feedback information according to user's input information and/or selection operation information.

Then, first judgment means judges whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing.For example, when the user's input information of the first feedback deriving means acquisition was "No", upgrading processing was not carried out in the judgement of first judgment means; The selection operation information that obtains the user when the first feedback deriving means is when selecting this option of "Yes", and upgrading processing is carried out in the judgement of first judgment means.

Then, when judging that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing, the second subfile deriving means obtains upgrade file, upgrades to treat upgrading object.

Wherein, the second subfile deriving means obtains the mode of upgrade file, obtain object to be upgraded identical with the first file deriving means 13 of previous embodiment by the mode that current version information upgrades to the required upgrade file of upgrading target version information, and comprise by reference therewith, repeat no more.

Fig. 9 has illustrated the structural representation that is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object upgrades of a preferred embodiment of the invention.Object update device according to the present invention comprises first information deriving means 11, control information deriving means 15, is contained in the first child release deriving means 121, the first file deriving means 13 and update device 14 in the first version deriving means 12.

First information deriving means 11 illustrated in embodiment illustrated in fig. 8 aforementioned, and is contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

Control information deriving means 15 obtains the control information of upgrading scope.Wherein, this upgrading scope control information comprises at least one version information and upgrades to the required object correlated condition of each version information in described at least one version information.Wherein, described object correlated condition comprises the object-related information scope of the object that need upgrade to the version information corresponding with it.

Particularly, described control information deriving means 15 mode of obtaining the control information of upgrading scope includes but not limited to: 1) control information deriving means 15 obtains the control information of upgrading scope from the network equipment; 2) control information deriving means 15 obtains and is pre-stored in local upgrading scope control information.

Select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in the object correlated condition that the first child release deriving means 121 is comprised by the control information of described upgrading scope, with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence as described upgrading target version information.

For example, the object-related information that first information deriving means 11 obtains comprises that the current version information of object to be upgraded is version4.7, and the IP address of described object to be upgraded is 10.100.125.36; And the upgrading scope control information that control information deriving means 15 obtains is as shown in table 2 below:

Table 2

Then the first child release deriving means 121 judges that the object correlated condition that mates with the object-related information of object to be upgraded is " current version a scope: version3.0 to version4.9; Network segment 10.100.125.0 under the IP address ", and with the version information version5.0 of this object correlated condition correspondence as upgrading target version information.

The first file deriving means 13 and update device 14 illustrated in embodiment illustrated in fig. 8 aforementioned, and be contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

As one of preferred version of present embodiment, wherein, control information deriving means 15 further comprises sub-control information deriving means (figure does not show).

Sub-control information deriving means obtains the control information of described upgrading scope according to the area information of described subscriber equipment affiliated area.

Particularly, described sub-control information deriving means is according to the area information of described subscriber equipment affiliated area, and the mode of obtaining the control information of described upgrading scope includes but not limited to:

1) sub-control information deriving means is inquired about in one that prestores or the control information of multinomial upgrading scope according to described area information, to obtain the upgrading scope control information corresponding with described area information.

2) sub-control information deriving means is determined the network equipment corresponding with described area information, obtains the control information of corresponding upgrading scope from the described network equipment.

For example, the area information that sub-control information deriving means obtains is IP2, then sub-control information deriving means is according to the list of server addresses that prestores, and sends upgrade request to the server that is positioned at the same network segment with IP2, to obtain the upgrading scope control information on this server.

3) sub-control information deriving means is sent to the network equipment with described area information, to obtain the upgrading scope control information corresponding with area information.

For example, sub-control information deriving means is sent to the network equipment with the area information IP2 that obtains.The network equipment is carried out respective handling according to described area information IP2, obtaining the upgrading scope control information corresponding with IP2, and should the control information of upgrading scope feed back to the object update device by this network equipment or other network equipments.Then, sub-control information deriving means receives the upgrading scope control information from this network equipment or other network equipments.

Figure 10 has illustrated the structural representation that is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object upgrades of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.Scheme according to present embodiment comprises the subscriber equipment and the network equipment, wherein, the object update device in the subscriber equipment comprise first information deriving means 11, be contained in first version deriving means 12 first information dispensing device 122, be contained in the second child release deriving means 123, the first file deriving means 13 and the update device 14 of first version deriving means 12.

First information deriving means 11 illustrated in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and is contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

Then, first information dispensing device 122 is sent to the network equipment with described object-related information.

Then, the second child release deriving means 123 obtain network equipment feedback with the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly.

Need to prove that the network equipment described in the first information dispensing device 122 can be the different network equipments with the network equipment described in the second child release deriving means 123.For example, first information dispensing device 122 sends object-related information to network equipment Ser1, and network equipment Ser2 is according to the area information of object update device, described object-related information is forwarded to and the nearer network equipment Ser2 in object update device belonging network zone, and feeds back described upgrading target version information to described object update device by network equipment Ser2; Obtain upgrading target version information by the second child release deriving means 123 again from network equipment Ser2.Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine to be determined and the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly by the network equipment according to actual conditions and demand, and, do not repeat them here the mode of described upgrading target version feedback information to the object update device.

Then, the first file deriving means 13 and update device 14 illustrated in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and be contained in this with way of reference, repeats no more.

Figure 11 has illustrated the structural representation that assisting user equipment is treated the auxiliary update device that upgrading object upgrades that is used for of another aspect of the present invention.Wherein, auxiliary update device according to the present invention comprises second information acquisition device 21, the second version deriving means 22 and final controlling element 23.

Second information acquisition device 21 obtains the object-related information from object to be upgraded in this subscriber equipment of subscriber equipment.

Wherein, object to be upgraded above-mentioned 1) to 5) every information described in detail in first information deriving means 11 embodiment illustrated in fig. 8, and is contained in this with way of reference, do not repeat them here.

Then, the second version deriving means 22 is by selecting in a plurality of predetermined object correlated conditions and described object-related information matched object correlated condition, with the version information of the selected object correlated condition correspondence upgrading target version information as described object to be upgraded.

Wherein, the object correlated condition above-mentioned 1) to 5) every information described in detail in control range deriving means 15 embodiment illustrated in fig. 9, and is contained in this with way of reference, do not repeat them here.

Wherein, the described second version deriving means 22 is by selecting and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in a plurality of predetermined object correlated conditions, with with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence as the mode of the upgrading target version information of described object to be upgraded and embodiment illustrated in fig. 9 in select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in the object correlated condition that comprises by the control information of described upgrading scope of the first child release deriving means 121, so that the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence is similar as the mode of described upgrading target version information, do not repeat them here.

Then, final controlling element 23 is carried out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

Particularly, described final controlling element 23 is carried out corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, includes but not limited to so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the mode of the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information:

1) final controlling element 23 sends to described subscriber equipment with described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information;

For example, final controlling element 23 will be sent to subscriber equipment at the upgrading target version information version5.5 that the second version deriving means 22 is obtained.Subscriber equipment receives described upgrading target version information version5.5, and inquires about to obtain the upgrade file corresponding with version5.5 in the multinomial upgrade file that prestores.

Again for example, the upgrading target version information that the second version deriving means 22 is obtained comprises the download address HTTP1 of version information version5.5 and institute's respective upgrades file thereof, and final controlling element 23 is sent to subscriber equipment with described upgrading target version information.After then subscriber equipment receives described upgrading target version information, obtain the upgrade file corresponding with version information version5.5 from described download address HTTP1.

2) final controlling element 23 obtains upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information, and described upgrade file is sent to described subscriber equipment.This implementation will be described in detail in follow-up Figure 12.

Figure 12 has illustrated the structural representation that assisting user equipment is treated the auxiliary update device that upgrading object upgrades that is used for of a preferred embodiment of the invention.Wherein, according to the auxiliary update device of present embodiment, comprise second information acquisition device 21, the second version deriving means 22, be contained in the second file deriving means 231 in the final controlling element 23, be contained in the file dispensing device 232 in the final controlling element 23.

Second information acquisition device 21 and the second version deriving means 22 are described in detail in the embodiment shown in fig. 11, and are contained in this by reference, repeat no more.

Then, the second file deriving means 231 obtains described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information.

Particularly, the described second file deriving means 231 mode of obtaining described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information includes but not limited to:

1) the second file deriving means 231 obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described upgrading target version information in one or more upgrade files of self storing.

2) the second file deriving means 231 obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described upgrading target version information from storage other network equipments corresponding to the upgrade file of each version information.Preferably, the upgrade file corresponding to different editions information is stored in the different network equipments; More preferably, the different upgrade files corresponding to same version information are stored in the different network equipments.

For example, the upgrading target version information that the second version deriving means 22 obtains is version5.5, then the upgrade file corresponding with version5.5 inquired about and obtained to the second file deriving means 231 from the network equipment Ser3 of the pairing upgrade file of predetermined each version information of storage.

Again for example, for the upgrading target version information version5.5 that the second version deriving means 22 obtains, the second file deriving means 231 obtains the local upgrade file tabulation List5.5 corresponding with described upgrading target version information that prestores earlier; Then, the second file deriving means 231 obtains each required upgrade file according to the download address that upgrades to each required upgrade file of version5.5 that comprises among the List5.5 from described download address.

Then, file dispensing device 232 sends to described subscriber equipment with described upgrade file.

As one of preferred version of present embodiment, comprise a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, the described second file deriving means 231 further comprises the 3rd subfile deriving means (figure does not show), and described file dispensing device 232 further comprises subfile dispensing device (figure does not show).

The 3rd subfile deriving means is according to the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, and obtains the selected scalable module required upgrade file of upgrading.

Wherein, the 3rd subfile deriving means is similar according to the mode of the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of upgrading target version information cause to the aforementioned first subfile deriving means embodiment illustrated in fig. 8 according to the mode of the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, its distinctive points only is to be carried out by the 3rd subfile deriving means that is contained in the network equipment herein, does not repeat them here.Only described the 3rd subfile deriving means is obtained at this upgrade mode of required upgrade file of selected scalable module is described.

Particularly, the 3rd subfile deriving means obtains the upgrade mode of required upgrade file of selected scalable module is included but not limited to:

1) the 3rd subfile deriving means obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described scalable module in one or more upgrade files of self belonging network device storage.

2) the 3rd subfile deriving means obtains and the corresponding upgrade file of described upgrading target version information from storage other network equipments corresponding to the upgrade file of each scalable module.Preferably, the upgrade file corresponding to the scalable module of difference is stored in the different network equipments; More preferably, the different upgrade files corresponding to same scalable module are stored in the different network equipments.

Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine that described the 3rd subfile deriving means obtains the mode of the upgrade file corresponding with described upgrading target version information from storage other network equipments corresponding to the upgrade file of each scalable module, do not repeat them here according to actual conditions and demand.

Then, the subfile dispensing device sends to described subscriber equipment with the identification information and the described upgrade file of selected scalable module.Wherein, the identification information of described scalable module includes but not limited to that the title of scalable module, scalable module are with respect to the unified numbering of band upgrading object etc.; Preferably, the identification information of described scalable module also can comprise the positional information of described scalable module in subscriber equipment, and for example, it is medium that described scalable module is positioned at the file File1 of subscriber equipment.

Wherein, those skilled in the art should determine that described subfile dispensing device with the mode that the identification information and the described upgrade file of selected scalable module sends to described subscriber equipment, does not repeat them here according to actual conditions and demand.

Figure 13 has illustrated the structural representation that assisting user equipment is treated the auxiliary update device that upgrading object upgrades that is used for of a preferred embodiment of the invention.According to the auxiliary update device of present embodiment, comprise second information acquisition device 21, the second version deriving means 22, the 3rd information transmitting apparatus 24, second feedback deriving means 25, second judgment means 26 and be contained in son in the final controlling element 23 and carry out and put 234.

The 3rd information acquisition device 21 and the second version deriving means 22 are described in detail in the embodiment shown in fig. 11, and are contained in this by reference, repeat no more.

Then, when the second version deriving means 22 can obtain described upgrading target version information, the 3rd information transmitting apparatus 24 sent upgrading selection information to described subscriber equipment.For example, the 3rd information transmitting apparatus 24 to subscriber equipment send be used for subscriber equipment to the user shows " upgrading to target version? " select the information whether upgrade for the user.

Need to prove that when the second version deriving means 22 can not obtain described upgrading target version information, auxiliary update device can for example, directly withdraw from escalation process according to the default setting executable operations; Again for example, to the prompting of user feedback " need not upgrading " etc.Those skilled in the art should determine described mode according to the default setting executable operations according to actual conditions and demand, do not repeat them here.

The second feedback deriving means 25 obtains described subscriber equipment is selected feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information.

For example, the second feedback deriving means 25 obtains user's input information and/or the selection operation information from subscriber equipment, as user's feedback information.

Then, second judgment means 26 judges whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out described corresponding operating.

For example, when the user's input information from subscriber equipment of the second feedback deriving means, 25 acquisitions was "No", corresponding operating was not carried out in 26 judgements of second judgment means; The selection operation information that obtains the user when the second feedback deriving means 25 is when selecting this option of "Yes", and corresponding operating is carried out in 26 judgements of second judgment means.

Then, when judging that according to described feedback information needs are carried out described corresponding operating, son is carried out and to be put 234 and carry out described corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

Wherein, described son is carried out and is put 234 and carry out described corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the mode of the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information, in the described final controlling element 23 of Figure 11 embodiment, the described second file deriving means 231 of Figure 12 embodiment and file dispensing device 232, described in detail, and be contained in this by reference, repeat no more.

To those skilled in the art, obviously the invention is not restricted to the details of above-mentioned one exemplary embodiment, and under the situation that does not deviate from spirit of the present invention or essential characteristic, can realize the present invention with other concrete form.Therefore, no matter from which point, all should regard embodiment as exemplary, and be nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by claims rather than above-mentioned explanation, therefore is intended to be included in the present invention dropping on the implication that is equal to important document of claim and all changes in the scope.Any Reference numeral in the claim should be considered as limit related claim.In addition, obviously other unit or step do not got rid of in " comprising " speech, and odd number is not got rid of plural number.A plurality of unit of stating in system's claim or device also can be realized by software or hardware by a unit or device.The first, the second word such as grade is used for representing title, and does not represent any specific order.

Claims

1. one kind is used to treat the method that upgrading object is upgraded in subscriber equipment, and wherein, this method may further comprise the steps:

A obtains the object-related information of described object to be upgraded;

2. method according to claim 1, wherein, this method is further comprising the steps of:

I obtains the control information of upgrading scope, and wherein, this upgrading scope control information comprises at least one version information and upgrades to the required object correlated condition of each version information in described at least one version information;

Wherein, described step b is further comprising the steps of:

Select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition in-the object correlated condition that comprises by the control information of described upgrading scope, with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence as described upgrading target version information.

3. method according to claim 2, wherein, described step I is further comprising the steps of:

-according to the area information of described subscriber equipment affiliated area, obtain the control information of described upgrading scope.

4. according to claim 2 or 3 described methods, wherein, described object correlated condition comprises following at least one:

The fileinfo of-applicable object, wherein, described applicable object is the object that need upgrade to the version information of this object correlated condition correspondence;

The device id information of subscriber equipment under the-described applicable object;

The vendor id information of subscriber equipment under the-described applicable object;

The running environment information of-described applicable object;

The regional extent information of subscriber equipment region under the-described applicable object.

5. method according to claim 1, wherein, described step b is further comprising the steps of:

-described object-related information is sent to the network equipment;

-obtain described network equipment feedback with the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly.

6. according to each described method in the claim 1 to 5, wherein, comprise a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, described step c may further comprise the steps:

-according to the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, to come selected scalable module is upgraded according to upgrade file based on described upgrading target version information acquisition.

7. according to each described method in the claim 1 to 6, wherein, this method is further comprising the steps of:

-in the time can obtaining described upgrading target version information, provide upgrading selection information to the user;

-obtain the user selects feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information;

-judge whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing;

Wherein, described step c is further comprising the steps of:

-when judging that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing, obtain described upgrade file, so that described object to be upgraded is upgraded.

8. according to each described method in the claim 1 to 7, wherein, the object-related information of described object to be upgraded comprise at least following each:

The fileinfo of-described object to be upgraded;

The device id information of subscriber equipment under the-described object to be upgraded;

The vendor id information of subscriber equipment under the-described object to be upgraded;

The running environment information of-described object to be upgraded;

The area information of subscriber equipment region under the-described object to be upgraded.

9. one kind is used for assisting user equipment and treats the method that upgrading object is upgraded in the network equipment, and wherein, this method may further comprise the steps:

10. method according to claim 9, wherein, described step C may further comprise the steps:

C1 obtains described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information;

C2 sends to described subscriber equipment with described upgrade file.

11. method according to claim 10 wherein, comprises a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, described step C1 may further comprise the steps:

-according to the scalable module of selecting the needs upgrading in the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, and obtain the selected scalable module required upgrade file of upgrading;

Wherein, described step C2 may further comprise the steps:

-identification information and the described upgrade file of selected scalable module sent to described subscriber equipment.

12. method according to claim 9, wherein, described step C may further comprise the steps:

-described upgrading target version information is sent to described subscriber equipment, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information.

13. according to each described method in the claim 9 to 11, wherein, this method is further comprising the steps of:

-in the time can obtaining described upgrading target version information, send upgrading selection information to described subscriber equipment;

-obtain described subscriber equipment is selected feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information;

-judge whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out described corresponding operating;

Wherein, described step C is further comprising the steps of:

-when judging that according to described feedback information needs are carried out described corresponding operating, carry out described corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

14. according to each described method in the claim 9 to 13, wherein, described object correlated condition comprises following at least one:

The running environment information of-described applicable object;

15. according to each described method in the claim 9 to 14, wherein, the object-related information of described object to be upgraded comprise at least following each:

The fileinfo of-described object to be upgraded;

The running environment information of-described object to be upgraded;

16. one kind is used to treat the object update device that upgrading object is upgraded in subscriber equipment, wherein, this object update device comprises:

17. object update device according to claim 16, wherein, this object update device also comprises:

The control information deriving means is used to obtain the control information of upgrading scope, and wherein, this upgrading scope control information comprises at least one version information and upgrades to the required object correlated condition of each version information in described at least one version information;

Wherein, described first version deriving means also comprises:

The first child release deriving means, be used for the object correlated condition that comprises by the control information of described upgrading scope and select and described object-related information matched object correlated condition, with the version information of selected object correlated condition correspondence as described upgrading target version information.

18. object update device according to claim 17, wherein, described control information deriving means also comprises:

Sub-control information deriving means is used for the area information according to described subscriber equipment affiliated area, obtains the control information of described upgrading scope.

19. according to claim 17 or 18 described object update devices, wherein, described object correlated condition comprises following at least one:

The running environment information of-described applicable object;

20. object update device according to claim 16, wherein, described first version deriving means also comprises:

First information dispensing device is used for described object-related information is sent to the network equipment;

The second child release deriving means, be used to obtain described network equipment feedback with the described object-related information target version information of upgrading accordingly.

21. according to each described object update device in the claim 16 to 20, wherein, comprise a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, the described first file deriving means comprises:

The first subfile deriving means, be used for selecting the scalable module of needs upgrading, to come selected scalable module is upgraded according to upgrade file based on described upgrading target version information acquisition according to the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause.

22. according to each described object update device in the claim 16 to 21, wherein, this object update device also comprises:

Generator is used in the time can obtaining described upgrading target version information, provides upgrading selection information to the user;

The first feedback deriving means is used to obtain the user selects feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information;

First judgment means is used for judging whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing;

Wherein, the described first file deriving means also comprises:

The second subfile deriving means is used for obtaining described upgrade file, so that described object to be upgraded is upgraded when judging that according to described feedback information needs carry out upgrading processing.

23. according to each described object update device in the claim 16 to 22, wherein, the object-related information of described object to be upgraded comprise at least following each:

The fileinfo of-described object to be upgraded;

The running environment information of-described object to be upgraded;

24. one kind is used for assisting user equipment and treats the auxiliary update device that upgrading object is upgraded in the network equipment, wherein, this auxiliary update device comprises:

25. auxiliary update device according to claim 24, wherein, described final controlling element comprises:

The second file deriving means is used for obtaining described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information;

The file dispensing device is used for described upgrade file is sent to described subscriber equipment.

26. auxiliary update device according to claim 25 wherein, comprises a plurality of scalable modules in the described object to be upgraded, wherein, the described second file deriving means comprises:

The 3rd subfile deriving means is used for selecting the scalable module of needs upgrading according to the described a plurality of scalable modules of described upgrading target version information cause, and obtains the selected scalable module required upgrade file of upgrading;

Wherein, described file dispensing device comprises:

The subfile dispensing device is used for the identification information and the described upgrade file of selected scalable module are sent to described subscriber equipment.

27. auxiliary update device according to claim 24, wherein, described final controlling element comprises:

Second information transmitting apparatus is used for described upgrading target version information is sent to described subscriber equipment, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described upgrade file according to described upgrading target version information.

28. according to each described auxiliary update device in the claim 24 to 26, wherein, this auxiliary update device also comprises:

The 3rd information transmitting apparatus is used in the time can obtaining described upgrading target version information, sends upgrading selection information to described subscriber equipment;

The second feedback deriving means is used to obtain described subscriber equipment is selected feedback information based on described upgrading feedback information;

Second judgment means is used for judging whether that according to described feedback information needs carry out described corresponding operating;

Wherein, described final controlling element also comprises:

Sub-final controlling element, be used for when judging that according to described feedback information needs are carried out described corresponding operating, carry out described corresponding operating according to described upgrading target version information, so that described subscriber equipment can obtain described object to be upgraded is upgraded to the upgrade file of described upgrading target version information.

29. according to each described auxiliary update device in the claim 24 to 28, wherein, described object correlated condition comprises following at least one:

The running environment information of-described applicable object;

30. according to each described auxiliary update device in the claim 24 to 29, wherein, the object-related information of described object to be upgraded comprise at least following each:

The fileinfo of-described object to be upgraded;

The running environment information of-described object to be upgraded;

31. a subscriber equipment, wherein, this subscriber equipment comprises as at least one described object update device in the claim 16 to 23.

32. a network equipment, wherein, this network equipment comprises as at least one described auxiliary update device in the claim 23 to 30.

33. one kind is used to treat the system that upgrading object is upgraded, comprising the subscriber equipment as claimed in claim 31 and the network equipment as claimed in claim 32.