KR20020059076A - Method and System for Reserving Automatic Download on the Wireless Telecommunication Devices - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An automatic download reservation method and system in a wireless communication device is provided to install a reservation download system in a wireless web browser so that a user can automatically download a previously selected, specific file at a previously reserved time. CONSTITUTION: A reservation download system(13) is installed in a wireless Internet client's web browser(12) in a plug-in type. The reservation download system(13) is composed of a download scheduler(14), a URL D/B(15) storing the location of downloaded data, and a data D/B(16) storing the downloaded data. The reservation download system(13), executed at the same with the operation of the web browser(12), provides an interface to determine whether a specific file is to be downloaded right now or at a reserved time, in case that the client wants to download the specific file. If the client selects "reservation download", the download scheduler(14) stores the location of relevant data on the wire/wireless Internet in the URL D/B(15).

Description

Method and System for Reserving Automatic Download on the Wireless Telecommunication Devices

The present invention provides a reservation download system in a wireless web browser in a wireless communication device (a mobile communication terminal, a PDA with a CDMA function, a smart phone, and all wireless communication devices including an IMT 2000), thereby allowing a user to select a specific file selected by a user. The present invention relates to a method and system for automatically downloading a user at a predetermined time, including a night time zone in which a wireless communication network is not crowded and communication costs are low.

The wireless Internet was developed to use the wired Internet in a wireless environment as shown in Figure 1, and includes the advantages and disadvantages of the wired internet, while being able to move and use more freely than the wired Internet due to time and space constraints. (portability) is emphasized. However, unlike the wired Internet, all wireless Internet services have another feature that the communication fee is charged for the use of the Internet and Air-Time to access the Internet. This means that a wireless Internet client will not only be able to visit a particular website, but will also be charged for downloading the file itself.

Prior to the detailed description of the present invention, the wireless Internet protocol technology that can be applied in Korea to date is WAP of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum, Microsoft Mobile Explorer (MME) of Microsoft Corporation, i-mode of NTT DoCoMo of Japan, and AnyWeb of Samsung Electronics. Etc.

WAP is an application protocol defined for efficiently providing Internet services in wireless networks. It is a standard guideline for providing information suitable for wireless networks and controlling wireless network services. It has started to be designed as a global open standard for wireless network applications. . WAP plays a wired / wireless buffer role by using a gateway assigned a fixed IP address at the point where wired and wireless meet to use a server of a wireless communication device and a wired Internet. By this gateway, the wireless Internet communicates between the user's terminal and the gateway using the protocol defined in the WAP, and the Internet server is connected to the existing wired Internet network.

The MME is a wireless Internet technology that allows some functions performed by the gateway to be performed in the mobile explorer (ME) of the mobile communication terminal device in order to compensate for the WAP dependent on the gateway that performs the wired / wireless buffering role. Therefore, there is no need to convert wired / wireless protocols at the gateway level, and only the role of controlling large data transmissions and modifying them for a wireless environment is required for smooth wired and wireless Internet communication.

i-mode is a wireless internet service developed by NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile operator. Currently, Japan has a significant amount of subscribers and is the only successful wireless Internet technology to date. AnyWeb is a wireless internet solution jointly developed by Samsung Electronics and AI-net, and uses a gateway called Mproxy server to act as a wireless and wireless buffer.

All wireless Internet technologies described above must pay a fee for the wireless Internet area from the wireless terminal to the gateway, even if the client does not pay a direct fee for the wired Internet from the gateway to the Internet server. It is calculated from the time the client accesses the wireless Internet content. As a result, a multi-faceted service must be provided that reduces the communication fee in any way for the client.

The present invention for solving the above problems by installing a reservation download system in a wireless web browser in a wireless communication device (mobile communication terminal, PDA with a CDMA function, smart phones, all wireless communication devices including IMT 2000) It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for automatically downloading a specific file selected by a user at a predetermined time, including a night time zone in which a wireless communication network is not crowded and communication cost is low.

1 is a wireless Internet diagram developed for using a wired Internet in a wireless environment.

2 is a block diagram of a case where a reservation download system is mounted in the form of a plug-in in a web browser of a wireless Internet client such as a wireless communication device.

3 is an example of the client selecting a scheduled download.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of downloading and storing reservation data stored in URL D / B as data D / B by the reservation download system.

Description of the main parts of the drawing

10: wireless internet terminal 11: wireless internet protocol

12: Wireless web browser 13: Reservation download system

14: download scheduler 15: URL D / B

16 data D / B17 gateway

20: Internet server

The present invention provides a reservation download system in a wireless web browser in a wireless communication device (a mobile communication terminal, a PDA with a CDMA function, a smart phone, and all wireless communication devices including an IMT 2000), thereby allowing a user to select a specific file selected by a user. A method and system for automatically downloading a user at a predetermined time, including a night time zone where a wireless communication network is not congested and communication costs are low, and a case in which surfing the Internet and data download do not necessarily have to coincide in time. The present invention relates to a method and a system for downloading a desired file at a time set by a client through a scheduled download system installed as a plug-in or installed as a standalone software in a web browser.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the following examples are one of various methods for most appropriately explaining the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the following examples.

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a case where a reservation download system is mounted in the form of a plug-in in the web browser 12 of a wireless Internet client such as a wireless communication device.

The reservation download system 13 is comprised of the download scheduler 14, the URL D / B 15 which stores the position of the downloaded data, and the data D / B 16 which stores the downloaded data. The scheduled download system 13 is executed at the same time as the web browser 12 is operated, and as shown in Fig. 3, if a specific file needs to be downloaded while the client is surfing the web, whether to download it immediately or at a set time after the reservation is determined. It provides an interface for determining. If the client selects the scheduled download in the state shown in FIG. 3, the scheduled download scheduler 14 stores the location on the wired / wireless Internet where the corresponding data is stored in the URL D / B 15 of the reserved download system 13. do.

The download scheduler 14 of the reservation download system 13 downloads the data collectively at a discount rate time period through the interface as shown in Fig. 3, or downloads the data in batches after selecting the data, or after the web surfing is finished. In the case of trying to download the data, the location of the data on the wired / wireless Internet is stored in the URL D / B 15, and the data is downloaded and stored in the data D / B 16 at a set time. The download scheduler 14 checks whether the wireless communication line is secured and whether the wireless communication device is powered on until the web browser 12 is terminated until all data stored in the URL D / B 15 is downloaded. Repeat and resume the download.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process in which the reservation download system 13 downloads and stores reservation data stored in the URL D / B 15 to the data D / B 16.

When the scheduled download system 13 is executed, the download scheduler 14 searches the URL D / B 15 to check whether there is data to be downloaded or data that has been downloaded abnormally and is not downloaded yet (401). -403). If data to be downloaded or abnormally terminated data exists in the URL D / B 15, the download scheduler 14 checks whether the corresponding data is data to be downloaded or abnormally terminated data (404). If the data stored in the URL D / B 15 is abnormally terminated and the data has not been downloaded yet, the download scheduler 14 determines whether to download from the user or re-download (407). After accessing the server 20 with reference to the information stored in the URL D / B 15 (408), the data is transmitted (409). On the contrary, if there is data to be downloaded to the URL D / B 15 but nothing is abnormally terminated, the download scheduler 14 checks whether the data satisfies the condition to be downloaded (405). This condition refers to a value preset by the user. If the data stored in the URL D / B 15 satisfies the condition (406), the download scheduler 14 connects to the server 20 (408). The data is downloaded and stored (409). At this time, data transmission from the download reservation system to the server 20 of the wired / wireless internet is protected by the wireless Internet protocol 11.

The download scheduler 14 deletes the corresponding data information from the URL D / B 15 after completing the operation of the data currently being downloaded (410), and searches for and processes the URL D / B 15. Check if there is work left to do (412). If there is a task to be processed in the URL D / B 15 (413), the download scheduler 14 downloads the previously described task to the data D / B 16 with reference to the URL D / B 15. Iterate over the tasks. If the data information to be downloaded no longer exists in the URL D / B 15, the reserved download system 13 ends all the work.

According to the present invention, the user can automatically download a specific file selected by the user at a pre-scheduled time, including a night time zone in which the wireless communication network is not crowded and the communication cost is low, thereby reducing the communication cost. There is an advantage that can minimize the congestion of the wireless communication network in the time zone.

In addition, even in the case of abnormal download termination due to communication interruption while downloading, a data file to be normally received can be downloaded using an automatic reservation download system.

Claims (4)

The automatic download scheduling method in a wireless communication device comprising a wireless communication device having a function of downloading a data file through a wired / wireless communication network and a plurality of Internet web servers transmitting the data file to the wireless communication device, Selecting a data file to be downloaded by accessing the Internet web server; Reserving a time zone for storing and downloading the URL of the Internet web server in a URL DB in a wireless communication device; And Automatically accessing the Internet web server and downloading the pre-selected data file by referring to the URL address previously stored in the URL DB in the reserved time zone. . The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic download scheduling method in the wireless communication device is provided. Checking whether the wireless communication line is secured and whether the power of the wireless communication device is input, re-acquiring and resuming the data repeatedly until downloading all the data reserved in the URL DB to download all the selected data files Automatic download reservation method in a wireless communication device comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic download scheduling method in the wireless communication device is provided. And automatically deleting the reserved data file information stored in the URL DB when downloading of the reserved data file is completed. An automatic download reservation system in a wireless communication device including a wireless communication device having a function of downloading data files through a wired / wireless communication network and a plurality of Internet web servers transmitting data files to the wireless communication device, A download scheduler which transmits the location information of the data file to be downloaded and the time zone reservation information to be downloaded to the following URL DB, and downloads the reserved data file with reference to the location information in the reserved time zone; And And a URL DB for storing location information of the data file to be downloaded and time slot reservation information to be downloaded from the download scheduler.