CN109522032B - Firmware upgrading method and device - Google Patents

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CN109522032B
CN109522032B CN201811064696.9A CN201811064696A CN109522032B CN 109522032 B CN109522032 B CN 109522032B CN 201811064696 A CN201811064696 A CN 201811064696A CN 109522032 B CN109522032 B CN 109522032B
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The embodiment of the invention provides a firmware upgrading method and device, which are applied to a video network. The method comprises the following steps: after downloading the firmware from the video network server, the video network terminal modifies the name of the firmware into a format including version information and stores the name of the firmware into a preset directory; the video network terminal starts a firmware upgrading program, searches the downloaded firmware from a preset directory, and determines whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded according to the name of the downloaded firmware; if the video network terminal determines that the firmware needs to be upgraded, the downloaded firmware is stored to an upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment, and a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware is created under the upgrading path; and after the video network terminal is restarted, upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrading path. The firmware upgrading process of the embodiment of the invention is simpler and more convenient, and the firmware corresponding to a plurality of different external devices can be upgraded simultaneously, so that the upgrading efficiency is higher.

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Firmware upgrading method and device
Technical Field
The present invention relates to the field of video networking technologies, and in particular, to a firmware upgrading method and a firmware upgrading apparatus.
Background
With the rapid development of network technologies, users increasingly perform various communications through networks. Terminals for network communication are also rapidly developed and can access various required external devices. When the terminal is connected to the external device, the external device can be normally used after a Firmware (Firmware) corresponding to the external device is required to be installed. However, as the performance of the external device is continuously improved, the functions are more and more, and the firmware corresponding to the external device is also updated in time.
In the prior art, the firmware is usually stored in a local directory, and all information required for upgrade judgment and upgrade is recorded in the directory at the same time. And when the upgrade is needed, judging whether the upgrade is needed or not and carrying out the upgrade process according to the information recorded in the directory. However, the above method has a lot of recorded contents in the local directory, and the judgment of whether to upgrade and the upgrading process are complicated, and only one firmware of the external device can be upgraded at a time, so the upgrading efficiency is low.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, embodiments of the present invention are proposed to provide a firmware upgrade method and a corresponding firmware upgrade apparatus that overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.
In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a firmware upgrading method, which is applied to a video network, where the video network includes a video network terminal and a video network server, and the method includes:
after downloading the firmware from the video networking server, the video networking terminal modifies the name of the firmware into a format including version information and stores the name of the firmware into a preset directory;
the video network terminal starts a firmware upgrading program, searches the downloaded firmware from the preset directory, and determines whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded according to the name of the downloaded firmware;
if the video network terminal determines that the firmware needs to be upgraded, the downloaded firmware is stored under an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment, and a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware is created under the upgrade path;
and after the video network terminal is restarted, upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrading path.
Preferably, before the step of saving the downloaded firmware to an upgrade path corresponding to the external device and creating a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrade path, the method further includes: the video network terminal starts an interface of the external equipment and converts a running path corresponding to the external equipment into an upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment; the upgrading path is an absolute path; after the step of saving the downloaded firmware to the upgrade path corresponding to the external device and creating the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrade path, the method further includes: and the video network terminal closes the interface of the external equipment.
Preferably, the step of determining whether the firmware currently used by the external device corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be updated according to the name of the downloaded firmware includes: the video network terminal extracts the version information of the downloaded firmware from the name of the downloaded firmware and reads the version information of the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware; the video network terminal compares the extracted version information with the read version information; and if the extracted version information is higher than the read version information, determining that the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded.
Preferably, after the terminal of the video network downloads the firmware from the video network server, before the step of modifying the name of the firmware into a format including version information and storing the modified name of the firmware in a preset directory, the method further includes: and after the video network terminal receives the firmware upgrading notification sent by the video network server, if upgrading is determined, downloading the firmware from the video network server.
Preferably, the step of downloading the firmware from the video network server comprises: the video network terminal sends a firmware upgrading request to the video network server through the video network; and the video network terminal receives the firmware returned by the video network server according to the downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal aiming at the firmware upgrading request through the video network.
On the other hand, the embodiment of the invention also discloses a firmware upgrading device, which is applied to the video network, wherein the video network comprises a video network terminal and a video network server,
the video networking terminal includes:
the modification module is used for modifying the name of the firmware into a format comprising version information after the firmware is downloaded from the video networking server and storing the name of the firmware into a preset directory;
the determining module is used for starting a firmware upgrading program, searching the downloaded firmware from the preset directory, and determining whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded or not according to the name of the downloaded firmware;
the storage module is used for storing the downloaded firmware to an upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment and creating a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrading path if the upgrading is determined to be needed;
and the upgrading module is used for upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrading path after restarting.
Preferably, the video network terminal further comprises: the conversion module is used for starting an interface of the external equipment before the storage module stores the downloaded firmware to an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment and creates a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrade path, and converting an operation path corresponding to the external equipment into an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment; the upgrading path is an absolute path; and the closing module is used for closing the interface of the external equipment after the storage module stores the downloaded firmware to the upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment and the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware is created in the upgrading path.
Preferably, the determining module comprises: the acquisition unit is used for extracting the version information of the downloaded firmware from the name of the downloaded firmware and reading the version information of the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware; a comparison unit for comparing the extracted version information with the read version information; and if the extracted version information is higher than the read version information, determining that the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded.
Preferably, the video network terminal further comprises: and the downloading module is used for downloading the firmware from the video network server if the upgrading is determined after receiving the firmware upgrading notification sent by the video network server.
Preferably, the download module includes: the sending unit is used for sending a firmware upgrading request to the video networking server through the video networking; and the receiving unit is used for receiving the firmware returned by the video network server according to the downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal through the video network aiming at the firmware upgrading request.
In the embodiment of the invention, after downloading the firmware from the video network server, the video network terminal modifies the name of the firmware into a format comprising version information and stores the version information into a preset directory; starting a firmware upgrading program, searching the downloaded firmware from a preset directory, and determining whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded or not according to the name of the downloaded firmware; if the firmware needs to be upgraded, storing the downloaded firmware to an upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment, and creating a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrading path; and after the video network terminal is restarted, upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrading path. Therefore, the embodiment of the invention is directed to upgrading the firmware in the video networking terminal, only the downloaded firmware is saved in the preset directory, a configuration file for recording the name of the firmware and a configuration file for recording the version information of the firmware are not required to be independently created, whether the firmware is upgraded or not is judged according to the name of the firmware, and the configuration file corresponding to the firmware is created when the downloaded firmware is saved to the upgrading path, so that the judgment on whether the firmware is upgraded or not and the upgrading process are simpler and more convenient, the firmware corresponding to a plurality of different external devices can be upgraded at the same time, and the upgrading efficiency is higher.
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FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture of a node server according to the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an access switch of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an ethernet protocol conversion gateway according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a firmware upgrade method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a block diagram of a firmware upgrading apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.
The video networking is an important milestone for network development, is a real-time network, can realize high-definition video real-time transmission, and pushes a plurality of internet applications to high-definition video, and high-definition faces each other.
The video networking adopts a real-time high-definition video exchange technology, can integrate required services such as dozens of services of video, voice, pictures, characters, communication, data and the like on a system platform on a network platform, such as high-definition video conference, video monitoring, intelligent monitoring analysis, emergency command, digital broadcast television, delayed television, network teaching, live broadcast, VOD on demand, television mail, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), intranet (self-office) channels, intelligent video broadcast control, information distribution and the like, and realizes high-definition quality video broadcast through a television or a computer.
To better understand the embodiments of the present invention, the following description refers to the internet of view:
some of the technologies applied in the video networking are as follows:
network Technology (Network Technology)
Network technology innovation in video networking has improved over traditional Ethernet (Ethernet) to face the potentially enormous video traffic on the network. Unlike pure network Packet Switching (Packet Switching) or network Circuit Switching (Circuit Switching), the Packet Switching is adopted by the technology of the video networking to meet the Streaming requirement. The video networking technology has the advantages of flexibility, simplicity and low price of packet switching, and simultaneously has the quality and safety guarantee of circuit switching, thereby realizing the seamless connection of the whole network switching type virtual circuit and the data format.
Switching Technology (Switching Technology)
The video network adopts two advantages of asynchronism and packet switching of the Ethernet, eliminates the defects of the Ethernet on the premise of full compatibility, has end-to-end seamless connection of the whole network, is directly communicated with a user terminal, and directly bears an IP data packet. The user data does not require any format conversion across the entire network. The video networking is a higher-level form of the Ethernet, is a real-time exchange platform, can realize the real-time transmission of the whole-network large-scale high-definition video which cannot be realized by the existing Internet, and pushes a plurality of network video applications to high-definition and unification.
Server Technology (Server Technology)
The server technology on the video networking and unified video platform is different from the traditional server, the streaming media transmission of the video networking and unified video platform is established on the basis of connection orientation, the data processing capacity of the video networking and unified video platform is independent of flow and communication time, and a single network layer can contain signaling and data transmission. For voice and video services, the complexity of video networking and unified video platform streaming media processing is much simpler than that of data processing, and the efficiency is greatly improved by more than one hundred times compared with that of a traditional server.
Storage Technology (Storage Technology)
The super-high speed storage technology of the unified video platform adopts the most advanced real-time operating system in order to adapt to the media content with super-large capacity and super-large flow, the program information in the server instruction is mapped to the specific hard disk space, the media content is not passed through the server any more, and is directly sent to the user terminal instantly, and the general waiting time of the user is less than 0.2 second. The optimized sector distribution greatly reduces the mechanical motion of the magnetic head track seeking of the hard disk, the resource consumption only accounts for 20% of that of the IP internet of the same grade, but concurrent flow which is 3 times larger than that of the traditional hard disk array is generated, and the comprehensive efficiency is improved by more than 10 times.
Network Security Technology (Network Security Technology)
The structural design of the video network completely eliminates the network security problem troubling the internet structurally by the modes of independent service permission control each time, complete isolation of equipment and user data and the like, generally does not need antivirus programs and firewalls, avoids the attack of hackers and viruses, and provides a structural carefree security network for users.
Service Innovation Technology (Service Innovation Technology)
The unified video platform integrates services and transmission, and is not only automatically connected once whether a single user, a private network user or a network aggregate. The user terminal, the set-top box or the PC are directly connected to the unified video platform to obtain various multimedia video services in various forms. The unified video platform adopts a menu type configuration table mode to replace the traditional complex application programming, can realize complex application by using very few codes, and realizes infinite new service innovation.
Networking of the video network is as follows:
the video network is a centralized control network structure, and the network can be a tree network, a star network, a ring network and the like, but on the basis of the centralized control node, the whole network is controlled by the centralized control node in the network.
As shown in fig. 1, the video network is divided into an access network and a metropolitan network.
The devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access switch, terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding boards, memories, etc.). The node server is connected to an access switch, which may be connected to a plurality of terminals and may be connected to an ethernet network.
The node server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the access network and can control the access switch and the terminal. The node server can be directly connected with the access switch or directly connected with the terminal.
Similarly, devices of the metropolitan network portion may also be classified into 3 types: a metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server. The metro server is connected to a node switch, which may be connected to a plurality of node servers.
The node server is a node server of the access network part, namely the node server belongs to both the access network part and the metropolitan area network part.
The metropolitan area server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the metropolitan area network and can control a node switch and a node server. The metropolitan area server can be directly connected with the node switch or directly connected with the node server.
Therefore, the whole video network is a network structure with layered centralized control, and the network controlled by the node server and the metropolitan area server can be in various structures such as tree, star and ring.
The access network part can form a unified video platform (the part in the dotted circle), and a plurality of unified video platforms can form a video network; each unified video platform may be interconnected via metropolitan area and wide area video networking.
Video networking device classification
1.1 devices in the video network of the embodiment of the present invention can be mainly classified into 3 types: servers, switches (including ethernet gateways), terminals (including various set-top boxes, code boards, memories, etc.). The video network as a whole can be divided into a metropolitan area network (or national network, global network, etc.) and an access network.
1.2 wherein the devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node servers, access switches (including ethernet gateways), terminals (including various set-top boxes, code boards, memories, etc.).
The specific hardware structure of each access network device is as follows:
a node server:
as shown in fig. 2, the system mainly includes a network interface module 201, a switching engine module 202, a CPU module 203, and a disk array module 204;
the network interface module 201, the CPU module 203, and the disk array module 204 all enter the switching engine module 202; the switching engine module 202 performs an operation of looking up the address table 205 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; and stores the packet in a queue of the corresponding packet buffer 206 based on the packet's steering information; if the queue of the packet buffer 206 is nearly full, it is discarded; the switching engine module 202 polls all packet buffer queues for forwarding if the following conditions are met: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero. The disk array module 204 mainly implements control over the hard disk, including initialization, read-write, and other operations on the hard disk; the CPU module 203 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with an access switch and a terminal (not shown in the figure), configuring an address table 205 (including a downlink protocol packet address table, an uplink protocol packet address table, and a data packet address table), and configuring the disk array module 204.
The access switch:
as shown in fig. 3, the network interface module mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 301 and an uplink network interface module 302), a switching engine module 303 and a CPU module 304;
wherein, the packet (uplink data) coming from the downlink network interface module 301 enters the packet detection module 305; the packet detection module 305 detects whether the Destination Address (DA), the Source Address (SA), the packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id) and enters the switching engine module 303, otherwise, discards the stream identifier; the packet (downstream data) coming from the upstream network interface module 302 enters the switching engine module 303; the data packet coming from the CPU module 204 enters the switching engine module 303; the switching engine module 303 performs an operation of looking up the address table 306 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is from the downstream network interface to the upstream network interface, the packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 in association with the stream-id; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the data packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 according to the guiding information of the packet; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded.
The switching engine module 303 polls all packet buffer queues, which in this embodiment of the present invention is divided into two cases:
if the queue is from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queued packet counter is greater than zero; 3) obtaining a token generated by a code rate control module;
if the queue is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero.
The rate control module 208 is configured by the CPU module 204, and generates tokens for packet buffer queues from all downstream network interfaces to upstream network interfaces at programmable intervals to control the rate of upstream forwarding.
The CPU module 304 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with the node server, configuration of the address table 306, and configuration of the code rate control module 308.
Ethernet protocol conversion gateway
As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 401 and an uplink network interface module 402), a switching engine module 403, a CPU module 404, a packet detection module 405, a rate control module 408, an address table 406, a packet buffer 407, a MAC adding module 409, and a MAC deleting module 410.
Wherein, the data packet coming from the downlink network interface module 401 enters the packet detection module 405; the packet detection module 405 detects whether the ethernet MAC DA, the ethernet MAC SA, the ethernet length or frame type, the video network destination address DA, the video network source address SA, the video network packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id); then, the MAC deletion module 410 subtracts MAC DA, MAC SA, length or frame type (2byte) and enters the corresponding receiving buffer, otherwise, discards it;
the downlink network interface module 401 detects the sending buffer of the port, and if there is a packet, obtains the ethernet MAC DA of the corresponding terminal according to the video networking destination address DA of the packet, adds the ethernet MAC DA of the terminal, the MAC SA of the ethernet coordination gateway, and the ethernet length or frame type, and sends the packet.
The other modules in the ethernet protocol gateway function similarly to the access switch.
A terminal:
the system mainly comprises a network interface module, a service processing module and a CPU module; for example, the set-top box mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding and decoding engine module and a CPU module; the coding board mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding engine module and a CPU module; the memory mainly comprises a network interface module, a CPU module and a disk array module.
1.3 devices of the metropolitan area network part can be mainly classified into 2 types: node server, node exchanger, metropolitan area server. The node switch mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module; the metropolitan area server mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module.
2. Video networking packet definition
2.1 Access network packet definition
The data packet of the access network mainly comprises the following parts: destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), reserved bytes, payload (pdu), CRC.
As shown in the following table, the data packet of the access network mainly includes the following parts:
DA SA Reserved Payload CRC
wherein:
the Destination Address (DA) is composed of 8 bytes (byte), the first byte represents the type of the data packet (such as various protocol packets, multicast data packets, unicast data packets, etc.), there are 256 possibilities at most, the second byte to the sixth byte are metropolitan area network addresses, and the seventh byte and the eighth byte are access network addresses;
the Source Address (SA) is also composed of 8 bytes (byte), defined as the same as the Destination Address (DA);
the reserved byte consists of 2 bytes;
the payload part has different lengths according to different types of data packets, and is 64 bytes if the data packet is a variety of protocol packets, and is 32+1024 or 1056 bytes if the data packet is a unicast data packet, of course, the length is not limited to the above 2 types;
the CRC consists of 4 bytes and is calculated in accordance with the standard ethernet CRC algorithm.
2.2 metropolitan area network packet definition
The topology of a metropolitan area network is a graph and there may be 2, or even more than 2, connections between two devices, i.e., there may be more than 2 connections between a node switch and a node server, a node switch and a node switch, and a node switch and a node server. However, the metro network address of the metro network device is unique, and in order to accurately describe the connection relationship between the metro network devices, parameters are introduced in the embodiment of the present invention: a label to uniquely describe a metropolitan area network device.
In this specification, the definition of the Label is similar to that of the Label of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switch), and assuming that there are two connections between the device a and the device B, there are 2 labels for the packet from the device a to the device B, and 2 labels for the packet from the device B to the device a. The label is classified into an incoming label and an outgoing label, and assuming that the label (incoming label) of the packet entering the device a is 0x0000, the label (outgoing label) of the packet leaving the device a may become 0x 0001. The network access process of the metro network is a network access process under centralized control, that is, address allocation and label allocation of the metro network are both dominated by the metro server, and the node switch and the node server are both passively executed, which is different from label allocation of MPLS, and label allocation of MPLS is a result of mutual negotiation between the switch and the server.
As shown in the following table, the data packet of the metro network mainly includes the following parts:
DA SA Reserved label (R) Payload CRC
Namely Destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), Reserved byte (Reserved), tag, payload (pdu), CRC. The format of the tag may be defined by reference to the following: the tag is 32 bits with the upper 16 bits reserved and only the lower 16 bits used, and its position is between the reserved bytes and payload of the packet.
Based on the characteristics of the video network, the firmware upgrading scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention follows the protocol of the video network, upgrades the external equipment connected with the video network terminal, simplifies the firmware upgrading process and improves the firmware upgrading efficiency.
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The firmware upgrading method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to the video network. An internet of view terminal and an internet of view server (which may be the node server described above) may be included in the internet of view. The video network terminal is a video network service landing device, an actual participant or a server of the video network service, and can be various conference set-top boxes, video telephone set-top boxes, operation teaching set-top boxes, streaming media gateways, storage gateways, media synthesizers and the like. The terminal of the video network needs to be registered on the video network server to carry out normal service. The video network terminal may be connected to a plurality of external devices, such as a camera, an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) device (the HDMI device may include a television, etc.), a microphone, and the like. The embodiment of the invention mainly introduces upgrading of firmware corresponding to external equipment connected with a video networking terminal.
Referring to fig. 5, a flowchart illustrating steps of a firmware upgrade method according to a first embodiment of the present invention is shown.
The firmware upgrading method of the embodiment of the invention can comprise the following steps:
step 501, after downloading firmware from a video network server, the video network terminal modifies the name of the firmware into a format including version information and stores the modified name of the firmware into a preset directory.
The video network server can store the firmware corresponding to the external equipment connected with the video network terminal, and the video network terminal can download the required firmware from the video network server.
In a preferred embodiment, before step 501, the method may further include: and after the video network terminal receives the firmware upgrading notification sent by the video network server, if upgrading is determined, downloading the firmware from the video network server.
After some or some firmware stored in the video network server is updated, the video network server can send a firmware update notification to the corresponding video network terminal. The firmware upgrade notification may include an identification of the end of the video network (e.g., a user number), a MAC address of the end of the video network, a name of the firmware, version information of the firmware, etc. Optionally, the video network server may send the firmware upgrade notification to the video network terminal according to a downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal through the video network.
In one specific implementation, the video network server may encapsulate the firmware upgrade notification into a first video network protocol data packet based on a first video network protocol, and achieve the purpose of sending the firmware upgrade notification by sending the first video network protocol data packet.
In practical applications, the video network is a network with a centralized control function, and includes a master control server and a lower level network device, where the lower level network device includes a terminal, and one of the core concepts of the video network is to configure a table for a downlink communication link of a current service by notifying a switching device by the master control server, and then transmit a data packet based on the configured table.
Namely, the communication method in the video network includes:
and the master control server configures the downlink communication link of the current service.
And transmitting the data packet of the current service sent by the source terminal to a target terminal (such as a video network terminal) according to the downlink communication link.
In the embodiment of the present invention, configuring the downlink communication link of the current service includes: and informing the switching equipment related to the downlink communication link of the current service to allocate the table.
Further, transmitting according to the downlink communication link includes: the configured table is consulted, and the switching equipment transmits the received data packet through the corresponding port.
In particular implementations, the services include unicast communication services and multicast communication services. Namely, whether multicast communication or unicast communication, the core concept of the table matching-table can be adopted to realize communication in the video network.
As mentioned above, the video network includes an access network portion, in which the master server is a node server and the lower-level network devices include an access switch and a terminal.
For the unicast communication service in the access network, the step of configuring the downlink communication link of the current service by the master server may include the following steps:
and a substep S11, the main control server obtains the downlink communication link information of the current service according to the service request protocol packet initiated by the source terminal, wherein the downlink communication link information includes the downlink communication port information of the main control server and the access switch participating in the current service.
In the substep S12, the main control server sets a downlink port to which a packet of the current service is directed in a packet address table inside the main control server according to the downlink communication port information of the control server; and sending a port configuration command to the corresponding access switch according to the downlink communication port information of the access switch.
In sub-step S13, the access switch sets the downstream port to which the packet of the current service is directed in its internal packet address table according to the port configuration command.
For a multicast communication service (e.g., video conference) in the access network, the step of the master server obtaining downlink information of the current service may include the following sub-steps:
in sub-step S21, the main control server obtains a service request protocol packet initiated by the target terminal and applying for the multicast communication service, where the service request protocol packet includes service type information, service content information, and an access network address of the target terminal.
Wherein, the service content information includes a service number.
And a substep S22, the main control server extracts the access network address of the source terminal in a preset content-address mapping table according to the service number.
In the substep of S23, the main control server obtains the multicast address corresponding to the source terminal and distributes the multicast address to the target terminal; and acquiring the communication link information of the current multicast service according to the service type information and the access network addresses of the source terminal and the target terminal.
After receiving the firmware upgrading notification, the video network terminal can provide an option of upgrading or not in the interface, and the user can select upgrading or not. And if the video network terminal detects the action of selecting the upgrade by the user, the video network terminal can determine the upgrade and then download the corresponding firmware from the video network server.
Optionally, the specific process of downloading the firmware from the video network server by the video network terminal may include: the video network terminal sends a firmware upgrading request to a video network server through the video network; the video network terminal receives the firmware returned by the video network server according to the downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal aiming at the firmware upgrading request.
In one specific implementation, the video networking terminal may encapsulate the firmware upgrade request into a second video networking protocol data packet based on a second video networking protocol, and send the second video networking protocol data packet to the video networking server through the video networking. The firmware upgrade request may include an identification of the end of the video network (e.g., a user number), a MAC address of the end of the video network, a name of the firmware, etc. And the video network server analyzes the second video network protocol data packet after receiving the second video network protocol data packet, acquires corresponding firmware aiming at the firmware upgrading request, packages the acquired firmware into a third video network protocol data packet based on a third video network protocol, and sends the third video network protocol data packet to the video network terminal through the video network.
After downloading the firmware from the video network server, the video network terminal modifies the name of the firmware into a format including version information. For example, for the firmware corresponding to the camera, after the firmware is downloaded from the video network server, the name of the firmware is the original name CAM0_ v0.mrg, and the original name does not include the version information corresponding to the firmware, the name may be modified to CAM0_ v2.3.8.mrg, where 2.3.8 represents the version information of the firmware. For the firmware corresponding to the HDMI device, if the name of the firmware is the original name CAM1_ v1.mrg after being downloaded from the video network server, the name can be modified to CAM1_ v2.3.7.mrg, where 2.3.7 represents the version information of the firmware.
And after the firmware name is modified, the video network terminal stores the downloaded firmware into a preset directory according to the modified name. The preset directory is a preset directory for storing files downloaded from the video network server by the video network terminal. For example, the preset directory may be setting/data/vv/uvc/. The downloaded file may include firmware corresponding to an external device of the video network terminal, a file corresponding to the video network terminal itself, and the like.
Step 502, the video network terminal starts a firmware upgrading program, searches for the downloaded firmware from a preset directory, and determines whether the firmware currently used by the external device corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded according to the name of the downloaded firmware.
The terminal of the video network can start the firmware upgrading program after downloading the firmware, for example, the firmware upgrading program can be an update _3516 program. The firmware upgrade program may be stored in the preset directory, or may be stored in another directory, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.
After the firmware upgrading program is started, the downloaded firmware can be searched from the preset directory. In a specific implementation, the names of different types of files correspond to different suffixes, so that the preset directory can be traversed, a file indicated as firmware by the suffix is searched, and the searched file is the downloaded firmware. For example, the suffix corresponding to the firmware name is mrg, so that the preset directory/data/vv/uvc/, from which a file with the suffix mrg is searched, can be traversed, and the searched file with the suffix mrg is the downloaded firmware.
After the downloaded firmware is found, because the names of the firmware are modified after the downloaded firmware is downloaded, whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be updated can be determined according to the names of the downloaded firmware.
In a specific implementation, the step of determining whether the firmware currently used by the external device corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be updated according to the name of the downloaded firmware may include: the video network terminal extracts the version information of the downloaded firmware from the name of the downloaded firmware and reads the version information of the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware; comparing the extracted version information with the read version information; and if the extracted version information is higher than the read version information, determining that the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded.
For example, if the name of the firmware corresponding to a certain downloaded camera is found to be CAM0_ v2.3.8.mrg, the version information of the firmware can be extracted from the firmware by the video network terminal to be 2.3.8; the terminal of the video network can also read version information of the firmware currently used by the camera through an IO (Input/Output) command, for example, 2.3.7; the terminal of the video network compares the extracted version information 2.3.8 with the read version information 2.3.7, and it can be known that the version information 2.3.8 is higher than the version information 2.3.7, so that it can be determined that the firmware currently used by the camera needs to be upgraded, that is, upgraded to the 2.3.8 version.
If the name of the firmware corresponding to a certain downloaded HDMI device is found to be CAM1_ V2.3.7.mrg, the video network terminal can extract the version information of the firmware from the firmware to be 2.3.7; the video network terminal can also read the version information of the firmware currently used by the HDMI device through an IO command, such as 2.3.6; the video network terminal compares the extracted version information 2.3.7 with the read version information 2.3.6, and it can be known that the version information 2.3.7 is higher than the version information 2.3.6, so that it can be determined that the firmware currently used by the HDMI device needs to be upgraded, that is, upgraded to the 2.3.7 version.
Step 503, if the video network terminal determines that the firmware needs to be upgraded, storing the downloaded firmware to an upgrade path corresponding to the external device, and creating a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrade path.
And if the video network terminal determines that the firmware currently used by a certain external device needs to be upgraded, storing the downloaded firmware corresponding to the external device stored in the preset directory under an upgrade path corresponding to the external device, and creating a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrade path. The configuration file is used to record the name of the downloaded firmware, that is, the name of the downloaded firmware is written into the created configuration file.
In a preferred embodiment, before saving the downloaded firmware to the upgrade path corresponding to the external device in step 503, the method may further include: and the video network terminal starts an interface of the external equipment of which the currently used firmware needs to be upgraded and converts the running path corresponding to the external equipment into the upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment. The method comprises the steps that firstly, an interface of the external equipment can be started to store downloaded firmware and configuration files corresponding to the external equipment into an upgrading path, and the external equipment enters a running path corresponding to the external equipment after the interface is started by default, wherein the running path represents a path corresponding to the external equipment in a running state; then, since the file related to the firmware upgrade needs to be saved, the operating path corresponding to the external device may be converted into an upgrade path corresponding to the external device, where the upgrade path represents a path corresponding to the external device in the firmware upgrade state, and the upgrade path may be an absolute path in a USB flash disk (english name "USB flash disk") format.
After the path is switched, the video network terminal can store the currently used external equipment of which the firmware needs to be upgraded, the corresponding downloaded firmware to the upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment, and create the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrading path. After the downloaded firmware is saved and the configuration file is created, the file required by the subsequent firmware upgrade is saved under the upgrade path corresponding to the external device, and the video network terminal can close the interface of the external device.
For example, according to the above example, when the video networking terminal determines that the firmware currently used by the camera needs to be upgraded, the video networking terminal opens the interface of the camera, defaults to enter the operation path/dev/video 0 corresponding to the camera, and the video networking terminal converts the operation path/dev/video 0 corresponding to the camera into the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 0 corresponding to the camera. The terminal of the converted rear view network saves the downloaded firmware CAM0_ V2.3.8.mrg corresponding to the camera to the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 0, creates a configuration file with the name of filename0.txt corresponding to the firmware CAM0_ V2.3.8.mrg under the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 0, and writes the firmware name CAM0_ V2.3.8.mrg into the file of filename 0.txt. Therefore, the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 0 corresponding to the camera includes a firmware with a name CAM0_ v2.3.8.mrg and a configuration file with a name filename0.txt, where the configuration file with the name filename0.txt records the firmware name CAM0_ v2.3.8.mrg, so as to satisfy the condition required for firmware upgrade. And then the video network terminal can close the interface of the camera.
And if the video networking terminal further determines that the firmware currently used by the HDMI device needs to be upgraded, the video networking terminal starts an interface of the HDMI device, the operating path/dev/video 1 corresponding to the HDMI device is entered by default, and the video networking terminal is converted into the upgrading path/mnt/sda/sda 1 corresponding to the HDMI device from the operating path/dev/video 1 corresponding to the HDMI device. The conversion rear view networking terminal saves the downloaded firmware CAM1_ V2.3.7.mrg corresponding to the HDMI device to the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 1, creates a configuration file with the name of filename1.txt corresponding to the firmware CAM1_ V2.3.7.mrg under the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 1, and writes the firmware name CAM1_ V2.3.7.mrg into the filename1.txt file. Therefore, the HDMI device includes a firmware with a name CAM1_ v2.3.7.mrg and a configuration file with a name filename1.txt under the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 1 corresponding to the HDMI device, and the configuration file with the filename CAM1_ v2.3.7.mrg records the firmware name CAM1_ v2.3.7.mrg, so as to satisfy the condition required for firmware upgrade. The video network terminal can then close the interface of the HDMI device.
And step 504, after the video network terminal is restarted, upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrading path.
The terminal of the video network can automatically execute the reboot command after the above steps are executed, and then restart the terminal. The video network terminal can also pop up a prompt box for the user to select whether to restart, and execute a reboot command after the user selects to restart, and restart. The embodiments of the present invention are not limited in this regard.
After the video network terminal is restarted, for the external device needing firmware upgrading, the external device can enter an upgrading path corresponding to the external device, and the firmware of the external device is upgraded according to the downloaded firmware and configuration files corresponding to the external device stored in the upgrading path. In a specific implementation, the firmware to be written in the upgrading process can be determined through the stored configuration file, then the firmware to be written in, namely the stored downloaded firmware, namely the firmware corresponding to the firmware name recorded in the configuration file is obtained, and the downloaded firmware is written in the corresponding external device, so that the upgrading of the firmware is completed.
For example, for an external device such as a camera, after being restarted, the terminal of the video network enters an upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 0 corresponding to the camera, and the firmware CAM0_ v2.3.8.mrg and the configuration file 0.txt stored in the upgrade path are used to complete upgrading of the firmware corresponding to the camera.
For the external device, HDMI equipment, the video network terminal enters the upgrade path/mnt/sda/sda 1 corresponding to the HDMI equipment after being restarted, and the firmware corresponding to the HDMI equipment can be upgraded by using the firmware CAM1_ v2.3.7.mrg and the configuration file 1.txt stored in the upgrade path.
In the embodiment of the invention, the method is carried out by traversing the directory and dynamically upgrading. Mainly utilizing the principle of firmware upgrading, wherein one condition is that a firmware program file and a corresponding configuration file are simultaneously provided; the problem of multiple configuration is solved by dynamically creating a configuration file; and dynamically acquiring the version information of the currently used firmware and the version information of the downloaded latest firmware in a code form for comparison. The embodiment of the invention can only modify the name of the firmware into a format comprising version information, does not need to record the version information of the firmware by using an independent file, and does not need to store the configuration file corresponding to the firmware in the directory for storing the firmware, so that only the downloaded firmware is stored in the preset directory, whether the firmware is upgraded is judged according to the name of the firmware, the configuration file corresponding to the firmware is created when the downloaded firmware is stored to the upgrading path, and whether the firmware is upgraded is judged and the upgrading process is simpler. Moreover, the defect that the firmware can only be upgraded independently before the video network terminal is solved, the firmware of a plurality of different external devices can be upgraded simultaneously by adopting the latest firmware upgrading program, and the workload of the staff for upgrading is reduced.
It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the illustrated order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required to implement the invention.
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Referring to fig. 6, a block diagram of a firmware upgrading apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention is shown. The firmware upgrading device provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to the video network, and the video network can comprise a video network terminal and a video network server.
The firmware upgrading device of the embodiment of the invention can comprise the following module modules positioned in the video network terminal:
the video networking terminal includes:
a modification module 601, configured to modify a name of the firmware into a format including version information after downloading the firmware from the video networking server, and store the modified name in a preset directory;
a determining module 602, configured to start a firmware upgrading program, search for a downloaded firmware from the preset directory, and determine whether a currently used firmware of the external device corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded according to a name of the downloaded firmware;
a storing module 603, configured to store the downloaded firmware to an upgrade path corresponding to the external device if it is determined that the firmware needs to be upgraded, and create a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrade path;
and the upgrading module 604 is configured to upgrade, after the restart, according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrade path.
In a preferred embodiment, the video network terminal further includes: the conversion module is used for starting an interface of the external equipment before the storage module stores the downloaded firmware to an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment and creates a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrade path, and converting an operation path corresponding to the external equipment into an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment, wherein the upgrade path is an absolute path; and the closing module is used for closing the interface of the external equipment after the storage module stores the downloaded firmware to the upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment and the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware is created in the upgrading path.
In a preferred embodiment, the determining module comprises: the acquisition unit is used for extracting the version information of the downloaded firmware from the name of the downloaded firmware and reading the version information of the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware; a comparison unit for comparing the extracted version information with the read version information; and if the extracted version information is higher than the read version information, determining that the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded.
In a preferred embodiment, the video network terminal further includes: and the downloading module is used for downloading the firmware from the video network server if the upgrading is determined after receiving the firmware upgrading notification sent by the video network server.
In a preferred embodiment, the download module comprises: the sending unit is used for sending a firmware upgrading request to the video networking server through the video networking; and the receiving unit is used for receiving the firmware returned by the video network server according to the downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal through the video network aiming at the firmware upgrading request.
The embodiment of the invention is aimed at upgrading the firmware in the video networking terminal, only the downloaded firmware is saved in the preset directory without independently creating a configuration file for recording the name of the firmware and a configuration file for recording the version information of the firmware, judging whether the firmware is upgraded according to the name of the firmware, and creating the configuration file corresponding to the firmware when the downloaded firmware is saved to the upgrading path, so that the judgment on whether the firmware is upgraded and the upgrading process are simpler and more convenient, the firmware corresponding to a plurality of different external devices can be upgraded simultaneously, and the upgrading efficiency is higher.
For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.
The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.
As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.
Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.
The above detailed description is provided for a firmware upgrading method and a firmware upgrading device provided by the present invention, and the principle and the implementation of the present invention are explained in the present document by applying specific examples, and the description of the above embodiments is only used to help understanding the method and the core idea of the present invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

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1. A firmware upgrading method is applied to a video network, wherein the video network comprises a video network terminal and a video network server, and the method comprises the following steps:
after downloading the firmware from the video networking server, the video networking terminal modifies the name of the firmware into a format including version information and stores the name of the firmware into a preset directory;
the video network terminal starts a firmware upgrading program, searches the downloaded firmware from the preset directory, and determines whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded according to the name of the downloaded firmware;
if the video network terminal determines that the firmware needs to be upgraded, the downloaded firmware is stored under an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment, and a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware is created under the upgrade path;
after the video network terminal is restarted, upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored in the upgrading path;
the step of determining whether the firmware currently used by the external device corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded according to the name of the downloaded firmware includes:
the video network terminal extracts the version information of the downloaded firmware from the name of the downloaded firmware and reads the version information of the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware;
the video network terminal compares the extracted version information with the read version information;
and if the extracted version information is higher than the read version information, determining that the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded.
2. The method of claim 1,
before the step of storing the downloaded firmware to the upgrade path corresponding to the external device and creating the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrade path, the method further includes:
the video network terminal starts an interface of the external equipment and converts a running path corresponding to the external equipment into an upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment; the upgrading path is an absolute path;
after the step of saving the downloaded firmware to the upgrade path corresponding to the external device and creating the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware in the upgrade path, the method further includes:
and the video network terminal closes the interface of the external equipment.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the terminal of the video network downloads the firmware from the server of the video network, before the step of modifying the name of the firmware into a format including version information and saving the name of the firmware to a preset directory, the method further comprises:
and after the video network terminal receives the firmware upgrading notification sent by the video network server, if upgrading is determined, downloading the firmware from the video network server.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of downloading the firmware from the video networking server comprises:
the video network terminal sends a firmware upgrading request to the video network server through the video network;
and the video network terminal receives the firmware returned by the video network server according to the downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal aiming at the firmware upgrading request through the video network.
5. The firmware upgrading device is applied to an internet of vision, wherein the internet of vision comprises an internet of vision terminal and an internet of vision server,
the video networking terminal includes:
the modification module is used for modifying the name of the firmware into a format comprising version information after the firmware is downloaded from the video networking server and storing the name of the firmware into a preset directory;
the determining module is used for starting a firmware upgrading program, searching the downloaded firmware from the preset directory, and determining whether the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded or not according to the name of the downloaded firmware;
the storage module is used for storing the downloaded firmware to an upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment and creating a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrading path if the upgrading is determined to be needed;
the upgrading module is used for upgrading according to the downloaded firmware and the corresponding configuration file stored under the upgrading path after restarting;
wherein the determining module comprises:
the acquisition unit is used for extracting the version information of the downloaded firmware from the name of the downloaded firmware and reading the version information of the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware;
a comparison unit for comparing the extracted version information with the read version information; and if the extracted version information is higher than the read version information, determining that the firmware currently used by the external equipment corresponding to the downloaded firmware needs to be upgraded.
6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the video networking terminal further comprises:
the conversion module is used for starting an interface of the external equipment before the storage module stores the downloaded firmware to an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment and creates a configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware under the upgrade path, and converting an operation path corresponding to the external equipment into an upgrade path corresponding to the external equipment; the upgrading path is an absolute path;
and the closing module is used for closing the interface of the external equipment after the storage module stores the downloaded firmware to the upgrading path corresponding to the external equipment and the configuration file corresponding to the downloaded firmware is created in the upgrading path.
7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the video networking terminal further comprises:
and the downloading module is used for downloading the firmware from the video network server if the upgrading is determined after receiving the firmware upgrading notification sent by the video network server.
8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the download module comprises:
the sending unit is used for sending a firmware upgrading request to the video networking server through the video networking;
and the receiving unit is used for receiving the firmware returned by the video network server according to the downlink communication link configured for the video network terminal through the video network aiming at the firmware upgrading request.
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