CN110865893B

CN110865893B - Method and device for downloading application

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Publication number: CN110865893B
Application number: CN201911157544.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 于海东
Original assignee: Shanghai Zhangmen Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Zhangmen Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-11-22
Filing date: 2019-11-22
Publication date: 2023-08-18
Anticipated expiration: 2039-11-22
Also published as: CN110865893A

Abstract

The application aims to provide a method and equipment for downloading an application, wherein the method comprises the following steps: detecting whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment or not in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, wherein a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment; if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists, generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application; and directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application. The application can increase the probability of installing the downloaded application by the user, improve the user conversion rate of the downloaded application and avoid the user loss caused by the warning of the installation behavior.

Description

Method and device for downloading application

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a technique for downloading applications.

Background

With the development of the era, the functions of application programs in the mobile terminal are more and more diversified, and more application programs can provide promotion services for other applications, and the other promoted applications can be regarded as successful promotion after being downloaded and installed. In the prior art, the downloading action of other applications promoted in an application is directly completed in the application, for example, in an Android system, if a user clicks a download link of an application B in an application a, an installation package of the application B can be downloaded through a download function of the application a and the application B can be installed in a user device; in this way, the publisher of the application may simply specify the source of the promotion of the downloaded application, e.g., the publisher of application B may simply specify that its application B is downloaded via the promotion of application a. However, in the prior art, the service provider of the mobile terminal gives a warning about the installation behavior of the installation file from the non-system default application store.

Disclosure of Invention

The application aims to provide a method and equipment for downloading an application.

According to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a method of downloading an application, for a first application of a user equipment, the method comprising: detecting whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment or not in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, wherein a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment; if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists, generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application; and directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided a method of downloading an application, for a second application of a user equipment, the method comprising: responding to a starting instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, and presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, wherein the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used for jumping from the first application to the download page; and responding to a second downloading triggering operation executed by the user in the downloading page, and starting to download the third application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided a method for downloading an application, applied to a network device corresponding to a third application, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in a first application and a plurality of second report information used for reporting a download completion event in a second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment; for each second report information, determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

According to one aspect of the present application there is provided a user equipment for downloading an application, the equipment comprising: a one-to-one module, configured to detect, in response to a first download trigger event related to a third application in the first application, whether a second application capable of providing a download service of the third application exists on the user equipment, where a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment; the second module is used for generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists; and the three modules are used for directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided a user equipment for downloading an application, the equipment comprising: the second module is used for responding to a starting instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application and presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, wherein the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used for jumping from the first application to the download page; and the second-second module is used for responding to a second downloading triggering operation executed by the user in the downloading page and starting to download the third application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided a network device for downloading an application, the device comprising: the third module is used for receiving a plurality of first report information which corresponds to the third application and is used for reporting a first download trigger event in the first application and a plurality of second report information which is used for reporting a download completion event in the second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment; and the third module is used for determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information for each second report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

According to one aspect of the present application, there is provided an apparatus for downloading an application, wherein the apparatus comprises: a processor; and a memory arranged to store computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: detecting whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment or not in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, wherein a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment; if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists, generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application; and directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided an apparatus for downloading an application, wherein the apparatus comprises: a processor; and a memory arranged to store computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: responding to a starting instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, and presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, wherein the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used for jumping from the first application to the download page; and responding to a second downloading triggering operation executed by the user in the downloading page, and starting to download the third application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided an apparatus for downloading an application, wherein the apparatus comprises: a processor; and a memory arranged to store computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: receiving a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in a first application and a plurality of second report information used for reporting a download completion event in a second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment; for each second report information, determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

According to one aspect of the application, there is provided a computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a system to: detecting whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment or not in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, wherein a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment; if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists, generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application; and directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application.

According to another aspect of the application, there is provided a computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a system to: responding to a starting instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, and presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, wherein the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used for jumping from the first application to the download page; and responding to a second downloading triggering operation executed by the user in the downloading page, and starting to download the third application.

According to another aspect of the application, there is provided a computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a system to: receiving a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in a first application and a plurality of second report information used for reporting a download completion event in a second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment; for each second report information, determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

Compared with the prior art, the method and the device respond to the downloading trigger event of the downloaded application in the first application, directly and automatically execute the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated, so as to directly jump to the downloading page corresponding to the downloaded application in the default downloading service application of the system, avoid the jump and waiting due to the warning of a popup window and the like, and avoid downloading the downloaded application through the downloading service provided by the first application, thereby ensuring that the downloading of the downloaded application in the default downloading service application of the system and the installation process are not subjected to any warning or blocking, increasing the probability of installing the downloaded application by a user, improving the user conversion rate of the downloaded application and avoiding the user loss caused by the warning of the installation behavior; further, the server corresponding to the downloaded application can determine the corresponding traffic source of the downloaded application according to the report information about the download trigger event of the downloaded application, which is reported by the first application, and the report information about the download completion event of the downloaded application, which is reported by the system default download service application.

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Other features, objects and advantages of the present application will become more apparent upon reading of the detailed description of non-limiting embodiments, made with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a method flow diagram of a download application of a first application applied to a user device, according to one embodiment of the application;

FIG. 2 illustrates a method flow diagram of a download application of a second application applied to a user device, according to one embodiment of the application;

FIG. 3 illustrates a method flow diagram of a download application applied to a network device corresponding to a third application, according to one embodiment of the application;

FIG. 4 illustrates a system method flow diagram for downloading an application in accordance with one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 illustrates a system method flow diagram for downloading an application in accordance with one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 illustrates a block diagram of a user device downloading an application in accordance with one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 illustrates a block diagram of a user device for downloading an application in accordance with one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 illustrates a network device architecture diagram of a download application according to one embodiment of the application;

FIG. 9 illustrates an exemplary system that may be used to implement various embodiments described in the present application.

The same or similar reference numbers in the drawings refer to the same or similar parts.

Detailed Description

The application is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In one exemplary configuration of the application, the terminal, the device of the service network, and the trusted party each include one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include volatile memory in a computer-readable medium, random Access Memory (RAM) and/or nonvolatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of computer-readable media.

Computer readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of storage media for a computer include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), static Random Access Memory (SRAM), dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), read Only Memory (ROM), electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium, which can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device.

The device includes, but is not limited to, a user device, a network device, or a device formed by integrating a user device and a network device through a network. The user equipment includes, but is not limited to, any mobile electronic product which can perform man-machine interaction with a user (such as man-machine interaction through a touch pad), for example, a smart phone, a tablet computer and the like, and the mobile electronic product can adopt any operating system, for example, an android operating system, an iOS operating system and the like. The network device comprises an electronic device capable of automatically performing numerical calculation and information processing according to a preset or stored instruction, and the hardware of the electronic device comprises, but is not limited to, a microprocessor, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an embedded device and the like. The network device includes, but is not limited to, a computer, a network host, a single network server, a plurality of network server sets, or a cloud of servers; here, the Cloud is composed of a large number of computers or network servers based on Cloud Computing (Cloud Computing), which is a kind of distributed Computing, a virtual supercomputer composed of a group of loosely coupled computer sets. Including but not limited to the internet, wide area networks, metropolitan area networks, local area networks, VPN networks, wireless Ad Hoc networks (Ad Hoc networks), and the like. Preferably, the device may be a program running on the user device, the network device, or a device formed by integrating the user device and the network device, the touch terminal, or the network device and the touch terminal through a network.

Of course, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the above-described devices are merely examples, and that other devices now known or hereafter may be present as applicable to the present application, and are intended to be within the scope of the present application and are incorporated herein by reference.

In the description of the present application, the meaning of "a plurality" is two or more unless explicitly defined otherwise.

Fig. 1 shows a flowchart of a method of downloading an application of a first application applied to a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present application, the method comprising step S11, step S12 and step S13. In step S11, in response to a first download trigger event related to a third application in the first application, detecting whether there is a second application on the user equipment that can provide a download service of the third application, where there are a plurality of download service applications on the user equipment; in step S12, if there is a second application that can provide the download service of the third application, generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application; in step S13, after the jump instruction is generated, the jump instruction is directly and automatically executed, so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application.

In step S11, in response to a first download trigger event regarding a third application in the first application, it is detected whether a second application capable of providing a download service of the third application exists on the user equipment, wherein a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment. In some embodiments, the operating system adopted by the user device can support the simultaneous existence of multiple download service applications for providing download services, for example, the user device may adopt an Android operating system, and in each example below, the Android system is taken as an example for illustration, and those skilled in the art should understand that other existing or later possible operating systems capable of supporting the simultaneous existence of multiple download service applications may adopt the same or similar implementation manner as the Android system to implement each operation in the present application. In some embodiments, the plurality of download service applications includes a system default download service application provided by a service provider of the user device (e.g., a system default download service application on a cell phone is an application store) and a non-system default third party download service application (e.g., a non-system default third party download service application on a cell phone includes an oppo application store, a vivo application store, etc.). In some embodiments, the user device may give an alarm to the installation behavior of the downloaded application from the third party downloading service application that is not default to the system (for example, alert the user that the downloading source of the downloaded application is an unofficial downloading channel, may have a potential safety hazard), and may alert the user through a popup window or the like, so that the user selects to cancel the downloading or continue the downloading, which increases the probability that the user abandons the installation, resulting in waste of the traffic of the downloaded application and increase of the churn rate of the user. In some embodiments, the first application may provide a download service itself, belongs to a third party download service application that is not a default of the system, and the first download trigger event may be a download operation manually performed by the user in the first application (for example, the user clicks on promotion information about the third application in the first application), and may also be automatically triggered by the first application (for example, the first application automatically triggers to download the third application that accords with the user preference according to preference information set by the user). In some embodiments, the second application is a system default download service application that can provide download services for the third application, and responsive to a first download trigger event in the first application with respect to the third application, it is detected whether the second application is present on the user device.

In step S12, if there is a second application that can provide the download service of the third application, a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application is generated. In some embodiments, if there is a second application that can provide a download service of the third application on the user device, generating a jump instruction for jumping from the first application to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application, where the jump instruction includes, but is not limited to, application package information of the third application, application package information of the second application, and page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application.

In step S13, after the jump instruction is generated, the jump instruction is directly and automatically executed, so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application. In some embodiments, after the jump instruction is generated, the jump instruction is directly and automatically executed to directly jump to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application, without interrupting the jump and waiting due to the warning of a popup window or the like, and without downloading the third application through the download service provided by the first application, so that the download and the installation process of the third application in the second application are not warned or blocked, the probability of installing the third application by a user can be increased, and the user conversion rate of the third application is improved. In some embodiments, a jump instruction is executed in the first application, and an operating system adopted by the user equipment generates a start instruction for starting a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application based on the jump instruction, and sends the start instruction to the second application, and the second application responds to the start instruction to present the download page corresponding to the third application for the user to download the third application, so that user loss caused by installation behavior warning can be avoided.

In some embodiments, the detecting whether a second application exists on the user equipment that can provide a download service for the third application includes: acquiring application identification information of an application corresponding to the service provider information according to the service provider information of the user equipment; and detecting whether a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists on the user equipment according to the application identification information, wherein the second application is matched with the application identification information. In some embodiments, the first application or a server corresponding to the first application stores a mapping relationship between a plurality of service providers of the user equipment and a system default download service application corresponding to each service provider (for example, the service provider is "Hua as an application store" corresponding to the system default download service application), and according to the service provider information of the user equipment, based on the mapping relationship acquired from the first application locally or from the server corresponding to the first application, application identification information of the system default download service application corresponding to the server is obtained, and the application identification information is used for uniquely identifying a certain application, including but not limited to application package information, application ID information and the like, through the application identification information, whether a second application which matches the application identification information and can provide a download service of a third application is found in all installed applications on the user equipment. In some embodiments, the first application or a server corresponding to the first application stores a mapping relationship between a system default download service application and applications for which each system default download service application can provide a download service, and based on the mapping relationship obtained from the first application locally or from the server corresponding to the first application, whether a second application capable of providing a download service of the third application exists on the user equipment can be detected.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises step S14 (not shown). In step S14, first reporting information about the third application is sent to the network device corresponding to the third application, where the first reporting information includes device identification information of the user device, and the first reporting information is used to report the first download triggering event. In some embodiments, the device identification information of the user device is used to uniquely identify a certain user device, including, but not limited to, a MAC address of the user device, an IMEI (international mobile equipment identity), an OAID (anonymous device identifier), and the first report information is used to report a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the first report information related to the third application may be directly sent to a server corresponding to the third application or indirectly sent to the server corresponding to the third application through the server corresponding to the first application, where the first report information includes the device identification information of the user device, so as to report, to the server corresponding to the third application, a download trigger event related to the third application in the first application on the user device (for example, the user clicks on popularization information of the third application in the first application), so that the server corresponding to the third application knows that the third application was triggered to be downloaded in the first application on the user device corresponding to the device identification information.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: receiving downloading completion event information of the third application returned by the second application; wherein, the step S14 includes: and sending first report information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application in response to the downloading completion event information, wherein the first report information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment, and the first report information is used for reporting the first downloading triggering event. In some embodiments, when the third application is downloaded or installed in the second application, the second application may send, through an interface provided by the first application, download completion event information about the download completion or the installation completion of the third application to the first application, so that the first application knows that the third application triggered to be downloaded in the first application and jumped to the second application has been downloaded or installed completely, and in response to the received download completion event information, the first application directly sends, or indirectly sends, through the server corresponding to the first application, first report information about the third application to the server corresponding to the third application, so as to report, to the server corresponding to the third application, a download trigger event and a final download status or installation status of the third application in the first application on the user device, so that the server corresponding to the third application knows that the third application was triggered to be downloaded in the first application on the user device corresponding to the device identification information and finally downloaded or installed completely.

In some embodiments, the download completion event information includes second event identification information of the third application downloaded through the second application; wherein, the step S14 includes: and sending first report information about the third application to the network device corresponding to the third application in response to the downloading completion event information, wherein the first report information comprises device identification information of the user device and the second event identification information, and the first report information is used for reporting the first downloading triggering event. In some embodiments, the second event identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information of the second application (e.g., application package information of the second application, application ID information, etc.), identification information of the third application (e.g., application package information of the third application, application ID information, etc.), task identification information of a corresponding third application download task in the second application (e.g., download task ID, download task name, etc.), the first report information includes, in addition to the device identification information, second event identification information, and the first report information directly sent by the first application to a server corresponding to the third application or indirectly sent by the server corresponding to the first application to report to the server corresponding to the third application a download trigger event of the third application in the first application on the user device, and a download completion event or install completion event in the second application after the third application is triggered, so that the server corresponding to the third application knows that the third application was triggered in the user device corresponding to the device identification information automatically triggered the third application to download in the first application and jumps to the second application or performs a final download operation or is completed in the second application.

In some embodiments, the first report information further includes first time information corresponding to the first download trigger event. In some embodiments, the first report information further includes time information corresponding to the first download trigger event, where the time information includes, but is not limited to, a trigger time of the download trigger event (e.g., a click time of the user clicking on promotional information of the third application in the first application).

In some embodiments, the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event. In some embodiments, the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event, where the first event identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information of the first application (e.g., application package information of the first application, application ID information, etc.), identification information of the third application (e.g., application package information of the third application, application ID information, etc.), event identification information of the first download trigger event corresponding to the first application (e.g., trigger time information of the download trigger event, event ID information of the download trigger event, etc.). In some embodiments, the operating system adopted by the user equipment may generate a start instruction for starting a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application based on the jump instruction, and send the start instruction to the second application, where the start instruction may include the first event identification information, or may also send the first event identification information and the start instruction to the second application together, so that the second application may learn that the third application jumps to the second application after being triggered to download in the first application.

In some embodiments, the generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application includes: generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application according to the application package information corresponding to the third application; wherein, the step S13 includes: directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated, and presenting a jump selection page corresponding to the jump instruction, wherein the jump selection page comprises the plurality of download service applications; and responding to the selection operation of the user for a second application in the plurality of download service applications, so as to jump to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application. In some embodiments, a skip instruction (for example, the skip instruction may be a package name of the third application) for skipping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application may be generated according to application package information corresponding to the third application (it should be noted that, the application package information in the present application includes, but is not limited to, any identification information that can uniquely identify an application, for example, the skip instruction may be a package name of the application), the application package information corresponding to the third application may be pre-stored in a server corresponding to the first application or the first application, the skip instruction is directly and automatically executed after the skip instruction is generated, an operating system adopted by the user device may present a skip selection page corresponding to the skip instruction, the page may show a plurality of download service applications installed on the user device for selection by a user, in response to a selection operation of the user for the system default download service application (for example, in a plurality of download service applications presented in the skip selection page), the second application does not need to support the skip to the first application, and the skip method is provided for comparing the first application to the first application.

In some embodiments, the generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application includes: and generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page in the second application according to the application package information corresponding to the third application, the application package information corresponding to the second application and the page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application. In some embodiments, according to the application package information corresponding to the third application (for example, package name of the third application), the application package information corresponding to the second application, the page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application (for example, the actigv ty path of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application), the application package information corresponding to the third application, the application package information corresponding to the second application, and the page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application may be stored in advance in the first application or the server corresponding to the first application, and then a skip instruction for skipping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application is generated (for example, the package name of the second application and the actigv ty path corresponding to the download page are set in the intent, then a startActivity skip instruction is called, and the intent is used as an input parameter of the activity skip instruction), after the skip instruction is generated, the skip instruction is directly executed, and when the skip instruction is directly executed, the skip instruction is installed, the user device is directed to the download page corresponding to the third application, and the user can skip the third application, thereby guaranteeing the downloading efficiency of the third application.

Fig. 2 shows a flow chart of a method of downloading an application of a second application applied to a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present application, the method comprising step S21 and step S22. In step S21, in response to a start instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, where the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used to jump from the first application to the download page; in step S22, the third application starts to be downloaded in response to a second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page.

In step S21, in response to a start instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, where the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used to jump from the first application to the download page. In some embodiments, the second application is a default download service application of the system on the user equipment, and may provide a download service for the third application, where an operating system adopted by the user equipment generates a start instruction for starting a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application based on a jump instruction executed in the first application, the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event (for example, a user clicks popularization information of the third application in the first application) related to the third application in the first application, and sends the start instruction to the second application, and the second application presents the download page corresponding to the third application in response to the start instruction, so that the user downloads the third application.

In step S22, the third application starts to be downloaded in response to a second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page. In some embodiments, downloading the third application is initiated in response to a second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page (e.g., the user clicking a download button located in the download page).

In some embodiments, the method further comprises step S23 (not shown). In step S23, in response to the download completion event of the third application, second reporting information about the third application is sent to the network device corresponding to the third application, where the second reporting information includes device identification information of the user device, and the second reporting information is used to report the download completion event. In some embodiments, the second application listens for a download event or an installation event of the third application in the second application, and when the download or the installation of the third application is completed, the second application directly sends second report information about the third application to a server corresponding to the third application or indirectly sends second report information about the download completion event or the installation completion event of the third application in the second application to the server corresponding to the third application through the server corresponding to the second application, where the second report information includes device identification information of the user device, so as to report the download completion event or the installation completion event of the third application in the second application on the user device to the server corresponding to the third application, so that the server corresponding to the third application knows that the third application has been downloaded or installed in the second application on the user device corresponding to the device identification information.

In some embodiments, the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event; wherein the method further comprises: obtaining the first event identification information; wherein, the step S23 includes: and responding to the downloading completion event of the third application, generating second report information about the third application according to the first event identification information, and sending the second report information to the network equipment corresponding to the third application, wherein the second report information comprises the equipment identification information of the user equipment and the first event identification information, and the second report information is used for reporting the downloading completion event. In some embodiments, the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to a first download trigger event in the first application, where the first event identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information of the first application (e.g., application package information of the first application, application ID information, etc.), identification information of the third application (e.g., application package information of the third application, application ID information, etc.), event identification information of the first download trigger event corresponding to the first application (e.g., trigger time information of the download trigger event, event ID information of the download trigger event, etc.). In some embodiments, the first application may obtain the first event identification information from the launch instruction, or may also obtain the first event identification information sent with the launch instruction from the operating system to the second application. In some embodiments, after the downloading or installation of the third application is completed, the second application directly sends or indirectly sends second report information about the third application to the server corresponding to the third application through the server corresponding to the second application, where the second report information is used to report a downloading completion event or an installation completion event of the third application in the second application, and the second report information includes, in addition to the device identification information of the user device, first event identification information, so as to report, to the server corresponding to the third application, a downloading completion event or an installation completion event of the third application in the second application on the user device, so that the server corresponding to the third application knows that the third application was triggered to be downloaded in the first application and jumps to the second application and finally downloads or installs on the user device corresponding to the device identification information.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: and sending the downloading completion event information of the third application to the first application in response to the downloading completion event of the third application, wherein the downloading completion event information comprises second event identification information of the third application downloaded through the second application. In some embodiments, when the downloading or installing of the third application is completed, the second application may send the downloading completion event information of the third application to the first application, where the downloading completion event information includes second event identification information of downloading the third application through the second application, where the second event identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information of the second application (e.g., application package information, application ID information, etc. of the second application), identification information of the third application (e.g., application package information, application ID information, etc. of the third application), task identification information (e.g., download task ID, download task name, etc.) of a corresponding third application download task in the second application, so that the first application may learn that the third application triggered by the first application to download and jump to the second application has been downloaded or installed.

In some embodiments, the second report information further includes second time information corresponding to the download completion event. In some embodiments, the second report information further includes time information corresponding to the download completion event, wherein the time information includes, but is not limited to, a download completion time or an installation completion time of the third application in the second application.

Fig. 3 shows a flowchart of a method for downloading an application applied to a network device corresponding to a third application, according to an embodiment of the present application, the method including step S31 and step S32. In step S31, receiving a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in the first application, and a plurality of second report information corresponding to the second application and used for reporting a download completion event in the second application, where the first report information includes first device identification information of the first user device, and the second report information includes second device identification information of the second user device; in step S32, for each second report information, at least one first report information matching the device identification information corresponding to the second report information is determined from the plurality of first report information, and the traffic information corresponding to the third application is determined according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

In step S31, a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in the first application and a plurality of second report information corresponding to the second application and used for reporting a download completion event in the second application are received, where the first report information includes first device identification information of the first user device, and the second report information includes second device identification information of the second user device. It should be noted that, the operation of the network device for receiving each first report information corresponding to the third application and the operation of receiving each second report information corresponding to the third application are not in a sequential relationship. In some embodiments, the second application is a system default download service application on the user device, and the network device may receive, by performing a plurality of receiving operations, a plurality of first report information and a plurality of second report information for reporting the first download trigger event or the download completion event from a plurality of first applications or a plurality of second applications corresponding to the third application from different user devices.

In step S32, for each second report information, at least one first report information matching the device identification information corresponding to the second report information is determined from the plurality of first report information, and the traffic information corresponding to the third application is determined according to the at least one first report information and the second report information. In some embodiments, the traffic information is used to characterize a traffic source corresponding to a third application, wherein, for each second reporting information, at least one first reporting information corresponding to the second reporting information is from a user device that matches device identification information corresponding to the second reporting information (e.g., at least one first reporting information is from the same user device as the device identification information corresponding to the second reporting information, i.e., at least one first reporting information is from the same user device as the second reporting information). In some embodiments, the network device may determine whether first report information having an association relationship with the second report information exists in the at least one first report information according to the second report information and at least one first report information corresponding to the second report information (for example, consider first report information and second report information having a time interval less than a predetermined interval to have an association relationship; for example, consider first report information and second report information having the same serial number for uniquely identifying a download event to have an association relationship), if so, determine that the traffic source is a first application based on the first report information having an association relationship and the second report information, and if not, determine that the traffic source is a second application based on the second report information. If at least one piece of first report information matching the device identification information corresponding to the second report information is not determined from the plurality of pieces of first report information, the traffic source is directly determined as the second application.

In some embodiments, the first report information further includes first time information corresponding to the first download trigger event, and the second report information further includes second time information corresponding to the download completion event; wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: determining target first report information from the at least one first report information, wherein first time information in the target first report information is earlier than second time information in the second report information, and a time interval between the first time information and the second time information in the second report information is smaller than or equal to a time interval between first time information in other first report information and second time information in the second report information; and determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information and the second report information. In some embodiments, the first report information further includes a trigger time corresponding to the first download trigger event, the second report information further includes a download completion time or an installation completion time corresponding to the download completion event, and for each second report information, the target first report information is determined from at least one first report information according to the download completion time corresponding to the second report information, where the trigger time corresponding to the target first report information is before the download completion time corresponding to the second report information, and compared with any other first report information in the at least one first report information, a time interval between the trigger time corresponding to the target first report information and the download completion time corresponding to the second report information is the shortest. In some embodiments, the network device may determine, according to the target first report information and the second report information, whether the target first report information has an association relationship with the second report information (e.g., consider the target first report information and the second report information having a time interval less than a predetermined interval to have an association relationship; e.g., consider the target first report information and the second report information having the same serial number for uniquely identifying one download event to have an association relationship), if so, determine that the traffic source is the first application based on the target first report information and the second report information having the association relationship, and if not, determine that the traffic source is the second application based on the second report information.

In some embodiments, the determining, according to the target first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: detecting whether the time interval between the first time information in the target first report information and the second time information in the second report information is smaller than or equal to a preset time interval threshold value; if yes, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information. In some embodiments, it is detected whether a time interval between the trigger time in the target first report information and the download completion time or the installation completion time in the second report information is less than or equal to a predetermined time interval threshold (for example, 5 minutes), if so, the traffic source of the third application is determined to be the first application according to the target first report information, otherwise, the traffic source of the third application is determined to be the second application according to the second report information.

In some embodiments, the at least one first report information further includes second event identification information corresponding to a download completion event; wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: if the at least one piece of first report information has target first report information, second event identification information in the target first report information is the same as second event identification information of a downloading completion event in the second report information, and flow information corresponding to the third application is determined according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information. In some embodiments, the first report information further includes second event identification information corresponding to the download completion event, where the second event identification information is used to uniquely identify the download completion event, and the second event identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information of a second application (e.g., application package information of the second application, application ID information, etc.), identification information of a third application (e.g., application package information of the third application, application ID information, etc.), and task identification information of a corresponding third application download task in the second application (e.g., download task ID, download task name, etc.). In some embodiments, if the second event identification information in the target first report information is the same as the second event identification information of the download completion event in the second report information, it may be known that the third application is once triggered to be downloaded in the first application and jumped to the second application on the user device corresponding to the device identification information, or the downloading or the installation is completed automatically or in response to the operation performed by the user in the second application, so that the traffic source of the third application may be determined to be the first application according to the target first report information, otherwise, the traffic source of the third application may be determined to be the second application according to the second report information.

In some embodiments, the second reporting information further includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download triggering event; wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: if the at least one first report information includes target first report information, first event identification information of a first downloading trigger event in the target first report information is the same as first event identification information in the second report information, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information. In some embodiments, the second report information further includes first event identification information corresponding to the download triggering event, where the first event identification information is used for uniquely identifying the download triggering event, and the first event identification information includes, but is not limited to, identification information of a first application (for example, application package information of the first application, application ID information, etc.), identification information of a third application (for example, application package information of the third application, application ID information, etc.), event identification information of the first download triggering event corresponding to the first application (for example, trigger time information of the download triggering event, event ID information of the download triggering event, etc.). In some embodiments, if the first event identification information of the first download triggering event in the target first report information is the same as the first event identification information in the second report information, it may be known that the third application is once triggered to be downloaded in the first application and jumped to the second application and finally the downloading is completed or the installation is completed on the user equipment corresponding to the device identification information, so that the traffic source of the third application may be determined to be the first application according to the target first report information, otherwise, the traffic source of the third application may be determined to be the second application according to the second report information.

Fig. 4 shows a system method flow diagram for downloading an application in accordance with one embodiment of the present application.

As shown in fig. 4, in step S41, a first application detects whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, where a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment, and step S41 is the same or similar to the foregoing step S11, and is not repeated herein; in step S42, if there is a second application that can provide the download service of the third application, the first application generates a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application, and step S42 is the same as or similar to step S12, and will not be repeated here; in step S43, the first application directly and automatically executes the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated, so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application, where step S43 is the same as or similar to step S13, and details thereof are omitted herein; in step S44, the second application presents the download page corresponding to the third application in response to a start instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in the first application, where the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used to jump from the first application to the download page, and step S44 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S21, and is not repeated herein; in step S45, the second application starts to download the third application in response to the second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page, and step S45 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S22, which is not described herein.

Fig. 5 shows a system method flowchart of downloading an application, according to one embodiment of the application.

As shown in fig. 5, in step S51, a first application detects whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, where a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment, and step S51 is the same or similar to the foregoing step S11, and is not repeated herein; in step S52, if there is a second application that can provide the download service of the third application, the first application generates a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application, and step S52 is the same as or similar to step S12, which is not repeated here; in step S53, the first application directly and automatically executes the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated, so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application, where step S53 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S13, and details are not repeated here; in step S54, the first application sends first report information about the third application to the network device corresponding to the third application, where the first report information includes device identification information of the user device, and the first report information is used to report the first download triggering event, and step S54 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S14, and is not repeated herein; in step S55, the second application presents the download page corresponding to the third application in response to a start instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in the first application, where the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used to jump from the first application to the download page, and step S55 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S21, and is not repeated herein; in step S56, the second application starts to download the third application in response to a second download triggering operation executed by the user in the download page, and step S56 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S22, and will not be described in detail herein; in step S57, the second application responds to the download completion event of the third application, and sends second report information about the third application to the network device corresponding to the third application, where the second report information includes device identification information of the user device, and the second report information is used to report the download completion event, and step S57 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S23, and is not repeated herein; in step S58, the network device corresponding to the third application receives a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download triggering event in the first application, and a plurality of second report information corresponding to the second application and used for reporting a download completion event in the second application, where the first report information includes first device identification information of the first user device, and the second report information includes second device identification information of the second user device, and step S58 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S31, and is not repeated herein; in step S59, for each second report information, at least one first report information that matches the device identifier information corresponding to the second report information is determined from the plurality of first report information, and according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application is determined, where step S59 is the same as or similar to the foregoing step S32, and will not be described in detail herein.

Fig. 6 shows a block diagram of a user equipment for downloading an application, according to an embodiment of the present application, the device comprising a one-to-one module 11, a two-to-two module 12 and a three-to-three module 13. A one-to-one module 11, configured to detect, in response to a first download trigger event related to a third application in the first application, whether a second application capable of providing a download service of the third application exists on the user equipment, where a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment; a second module 12, configured to generate a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application if there is a second application that can provide a download service of the third application; and the three modules 13 are used for directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application.

And a one-to-one module 11, configured to detect, in response to a first download trigger event related to a third application in the first application, whether a second application capable of providing a download service of the third application exists on the user equipment, where a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment. In some embodiments, the operating system adopted by the user device can support the simultaneous existence of multiple download service applications for providing download services, for example, the user device may adopt an Android operating system, and in each example below, the Android system is taken as an example for illustration, and those skilled in the art should understand that other existing or later possible operating systems capable of supporting the simultaneous existence of multiple download service applications may adopt the same or similar implementation manner as the Android system to implement each operation in the present application. In some embodiments, the plurality of download service applications includes a system default download service application provided by a service provider of the user device (e.g., a system default download service application on a cell phone is an application store) and a non-system default third party download service application (e.g., a non-system default third party download service application on a cell phone includes an oppo application store, a vivo application store, etc.). In some embodiments, the user device may give an alarm to the installation behavior of the downloaded application from the third party downloading service application that is not default to the system (for example, alert the user that the downloading source of the downloaded application is an unofficial downloading channel, may have a potential safety hazard), and may alert the user through a popup window or the like, so that the user selects to cancel the downloading or continue the downloading, which increases the probability that the user abandons the installation, resulting in waste of the traffic of the downloaded application and increase of the churn rate of the user. In some embodiments, the first application may provide a download service itself, belongs to a third party download service application that is not a default of the system, and the first download trigger event may be a download operation manually performed by the user in the first application (for example, the user clicks on promotion information about the third application in the first application), and may also be automatically triggered by the first application (for example, the first application automatically triggers to download the third application that accords with the user preference according to preference information set by the user). In some embodiments, the second application is a system default download service application that can provide download services for the third application, and responsive to a first download trigger event in the first application with respect to the third application, it is detected whether the second application is present on the user device.

And a second module 12, configured to generate a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application if there is a second application that can provide the download service of the third application. In some embodiments, if there is a second application that can provide a download service of the third application on the user device, generating a jump instruction for jumping from the first application to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application, where the jump instruction includes, but is not limited to, application package information of the third application, application package information of the second application, and page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application.

And the three modules 13 are used for directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application. In some embodiments, after the jump instruction is generated, the jump instruction is directly and automatically executed to directly jump to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application, without interrupting the jump and waiting due to the warning of a popup window or the like, and without downloading the third application through the download service provided by the first application, so that the download and the installation process of the third application in the second application are not warned or blocked, the probability of installing the third application by a user can be increased, and the user conversion rate of the third application is improved. In some embodiments, a jump instruction is executed in the first application, and an operating system adopted by the user equipment generates a start instruction for starting a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application based on the jump instruction, and sends the start instruction to the second application, and the second application responds to the start instruction to present the download page corresponding to the third application for the user to download the third application, so that user loss caused by installation behavior warning can be avoided.

In some embodiments, the detecting whether a second application exists on the user equipment that can provide a download service for the third application includes: acquiring application identification information of an application corresponding to the service provider information according to the service provider information of the user equipment; and detecting whether a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists on the user equipment according to the application identification information, wherein the second application is matched with the application identification information. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises a quad module 14 (not shown). A fourth module 14, configured to send first reporting information about the third application to a network device corresponding to the third application, where the first reporting information includes device identification information of the user device, and the first reporting information is used to report the first download triggering event. The implementation of a four-module 14 is the same as or similar to the embodiment related to step S14 in fig. 1, and thus is not described in detail herein, and is incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the apparatus is further to: receiving downloading completion event information of the third application returned by the second application; wherein, the step S14 includes: and sending first report information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application in response to the downloading completion event information, wherein the first report information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment, and the first report information is used for reporting the first downloading triggering event. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the download completion event information includes second event identification information of the third application downloaded through the second application; wherein the four modules 14 are for: and sending first report information about the third application to the network device corresponding to the third application in response to the downloading completion event information, wherein the first report information comprises device identification information of the user device and the second event identification information, and the first report information is used for reporting the first downloading triggering event. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the first report information further includes first time information corresponding to the first download trigger event. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application includes: generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application according to the application package information corresponding to the third application; wherein, the three modules 13 are used for: directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated, and presenting a jump selection page corresponding to the jump instruction, wherein the jump selection page comprises the plurality of download service applications; and responding to the selection operation of the user for a second application in the plurality of download service applications, so as to jump to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application includes: and generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page in the second application according to the application package information corresponding to the third application, the application package information corresponding to the second application and the page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

Fig. 7 shows a block diagram of a user equipment for downloading an application, the device comprising a two-in-one module 21 and a two-in-two module 22, according to an embodiment of the application. A second module 21, configured to respond to a start instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, where the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used to jump from the first application to the download page; and the second-second module 22 is configured to start downloading the third application in response to a second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page.

And a second module 21, configured to respond to a start instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, where the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used to jump from the first application to the download page. In some embodiments, the second application is a default download service application of the system on the user equipment, and may provide a download service for the third application, where an operating system adopted by the user equipment generates a start instruction for starting a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application based on a jump instruction executed in the first application, the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event (for example, a user clicks popularization information of the third application in the first application) related to the third application in the first application, and sends the start instruction to the second application, and the second application presents the download page corresponding to the third application in response to the start instruction, so that the user downloads the third application.

And the second-second module 22 is configured to start downloading the third application in response to a second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page. In some embodiments, downloading the third application is initiated in response to a second download triggering operation performed by the user in the download page (e.g., the user clicking a download button located in the download page).

In some embodiments, the method further includes a bi-tri module 23 (not shown). And a second and third modules 23, configured to send, to a network device corresponding to the third application, second reporting information about the third application in response to a download completion event of the third application, where the second reporting information includes device identification information of the user device, and the second reporting information is used to report the download completion event. The implementation of the second and third modules 23 is the same as or similar to the embodiment related to step S23 in fig. 2, and thus is not described in detail herein, and is incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event; wherein the method further comprises: obtaining the first event identification information; wherein, the second and third modules 23 are used for: and responding to the downloading completion event of the third application, generating second report information about the third application according to the first event identification information, and sending the second report information to the network equipment corresponding to the third application, wherein the second report information comprises the equipment identification information of the user equipment and the first event identification information, and the second report information is used for reporting the downloading completion event. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the apparatus is further to: and sending the downloading completion event information of the third application to the first application in response to the downloading completion event of the third application, wherein the downloading completion event information comprises second event identification information of the third application downloaded through the second application. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the second report information further includes second time information corresponding to the download completion event. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

Fig. 8 shows a network device structure diagram of a download application according to an embodiment of the present application, the device including a three-one module 31 and a three-two module 32. A third module 31, configured to receive a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in a first application, and a plurality of second report information corresponding to a download completion event in a second application, where the first report information includes first device identification information of a first user device, and the second report information includes second device identification information of a second user device; and a third-second module 32, configured to determine, for each second report information, at least one first report information that matches the device identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determine, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, traffic information corresponding to the third application.

And a third module 31, configured to receive a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in the first application, and a plurality of second report information corresponding to the second application and used for reporting a download completion event in the second application, where the first report information includes first device identification information of the first user equipment, and the second report information includes second device identification information of the second user equipment. It should be noted that, the operation of the network device for receiving each first report information corresponding to the third application and the operation of receiving each second report information corresponding to the third application are not in a sequential relationship. In some embodiments, the second application is a system default download service application on the user device, and the network device may receive, by performing a plurality of receiving operations, a plurality of first report information and a plurality of second report information for reporting the first download trigger event or the download completion event from a plurality of first applications or a plurality of second applications corresponding to the third application from different user devices.

And a third-second module 32, configured to determine, for each second report information, at least one first report information that matches the device identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determine, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, traffic information corresponding to the third application. In some embodiments, the traffic information is used to characterize a traffic source corresponding to a third application, wherein, for each second reporting information, at least one first reporting information corresponding to the second reporting information is from a user device that matches device identification information corresponding to the second reporting information (e.g., at least one first reporting information is from the same user device as the device identification information corresponding to the second reporting information, i.e., at least one first reporting information is from the same user device as the second reporting information). In some embodiments, the network device may determine whether first report information having an association relationship with the second report information exists in the at least one first report information according to the second report information and at least one first report information corresponding to the second report information (for example, consider first report information and second report information having a time interval less than a predetermined interval to have an association relationship; for example, consider first report information and second report information having the same serial number for uniquely identifying a download event to have an association relationship), if so, determine that the traffic source is a first application based on the first report information having an association relationship and the second report information, and if not, determine that the traffic source is a second application based on the second report information. If at least one piece of first report information matching the device identification information corresponding to the second report information is not determined from the plurality of pieces of first report information, the traffic source is directly determined as the second application.

In some embodiments, the first report information further includes first time information corresponding to the first download trigger event, and the second report information further includes second time information corresponding to the download completion event; wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: determining target first report information from the at least one first report information, wherein first time information in the target first report information is earlier than second time information in the second report information, and a time interval between the first time information and the second time information in the second report information is smaller than or equal to a time interval between first time information in other first report information and second time information in the second report information; and determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information and the second report information. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the determining, according to the target first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: detecting whether the time interval between the first time information in the target first report information and the second time information in the second report information is smaller than or equal to a preset time interval threshold value; if yes, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the at least one first report information further includes second event identification information corresponding to a download completion event; wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: if the at least one piece of first report information has target first report information, second event identification information in the target first report information is the same as second event identification information of a downloading completion event in the second report information, and flow information corresponding to the third application is determined according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, the second reporting information further includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download triggering event; wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes: if the at least one first report information includes target first report information, first event identification information of a first downloading trigger event in the target first report information is the same as first event identification information in the second report information, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information. The related operations are the same as or similar to those of the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and thus are not described in detail herein, and are incorporated by reference.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 9, the system 300 can function as any of the devices of the various described embodiments. In some embodiments, system 300 may include one or more computer-readable media (e.g., system memory or NVM/storage 320) having instructions and one or more processors (e.g., processor(s) 305) coupled with the one or more computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to implement the modules to perform the actions described in the present application.

For one embodiment, the system control module 310 may include any suitable interface controller to provide any suitable interface to at least one of the processor(s) 305 and/or any suitable device or component in communication with the system control module 310.

The system control module 310 may include a memory controller module 330 to provide an interface to the system memory 315. Memory controller module 330 may be a hardware module, a software module, and/or a firmware module.

The system memory 315 may be used, for example, to load and store data and/or instructions for the system 300. For one embodiment, system memory 315 may include any suitable volatile memory, such as, for example, a suitable DRAM. In some embodiments, the system memory 315 may comprise a double data rate type four synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR 4 SDRAM).

For one embodiment, system control module 310 may include one or more input/output (I/O) controllers to provide an interface to NVM/storage 320 and communication interface(s) 325.

For example, NVM/storage 320 may be used to store data and/or instructions. NVM/storage 320 may include any suitable nonvolatile memory (e.g., flash memory) and/or may include any suitable nonvolatile storage device(s) (e.g., one or more Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), one or more Compact Disc (CD) drives, and/or one or more Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) drives).

NVM/storage 320 may include storage resources that are physically part of the device on which system 300 is installed or which may be accessed by the device without being part of the device. For example, NVM/storage 320 may be accessed over a network via communication interface(s) 325.

Communication interface(s) 325 may provide an interface for system 300 to communicate over one or more networks and/or with any other suitable device. The system 300 may wirelessly communicate with one or more components of a wireless network in accordance with any of one or more wireless network standards and/or protocols.

For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 305 may be packaged together with logic of one or more controllers (e.g., memory controller module 330) of the system control module 310. For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 305 may be packaged together with logic of one or more controllers of the system control module 310 to form a System In Package (SiP). For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 305 may be integrated on the same die as logic of one or more controllers of the system control module 310. For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 305 may be integrated on the same die with logic of one or more controllers of the system control module 310 to form a system on chip (SoC).

In various embodiments, the system 300 may be, but is not limited to being: a server, workstation, desktop computing device, or mobile computing device (e.g., laptop computing device, handheld computing device, tablet, netbook, etc.). In various embodiments, system 300 may have more or fewer components and/or different architectures. For example, in some embodiments, system 300 includes one or more cameras, keyboards, liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens (including touch screen displays), non-volatile memory ports, multiple antennas, graphics chips, application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), and speakers.

The application also provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer code which, when executed, performs a method as claimed in any preceding claim.

The application also provides a computer program product which, when executed by a computer device, performs a method as claimed in any preceding claim.

The present application also provides a computer device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more computer programs;

the one or more computer programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement the method of any preceding claim.

It should be noted that the present application may be implemented in software and/or a combination of software and hardware, e.g., using Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), a general purpose computer or any other similar hardware device. In one embodiment, the software program of the present application may be executed by a processor to perform the steps or functions described above. Likewise, the software programs of the present application (including associated data structures) may be stored on a computer readable recording medium, such as RAM memory, magnetic or optical drive or diskette and the like. In addition, some steps or functions of the present application may be implemented in hardware, for example, as circuitry that cooperates with the processor to perform various steps or functions.

Furthermore, portions of the present application may be implemented as a computer program product, such as computer program instructions, which when executed by a computer, may invoke or provide methods and/or techniques in accordance with the present application by way of operation of the computer. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the form of computer program instructions present in a computer readable medium includes, but is not limited to, source files, executable files, installation package files, etc., and accordingly, the manner in which the computer program instructions are executed by a computer includes, but is not limited to: the computer directly executes the instruction, or the computer compiles the instruction and then executes the corresponding compiled program, or the computer reads and executes the instruction, or the computer reads and installs the instruction and then executes the corresponding installed program. Herein, a computer-readable medium may be any available computer-readable storage medium or communication medium that can be accessed by a computer.

Communication media includes media whereby a communication signal containing, for example, computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data, is transferred from one system to another. Communication media may include conductive transmission media such as electrical cables and wires (e.g., optical fibers, coaxial, etc.) and wireless (non-conductive transmission) media capable of transmitting energy waves, such as acoustic, electromagnetic, RF, microwave, and infrared. Computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data may be embodied as a modulated data signal, for example, in a wireless medium, such as a carrier wave or similar mechanism, such as that embodied as part of spread spectrum technology. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. The modulation may be analog, digital or hybrid modulation techniques.

By way of example, and not limitation, computer-readable storage media may include volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. For example, computer-readable storage media include, but are not limited to, volatile memory, such as random access memory (RAM, DRAM, SRAM); and nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, various read only memory (ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM), magnetic and ferromagnetic/ferroelectric memory (MRAM, feRAM); and magnetic and optical storage devices (hard disk, tape, CD, DVD); or other now known media or later developed computer-readable information/data that can be stored for use by a computer system.

An embodiment according to the application comprises an apparatus comprising a memory for storing computer program instructions and a processor for executing the program instructions, wherein when the computer program instructions are executed by the processor

When the device is triggered to operate the method and/or the technical solution based on the various embodiments according to the application.

It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the application is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present application may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The present embodiments are, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the application being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned. Furthermore, it is evident that the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps, and that the singular does not exclude a plurality. A plurality of units or means recited in the apparatus claims can also be implemented by means of one unit or means in software or hardware. The terms first, second, etc. are used to denote a name, but not any particular order.

Claims

1. A method of downloading an application, wherein the application is a first application applied to a user device, the method comprising:

detecting whether a second application capable of providing a download service of a third application exists on the user equipment or not in response to a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, wherein a plurality of download service applications exist on the user equipment;

if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists, generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application;

directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to a download page corresponding to the third application, wherein the network equipment corresponding to the third application receives a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in a first application and a plurality of second report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a download completion event in a second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment; for each second report information, determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting whether a second application exists on the user device that can provide a download service for the third application comprises:

acquiring application identification information of an application corresponding to the service provider information according to the service provider information of the user equipment;

and detecting whether a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists on the user equipment according to the application identification information, wherein the second application is matched with the application identification information.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises:

and sending first report information about the third application to the network device corresponding to the third application, wherein the first report information comprises device identification information of the user device, and the first report information is used for reporting the first download triggering event.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving downloading completion event information of the third application returned by the second application;

wherein the sending, to the network device corresponding to the third application, first report information about the third application includes:

And sending first report information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application in response to the downloading completion event information, wherein the first report information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment, and the first report information is used for reporting the first downloading triggering event.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the download completion event information includes second event identification information of the third application downloaded by the second application;

and sending first report information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application in response to the downloading completion event information, wherein the first report information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment and the second event identification information, and the first report information is used for reporting the first downloading triggering event.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the first reporting information further comprises first time information corresponding to the first download trigger event.

7. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the jump instruction contains first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event.

8. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application comprises:

generating a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application according to the application package information corresponding to the third application;

the step of directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated to jump to the download page corresponding to the third application includes:

directly and automatically executing the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated, and presenting a jump selection page corresponding to the jump instruction, wherein the jump selection page comprises the plurality of download service applications;

and responding to the selection operation of the user for a second application in the plurality of download service applications, so as to jump to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application.

9. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application comprises:

And generating a jump instruction for jumping to the download page in the second application according to the application package information corresponding to the third application, the application package information corresponding to the second application and the page path information of the download page corresponding to the third application in the second application.

10. A method of downloading an application, wherein the second application is applied to a user device, the method comprising:

responding to a starting instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in a first application, and presenting a download page corresponding to a third application, wherein the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and the jump instruction is used for jumping from the first application to the download page;

and responding to a second downloading triggering operation executed by the user in the downloading page, and starting to download the third application.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises:

and responding to the downloading completion event of the third application, and sending second reporting information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application, wherein the second reporting information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment and is used for reporting the downloading completion event.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the jump instruction includes first event identification information corresponding to the first download trigger event;

wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining the first event identification information;

wherein the sending, in response to the download completion event of the third application, second report information about the third application to the network device corresponding to the third application includes:

and responding to the downloading completion event of the third application, generating second report information about the third application according to the first event identification information, and sending the second report information to the network equipment corresponding to the third application, wherein the second report information comprises the equipment identification information of the user equipment and the first event identification information, and the second report information is used for reporting the downloading completion event.

13. The method of any of claims 10 to 12, wherein the method further comprises:

and sending the downloading completion event information of the third application to the first application in response to the downloading completion event of the third application, wherein the downloading completion event information comprises second event identification information of the third application downloaded through the second application.

14. The method according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the second report information further comprises second time information corresponding to the download completion event.

15. A method of downloading an application, wherein the application is applied to a network device corresponding to a third application, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in a first application and a plurality of second report information used for reporting a download completion event in a second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment;

for each second report information, determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first report information further comprises first time information corresponding to the first download trigger event, and the second report information further comprises second time information corresponding to the download completion event;

Wherein the determining, according to the at least one first report information and the second report information, flow information corresponding to the third application includes:

determining target first report information from the at least one first report information, wherein first time information in the target first report information is earlier than second time information in the second report information, and a time interval between the first time information and the second time information in the second report information is smaller than or equal to a time interval between first time information in other first report information and second time information in the second report information;

and determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information and the second report information.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining traffic information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information and the second report information includes:

detecting whether the time interval between the first time information in the target first report information and the second time information in the second report information is smaller than or equal to a preset time interval threshold value;

if yes, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one first report information further comprises second event identification information corresponding to a download completion event;

if the at least one piece of first report information has target first report information, second event identification information in the target first report information is the same as second event identification information of a downloading completion event in the second report information, and flow information corresponding to the third application is determined according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the second reporting information further includes first event identification information corresponding to a first download triggering event;

if the at least one first report information includes target first report information, first event identification information of a first downloading trigger event in the target first report information is the same as first event identification information in the second report information, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the target first report information; otherwise, determining flow information corresponding to the third application according to the second report information.

20. A method of downloading an application, wherein the method comprises:

the method comprises the steps that a first application responds to a first downloading trigger event related to a third application in the first application, and whether a second application capable of providing a downloading service of the third application exists on user equipment or not is detected, wherein a plurality of downloading service applications exist on the user equipment;

if a second application capable of providing the download service of the third application exists, the first application generates a jump instruction for jumping to a download page corresponding to the third application in the second application;

the first application directly and automatically executes the jump instruction after the jump instruction is generated so as to jump to a download page corresponding to the third application;

the second application responds to a starting instruction generated by the user equipment based on a jump instruction executed in the first application, and presents a download page corresponding to the third application, wherein the jump instruction is generated based on a first download trigger event related to the third application in the first application, and is used for jumping from the first application to the download page;

the second application starts to download the third application in response to a second download triggering operation executed by a user in the download page, wherein network equipment corresponding to the third application receives a plurality of first report information which is corresponding to the third application and is used for reporting a first download triggering event in a first application and a plurality of second report information which is corresponding to the third application and is used for reporting a download completion event in a second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment; for each second report information, determining at least one first report information matched with the equipment identification information corresponding to the second report information from the plurality of first report information, and determining the flow information corresponding to the third application according to the at least one first report information and the second report information.

21. A method of downloading an application, wherein the method comprises:

the first application sends first report information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application, wherein the first report information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment, and the first report information is used for reporting the first download triggering event;

The second application responds to a second downloading triggering operation executed by a user in the downloading page, and starts to download the third application;

the second application responds to the downloading completion event of the third application and sends second reporting information about the third application to the network equipment corresponding to the third application, wherein the second reporting information comprises equipment identification information of the user equipment and is used for reporting the downloading completion event;

the network equipment corresponding to the third application receives a plurality of first report information corresponding to the third application and used for reporting a first download trigger event in the first application and a plurality of second report information used for reporting a download completion event in the second application, wherein the first report information comprises first equipment identification information of first user equipment, and the second report information comprises second equipment identification information of second user equipment;

22. An apparatus for downloading an application, wherein the apparatus comprises:

a processor; and

a memory arranged to store computer executable instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform the operations of the method of any one of claims 1 to 19.

23. A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a system to perform the operations of the method of any one of claims 1 to 19.