JP2007080173A - Application information management program, application information management system and storage medium readable by computer for storing application information management program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an application information management program capable of semi-automatically informing application information without taking much time and labor for the setting of a client. <P>SOLUTION: An application management means 32 of a mating PC 30 requests acquisition of the application information from an application information control 34 of the mating PC 30 when receiving an acquisition request for the application information 36 from one's own PC 10 (S20 ; Y). The application information control 34 of the mating PC 30 acquires application information 38 managed by OS (S21), and next, acquires the application information 36 recorded in media such as an HDD (S22). The acquired application information are collected into one. The collected application information is transmitted to an application management means 12 of the one's own PC 10. The application information from the mating PC 30 is transmitted to a PC. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information management program and an application information management system for exchanging application information installed in a PC with a counterpart PC.

In recent years, with the advancement of IT technology and network technology, an environment has been provided in which a plurality of computers are always connected to a network, and various types of data are frequently transmitted and received.
The following documents can be cited as techniques for searching for information and exchanging applications in such an environment.
Patent No. 3501799 JP2003-10768

By the way, in the case of a conventional server client application, when specifying a server from the client, the server information (eg, IP address) is checked in advance by asking the server administrator and the information is stored in the client setting. Was. This was a laborious operation for the user.
In some cases, the server may want to manage application information installed on the client PC. As an example, when an application is updated, it can be used as an application in a system in which an application is updated on a PC installed in the application.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an application information management program and an application information management system that can semi-automatically notify application information without troublesome client settings.

  In the invention described in claim 1, in a computer connected to another computer via a network so that information can be transmitted and received, the application information management program receives an application information acquisition request from another computer; In response to the application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception function, a first acquisition function for acquiring application information managed by the OS (operating system), and an application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception function The second acquisition function for acquiring the application information recorded in the medium, the first acquisition function, the combination function for combining the application information acquired by the second acquisition function, and the combination function Applications combined with Characterized in that to achieve the information transmitting function of transmitting the broadcast to other computers, to a computer.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, when option information exists in addition to the application information acquired by the first acquisition function, a third acquisition function for acquiring the added option information is provided. And the combining function also combines the option information acquired by the third acquisition function.
In the invention described in claim 3, in the invention described in claim 1 or claim 2, when a new application or option is added, a detection function is provided for detecting that, and this detection function is used for the new application or option. When it is detected that there has been an addition, the information transmission function transmits that fact to another computer.

In the invention described in claim 4, in a computer connected to another computer via a network so that information can be transmitted and received, the application information management system includes an acquisition request receiving unit that receives a request for acquiring application information from the other computer; In response to the application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception means, a first acquisition means for acquiring application information managed by the OS (operating system), and an application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception means The second acquisition means for acquiring the application information recorded on the medium, the first acquisition means, the combination means for combining the application information acquired by the second acquisition means, and the combination means Application information combined with And an information transmission means for transmitting the information to another computer. The invention according to claim 5, wherein the application information management program according to claim 1, 2 or 3 is readable by a computer It is stored in a storage medium.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to automate the provision of application information without troublesome client settings.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the present invention. The own PC 10 and the partner PC 30 are network-connected by a LAN (local area network) 50.
The own PC 10 includes application management means 12, application information control 14, application information 16, application information 18 managed by an OS (operating system), and client application 20.
The counterpart PC 30 includes application management means 32, application information control 34, application information 36, application information 38 managed by an OS (operating system), and a server application 40.

Examples of the application information 18 and 38 managed by the OS are applications registered for program addition and deletion. The application information 16 and 36 is information for storing application information to be registered in a medium such as an HDD (hard disk drive) in addition to the application information managed by the OS. For example, the server application wants to add application information with a unique name.
The application information controls 14 and 34 are programs for controlling application information (such as HDD) and application information managed by the OS.
The application management units 12 and 32 are programs that perform control from the server application 40 and the client application 20 and control of acquisition of application information to the counterpart PC 30.

Next, the processing procedure of the application information acquisition operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
In this example, it is assumed that the client application 20 requests the acquisition of the application information 36 of the counterpart PC 30 in the own PC 10. The application management means 12 of the own PC 10 makes an acquisition request for the application information 36 to the counterpart PC 30 via the LAN 50 (step 31).
When the application management means 32 of the counterpart PC 30 receives the acquisition request for the application information 36 from the own PC 10 (step 20; Y), the application management means 32 requests the application information control 34 of the counterpart PC 30 to acquire the application information. Then, the application information control 34 of the counterpart PC 30 first acquires the application information 38 managed by the OS (step 21).

Next, application information 36 recorded on a medium such as an HDD is acquired (step 22). Then, the acquired application information is collected into one. As an example, it is summarized as an XML format file as shown in FIG.
The collected application information is transmitted to the application management means 12 of the own PC 10 (step 23). The own PC 10 application management means 12 transmits application information from the partner PC 30 to the client PC.

Next, the registration operation for application information will be described.
Additional registration of application information occurs from the server application 40 to the application management means 32 (step 10; Y). When the application management means 32 receives the addition of application information from the server application 40, the application management means 32 transmits an addition request to the application information 36 for recording the information on the medium such as the HDD to the application information control 34 (step 11).
The application information control 34 adds the information to the application information 36 recorded on a medium such as an HDD. As a format for recording on a medium such as an HDD, an XML file as shown in FIG. 4 is recorded as an example.

Next, in the second embodiment, an option as shown in FIG. 5 is added to the XML format file of the registration operation to the application information (step 11) in the first embodiment.
If there is an item that is not sufficient only by the application information 38 managed by the OS, application information and option information to be added from the server application 40 are recorded on a medium such as an HDD via the application management means 32 and the application information control 34. To the application information 36 to be added.

  Next, a third embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the processing of the counterpart PC, the difference from the flowchart of FIG. 2 is that the application information is notified to the own PC 10 (step 52). On the other hand, when the own PC 10 receives a change notification from the partner PC 30 (step 70), it issues an application acquisition request to the partner PC 30 (step 71). Then, application information is received via the LAN 50 (step 72), and processing is performed (step 73).

It is the block diagram which showed the basic composition of this invention. It is the flowchart which showed the process sequence of the application information acquisition operation | movement of a 1st Example. It is the figure which showed the example which put together the acquired application information as an XML format file. It is the figure which showed the example recorded with the file of an XML format as a format recorded on a medium. It is the figure which showed the example which added the option to the XML format file of registration operation | movement to application information. It is the flowchart which showed the process sequence of the 3rd Example.

Explanation of symbols

10 Own PC
12, 32 Application management means 14, 34 Application information control 16, 36 Application information 18, 38 Application information 20 managed by OS 20 Client application 30 Counterpart PC
40 Server application 50 LAN (local area network)

Claims (5)

In a computer connected to another computer via a network so as to be able to send and receive information,
An acquisition request reception function for receiving an application information acquisition request from another computer;
A first acquisition function for acquiring application information managed by the OS (operating system) in response to the application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception function;
A second acquisition function for acquiring application information recorded in the medium in response to the application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception function;
A combining function for combining the first acquisition function and the application information acquired by the second acquisition function;
An information transmission function for transmitting the application information combined by this combining function to another computer;
An application information management program for causing a computer to realize the above. When option information is present in addition to the application information acquired by the first acquisition function, a third acquisition function for acquiring the added option information is provided.
2. The application information management program according to claim 1, wherein the combination function also combines option information acquired by the third acquisition function. When a new application or option is added, it has a detection function to detect it,
3. The application information management according to claim 1, wherein when the detection function detects that a new application or option has been added, the information transmission function transmits the fact to another computer. program. In a computer connected to another computer via a network so as to be able to send and receive information,
An acquisition request reception means for receiving an application information acquisition request from another computer;
A first acquisition unit that acquires application information managed by an OS (operating system) in response to the application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception unit;
Second acquisition means for acquiring application information recorded on the medium in response to the application information acquisition request received by the acquisition request reception means;
A combining means for combining the first acquisition means and the application information acquired by the second acquisition means;
Information transmitting means for transmitting the application information combined by the combining means to another computer;
An application information management system comprising: 4. A computer-readable storage medium storing an application information management program, wherein the application information management program according to claim 1, 2, or 3 is stored.

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