KR100753805B1 - Apparatus and method for obtaing application list in portable communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for acquiring an application list in a portable terminal are provided to omit compression releasing process of an application whenever application image information is used by selecting/storing image information in the downloaded application, thereby preventing the performance of the portable terminal from being deteriorated. An apparatus for acquiring an application list in a portable terminal comprises the followings: an application processing unit(110) for acquiring application information indicating indication related to an application in an install process of a downloaded application and storing the acquired application information; and an application storing unit(112) for storing application information which is acquired by the application processing unit.

Description

Apparatus and method for acquiring an application list from a mobile terminal {APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBTAING APPLICATION LIST IN PORTABLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM}

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a portable terminal for providing a list of applications according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of acquiring image information of an application downloaded from a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a portable terminal providing an application list according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for providing a list of Java applications of a portable terminal. In particular, the portable application stores information (for example, image information) of a Java application in the portable terminal and stores the stored application when the list request occurs. An apparatus and method for generating the list using information.

Recently, a portable terminal such as a portable terminal or a personal digital assistant (PDA) is widely used. Such a portable terminal may be photographed with an attached digital camera as well as for simple phone calls or schedule management. The scope of application is increasing, such as watching movies, watching digital broadcasting, document editing, and games, and providing many functions to users of portable terminals.

In addition, the portable terminal may provide various functions to the user by downloading a Java application. Generally, Java applications that run on portable terminals are diverse, such as cartoons, music, and games, and their types are gradually increasing.

When the above Java application is downloaded, a list including information of the Java application, that is, an image (logo) of the Java application and a title of the Java application is provided.

In order to provide the Java application list as a compressed application (* .jar), the Java application may decompress the downloaded Java application every time it detects the list request to extract an image required for the list. Must be obtained.

Since the list providing method as described above repeatedly performs the process of decompressing the Java application every time the list is provided, system waste may occur.

Accordingly, there is a need for an apparatus and method for acquiring image information of the Java application by omitting the process of decompressing the Java application each time the list is provided.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for providing an application list.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for acquiring and storing application information.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for generating an application list by using application information being stored.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above objects, the apparatus for providing an application list obtains application information indicating information about the application during the installation of the downloaded application, and obtains the obtained application information. And an application storage unit for storing the application information obtained by the application processing unit.

According to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above objects, an apparatus for generating an application list includes an application storage unit for storing application information indicating information about an application, and an application that is an item of previously stored application information. When detecting a list request, characterized in that it comprises an application processing unit for processing to obtain the application information stored in the application storage to generate the application list.

According to a third aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for acquiring application information in a portable terminal, if the application download request is detected, downloading the application, and installing the application And obtaining the application information during the installation and storing the obtained application information.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In the following description, an apparatus and method for acquiring and storing the application information after downloading the application will be described in order to solve the process of decompressing the application each time an application list is provided.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a portable terminal for providing a list of applications according to the present invention. In the following description, the portable terminal includes a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), an international mobile telecommunication-2000 (IMT-2000), and a fourth generation. It is meant to include all the broadband system terminal and the like, the following description will be described with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, the portable terminal includes a control unit 100, an input unit 102, a display unit 104, and an application processing unit 110, and the application processing unit 110 includes an application storage unit 112. It can be configured to include.

The controller (MPU: Micro-Processer Unit) 100 controls the overall operation of the portable terminal. For example, when processing and controlling for voice call and data communication, and detecting an application download request by a user according to the present invention in addition to the normal function, the application processing unit 110 causes the application to execute the application. After instructing to download and processing to install the downloaded application, the application processing unit 110 processes to acquire and store application information including image information from the installed application.

In addition, when the controller 100 detects an application list request by a user, the controller 100 causes the application processor 110 to acquire the application information and then uses the application information acquired through the application processor 110. To create an application list.

The application processor 110 downloads and installs the application under the instruction of the controller 100, obtains the information of the application, and stores the obtained application information in the application storage 112. .

In addition, the application processing unit 110 receives the instruction of the control unit 100 to search the application storage unit 112 to obtain the application information, and generates the application list by using the obtained application information, the Provided to the controller 100.

The application storage unit 112 stores the application downloaded by the application processing unit 110 and the application information obtained by the application processing unit 110.

The input unit 102 includes buttons included in a general portable terminal, and provides key input data (application list request) corresponding to a user input to the controller 100 according to the present invention.

The display unit 104 displays the state information generated during the operation of the portable terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and outputs the application list according to the present invention.

The foregoing has described the apparatus for obtaining the application information. In the following description, a method for acquiring application information in a mobile terminal and generating an application list using the obtained application information will be described.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of acquiring image information of an application downloaded from a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the control unit 100 first checks whether a Java application download request is detected by a user in step 201. If the download request is not detected, the controller 100 proceeds to step 213 to perform a corresponding function (eg, a standby mode).

On the other hand, when detecting the download request, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 203 to download the Java application through the application processing unit 110. In operation 205, the controller 100 determines whether the downloading of the Java application is completed. If, as a result of the confirmation, the completion of the download is not confirmed, the control unit 100 performs the process of step 203 again.

On the other hand, if it is confirmed that the completion of the download, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 207 to instruct the application processing unit 110 to install the downloaded Java application.

In operation 209, the controller 100 instructs the application processor 110 to acquire information of the Java application (for example, application image information, title information, capacity information, etc.), and then 211. Proceeding to step, it is instructed to store the obtained Java application information.

Thereafter, the controller 100 ends the present algorithm.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a portable terminal providing an application list according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the controller 100 first checks whether a Java application list request by a user is detected in step 301. If the list request is not detected, the controller 100 proceeds to step 311 to perform a corresponding function (eg, standby mode).

On the other hand, when detecting the list request, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 303 to cause the application processing unit 110 to obtain Java application information. Here, the Java application information is stored in the application storage unit 112 as information extracted from the Java application (eg, image information, title information, capacity information, etc.) already installed, under the control of the controller 100. The application processor 110 may search for and acquire the application storage 112.

In operation 305, the control unit 100 instructs the application processing unit 110 to generate the application list using the obtained application information.

Here, the application list is a list of applications stored in the portable terminal and includes application information (eg, image information) obtained by the application processing unit 110.

In operation 307, the controller 100 outputs the generated application list to the display unit 104. In operation 309, the controller 100 determines whether the application list update request is detected by a user.

If, as a result of the check, the controller detects the update request, the controller 100 performs the process of step 303 again.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the update request is not detected, the controller 100 ends the present algorithm.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, in the case where the application image information is to be used by extracting and storing image information from the downloaded application according to the present invention, the process of decompressing the application is omitted to prevent performance degradation of the portable terminal. can do.

Claims (9)

In the device for providing a list of applications, An application processing unit which acquires application information indicating information on the application in a process of installing the downloaded application, and stores the obtained application information; And an application storage unit for storing the application information obtained by the application processing unit. The method of claim 1, The application information, And at least one of image information, capacity information, and title information of the application. An apparatus for generating an application list, An application storage unit for storing application information representing information about the application; And detecting an application list request, which is an item of previously stored application information, to obtain application information stored in the application storage unit and to generate the application list. The method of claim 3, wherein The application information, And any one of image information, title information, and capacity information of the application. delete In the method for obtaining application information in a portable terminal, Detecting an application download request, downloading the application; Installing the application; Acquiring the application information during the installation; And storing the obtained application information. The method of claim 6, The application information, And any one of image information, title information, and capacity information of the application. In the method for providing a list of applications in a portable terminal, Detecting the application list request, acquiring stored application information; Generating the application list using the obtained application information; And outputting the generated application list. The method of claim 8, The application information, And any one of image information, title information, and capacity information of the application.

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