KR101016649B1 - Method and system for re-downloading mobile platform based application - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and system for automatically reinstalling a mobile platform application. The method for automatically reinstalling a mobile platform application of the present invention includes storing a list of existing download applications for each subscriber in a database, receiving a request for automatically reinstalling an application including subscriber information, and a list of existing download applications corresponding to the subscriber information from the database. Querying, creating a callback short message including a URL (used when the wireless terminal accesses the download server) for automatic reinstallation of applications corresponding to the list of inquired applications, and sending a request to the short message transmission system; Receiving a download request from the wireless terminal receiving the callback short message sent by the short message transmission system and in response to the download request from the wireless terminal to the corresponding application to the wireless terminal Providing a step. According to the present invention, when there is a need to download and install an application previously downloaded on the terminal due to terminal hardware / software failure, the application can be easily and quickly downloaded and reinstalled.

Description

Reinstallation method and system of mobile platform application {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RE-DOWNLOADING MOBILE PLATFORM BASED APPLICATION}

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to better understand the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention, a brief description of each drawing is provided.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic reinstallation system for a mobile platform-based application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a functional layer of the wireless terminal illustrated in FIG. 1.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for automatically reinstalling a mobile platform based application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic reinstallation system for a mobile platform based application according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method for downloading and installing a mobile platform based application program.

With the development of mobile terminal and wireless Internet related technologies, many mobile platforms based applications and services have been developed. Mobile platform-based applications and services are application programs or wireless Internet services that can be executed on a mobile platform, and are typically downloaded from a download server through a wireless Internet network and installed in a wireless terminal.

Examples of mobile platforms currently installed and used in wireless terminals include BREW, GVM, and WIPI. Examples of applications and services that can run on a mobile platform include entertainment programs such as games, e-book programs, movie / video players, and the like, and are being developed more diversely.

However, an application downloaded and installed in the terminal may be damaged or deleted due to a hardware or software failure in the wireless terminal. In this case, conventionally, it was possible to support the reinstallation manually through a customer center. This way of downloading again manually through the customer center is not only cumbersome for the user, but it is also difficult for the customer center to know which application the user has downloaded before the failure of the terminal. Alternatively, the user must download the application again through the wireless terminal, which is cumbersome, and the user must pay the network fee or information fee for the download again.

In order to reduce such inconvenience, there is a need for a method that can be easily reinstalled when an application purchased and downloaded by the user is damaged / deleted due to a failure.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for easily and automatically downloading a mobile platform-based application that a user has already downloaded to a wireless terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, according to a preferred aspect of the present invention, a method for re-installing a mobile platform-based application program from a download server to a wireless terminal, the method comprising: storing a list of download applications for each subscriber in a database; Receiving an application automatic reinstallation request including subscriber information; Retrieving a list of downloaded applications corresponding to the subscriber information from the database in response to the automatic application reinstallation request; Creating a callback short message including a URL for automatic reinstallation of an application corresponding to the inquired application list, and sending a request to the short message transmission system; Receiving a download request for the inquired application from a wireless terminal that has received the callback short message sent by the short message transmission system; And providing the corresponding application to the wireless terminal in response to the download request, wherein the URL is used when the wireless terminal accesses the download server. A record carrier comprising a program is provided.

Preferably, when receiving the callback short message, the wireless terminal performs an application download procedure using the URL, and the automatic application download procedure performed by the wireless terminal comprises: calling an application manager on a mobile platform; The application manager accessing the download server using the URL; And requesting the download server to download an application corresponding to the inquired application list.

Also preferably, the download server has a first IP address for normal download of an application and a second IP address for automatic reinstallation of the application, and the URL includes the second IP address.

In order to achieve the above object, according to another preferred aspect of the present invention, in the system for re-installing the mobile platform-based application program in the wireless terminal in conjunction with the short message transmission system and the wireless terminal, storing the download application list for each subscriber Database; Means for receiving an application automatic reinstallation request including subscriber information; Means for retrieving a list of downloaded applications corresponding to the subscriber information from the database in response to the application re-installation request; Means for creating a callback short message including a URL for automatic reinstallation of an application corresponding to the inquired application list, and sending a request to the short message transmission system; Means for receiving a download request for the inquired application from a wireless terminal receiving the callback short message sent by the short message transmission system; And means for providing the corresponding application to the wireless terminal in response to the download request, wherein the URL is used when the wireless terminal accesses the download server. Is provided.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic reinstallation system for a mobile platform-based application according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to Figure 1, the application automatic reinstallation system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the wireless terminal 110, the download server 120, the differential charging server 130 for each wireless Internet service and the short message transmission system 140 Include. The wireless terminal 110 is a terminal equipped with a mobile platform (for example, WIPI, BREW, etc.), and is a terminal capable of downloading and executing an application based on a mobile platform through a wireless Internet connection. The functional layer of the wireless terminal 110 is shown in FIG. Referring to this, the mobile platform is mounted on the hardware of the wireless terminal 110 and has a stack structure in which various applications are mounted thereon. Wireless terminal 110 also includes an application manager. The application manager manages applications installed in the wireless terminal 110 and connects to the download server 120 described later to install new applications. Application manager is preferably installed when the mobile platform is mounted on the wireless terminal (110). The application manager also functions to receive an application reinstallation callback short message from the short message transmission system 140 and to process it. This function is described in detail later.

The download server 120 stores a plurality of applications to be downloaded to the wireless terminal 110 and provides the corresponding applications at the request of the wireless terminal 110. More specifically, in response to a download request of the application manager of the wireless terminal 110, the application requested by the application manager is provided to the wireless terminal 110. The application can be downloaded from the corresponding wireless Internet service server. However, due to the large number of such service servers and management difficulties, it is necessary to separate the download server from the wireless Internet service servers to store and download the downloadable application program. desirable. The download server 120 stores and manages the application list downloaded by the subscriber for each subscriber. To this end, the download server 120 preferably includes a database that stores a list of subscriber-specific download applications, versions, download dates, and the like.

The download server 120 has one or more IP addresses (Internet Protocol Address). Preferably, the download server 120 has a first IP address normally used for downloading an application and a second IP address used for automatic application reinstallation. The reason why the second IP address is separated from the first IP address is to differentiate the network fee when the application is automatically reinstalled due to a failure of the terminal and the network fee when the normal application is downloaded. For example, when the application is automatically reinstalled due to a failure of the wireless terminal 110, the network fee may be free.

As described above, the wireless Internet differential charging server 130 is provided to differentiate and charge the network fee. The differential charging server 130 charges by differentiating the network fee according to the type of the wireless Internet service. More specifically, the differential charging server 130 applies different network usage rates according to the destination IP address of the packet. To this end, the differential charging server 130 registers and stores the network fee for each IP address. Therefore, the network fee based on the first IP address of the download server 120 and the network fee based on the second IP address should be registered in the differential charging server 130. Here, it is assumed that the network fee based on the second IP address is 0 won, that is, free.

When the wireless terminal 110 downloads the application using the first IP address of the download server 120, the differential charging server 130 calculates the network fee based on the network fee based on the first IP address. On the other hand, when the wireless terminal 110 downloads the application using the second IP address of the download server 120, the differential charging server calculates the network fee according to the network fee based on the second IP address. When the application is automatically reinstalled due to a failure of the terminal, the second IP address is used. Otherwise, the first IP address is used.

When the download server 120 receives the application automatic reinstallation request from the customer center system 150, the download server 120 generates an application reinstallation callback short message and requests the short message transmission system 140 to be sent to the wireless terminal 110. .

The short message transmission system 140 transmits the application reinstallation callback short message to the corresponding terminal at the request of the download server 120. The application reinstallation callback short message includes a callback uniform resource locator (URL) that enables the wireless terminal 110 to automatically connect to the download server 120. The callback URL includes the second IP address (ie, free IP address) of the download server 120.

The customer center system 150 serves as an online / offline window for receiving a wireless terminal failure and requesting the download server 120 to automatically reinstall the mobile platform based application. In more detail, if the customer center system 150 receives an application reinstallation request from the user when the wireless terminal 110 receives a failure, the customer center system 150 requests the download server 120 to execute the automatic application reinstallation service for the terminal. do. The customer center system 150 transmits information about the subscriber when requesting the automatic reinstallation service of the application to the download server 120. The customer center system 150 also assigns a predetermined trouble handling number when the wireless terminal 110 receives the trouble, and downloads the trouble handling number when the automatic request for the service of automatic re-installation of the application to the download server 120 is performed. Can be sent to. The error handling number can be used to prevent theft or misuse of automatic application reinstallation. Specifically, the download server 120 may store the information on the error handling number, and may be implemented to download the application only for the wireless terminal 110 requesting automatic application reinstallation with the corresponding error handling number. .

The communication network 120 between the wireless terminal 110 and the differential charging server 130 includes a base station (not shown), a base station controller (not shown), a packet data service node (PDSN), an inter-working function (IWF), and the like. Can be. Since these components are well known to those skilled in the art, detailed descriptions are omitted.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for automatically reinstalling a mobile platform based application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to this, the customer center system receives the terminal failure (S310). After receiving the terminal failure, the customer center system requests the download server to execute the application automatic reinstallation service (S312). At this time, the customer center system transmits the subscriber information (including subscriber terminal number) and trouble handling number to the download server. The download server stores the failure processing number and the corresponding subscriber information in a database (S314). In addition, the subscriber information is retrieved from the database by using the subscriber information previously downloaded application list (S316). Based on the inquiry result, the download server generates an application reinstallation callback short message including a URL specifying a location of an application previously downloaded by the subscriber (S318). At this time, the URL includes a second IP address of the download server (that is, a free IP address). Callback short messages for application reinstallation are preferably generated for each application. The callback short message may further include a failure handling number and application information in addition to the URL. The download server requests the short message transmission system to send the generated callback short message to the corresponding wireless terminal 110 (S320). The short message transmission system transmits the requested short message to the corresponding wireless terminal (S322).

When the callback short message is received by the wireless terminal, the short message control module of the terminal processes it. In the case of the callback short message, the short message control module calls an application manager on the mobile platform and delivers application information to be downloaded (S324). As such, it is preferable that a predetermined flag is further included in the callback short message in order to call the application manager immediately without informing the user of the callback short message. The application manager requests the download server to download the corresponding application according to the application information included in the callback short message (S326). Prior to this step, the application manager preferably checks whether the application exists in the terminal and deletes it if it still exists. This is to delete the damaged application from the wireless terminal and reinstall from the download server.

When the application manager requests the download of the application to the download server, the application manager includes a failure processing number included in the callback short message (S326). It is desirable that the error handling number not be exposed to the outside including the user of the wireless terminal. It is also desirable that the callback short message is controlled such that it is not transmitted to another wireless terminal by the wireless terminal user. This is to prevent abuse or abuse of automatic application reinstallation.

Upon receiving the download request from the wireless terminal, the download server confirms the failure number and subscriber information. For example, the download server compares the error number received at the download request of the wireless terminal with the error number of the corresponding subscriber stored in the internal database and checks whether it matches. If matched, the download server provides the application to the wireless terminal (S330). If the download is successful, the application manager of the wireless terminal notifies the download server of the result (S332). The download server stores the processing result received from the wireless terminal (S334). When the download server is successfully downloaded to the wireless terminal for all the applications to be reinstalled, the download server stores the processing completion information for the corresponding failure processing number. In addition, if necessary, the customer center system may be notified of the completion of the processing of the corresponding failure treatment number (S336).

In the embodiment shown in Figure 3, the customer center system requests the application to reinstall the download server. However, the application may be requested to reinstall the application to the download server directly from the wireless terminal, or may be requested to reinstall the application to the download server from another system. If a wireless terminal or another system requests an application reinstallation, further research may be needed to verify that the request is a legitimate request. Application automatic reinstallation service can be best utilized in the event of a terminal failure. However, the application automatic reinstallation service may be performed in other cases besides the terminal failure.

If the application automatic reinstallation service is used at the time of terminal failure, it is preferable to provide the application automatic reinstallation service when the terminal failure report and reception are normally performed in the customer center system. It may be most desirable to make an application reinstall request to the server.

However, as described above, since there may be a request for automatic application reinstallation from a device other than the customer center system (150 in FIG. 1), the application failure may not be assigned to the customer center system and transmitted to the download server. When a request is received, the download server may create and manage it.

The automatic application reinstallation system according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 uses the same download server 120 for the normal download service and automatic application reinstallation of an application, but assigns an IP address differently. That is, by assigning two IP addresses to one download server, one IP address is used for the normal download service and the other IP address is used for the automatic application reinstallation service. However, a download server for a normal download service and a download server for an automatic application reinstallation service may be separately provided.

4 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic reinstallation system for a mobile platform based application according to another embodiment of the present invention, in which a download server for an automatic application reinstallation service is separately provided.

Referring to Figure 4, the application automatic reinstallation system according to another embodiment of the present invention is the wireless terminal 110, the first download server 420, the second download server 120, wireless Internet service differential charging server ( 130, the short message transmission system 140 and the customer center system 150. Since the configuration shown in FIG. 4 is similar to the configuration shown in FIG. 1, detailed description is omitted to avoid duplication of description. However, the system shown in FIG. 4 differs in that it further includes a first download server 420 as compared to the system shown in FIG. That is, the system shown in FIG. 1 allocates the first and second IP addresses to one download server 120, so that when the application is normally downloaded, the first IP address is used, and when the application is automatically reinstalled, the second IP address is used. To be used.

In contrast, the system illustrated in FIG. 4 allocates a first IP address to the first download server 420 to be used when downloading an application normally, and allocates a second IP address to the second download server 120 to apply the application. Used for automatic reinstallation.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a need arises to download and install an application previously downloaded on the terminal due to a terminal hardware / software failure, the application can be easily and quickly downloaded and reinstalled. . In addition, for application reinstallation, a network usage rate (for example, free) different from the normal download may be applied. Therefore, there is an effect that can improve the quality of service to the subscriber.

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In the method of reinstalling the mobile platform-based application program in the wireless terminal from the download server, Storing a list of downloaded applications for each subscriber in a database; Receiving an application automatic reinstallation request including subscriber information; Receiving, by the download server, the failure processing number internally when receiving the application automatic reinstallation request; Retrieving the list of downloaded applications corresponding to the subscriber information from the database in response to the automatic application reinstallation request; Creating a callback short message including a URL for automatic reinstallation of an application corresponding to the list of downloaded applications, and sending a request to the short message transmission system; Receiving a download request for the inquired application from a wireless terminal that has received the callback short message sent by the short message transmission system; And Providing the application to the wireless terminal in response to the download request; Including; The URL is used when the wireless terminal accesses the download server, The failure processing number is included in the callback short message is transmitted to the mobile terminal, characterized in that the mobile platform application automatic reinstallation method. The method of claim 1, The wireless terminal performs an application download procedure using the URL when receiving the callback short message, The application download procedure performed in the wireless terminal is Invoking an application manager on a mobile platform; The application manager accessing the download server using the URL; And Requesting a download of an application corresponding to the inquired application list to the download server. The method of claim 1, The download server has a first IP address for the normal download of the application and a second IP address for automatic reinstallation of the application, And wherein the URL includes the second IP address. The method of claim 1, The download server is a server separate from the server having a first IP address for the normal download of the application, has a second IP address, And wherein the URL includes the second IP address. The method according to claim 3 or 4, The first IP address and the second IP address are registered with a wireless Internet differential charging server, The wireless Internet differential charging server is a mobile platform application automatic reinstallation method, characterized in that the network fee for free if the destination address of the packet transmitted from the wireless terminal includes the second IP address. delete The method of claim 1, The wireless terminal makes the download request to the download server including the error processing number, The download server determines that the error processing number included in the download request of the wireless terminal is identical to the error processing number stored in the download server, and provides the application to the wireless terminal if it matches. Automatic reinstallation method. The method of claim 1, The failure processing number is generated in the customer center system is received by the download server, or if the automatic download of the mobile platform application, characterized in that generated by the download server when the application program request for automatic reinstallation. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving an application automatic reinstall request including the subscriber information is And automatically transmitting the application re-installation request to the download server from the customer center system that has received the failure of the wireless terminal. In a system for re-installing a mobile platform-based application program in the wireless terminal in conjunction with a short message transmission system and a wireless terminal, A database for storing a list of downloaded applications for each subscriber; Means for receiving an application automatic reinstallation request including subscriber information; Means for querying the list of downloaded applications corresponding to the subscriber information from the database in response to the application re-installation request; Means for creating a callback short message including a URL for automatic reinstallation of an application corresponding to the list of downloaded applications, and sending a request to the short message transmission system; Means for receiving a download request for the inquired application from a wireless terminal receiving the callback short message sent by the short message transmission system; And Means for providing the application to the wireless terminal in response to the download request Including; The URL is used when the wireless terminal accesses a download server, Upon receiving the application automatic reinstallation request, the download server internally stores the error handling number, The failure processing number is included in the callback short message is a system for automatic reinstallation of a mobile platform-based application, characterized in that transmitted to the wireless terminal. A program of instructions, which can be executed by the system for re-installing a mobile platform-based application program to the wireless terminal in conjunction with the short message transmission system and the wireless terminal, is tangibly embodied and can be read in a recording medium that can be read by the system. In Storing a list of downloaded applications for each subscriber in a database; Receiving an application automatic reinstallation request including subscriber information; Receiving a request for automatic application reinstallation, storing a failure processing number internally in a download server; Retrieving the list of downloaded applications corresponding to the subscriber information from the database in response to the automatic application reinstallation request; Creating a callback short message including a URL for automatic reinstallation of an application corresponding to the list of downloaded applications, and sending a request to the short message transmission system; Receiving a download request for the inquired application from a wireless terminal that has received the callback short message sent by the short message transmission system; And Providing the application to the wireless terminal in response to the download request; , And The URL is used when the wireless terminal accesses the download server, And the error handling number is included in the callback short message and transmitted to the wireless terminal.

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