CN102413371B - Set top box application program local calling method and application management device - Google Patents
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The invention relates to a set top box application program local calling method which comprises the steps of: obtaining and showing a list of available applications provided by a server side; receiving and selecting a command of the applications in the lift by an application management device, sending a request of downloading the selected application to the server side according to the command; and when the selected application is downloaded completely, starting the selected application by the application management device according to the received command for starting the selected application, and providing a system resource interface for the selected application. The invention also relates to an application management device used in a set top box. Through arranging the application management device in the set top box, the applications are managed, effective and available resources of the system are ensured to be optimized and utilized, and a consistency interface is provided for the applications, so that the applications can be used in different terminal environments without transplantation.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to IPTV and digital television application technology, particularly relate to a kind of local call method and application management device of set-top box application program.
Background technology
Along with carrying out of IPTV service, trend towards diversified IPTV service to represent and will not only be confined to basic audio-video frequency content and the information browse based on the page, the enhancing that is abundant further and set-op box capabilities along with business is also subject to the welcome of more and more user by the application based on user terminal/server framework.But, along with IPTV set top box more and more trends towards variation, require that the method adopted is also different when realizing application program according to respective between the Set Top Box of different vendor, different model, this just causes very large difficulty for carrying out IPTV client class business in the unification of dissimilar terminal.
In order to provide conforming running environment to client application in the Set Top Box of different vendor, different model, existing way adds middleware on operating system, as shown in Figure 1, in prior art in Set Top Box the structural representation of Application Middleware.In Set Top Box, middleware provides conforming interface to application software, is used for shielding the software transplanting problem caused because operating system is different.But, general middleware Technology will carry out the integrated of software function, and to guarantee to adapt to different operating system or hardware, but this needs to take a large amount of spaces, for the system of this kind of resource-constrained of IPTV set top box, general middleware Technology is adopted not to be very real.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to propose a kind of set-top box application program local call method and application management device, both can meet IPTV service application versatility demand, do not need again the system space too much taking Set Top Box simultaneously.
For achieving the above object, the invention provides a kind of set-top box application program local call method, comprising:
Obtain and represent the list of the useful application that server side provides;
Application management device receives the instruction of the application selected in described list, sends the request of downloading selected application according to described instruction to server side;
After described selected application is downloaded, described application management device starts described selected application according to the instruction of the described selected application of startup received, and provides system resource interface for described selected application.
Further, also comprise: described application management device represents all lists having started application by displaying interface interface, and operation information and the operating function of application have been provided described in providing.
Further, after described selected application start, the whole life cycle of described application management device to described selected application manages.
Further, when described selected application is by the procotol interface of described application management device or file system interface accesses network resource or file system, described application management device obtains corresponding Internet resources or file system is supplied to described selected application.
Further, also comprise: when described selected application needs the function used outside the basic function of Set Top Box, described application management device is carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, to provide required function for described selected application.
Further, also comprise: when described selected application needs to call other application of described application management device management, described selected application to be applied with described other by the application affairs management interface of described application management device and is carried out alternately.
For achieving the above object, the invention provides a kind of application management device for Set Top Box, comprising:
Application download management unit, it is configured to, and the instruction according to the application in the list of the selection useful application received sends the request of downloading selected application to server side;
Preserve the application storage unit of down load application;
Life cycle management unit, it is configured to, to the management function that described selected application provides startup, operation, time-out and closes;
System resource interface, it is configured to, and provides the interface performing various systemic-function to described selected application.
Further, described application download management unit is also configured to, and obtains can download and the list of the application that can run in Set Top Box to server side.
Further, described system resource interface specifically comprises:
Displaying interface interface, it is configured to, and provides the list of application and representing of application interface that can download, downloaded and/or start;
Procotol interface, it is configured to, and provides the access of Internet resources;
File system interface, it is configured to, and provides file calling function.
Further, also comprise:
User interface management unit, be connected with system resource interface with described application download management unit, life cycle management unit, it is configured to, and provides the information interaction between user interface and application management device
Application affairs administrative unit, it is configured to, and provides the incident management between user operation, application itself and application.
Further, application affairs administrative unit is also configured to, and when applying the function needing to use outside the basic function of Set Top Box, is carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, to provide required function for described application.
Based on technique scheme, the present invention manages application by arranging application management device in Set Top Box, guaranteeing the optimised utilization of effective available resources of system, and provide consistent interface for applying, use in different terminals environment when not needing transplanting to make application.
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Accompanying drawing described herein is used to provide a further understanding of the present invention, and form a application's part, schematic description and description of the present invention, for explaining the present invention, does not form inappropriate limitation of the present invention.In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of Application Middleware in Set Top Box in prior art.
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of the present invention for an embodiment of the application management device of Set Top Box.
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of the present invention for another embodiment of the application management device of Set Top Box.
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of the Set Top Box being provided with application management device embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the schematic flow sheet of an embodiment of set-top box application program local call method of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is the signaling process schematic diagram of another embodiment of set-top box application program local call method of the present invention.
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Below by drawings and Examples, technical scheme of the present invention is described in further detail.
For in this resource-constrained system of Set Top Box, general middleware Technology is difficult to apply in Set Top Box owing to needing to take a large amount of spaces, and this also makes to realize Set Top Box and there is certain problem in the universal demand meeting IPTV service application.
In order to address this is that, the present invention proposes a kind of application management device for Set Top Box, as shown in Figure 2, be used for the structural representation of an embodiment of the application management device of Set Top Box for the present invention.In the present embodiment, application management device comprises: application download management unit 1, application storage unit 2, life cycle management unit 3 and system resource interface 4.
Application download management unit 1, when receiving the instruction of the application in the list selecting useful application, can send the request of downloading selected application according to this instruction to server side.The list of this useful application can be obtained by the browser access IPTV EPG of Set Top Box, also can be able to be downloaded and the list of the application that can run in Set Top Box to server side acquisition by application download management unit 1.
The application of having downloaded is stored in application storage unit 2, when application is activated, is provided the management of life cycle by life cycle management unit 2.So-called life cycle refer to be applied in register in application management device ID, application memory size, current state etc., these data are used for the fail safe of maintenance application in life cycle.When application initiatively terminates or application management device is forced closed, the data of this life cycle will be automatically left out.
Life cycle management unit 3 manages application, and be responsible for selected application provide startup, operation, suspend and close management function.System resource interface 4 is the consistent interfaces of the various systemic-function of execution that application management device provides to selected application, in other words, selected application needs to use which systemic-function, all obtains corresponding system resource by system resource interface 4, completes corresponding systemic-function.
The application management device of the present embodiment is downloaded application, manage and interface support, do not need integrated a lot of software function as middleware Technology of the prior art, therefore can not take a lot of system spaces, be suitable for being arranged on this kind of resource constrained environment of Set Top Box; Simultaneously, application management device provides conforming system resource interface for applying, application can call these system resource interfaces to perform corresponding function, ensure that application does not need to transplant based on various different set-top box environment, and adaptation need do not carried out for different operating system or hardware layer interface.
As shown in Figure 3, the structural representation of another embodiment of the application management device of Set Top Box is used for for the present invention.Compared with a upper embodiment, the system resource interface in the present embodiment can specifically comprise with lower interface: displaying interface interface 41, procotol interface 42 and file system interface 43.Wherein, displaying interface interface 41 is configured to provide the list of application and representing of application interface that can download, downloaded and/or start.Procotol interface 42 is configured to the access providing Internet resources.File system interface 43 is configured to provide file calling function.
Application under application management device management realizes the function of application by these general-purpose interfaces, represent if application needs more system resource to carry out better business, now can also by application affairs administrative unit 5 when applying the function needing to use outside the basic function of Set Top Box, be carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, to provide required function for described application.
Application management device can carry out strict management to the application of downloading; after application is downloaded; its memory headroom used requires by the pre-first to file of application management device; ensure to apply with this and can not take too much system resource and have influence on the application of IPTV basic business, and then guarantee the safety of the IPTV service that Set Top Box provides.
For the situation of using function plug-in unit; application management device is also call according to the needs of application; if application has been finished using or has not been needed using function plug-in unit; then this feature card is inactive; application management device can not configure corresponding system resource for this feature card, thus profit guarantees that the use of effective available resources (such as CPU, internal memory etc.) of set-top-box system is optimized more in this way.
When communicating between being applied in Set Top Box responds user operation or application itself and apply, Correspondent is carried out by application management device, namely in application management device, arrange application affairs administrative unit, this application affairs administrative unit is configured to provide the incident management between user operation, application itself and application.
For example, if certain application is wished by player plays section video, then play instruction is sent by application affairs administrative unit to the player software outside application management device.In like manner, if when user operation or applications need to send instruction to the application of application management device management, all need to forward via application affairs administrative unit.
The way to manage of this event can ensure the validity that in Set Top Box, the mutual fail safe of each application and resource use; such as when Set Top Box inadequate resource time; application affairs administrative unit can refuse the resource request of the application under application management device management, to guarantee the normal operation of Set Top Box.
Can also comprise user interface management unit 6 in application management device, this unit is connected with system resource interface with application download management unit, life cycle management unit, and it is configured to, and provides the information interaction between user interface and application management device.
As shown in Figure 4, for being provided with the structural representation of the Set Top Box of application management device embodiment of the present invention.In the present embodiment, can see that application management device is independent of the operating system in Set Top Box and a lot of basic software, this is different from Middleware implementation mode of the prior art, and the middleware under Middleware implementation mode needs integrated a lot of basic software.
The application that application management device manages is commonly referred to as the application of Downloadable client class, such as Widget etc., if need to use certain to apply in Set Top Box running, then download this application from server side, and when Set Top Box is shut down, this application will be deleted from Set Top Box, and in other words, these application are compared to basic software, belong to the dynamic application be kept in Set Top Box internal memory, after Set Top Box is closed, internal memory will be eliminated, and corresponding application data also can be eliminated.
When Set Top Box resource allows, application management device also also can be able to manage the non-dynamic application of Set Top Box this locality, but the prerequisite non-dynamic application that is this meets the requirement of application management device.
Based on above-mentioned application management device, present invention also offers the embodiment of several set-top box application program local call method, as shown in Figure 5, is the schematic flow sheet of an embodiment of set-top box application program local call method of the present invention.In the present embodiment, comprise the following steps:
Step 101, obtain and represent the list of the useful application that server side provides;
Step 102, application management device receive the instruction of the application selected in described list, send the request of downloading selected application according to described instruction to server side;
Step 103, after described selected application is downloaded, described application management device starts described selected application according to the instruction of the described selected application of startup received, and provides system resource interface for described selected application.
In the present embodiment, application management device has carried out download management to selected application and has provided the system resource interface needed when selected application runs.These down load application, after application is downloaded, can be carried out registering at self, for unique ID is registered in each application, record the state information of each application, and manage the whole life cycle of selected application by application management device.
To obtain and the operation representing the list of the useful application that server side provides can be obtained by browser access IPTV EPG, IPTV EPG provides to comprise to browser and can download and the page of the list of the application that can run in Set Top Box, and browser represents this list.Except this obtain manner, directly can also be obtained from server side by application management device and can download and the list of the application that can run Set Top Box, and represent described list by the displaying interface interface of application management device.
For the ease of management, application management device can also represent all lists having started application by displaying interface interface, and the operation information and operating function that start application are provided, which application such user just can see just in use easily, so as to run accordingly, suspend, the management function such as closedown.
Consider the security requirement of set-top box application, these are downloaded and the application run can not direct access system resources, when selected application is by the procotol interface of application management device or file system interface accesses network resource or file system, application management device then substitutes selected application and obtains corresponding Internet resources or file system, is then supplied to selected application.Equally, these application can not directly be carried out alternately with other application that application management device manages, if directly carry out mutual, often bring larger potential safety hazard, therefore need to be applied with other by the application affairs management interface by application management device to carry out alternately.
Consider that the basic function of Set Top Box might not meet the function required for application, therefore application management device can be carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, to provide required function for described selected application.These feature cards can provide extra function support for application, and such as binary implementation compiling plug-in unit, expansion script support plug-in unit, figure enhancing plug-in unit, USB access plug-in unit etc.
By the signaling process by a set-top box application program local call method embodiment, the present invention will be described below, as shown in Figure 6, is the signaling process schematic diagram of another embodiment of set-top box application program local call method of the present invention.The present embodiment comprises:
Step 201, user send to the application management module of Set Top Box the request checking all useful application by controller;
Step 202, application management module are by downloading of obtaining from server and the list of the application that can run in Set Top Box is presented to user by displaying interface interface;
Step 203, user are by the some application in the list of controller selective gist, and this selection instruction is sent to displaying interface interface;
Step 204, displaying interface interface are downloaded to selected application according to this selection instruction notice application download management unit;
Step 205, after selected application has been downloaded, this application of application download management unit notice displaying interface interface has been downloaded;
Step 206, displaying interface interface represent to user the notice that this selected application downloaded;
Step 207, user send the instruction starting this selected application to displaying interface interface by controller;
Step 208, displaying interface interface are according to this selected application of this selection instruction notice life cycle management unit starting;
This selected application of step 209, life cycle management unit starting, this selected application is written into internal memory, i.e. client application A;
Step 210, when client application A needs mutual with another client application B, this client application A sends request and the mutual request of client application B to application affairs administrative unit, and interactive information is sent to application affairs administrative unit;
Whether interactive information is suitable sends to client application B for the examination of step 211, application affairs administrative unit, if be applicable to, then undertaken alternately by application affairs administrative unit and client application B;
Step 212, application affairs administrative unit return interaction results to client application A;
If when step 213 client application A wishes the function used outside the basic function of Set Top Box, the request of request call feature card can be sent to application affairs administrative unit;
Step 214, application affairs administrative unit are carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, for described application provides required function;
Step 215, application affairs administrative unit return to client application A the situation that plug-in unit calls.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: all or part of step realizing said method embodiment can have been come by the hardware that program command is relevant, aforesaid program can be stored in a computer read/write memory medium, this program, when performing, performs the step comprising said method embodiment; And aforesaid storage medium comprises: ROM, RAM, magnetic disc or CD etc. various can be program code stored medium.
Finally should be noted that: above embodiment is only in order to illustrate that technical scheme of the present invention is not intended to limit; Although with reference to preferred embodiment to invention has been detailed description, those of ordinary skill in the field are to be understood that: still can modify to the specific embodiment of the present invention or carry out equivalent replacement to portion of techniques feature; And not departing from the spirit of technical solution of the present invention, it all should be encompassed in the middle of the technical scheme scope of request of the present invention protection.
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1. a set-top box application program local call method, comprising:
Obtain and represent the list of the useful application that server side provides;
Application management device receives the instruction of the application selected in described list, sends the request of downloading selected application according to described instruction to server side;
After described selected application is downloaded, described application management device starts described selected application according to the instruction of the described selected application of startup received, and provides system resource interface for described selected application;
When described selected application is by the procotol interface of described application management device or file system interface accesses network resource or file system, described application management device obtains corresponding Internet resources or file system is supplied to described selected application;
When described selected application needs to call other application of described application management device management, described selected application to be applied with described other by the application affairs management interface of described application management device and is carried out alternately;
Described application management device carries out strict management to the application of downloading, and after application is downloaded, its memory headroom used requires by the pre-first to file of application management device;
Described application management device is independent of the operating system in Set Top Box and basic software, the application that described application management device manages is compared to basic software, belong to the dynamic application be kept in Set Top Box internal memory, after Set Top Box is closed, internal memory and corresponding application data are eliminated.
2. set-top box application program local call method according to claim 1, wherein also comprises:
Described application management device represents all lists having started application by displaying interface interface, and has started operation information and the operating function of application described in providing.
3. set-top box application program local call method according to claim 1, wherein after described selected application start, the whole life cycle of described application management device to described selected application manages.
4. set-top box application program local call method according to claim 1, wherein also comprises:
When described selected application needs the function used outside the basic function of Set Top Box, described application management device is carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, to provide required function for described selected application.
5., for an application management device for Set Top Box, comprising:
Application download management unit, it is configured to, and the instruction according to the application in the list of the selection useful application received sends the request of downloading selected application to server side;
Preserve the application storage unit of down load application;
Life cycle management unit, it is configured to, to the management function that described selected application provides startup, operation, time-out and closes;
System resource interface, it is configured to, and provides the interface performing various systemic-function to described selected application;
User interface management unit, be connected with system resource interface with described application download management unit, life cycle management unit, it is configured to, and provides the information interaction between user interface and application management device;
Application affairs administrative unit, it is configured to, and provides the incident management between user operation, application itself and application;
Wherein, described application management device carries out strict management to the application of downloading, and after application is downloaded, its memory headroom used requires by the pre-first to file of application management device;
Described application management device is independent of the operating system in Set Top Box and basic software, the application that described application management device manages is compared to basic software, belong to the dynamic application be kept in Set Top Box internal memory, after Set Top Box is closed, internal memory and corresponding application data are eliminated.
6. application management device according to claim 5, wherein said system resource interface specifically comprises:
Displaying interface interface, it is configured to, and provides the list of application and representing of application interface that can download, downloaded and/or start;
Procotol interface, it is configured to, and provides the access of Internet resources;
File system interface, it is configured to, and provides file calling function.
7. application management device according to claim 5, wherein application affairs administrative unit is also configured to, when applying the function needing to use outside the basic function of Set Top Box, be carried in feature card additional in Set Top Box, to provide required function for described application.
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