KR20020031201A - Software one click upgrade method using internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A software upgrading method is provided to enable a member to detect and display version data of a hardware or a software installed at a computer by one click operation, to download the latest version of the detected hardware driver or the latest patch file of the detected software also by one click operation. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises steps of a user accessing a service site, and the service site allocating an ID and a password to the user if the user inputs personal data and subscribes for a member of the service site(S1), the user selecting one among detecting a hardware, detecting a software, and downloading a hardware and software detection program(S2), if the user selects the hardware detection menu, the user making a server execute a hardware detection program and detect a hardware of a user computer over the internet(S3), the server comparing the detected hardware version with version data stored in a device driver management database(S4), the server displaying a list of corresponding device drivers if higher versions exist(S5), the user selecting one among the displayed list, and then the server transmitting the selected version to the user computer(S6), if the user selects the software detection menu, the user making a server execute a software detection program and detect a software of a user computer over the internet(S7), the server comparing the detected software version with version data stored in a patch file management database(S8), the server displaying a list of corresponding patch files if higher versions exist(S9), the user selecting one among the displayed list, and then the server transmitting the selected patch file to the user computer(S10), the server displaying an advertisement while transmitting the device driver or the patch file to the user computer(S11), and the server transmitting an upgrade information via an e-mail if the latest driver or patch file occurs(S12).

Description

Software one click upgrade method using internet}

The present invention provides a one-click patch file provided by the manufacturer for installation and upgrade of a device driver and a bug fix for an application program for driving and controlling hardware installed in a computer. This is a one-click software upgrade using the Internet that makes it easy to upgrade your computer by searching for it and installing it on your computer.

In general, as the computer develops, peripheral devices (hardware) installed and used in the computer are also increasing day by day, and the number is increasing so that it is very difficult to count the number, and drive the peripheral devices installed in the computer. The device drivers are categorized by operating systems that control the computer. Therefore, device drivers for your computer must be prepared with the computer.

Such a device driver is manufactured by a manufacturer that manufactures and supplies each piece of hardware, and provided with the hardware. Briefly, the device driver will be described below.

A device driver is a device driver used by an operating system or an application program to use a specific peripheral device. The device driver is software for operating the corresponding device.

Although the above device drivers are completely programmed when the product is provided, they may be used incorrectly depending on the computer's usage, operating system, and application, and may cause internal errors. It is not uncommon to shorten the lifespan of a system by calculating a result that does not generate an internal error or a collision of other peripherals or interrupts.

The reason is that it is impossible to verify all of them because the development of computer peripherals and application programs and the manufacturers of each peripheral device and application programs are created like a squirt. As a result, bugs in device drivers are inevitable.

In order to solve the problems mentioned above, each provider provides their own device by installing the upgraded device driver on the homepage of each provider so that the peripheral device can be optimally used to fix and heal these bugs. By downloading them as needed and installing them on the user's computer, existing bugs are fixed and the peripherals are used optimally.

In addition, various application programs installed in the computer may use the above-mentioned hardware device drivers. Since the peripheral devices used by the application programs vary depending on the manufacturer and driver, the application programs may be around. In order to use the device efficiently, a software upgrade is required, and if a bug is found when writing the source of the program, before the new version of the upgraded application is released Bug problems by putting patch files to fix bugs at each software manufacturer's homepage or PC communication library so users can download these patch files and set them up on their computers To achieve optimal use. A situation which.

However, end users who generally use computers and use the Internet know how to use them, but they can solve problems with internal errors on their computers or set their computers to the optimal state. In addition to making use of it without knowing whether it was used, and at the time of purchasing the computer, it had device drivers or manuals, but as time went by, the material was unclear and someone who could solve the problem tried to solve the computer's error. Even basic device drivers can't be found, making it very difficult to troubleshoot computer errors.

Also, most end users are only able to use applications installed on the computer, so they are not aware of the bugs they currently have and cannot easily get information about them. Because they do not know that the errors occur as soon as the operating system occurs due to the conflict in the organic relationship between them and their programs, they do not know how to shorten the life of the computer. You have a problem.

The present invention devised to solve the above problems allows each end user using a computer to know hardware information and application information installed in the computer at a glance with a simple mouse click through the Internet, as well as the present self. Download and install the patch file of the upgraded device driver and application that can solve the problem of the bugs in the device driver and the application installed on the computer. The purpose is to keep the computer running at the optimal state. do.

The above object is one-click software installation using the Internet to search for and install a device driver installed in a client computer and a patch file of software in one click according to the present invention. In the upgrade method, the netizens connected to the server 101 are requested to provide predetermined information and consent to join, give a predetermined ID (ID) and password (PASSWORD), and then display the member's information on the member management DB of the server 101. Member registration request step (S1) to be recorded in (104), and if the member authenticated in the member registration request step (S1) accesses the server 101, a hardware search operation for searching the hardware information of the member computer and the member computer A software search task for retrieving the software information of the user and a download to allow the member to download the hardware / software search program 105 (106) directly. Job selection request step (S2) to request the selection of any one of the jobs, and if the hardware search job is selected in the job selection request step (S2) Web (WEB) operating system and hardware information installed on the member's computer A hardware search step (S3) for executing the hardware search program 105 of the server 101 to search the hardware information of the member computer so as to search on the member computer; and a member computer operating system searched at the hardware search step (S3). Hardware version comparison step (S4) to compare the version information of each hardware (VERSION) and hardware version (VERSION) information stored in the device driver DB 102 of the server 101 and the hardware version comparison step ( If the device driver of a higher version than the hardware version of the member computer is stored in the device driver DB 102 of the server 101 in S4), Driver display step (S5) of displaying a list of drivers in a member's web browser and the driver displayed in the driver display step (S5) is selected, the driver is transferred from the device driver DB (102) to the member computer. Driver transmission step (S6) to transmit, and when the netizens select the software search job in the job selection request step (S2) to run the software search program 106 of the server 101 operating system and software installed on the member computer The software search step (S7) to retrieve the software version information and the corresponding software version stored in the patch file DB 103 of the server 101 according to the operating system of the member computer searched in the software search step (S7) Software version comparison step (S8) for comparing the information, the software version comparison If the patch file (PATCH FILE) of the higher than the software version of the member computer in the system (S8) is present in the patch file display step (S9) to display on the member's web browser so that each patch file can be selected and If the at least one of the patch file list displayed in the patch file display step (S9) is selected, the patch file transmission step (S10) to transmit the patch file of the software to the member computer, characterized in that It is achieved by the software one-click upgrade method used.

In addition, the driver display step (S6) and the patch file transmission step (S10) further comprises an advertisement display step (S11) to display a predetermined advertisement in a dialog box for displaying the transmission status of the file transferred to the member computer It is preferable.

In addition, the hardware information retrieved in the hardware search step (S3) and software information retrieved in the software search step (S7) is stored in the member management DB 104 for each member to generate the latest patch file and the latest version of the hardware device driver server ( 101) preferably further includes an information providing step (S12) to send the information by e-mail to the member that needs to upgrade the patch file and device driver.

Further, in the driver transmission step (S6) and the patch file transmission step (S10), a program setting step (S13) for allowing any one of the device driver and the patch file to be set up (SETUP) on the web according to the member's selection is further added. It is preferable to include.

In addition, in the hardware search step (S3) and the software search step (S7), according to the member's selection, the search result list is linked to the web page and sent to the corresponding member by e-mail. It is preferable to further include an email link step (S14) to go to the page to download any one of the device driver and the patch file.

In addition, the hardware search program 105 and the software search program 106 are transmitted to the member, and the program is executed on an offline line. Then, the search result list is transmitted to the server 101. It is preferable to further include an off / online work step (S15) to connect / move to any web page to download any one.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a flow chart showing the upgrade method of the present invention.

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101-Server 102-Device Driver DB

103-Patch File DB 104-Member Management DB

105-Hardware Scanner 106-Software Scanner

107-Resources

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be described in FIG.

First, an Internet server 101 (hereinafter referred to as server 101), which is equipped to enable data communication and enables client access on a web, is a device driver of various peripheral devices or hardware mounted on a computer. And a device driver DB 102 which stores the information by index and version and indexes the list.

In addition, the server 101 is provided with a patch file DB 103 for storing the patch files of the application programs installed for each operating system and indexed them.

In addition, the netizen stores the member computer specification, hardware information, and installed application information together with predetermined information such as an ID, password, and e-mail address, which are given when the netizen joins the server 101 as a member. A member management DB 104 is provided.

Then, the hardware search program 105 for searching the hardware information and application information in the member computer and the application information for searching the application information can be resident in RAM so that it can be used at any time. .

The upgrade method of the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, netizens are provided to netizens accessing the server 101 through the Internet, and include predetermined information including name, resident number, address, e-mail address, etc. Member registration request step that requires netizens to register to use the services provided by the server 101 only for netizens that have agreed to join according to a predetermined procedure after adding the desired ID and password. (S1) is enforced.

Therefore, when a netizen registered as a member of the server 101 accesses the server 101, the member is authenticated through an ID and a password, the user logs in to the server 101, and the library 107 at the member's request. ) You can upgrade the device driver by searching the latest device driver registered in) and check the patch version of the software, and if it is higher than the version of the member computer, you can download the software directly and patch the software.

At this time, if the member who is logged in to the server 101 does not know his or her computer specifications or the device driver upgrade method or the software patch method, the hardware search job and the software search job displayed on the server 101 The hardware search operation and the software search operation are downloaded to the member computer, and a task selection request operation for selecting one of the hardware / software search program 106 download operations that can be directly searched offline is performed.

When the member selects the hardware search task in the task selection request step S2, the server 101 resides in the memory of the server 101 because the member computer and the server 101 are connected online. The operating system installed in the member computer is searched first by executing the hardware search program 105, which is because of the above operating systems, for example, WINDOWS3.1, WINDOWS95, WINDOWS2000, WINDOWSNT4.0, LINUX, UNIX, etc. And the operating system of the system can be different depending on the user's purpose and arbitrary, and if the operating system is different, even if the hardware mounted on the system, even though the device drivers are different, each of the operating system of each system should be searched first.

After the member's operating system is searched as described above, a hardware search step (S3) for searching all peripheral devices (hereinafter referred to as hardware) installed in the member computer is performed.

Then, the device driver version (VERSION) of the device driver of each hardware installed on the basis of the hardware information retrieved in the hardware search step (S3) and the device driver version classified by the operating system in the device driver DB 102 of the server 101 ( VERSION) performs a hardware version comparison step S4 of comparing the indexes with each other.

That is, the device driver DB 102 of the server 101 searches for a device driver version higher than the hardware device driver version installed in the member computer, and a list of all found device drivers is created. The device driver of the DB 102 is directly linked to perform a driver display step S5 of displaying a list in a member's web browser.

When a member selects (clicks) any one of the drivers displayed in the driver display step S5, the clicked device driver is directly linked to the device driver DB 102 of the server 101. The driver transfer step (S6), which is accessed directly from the 102 and is transferred to the member computer, is automatically performed, while at the same time the device driver is selected (clicked) without downloading the driver (DOWNLOAD) according to the member's selection, In the program setting step (S13) to install the device driver on the member's computer is preferably performed at the same time.

At this time, it is preferable to further perform the advertisement display step (S11) to display a predetermined advertisement to display the advertisement and to display the advertisement effect in the dialog box displayed on the web browser of the member computer to display the transmission status of the data. Do.

In addition, the search information retrieved in the hardware search step (S3) and the device driver information downloaded by the member in the driver transmission step (S6) is stored in the member management DB (104), and the latest version of each device driver installed in the member computer If it is added to the device driver DB 102 of the server 101, it is preferable to perform the information providing step (S12) to search it and send it to an e-mail to inform the member to upgrade the device driver.

On the other hand, if the member selects the software search job in the job selection request step (S2), the software search step (S7) to run the software search program 106 of the server 101 to search the operating system and software installed on the member computer (S7) As described above, since each software also has compatibility with the program source according to the operating system, software for each operating system is produced. It is desirable to search for software installed on a member's computer.

The software retrieved in the software search step S7 is compared with the patch file information stored for each operating system in the patch file DB 103 of the server 101. That is, for example, if MS-OFFICE97 is installed on the member computer, the server 101 compares whether the patch file of MS-OFFICE97 exists, and if the patch file exists, the MS-OFFICE97 of the member computer is determined by the final patch file. A software version comparison step (S8) is performed to compare the upgrade status to determine the upgrade level of MS-OFFICE97. (In general, the software has version information recorded in the program or in the operating system registry. So you can see how much has been upgraded.)

In addition, in the software version comparison step (S8), if there is a patch file (PATCH FILE) of a higher version than the software version of the member computer, the patch file display step of displaying a list of patch files corresponding to each software in the member's web browser (S9), it is preferable that each list is directly linked to the corresponding patch file stored in the patch file DB 103 of the server 101.

Then, when a member selects (clicks) at least one of the patch file list displayed in the patch file display step S9, the patch file of the corresponding software is directly linked to the patch file DB 103 of the server 101. Since it is in the state, the patch file transmission step (S10) is directly accessed and transmitted to the member computer at the same time as the click is performed, while the patch file is selected (clicked) without downloading the patch file (DOWNLOAD) according to the member's selection. It is desirable to have a program setting step (S13) to be executed at the same time to be able to patch the software by running the patch file on the member's computer.

At this time, it is preferable to further perform the advertisement display step (S11) to display a predetermined advertisement to display the advertisement and to display the advertisement effect in the dialog box displayed on the web browser of the member computer to display the transmission status of the data. Do.

In addition, the search information retrieved in the software search step (S7) and the patch file information downloaded by the member in the patch file transmission step (S10) is stored in the member management DB 104, the patch file of each software installed in the member computer If it is added to the patch file DB 103 of the server 101, it is preferable to perform the information providing step (S12) to search it and send it to the member by email to inform the patch.

On the other hand, in the hardware search step (S3) and software search step (S7) according to the member's choice to send the search result list to the member by e-mail, any one of the search list posted in the e-mail when the member wants If it is selected, it is preferable to further include an e-mail link step (S14) to go to the corresponding web page to download either the device driver or the patch file so that the member can upgrade the device driver or software at a desired time. Do.

On the other hand, when the member directly downloads the hardware / software search program 106 in the job selection request step (S2), when the system is repaired on an offline line, such as when setting up a new system or changing an operating system. When the hardware / software search program 106 is executed and the searched result list is transmitted to the server 101 online, the user can access / move to a web page where one of the corresponding device drivers and patch files can be downloaded. It is preferable to be able to perform the off / online work step (S15).

As described above, according to the present invention, an END USER or a END USER who does not have enough knowledge about the system environment and settings of a computer can connect to the Internet and simply download the latest version of the device driver. It allows you to download and install the software's patch files so that your computer can always run in the best condition, extending the life of your computer and providing the convenience of easy to obtain and install even if the device driver is lost. Of course, when the latest version of the device driver or the software patch file is distributed from each manufacturer, it is a very excellent invention that can optimize the system for its own computer and improve the performance of the system and make it easier to use. to be.

Claims (6)

In the one-click software upgrade method using the Internet to install and install a device driver installed on the client computer and search for and install a patch file of software with one click, Member registration request step of requesting the netizens connected to the server to provide the predetermined information and consent to join, give a predetermined ID and password (PASSWORD) and record the member's information in the member management DB of the server, When the authorized member accesses the server in the member management request step, the member directly downloads a hardware search operation for searching the hardware information of the member computer, a software search operation for searching the software information of the member computer, and a hardware / software search program. A task selection request step of requesting selection of any one of the download tasks, When the hardware search task is selected in the task selection request step, a hardware search program of the server is executed to search the hardware information of the member computer so that the operating system and hardware information installed on the member's computer can be searched on the web. The search phase, A hardware version comparison step of comparing the version information of each hardware according to the member computer operating system found in the hardware search step with the version information of the corresponding hardware stored in the device driver DB of the server; A driver display step of displaying a list of the corresponding device drivers on the member's web browser when the device driver of a higher version than the hardware version of the member computer is stored in the server's device driver DB in the hardware version comparison step; A driver transmission step of transmitting a corresponding driver from the device driver DB to the member computer when selecting one of the displayed drivers in the driver display step; A software search step of executing a software search program of a server to search for an operating system and software installed on a member computer when the netizen selects a software search job in the task selection step; A software version comparison step of comparing respective software version information and corresponding software version information stored in the software information DB of the server according to the operating system of the member computer searched in the software search step; A patch file display step of displaying each patch file so that each patch file can be selected if at least one patch file of a higher version than the software version of the member computer exists in the software version comparison step; And a patch file transmission step of transmitting a patch file of the corresponding software to a member computer when selecting at least one of the patch file list displayed in the patch file display step. The method of claim 1, One-click software upgrade using the Internet characterized in that it further comprises an advertisement display step of displaying a predetermined advertisement in a dialog box for displaying the transfer status of the file transferred to the member computer in the driver transfer step and the patch file transfer step Way. The method of claim 1, The hardware information retrieved in the hardware search step and the software information retrieved in the software search step are stored in the member management DB for each member, and when the latest patch file and the latest version of the hardware device driver are generated, the server provides a member who needs to upgrade the patch file and the device driver. Software one-click upgrade method using the Internet, characterized in that it further comprises an information providing step to send the information by e-mail (e-mail). The method of claim 1, The driver transmission step and the patch file transmission step may further include a program setting step of setting up any one of a device driver and a patch file on the web according to a member's selection. Click Upgrade Method. The method of claim 1, In the hardware search step and the software search step, the search result list is linked to a web page according to the member's selection and sent to the member by e-mail. If any one of the searched lists of the e-mail is selected, the web page is moved to the corresponding device driver and the patch. Software one-click upgrade method using the Internet characterized in that it further comprises an email link step to download any one of the files. The method of claim 1, Send the hardware search program and the software search program to the member, execute the program on the offline line, and send the search result list to the server to access the web page where one of the device driver and the patch file can be downloaded. One-click upgrade method using the Internet, characterized in that it further comprises an off / online work step to move / move.