CN110750276A

CN110750276A - Application program upgrading method and device based on video networking and video networking system

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Publication number: CN110750276A
Application number: CN201810813901.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 高�浩; 牛永会; 张小帅; 王艳辉
Original assignee: Visionvera Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Visionvera Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-07-23
Filing date: 2018-07-23
Publication date: 2020-02-04

Abstract

The invention provides an application program upgrading method, device and system based on a video network, wherein the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that a video networking application program installed in terminal equipment detects whether the video networking application program needs to be upgraded or not; when the video networking application program detects that the video networking application program needs to be upgraded, sending a downloading request to the storage server, wherein the downloading request comprises an identifier of the video networking application program; when a response message which is returned by the storage server and is based on the downloading request is received, downloading upgrading installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server; and upgrading by adopting the upgrading installation information. The invention can realize the automatic downloading and automatic updating of the upgrading information of the video networking application program.

Description

Application program upgrading method and device based on video networking and video networking system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of video networking, in particular to an application program upgrading method based on the video networking, an application program upgrading device based on the video networking and a video networking system.

Background

The video networking is an important milestone for network development, is a higher-level form of the Internet, is a real-time network, can realize the real-time transmission of full-network high-definition videos which cannot be realized by the existing Internet, 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, and can integrate dozens of services such as video networking 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) channel, intelligent video broadcasting control, information distribution and the like into a system platform, and realize high-definition video playing through various terminal devices.

With the continuous expansion of video networking services, terminal devices are increasing, and the workload of operation and maintenance personnel on device maintenance (including program upgrading work) is also increasing in the maintenance process.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, embodiments of the present invention are proposed to provide a method for upgrading an application based on a video network and a corresponding device for upgrading an application based on a video network and a video network system, which overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.

In order to solve the above problems, the embodiment of the present invention discloses an application program upgrading method based on a video network, wherein the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the method comprises the following steps:

the method comprises the steps that a video networking application program installed in terminal equipment detects whether the video networking application program needs to be upgraded or not;

when the video networking application program detects that the video networking application program needs to be upgraded, sending a downloading request to the storage server, wherein the downloading request comprises an identifier of the video networking application program;

when a response message which is returned by the storage server and is based on the downloading request is received, downloading upgrading installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server;

and upgrading by adopting the upgrading installation information.

Preferably, the detecting, by the video networking application installed in the terminal device, whether the application itself needs to be upgraded includes:

the video networking application program sends a version acquisition request to the storage server, wherein the version acquisition request comprises the identification of the application program;

receiving latest version information of the application program, which is returned by the storage server based on the version acquisition request, wherein the latest version information comprises a version number;

and if the version number returned by the storage server is inconsistent with the version number of the locally installed application program, judging that the application program needs to be upgraded.

Preferably, the downloading of upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server includes:

acquiring a plurality of corresponding upgrade installation sub-packages from the video network server;

if the upgrade installation sub-package is judged to be lost, circularly acquiring the lost upgrade installation sub-package from the video network server until the upgrade installation sub-package is received;

and packaging all the received upgrade installation sub-packages to obtain upgrade installation information.

Preferably, after the upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application program is downloaded from the video networking server, the method further includes:

and when the upgrade installation information is received, sending a download stopping command to the storage server.

The invention also discloses an application program upgrading method based on the video network, wherein the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the method comprises the following steps:

a storage server receives a downloading request sent by the video networking application program, wherein the downloading request comprises an identifier of the video networking application program;

obtaining upgrading installation information of the video networking application program based on the downloading request;

sending the upgrade installation information to the video networking server;

receiving a release notification message returned by the video network server after the upgrade installation information is released;

generating a response message according to the release notification message, wherein the response message comprises the identification information of the video network server;

and sending the response message to the video networking application program, wherein the video networking application program is used for downloading the upgrading installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server based on the response message, and upgrading the video networking application program.

Preferably, before the storage server receives the download request sent by the internet-of-view application program, the method further includes:

receiving a version acquisition request sent by the video networking application program, wherein the version acquisition request comprises an identification of the application program;

acquiring latest version information of the application program based on the version acquisition request, wherein the latest version information comprises a version number;

and returning the latest version information to the video networking application program.

Preferably, the sending the upgrade installation information to the video network server includes:

and circularly sending the upgrading installation information to the video network server until reaching a preset stopping time.

Preferably, after the sending the response message to the internet-of-things application, the method further comprises:

receiving a download stop command sent by the video networking application program;

counting the number of all received commands for stopping downloading to obtain statistical information of the downloading commands;

and when the download command statistical information is equal to the number of requested video networking application programs, determining that the stop time is reached, and stopping sending the upgrade installation information to the video networking server.

the method comprises the steps that a video network server receives upgrade installation information sent by a storage server;

and releasing the upgrade installation information and returning a release notification message to the storage server.

Preferably, the issuing the upgrade installation information includes:

receiving an upgrading information acquisition request sent by a video networking application program;

and splitting the upgrade installation information into a plurality of upgrade installation sub-packets based on the upgrade information acquisition request, and sending the upgrade installation information to the video networking application program.

The invention also discloses a video networking system, which comprises the video networking server, the storage server and the video networking application program.

The invention also discloses an application program upgrading device based on the video network, wherein the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the device comprises:

the upgrading detection module is used for detecting whether the video networking application program installed in the terminal equipment needs to be upgraded or not;

the download request sending module is used for sending a download request to the storage server when the video networking application program detects that the video networking application program needs to be upgraded, wherein the download request comprises an identifier of the video networking application program;

the upgrade installation information downloading module is used for downloading upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server when receiving a response message which is returned by the storage server and is based on the downloading request;

and the upgrading module is used for upgrading by adopting the upgrading installation information.

the downloading request receiving module is used for receiving a downloading request sent by the video networking application program, wherein the downloading request comprises an identifier of the video networking application program;

the upgrading installation information acquisition module is used for acquiring upgrading installation information of the video networking application program based on the downloading request;

the upgrade installation information sending module is used for sending the upgrade installation information to the video network server;

the release notification message receiving module is used for receiving a release notification message returned by the video network server after the upgrade installation information is released;

a response message generating module, configured to generate a response message according to the release notification message, where the response message includes identification information of the video networking server;

and the response message sending module is used for sending the response message to the video networking application program, and the video networking application program is used for downloading the upgrading installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server based on the response message so as to upgrade the video networking application program.

the upgrade installation information receiving module is used for receiving upgrade installation information sent by the storage server;

and the upgrading installation information issuing module is used for issuing the upgrading installation information and returning an issuing notification message to the storage server.

The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:

in the embodiment of the invention, the video networking application program can automatically detect whether the video networking application program needs to be upgraded or not, when the video networking application program needs to be upgraded, a downloading request is sent to the storage server, and when a response message returned by the storage server is received, the upgrading installation information corresponding to the video networking application program is downloaded from the video networking server, and the video networking application program is automatically upgraded by adopting the upgrading installation information, so that the automatic downloading and the automatic updating of the upgrading information of the video networking application program are realized, the automation degree of the video networking application program is improved, the updating efficiency of the application program is improved, the maintenance workload of manual work on the application program is reduced, and the maintenance cost of the application program is saved.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic networking diagram of a video network of the present invention;

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 schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a video networking system of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating the steps of an embodiment of a method for upgrading applications over a video network;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the steps of another embodiment of a method for upgrading applications over a video network;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the steps of a further embodiment of a method for upgrading applications over a video network of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for upgrading applications based on video networking according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a block diagram of another embodiment of an apparatus for upgrading applications based on video networking according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a block diagram of an application program upgrading apparatus based on a video network according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

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 the traditional Ethernet (Ethernet) to face the potentially huge first 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: server, exchanger (including Ethernet protocol conversion gateway), terminal (including various set-top boxes, code board, memory, 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 server, access exchanger (including Ethernet protocol conversion gateway), terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding board, memory, 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 and may include 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 destination address DA of the packet, adds the ethernet MAC DA of the terminal, the MACSA 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 datagrams, and is 64 bytes if the datagram is various types of protocol packets, and is 32+1024 or 1056 bytes if the datagram is a unicast 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.

On the basis of the above-mentioned video network, referring to fig. 5, a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a video network system of the present invention is shown, and the video network system at least may include a video network server, a storage server, and a video network application program.

In the embodiment of the invention, the storage server stores the installation information of the latest version of each application program, when the video networking application program detects that the video networking application program needs to be upgraded, the storage server requests the upgrade installation information to the storage server, the storage server can release the upgrade installation information through the video networking server, and the video networking application program can complete automatic upgrade after obtaining the upgrade installation information from the video networking server.

The present invention is described in detail below:

referring to fig. 6, a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of an application program upgrading method based on a video network according to the present invention is shown, where the embodiment of the method is described from a video network application program side, and may specifically include the following steps:

601, detecting whether the video networking application program installed in the terminal equipment needs to be upgraded or not;

in a specific implementation, the video networking application may be an application developed based on a video networking application scenario, and the video networking application may be installed in the video networking device or may be installed in an internet device, that is, the terminal device may include a video networking device using a video networking protocol or an internet device using an internet protocol, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, step 601 may further include the following sub-steps:

substep S11, the internet of view application sending a version acquisition request to the storage server, wherein the version acquisition request includes an identification of the application;

substep S12, receiving latest version information of the application program returned by the storage server based on the version acquisition request, wherein the latest version information includes a version number;

and a substep S13, if the version number returned by the storage server is not consistent with the version number of the locally installed application program, determining that the application program needs to be upgraded.

In particular, the storage server may store the latest version of all applications in the video network. The video networking application installed in the terminal device may periodically or periodically query the storage server for the latest version information.

In a specific implementation, the application program of the video network may generate a version obtaining request according to the identifier of the application program, and send the version obtaining request to the storage server. After receiving the version obtaining request, the storage server may obtain an identifier of the application program, query latest version information of the application program according to the identifier of the application program, and if the query is successful, return the latest version information to the corresponding application program, where the latest version information may include a version number. And if the search fails, sending failure prompt information to the corresponding application program.

After receiving the latest version information returned by the storage server, the application program may compare the version number in the latest version information with the locally installed version number, and if the version number in the latest version information returned by the storage server is not consistent with the locally installed version number, that is, the version number in the latest version information returned by the storage server is higher than the locally installed version number, it is determined that the application program needs to be upgraded. If the two version numbers are consistent, the application program is judged not to need to be upgraded, and the currently installed version is the latest version.

The storage server may be a server in the internet or a server in the video network, and the terminal device for installing the application program may be a device in the internet or a device in the video network. If the storage server and the terminal device follow the same communication protocol, for example, both devices are devices in the internet or both devices are devices in the internet, the communication protocol can be directly adopted for communication. If the storage server and the terminal device follow different communication protocols, one is a device in the internet, and the other is a device in the video network, a protocol conversion server is required to be arranged between the communication links of the storage server and the terminal device, and the protocol conversion server is used for performing protocol conversion between the two devices.

Step 602, when the application program of the video network detects that the application program of the video network needs to be upgraded, a downloading request is sent to the storage server;

wherein the download request includes an identification of the video networking application.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the application program of the video network detects that the application program of the video network needs to be upgraded, a downloading request can be generated and automatically sent to the storage server, wherein the downloading request comprises the identification of the application program.

The download request, which may also be referred to as a start download command, is used to notify the storage server that the application is ready to begin downloading upgrade information.

After receiving the download request, the storage server can acquire upgrade installation information of the corresponding video network application program and send the upgrade installation information to the video network server.

Specifically, after receiving the download request, the storage server starts to prepare a file, for example, according to the identifier of the application program in the download request, obtain upgrade installation information corresponding to the application program from a database, and transmit the upgrade installation information to the video network server in the form of a data packet.

Meanwhile, the storage server can also generate a request issuing command and send the request issuing command to the video network server so as to inform the video network server to issue the received upgrade installation information of the application program.

It should be noted that the video networking server follows the video networking protocol, and if the storage server is a server in the video networking, the storage server can directly communicate with the video networking server through the agreed video networking protocol; if the storage server is a server in the Internet, the data can be communicated with the video network server after protocol conversion is carried out on the data through the protocol conversion server.

After receiving the request issuing command and the upgrade installation information, the video network server issues corresponding upgrade installation information (i.e. live broadcast of the upgrade installation information), and after the issuance is finished, an issuance notification message can be generated, and the issuance notification message is returned to the storage server to notify the storage server that the issuance of the upgrade installation information is finished.

After receiving the release notification message, the storage server determines that the video network server has released the upgrade installation information, at this time, the storage server may generate a response message and send the response message to the application program that needs to be upgraded currently, where the response message is used to notify the application program that the upgrade installation information may start to be downloaded.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for an application program of a latest version stored in a storage server, the application program may be installed in a plurality of terminal devices, and in order to prevent a packet loss problem that occurs when the plurality of terminal devices download upgrade installation information of the application program to a video network server, the storage server may send the upgrade installation information to the video network server in a cycle, and the storage server issues the upgrade installation information, and the storage server does not stop sending the upgrade installation information until a predetermined stop timing is reached.

Step 603, when a response message based on the downloading request returned by the storage server is received, downloading upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server;

when the application program receives the response message returned by the storage server, the corresponding upgrade installation information can be obtained from the video network server, and the upgrade installation information is stored locally.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, step 603 further comprises the following sub-steps:

substep S21, obtaining a plurality of corresponding upgrade installation subcontracts from the video network server;

step S22, if the upgrade installation sub-package is judged to be lost, the lost upgrade installation sub-package is obtained from the video network server in a circulating mode until the upgrade installation sub-package is received;

and a substep S23, performing packaging processing on all the received upgrade installation sub-packages to obtain upgrade installation information.

In a specific implementation, the response message returned by the storage server to the application program may include an identification of the video network server, for example, a live number of the video network server. When the application program receives the response message, an upgrading information acquisition request can be generated according to the identification of the video network server, and the upgrading information acquisition request is sent to the video network server so as to request for downloading upgrading installation information from the video network server.

In one embodiment, after the upgrade information acquisition request is received by the video network server, the upgrade installation information can be split into a plurality of upgrade installation sub-packages and sent to the video network application program.

In the specific implementation, the header information of each upgrade installation sub-package sent by the video network server includes information such as the total length of the package, the number of the current sub-package, and the like, and if the number of the upgrade installation sub-package received next by the application program is not continuous with the number of the upgrade installation sub-package received last by the application program, the application program can judge that the lost number is a packet loss number, and at this time, the video network obtains the lost upgrade installation sub-package from the video network server again (because the storage server sends the upgrade installation information to the video network server in a circulating manner, the video network server also issues the received upgrade installation information in real time, and therefore, when the application program detects that the packet loss occurs, the next round of data downloading can be started from the video network server).

On the video network application program side, after receiving all the upgrade installation subcontracts, the package packaging processing can be carried out to obtain the upgrade installation information.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after the application program obtains the complete upgrade installation information, the method may further include the following steps:

And when the application program obtains the complete upgrade installation information, generating a download stopping command and sending the download stopping command to the storage server.

On the storage server side, a statistical container may be set for counting the number of all received commands to stop downloading to obtain statistical information of the downloading commands, and then the storage server may determine whether the statistical information of the downloading commands is equal to the number of requested applications of the internet of view, and if so, determine that the stopping time is reached, and at this time, the storage server may stop sending upgrade installation information to the internet of view server. If not, the storage server judges that the stopping time is not reached, and at the moment, the storage server continues to circularly send upgrading installation information to the video networking server.

It should be noted that, if the application program is an application program in the video networking, the application program can directly communicate with the video networking server through an agreed video networking protocol; if the application program is a server in the Internet, the protocol of the data can be converted by the protocol conversion server and then the data can be communicated with the video network server.

And step 604, upgrading by adopting the upgrading installation information.

After the video networking application program obtains the complete upgrade installation information, the video networking application program can begin to decompress the upgrade installation information and start the process of upgrading the application program.

Referring to fig. 7, a flowchart illustrating steps of another embodiment of an application program upgrading method based on a video network according to the present invention is shown, where the embodiment of the method is described from a storage server side, and may specifically include the following steps:

step 701, a storage server receives a download request sent by the video networking application program;

Step 702, obtaining upgrade installation information of the video networking application program based on the download request;

step 703, sending the upgrade installation information to the video network server;

step 704, receiving a release notification message returned by the video network server after releasing the upgrade installation information;

step 705, generating a response message according to the release notification message;

wherein the response message includes identification information of the video networking server.

Step 706, sending the response message to the video networking application.

And the video networking application program is used for downloading the upgrading installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server based on the response message, and upgrading the video networking application program.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, before step 701, the following steps may be further included:

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step 703 may further include the following sub-steps:

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after step 706, the following steps may be further included:

In the embodiment of the invention, the storage server stores the latest version information of all the video networking application programs, when a downloading request sent by the video networking application program is received, the latest version upgrading installation information of the video networking application program is obtained and sent to the video networking server, the video networking server publishes the upgrading installation information, when a publishing notification message returned by the video networking server is received, a response message is generated and sent to the video networking application program, and the video networking application program is used for downloading the upgrading installation information from the video networking server and upgrading the video networking application program. The storage server issues the upgrade installation information through the video networking server, so that the storage server does not need to send the upgrade installation information to the plurality of application programs, the processing logic of the storage server is simplified, and the efficiency of sending the upgrade installation information to the plurality of application programs is improved.

As for the method embodiment of fig. 7, since it is basically similar to the embodiment of fig. 5 and fig. 6, the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the partial description of the method embodiment.

Referring to fig. 8, a flowchart illustrating steps of another embodiment of the application program upgrading method based on the video network according to the present invention is shown, where the embodiment of the method is described from a video network server side, and specifically may include the following steps:

step 801, a video network server receives upgrade installation information sent by a storage server;

step 802, issuing the upgrade installation information, and returning an issuance notification message to the storage server.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step 802 further includes the following sub-steps:

In the embodiment of the invention, the video network server can receive the upgrade installation information sent by the storage server, issue the upgrade installation information and return the issue notification message to the storage server, so that the video network server can provide the upgrade installation information for the application program, the application program can automatically download the upgrade installation information and automatically perform upgrade, and the functions of the video network server are enriched.

As for the method embodiment of fig. 8, since it is basically similar to the embodiment of fig. 5 and fig. 6, the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the partial description of the method embodiment.

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.

Referring to fig. 9, a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for upgrading an application based on a video network according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown, wherein the video network includes a video network server, a storage server and a video network application.

The apparatus may include the following modules:

an upgrade detection module 901, configured to detect whether a video networking application installed in a terminal device needs to be upgraded;

a download request sending module 902, configured to send a download request to the storage server when the video networking application detects that the video networking application needs to be upgraded, where the download request includes an identifier of the video networking application;

an upgrade installation information downloading module 903, configured to, when receiving a response message based on the download request returned by the storage server, download upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application program from the video networking server;

and the upgrading module 904 is configured to upgrade by using the upgrade installation information.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade detection module 901 further includes the following sub-modules:

a version acquisition request sending submodule, configured to send a version acquisition request to the storage server, where the version acquisition request includes an identifier of the application program;

a latest version information receiving submodule, configured to receive latest version information of the application program, where the latest version information includes a version number, and the version information is returned by the storage server based on the version acquisition request;

and the upgrading judgment submodule is used for judging that the application program needs to be upgraded if the version number returned by the storage server is inconsistent with the version number of the locally installed application program.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade installation information downloading module 903 further includes the following sub-modules:

the upgrade installation sub-package obtaining sub-module is used for obtaining a plurality of corresponding upgrade installation sub-packages from the video network server; if the upgrade installation sub-package is judged to be lost, circularly acquiring the lost upgrade installation sub-package from the video network server until the upgrade installation sub-package is received;

and the packaging module is used for packaging all the received upgrade installation sub-packages to obtain upgrade installation information.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus may further include the following modules:

and the download stopping command sending module is used for sending a download stopping command to the storage server when the upgrade installation information is received.

For the apparatus embodiment of fig. 9, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment described above, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, reference may be made to part of the description of the method embodiment.

Referring to fig. 10, a block diagram of another embodiment of an apparatus for upgrading an application based on an internet of view, which includes an internet of view server, a storage server, and an internet of view application, according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown.

The apparatus may include the following modules:

a download request receiving module 1001, configured to receive a download request sent by the video networking application program, where the download request includes an identifier of the video networking application program;

an upgrade installation information obtaining module 1002, configured to obtain upgrade installation information of the video networking application program based on the download request;

an upgrade installation information sending module 1003, configured to send the upgrade installation information to the video networking server;

a release notification message receiving module 1004, configured to receive a release notification message returned by the video network server after the upgrade installation information is released;

a response message generating module 1005, configured to generate a response message according to the publishing notification message, where the response message includes identification information of the video network server;

a response message sending module 1006, configured to send the response message to the video networking application, where the video networking application is configured to download, based on the response message, upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application from the video networking server, and perform upgrade on the video networking application.

the version acquisition request receiving module is used for receiving a version acquisition request sent by the video networking application program, wherein the version acquisition request comprises an identifier of the application program;

a latest version information obtaining module, configured to obtain latest version information of the application program based on the version obtaining request, where the latest version information includes a version number;

and the latest version information returning module is used for returning the latest version information to the video network application program.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade installation information sending module 1003 is further configured to:

the download stopping command receiving module is used for receiving a download stopping command sent by the video networking application program;

the statistical module is used for counting the number of all received commands for stopping downloading to obtain statistical information of the downloading commands;

and the stopping module is used for judging that the stopping time is reached and stopping sending the upgrading installation information to the video network server when the downloading command statistical information is equal to the quantity of the requested video network application programs.

For the apparatus embodiment of fig. 10, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment described above, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, reference may be made to part of the description of the method embodiment.

Referring to fig. 11, a block diagram of a further embodiment of an apparatus for upgrading an application based on an internet of view, which includes an internet of view server, a storage server, and an internet of view application, is shown according to the embodiment of the present invention.

The apparatus may include the following modules:

an upgrade installation information receiving module 1101 configured to receive upgrade installation information sent by the storage server;

and an upgrade installation information publishing module 1102, configured to publish the upgrade installation information, and return a publishing notification message to the storage server.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade installation information publishing module 1102 may further include the following sub-modules:

the upgrading information acquisition request receiving submodule is used for receiving an upgrading information acquisition request sent by a video networking application program;

and the upgrade installation sub-packet sending sub-module is used for splitting the upgrade installation information into a plurality of upgrade installation sub-packets based on the upgrade information acquisition request and sending the upgrade installation information to the video networking application program.

For the apparatus embodiment of fig. 11, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment described above, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, reference may be made to 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 method, the device and the system for upgrading the application program based on the video network are described in detail, a specific example is applied in the text to explain the principle and the implementation of the invention, and the description of the embodiment is only used for helping to understand the method and the core idea of the 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.

Claims

1. The application program upgrading method based on the video network is characterized in that the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the method comprises the following steps:

and upgrading by adopting the upgrading installation information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting whether the video networking application installed in the terminal device needs to be upgraded comprises:

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the downloading of upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application from the video networking server comprises:

4. The method according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising, after the downloading the upgrade installation information corresponding to the video networking application from the video networking server:

5. The application program upgrading method based on the video network is characterized in that the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the method comprises the following steps:

sending the upgrade installation information to the video networking server;

6. The method according to claim 5, before the storage server receives the download request sent by the video networking application program, further comprising:

7. The method of claim 5 or 6, wherein sending the upgrade installation information to the video networking server comprises:

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising, after said sending the response message to the video networking application:

9. The application program upgrading method based on the video network is characterized in that the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the method comprises the following steps:

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said publishing the upgrade installation information comprises:

11. An internet of view system comprising the internet of view server of any one of claims 9-10, the storage server of any one of claims 5-8, and the internet of view application of any one of claims 1-4.

12. An application program upgrading device based on the video network is characterized in that the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the device comprises:

13. An application program upgrading device based on the video network is characterized in that the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the device comprises:

14. An application program upgrading device based on the video network is characterized in that the video network comprises a video network server, a storage server and a video network application program; the device comprises: