GB2410150A - Downloading software from one mobile device to another - Google Patents
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Abstract
A method for performing a software download to a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, involves setting up a wired or wireless communication link between a first mobile device and a second mobile device that incorporates the software to be downloaded. After setting up of this wired or wireless communication link, which may be set up specifically for this purpose or for some other purpose, the software is downloaded directly from the second mobile device to the first mobile device by way of the wired or wireless communication link. This method of downloading software from one mobile device to another mobile device on a peer-to-peer basis does not require the use of infrastructure, such as the mobile phone network, and enables the distribution of a software object as carrier devices move and come within communicating range of other mobile devices requiring the software. This not only provides highly efficient software download avoiding additional network loading and overhead, but also provides an inexpensive method for wide dissemination of a particular software download on an ad hoc basis.
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Software Download This invention relates to the downloading of software,
such as software modules, patches or other configuration data, to a mobile device by way of a communication link.
Software download is a well accepted method of configuring a softwaredefined or reconfigurable radio, as well as being used in a wide variety of other applications. A common application requires a software download to a mobile phone or other devices equipped with an ad hoc wireless connection, for example in order to install a software patch (that is to fix a program bug) or to install new services.
Various prior references describe techniques for software download and many specific solutions, including the use of short-range wireless personal area networks (WPANs) for the transfer of the software modules and configuration information. Such prior references include JP 2002077030, US 5909437, US 6378069 and EP 0459344A1 which describe general over the air software download systems, and KR 2001026519 which describes the use of WPAN (specifically using a Bluetooth wireless link, where Bluetooth is a Registered Trade Mark) for software download. However KR 2001026519 is concerned with a centralized, infrastructure-oriented approach in which the software is downloaded over conventional channels, for example over a GSM network, and this has the disadvantage of providing increased network loading and overhead. Alternatively a more localised approach may be exploited where a large number of users require a software download, for example at an airport. However this is likely to make use of a designated fixed device for performing the software download to al] devices requiring the download, and is not particularly flexible in terms of providing wide dissemination for a particular software download.
It is an object of the invention to provide a method of performing a software download to a mobile device that substantially avoids these problems.
According to one aspect of the present there is provided a method for performing a software download to a mobile device, the method comprising: setting up a communication link between a first mobile device and a second mobile device that incorporates the software to be downloaded; and transferring the software from the second mobile device to the first mobile device by way of the communication link.
According to one aspect of the present there is provided a mobile device adapted to receive a software download, the device comprising: receiving means for receiving the software download over a communication link; communicating means for setting up a communication link between the firstmentioned device and a further mobile device; and download means for transferring the software download from the first- mentioned device to the further mobile device by way of the communication link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device.
Instead of using an infrastructure-oriented approach, this method effects downloading of the software between mobile devices, that is from one mobile device to another mobile device, on a peer-to-peer basis without requiring intervening infrastructure. Such a method enables distribution of a software object as the carrier devices move and come within communicating range of other mobile devices requiring the software. This not only provides highly efficient software download avoiding additional network loading and overhead, but also provides an inexpensive method for wide dissemination of a particular software download on an ad hoc basis. Additionally this method makes software downloads more manageable and provides the possibility of software updates without network connection and without requiring product recall.
The method also provides richer functionality for the user, as well as enabling downloads at less cost and with lower battery consumption.
The communication link may be a wireless link, for example a Bluetooth or infra-red link, between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.
Alternatively the communication link may be a physical link between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.
Furthermore the software download to the first mobile device may be initiated as a supplemental download during communication set up between the first and second mobile devices for the transfer of other traffic between the first and second mobile devices. Alternatively the communication link may be set up between the first and second mobile devices for the specific purpose of effecting the software download from the first mobile device to the second mobile device.
In one implementation of the invention the arrangement may be such that, in order to initiate the communication link, the second mobile device broadcasts an enquiry signal with the object of setting up a communication link with another mobile device, and the first mobile device transmits an acknowledgement signal to be received by the second mobile device in response to detection of the enquiry signal.
The software download to the first mobile device may be initiated only after receipt by the second mobile device of an authentication signal from the first mobile device indicating that the software download is required by the first mobile device.
Additionally the first mobile device may incorporate an initial software configuration which is modified by the software download to produce a final software configuration, backup means storing a backup copy of the initial software configuration after modification by the software download has been performed.
Also the second mobile device may be arranged to retain the software for download for a predetermined period of time after the expiry of which the software is no longer made available for download.
In order that the invention may be more fully understood, reference will now be made, by way of example, to the accompanying drawings, in which: Figure 1 is an explanatory diagram; and Figure 2 is a flow diagram illustrating a possible software download method in accordance with the invention.
The following description of a software download method in accordance with the invention is concerned with the download of a software patch from one mobile phone 31 to another, similar mobile phone 32 or 33 by means of a short range wireless connection, such as a Bluetooth connection, on a peer-to-peer basis as shown diagrammatically in Figure 1. The software patch may have been initially received by the mobile phone 31 over the air from an infrastructure base station 30 or from another mobile phone. However it should be appreciated that this software download method may also be used for downloading a software patch or any other type of software download between other types of mobile device. The other types of software download may be for the purposes of personalisation of a mobile phone (new ring tones, modified human/computer interface), new services, etc. Such a software download method may be considered to be on an ad hoc basis, this being most evident in cases where the download is not necessarily initiated by the user of the mobile phone 32 (or 33), but rather is downloaded automatically from the mobile phone 31 incorporating the software download as a result of a general connection being made between the two devices.
In this case the software download is initiated by the mobile phone 31 that already holds the software download where a communication link between the two s devices has been established and some kind of capability exchange and device identification exchange takes place. In this case the software download occurs in addition to other traffic between the devices, the peer-to-peer communication link having been originally set up to transfer this traffic. Such an approach is referred to as a supplemental ad hoc software download. For example, an ad hoc connection between two mobile phones may be set up to exchange business cards, and, whilst this connection remains in place, the phones can also exchange appropriate software downloads and software updates.
Alternatively the peer-to-peer communication link may be set up with the express purpose of downloading the software patch. In this case the mobile phone 31 in which the software object currently resides initiates the communication link, for example a Bluetooth wireless communication link, by broadcasting an enquiry signal.
The mobile phone 32 (or 33) that is the potential recipient of the software download, which is in enquiry scan mode, initiates paging on detection of the enquiry signal so as to set up the connection if required. To ensure that the download is required, capability exchange and device identification steps are performed before the download is initiated, as described in more detail below. Furthermore a dedicated inquiry access code (DIAC in the case of a Bluetooth wireless connection) may be used to ensure that only devices that are willing and capable of downloading the software patch respond to the enquiry signal. In this case the communication link is set up for the sole purpose of downloading the software patch, in which case this approach may be termed a primary ad hoc software download.
It will be appreciated that such a software download may be carried out from phone to phone in a cascaded manner with the result that the software patch will spread to an increasing number of phones over time in the manner of a virus, although appropriate steps may be taken to ensure that the process is not harmful in any way to the phones concerned. Bogus software downloads can be avoided by utilising some form of security stamp supplied by the phone manufacturer or software company.
Referring now to the flow diagram of Figure 2, both mobile phones are initially in an idle mode as indicated at 2 when the software download channel 4 is set up, for example in response to receipt by the carrier phone, that is the phone holding the software patch to be downloaded of an acknowledgement signal from the other phone in response to detection by the other phone of a broadcast enquiry signal from the carrier phone. After the establishment of the communication link and prior to the download of the software patch, a check is made at 6 to determine whether the software patch is required by the target phone. Only in the event of an affirmative response does the method proceed to the next step involving an exchange of data between the phones over the communication link at 7 to establish a capability exchange at 8. A determination is then made at 10 on the basis of this capability exchange to determine whether the software patch is suitable for the target phone. Only in the event of an affirmative response is the software patch then downloaded over the communication link, as indicated by 12.
Subsequent to the downloading of the software patch a determination is made at 14 as to whether the software patch has downloaded successfully. In the event of a negative response a retry of the software patch download may be initiated at 15. In the event of an affirmative response to the determination as to whether the software patch has downloaded successfully, a security stamp validation procedure is initiated at 16.
Only in the event of validation being confirmed at 18 is the next step initiated at 20 involving storage in an appropriate memory device of the software configuration of the target phone prior to downloading of the software patch, where this step is required.
Furthermore, if required, a further step is then carried out at 22 involving the transmission of a report to the phone network or manufacturer of the phone/soflware of the changes to the software configuration to be performed. Finally the sofltware patch is downloaded to the target phone as indicated at 24.
After completion of these software download steps, or after a negative response has been received within any of the interrogation steps, the phones are caused to revert to their initial idle states as indicated at 26 in the figure.
This technique has a number of advantages as compared with conventional approaches for downloading software patches and bug fixes. In such conventional approaches the phones are recalled and the software corrected by the manufacturer or software company, which involves substantial expense. Alternatively the software patch is downloaded over the network from a network node, this being more efficient than device recall, but having the disadvantage that it loads the network and may result in instability (as multiple phones within the network are reconfigured at the same time).
The ad hoc software download method in accordance with the invention outlined above permits a more organic distribution of the software patch which is both more efficient and easier to manage than the conventional approaches. The distribution of the software patch can be initiated over the air in a confined area, for example in a network cell or by means of a particular access point, from where the software patch may spread to other devices on a peer-to-peer basis. Alternatively the software patch may be installed in newer versions of the device from which the software patch may then spread to other devices in this manner. Whatever its origin the new software patch will be spread to further devices with which it comes into the range during normal movement of the carrier device. The gradual updating of devices to the new software version allows easier management of the transition than in conventional approaches in which all devices are updated at the same time. If at any point the software update becomes unstable, an over-the-air broadcast can be made to cause the devices to revert to the previous software version or to provide a modified software update.
There will be some instances in which spreading of the software patch to all target devices will not occur, for example because a device is rarely used or does not come into range of a carrier device. This problem can be overcome by using a conventional over-the-air download from the network when the device is finally turned on.
It will be appreciated that, as well as software patch downloads, downloads of new applications or updates of existing applications can be effected in a similar manner on a peer-to-peer basis. In this case the new application software may be downloaded from the carrier device to the target device, either as a result of carrier device activation or at the request of the target device. Again some form of security stamp authentication can be used to avoid bogus downloads, in a similar manner to techniques used in conventional over-the-air downloads. Some form of digital rights management may also be required if the download is to be retransmitted in order to prevent unauthorized copying.
This technique again has a number of advantages so far as the author or vendor of the application is concerned. For example, a demo version of an application could be downloaded to devices on an ad hoc basis, with the full version of the application only being downloaded (or unlocked in the user's device) on making of a required payment.
By contrast it may not be financially viable to provide broad area software download of an application or its demo version using a conventional approach, as significant bandwidth may be required. The technique of the invention, on the other hand, utilises the short range ad hoc wireless link and the memory and mobility of the carrier devices to provide wider distribution of a particular product or service.
The method in accordance with the invention can also be applied to other types of software download, for example to new radio access schemes, coders, protocol stacks, etc. It should also be stressed that the download method of the invention is not confined to wireless terminals, but can be used with any device that forms an ad hoc connection with other devices and benefits from software download. For example, the owners of two game consoles may connect their consoles together, either by use of wires or wirelessly, for the purposes of a multiplayer game, and this opportunity could be taken to exchange software updates (for example from a newer console to an older console), software patches, new applications etc. Various modifications of the above described software download method may be appropriate for certain applications. The software download object may be stored implicitly in the carrier device, for example in the form of Java code required to run an application, so that this forms no additional overhead for the programme code (although some additional overhead may be required for a security stamp or other associated feature). However, in some instances, the software download object may need to be explicitly stored, for example because it may well be easier to keep a software patch in its original form and to download it directly to the target device. Furthermore a device may include software patches for a large number of different terminal types, in which case the patches will need to be explicitly stored.
As already indicated, the software designer or device manufacturer may wish to manage the expansion of the downloaded software, for example by including a facility to fall back to a previous software version prior to the software download, in which case the previous software version (or the changes) will need to be retained within the target device, at least for a reasonable handover period.
In addition a particular limited lifetime may be associated with a software download so as to ensure that there is no need for the carrier device to retain the software download in its memory after this lifetime has expired.
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- CLAIMS: 1. A method for performing a software download to a mobile device,the method comprising: setting up a communication link between a first mobile device and a second mobile device that incorporates the software to be downloaded; and transferring the software from the second mobile device to the first mobile device by way of the communication link.
- 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the communication link is a wireless link between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.
- 3. A method according to claim], wherein the communication link is a physical link between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.
- 4. A method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the software download to the first mobile device is initiated as a supplemental download during communication set up between the first and second mobile devices for the transfer of other traffic between the first and second mobile devices.
- 5. A method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the communication link is set up between the first and second mobile devices for the specific purpose of effecting the software download from the first mobile device to the second mobile device.
- 6. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the second mobile device broadcasts an enquiry signal with the object of setting up a communication link with another mobile device, and the first mobile device transmits an acknowledgement signal to be received by the second mobile device in response to detection of the enquiry signal in order to initiate the communication link.
- 7. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the software download to the first mobile device is initiated only after receipt by the second mobile device of an authentication signal from the first mobile device indicating that the software download is required by the first mobile device.
- 8. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the first mobile device incorporates an initial software configuration which is modified by the software download to produce a final software configuration, backup means storing a backup copy of the initial software configuration after modification by the software download has been performed.
- 9. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the second mobile device retains the software for download for a predetermined period of time after the expiry of which the software is no longer made available for download.
- l O. A mobile device adapted to receive a software download, the device comprising: receiving means for receiving the software download over a communication link; communicating means for setting up a communication link between the first mentioned device and a further mobile device; and download means for transferring the software download from the first mentioned device to the further mobile device by way of the communication link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device.
- 11. A device according to claim lO, wherein the communication link is a wireless link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device.
- 12. A method according to claim 10, wherein the communication link is a physical link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device.
- 13. A device according to claim 10, 11 or 12, wherein the download means is adapted to transfer the software download as a supplemental download during communication set up between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device for the transfer of other traffic between the firstmentioned device and the further mobile device.
- 14. A device according to any one of claims 10 to 13, wherein the communicating means incorporates enquiry means for broadcasting an enquiry signal with the object of setting up a communication link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device and for receiving an acknowledgement signal from the first-mentioned device in response to detection of the enquiry signal in order to initiate the communication link
- 15. A device according to any one of claims 10 to 14, wherein the communicating means incorporates acknowledgement means for broadcasting an acknowledgement signal to be received by communicating means of another mobile device in response to detection of an enquiry signal from the other mobile device with the object of setting up a communication link between the first-mentioned device and the other mobile device.
- 16. A device according to any one of claims 10 to 15, wherein the upload means incorporates authentication means for transmitting to another mobile device an authentication signal indicating that the software download is required by the first- mentioned device in order to initiate the software upload to the first- mentioned device.
- 17. A method for performing a software download to a mobile terminal, the method being substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.l < l ( l : '(( ' 1
- 18. A mobile device adapted to receive a software download, the device being substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.17. A device according to any one of claims 10 to 16, wherein the firstmentioned device incorporates backup means for storing a backup copy of an initial software configuration of the first-mentioned device after the initial software configuration has been modified by the software download to produce a final software configuration.18. A method for performing a software download to a mobile terminal, the method being substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.19. A mobile device adapted to receive a software download, the device being substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.Amcndmcnt to the claims have been fiend as follows CLAIMS: 1. A method for performing a software download to a mobile device, the method comprlsmg: setting up a communication link between a first mobile device and a second mobile device that incorporates the software to be downloaded; and transferring the software from the second mobile device to the first mobile device by way of the communication link.wherein the second mobile device retains the software for download for a predetermined period of time after the expiry of which the software is no longer made available for download 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the communication link is a wireless link between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the communication link is a physical link between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.4. A method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the software download to the first mobile device is initiated as a supplemental download during communication set up between the first and second mobile devices for the transfer of other traffic between the first and second mobile devices.5. A method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the communication link is set up between the first and second mobile devices for the specific purpose of effecting the software download from the first mobile device to the second mobile device.6. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the second mobile device broadcasts an enquiry signal with the object of setting up a communication link with < r l r r i i 'ISanother mobile device, and the first mobile device transmits an acknowledgement signal to be received by the second mobile device in response to detection of the enquiry signal in order to initiate the communication link.7. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the software download to the first mobile device is initiated only after receipt by the second mobile device of an authentication signal from the first mobile device indicating that the software download is required by the first mobile device.8. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the first mobile device incorporates an initial software configuration which is modified by the software download to produce a final software configuration, backup means storing a backup copy of the initial software configuration after modification by the software download has been performed.9. A mobile device adapted to receive a software download, the device comprising: receiving means for receiving the software download over a communication link; communicating means for setting up a communication link between the first mentioned device and a further mobile device; and download means for transferring the software download from the first mentioned device to the further mobile device by way of the communication link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device wherein the first mentioned device retains the software for download for a predetermined period of time after the expiry of which the software is no longer made available for download.10. A device according to claim 9, wherein the communication link is a wireless link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device.11. A method according to claim 9, wherein the communication link is a physical link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device.r 4- 12. A device according to claim 9, 10 or 11, wherein the download means is adapted to transfer the software download as a supplemental download during communication set up between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device for the transfer of other traffic between the first- mentioned device and the further mobile device.13. A device according to any one of claims 9 to 12, wherein the communicating means incorporates enquiry means for broadcasting an enquiry signal with the object of setting up a communication link between the first-mentioned device and the further mobile device and for receiving an acknowledgement signal from the first-mentioned device in response to detection of the enquiry signal in order to initiate the communication link 14. A device according to any one of claims 9 to 13, wherein the communicating means incorporates acknowledgement means for broadcasting an acknowledgement signal to be received by communicating means of another mobile device in response to detection of an enquiry signal from the other mobile device with the object of setting up a communication link between the first-mentioned device and the other mobile device.15. A device according to any one of claims 9 to 14, wherein the upload means incorporates authentication means for transmitting to another mobile device an authentication signal indicating that the software download is required by the first- mentioned device in order to initiate the software upload to the first- mentioned device.16. A device according to any one of claims 9 to 15, wherein the firstmentioned device incorporates backup means for storing a backup copy of an initial software configuration of the first-mentioned device after the initial software configuration has been modified by the software download to produce a final software configuration.
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