KR20090011150A - System and method for installing application, and mobile communication terminal used therein - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to an application installation system and method that can commonly use class modules commonly included in a plurality of Java applications, and a mobile communication terminal used therein.
In general, a mobile communication terminal is a personal mobile communication services terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a next generation mobile communication terminal (International Mobile Telecommunication 2000: IMT-). 2000), and refers to a terminal that can be implemented by a person, such as a wireless LAN terminal, and implement various functions using application programs including wireless communication.
Recently, with the development of the Internet and multimedia data technology, a content provider (CP) that provides various contents such as multimedia communication, network games, and video games has emerged. There is an increasing number of mobile subscribers who want to use applications of various services.
One such application, the Java MIDlet (hereinafter, referred to as a middlelet) collectively refers to applications written according to the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) standard, becomes a component of the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) execution environment. This middlelet is designed to operate in a mobile communication terminal, and is executed and controlled by a Java virtual machine.
In a mobile communication terminal, a middlelet generally consists of a Java Application Descripotor (JAD) file that lists information about the middlelet, and a compressed Java Archive (JAR) file of class modules describing commands. do.
On the other hand, the middlelets released by a communication provider or a content provider (CP) include a class module (hereinafter, referred to as a common class module) designed to be commonly used to support the same user interface (UI) or the same function in many cases.
These common class modules are included in each JAR file of the corresponding middlelet if they are not stored in the OEM form in the mobile communication terminal or not in the J2ME standard. However, the mobile communication terminal has a limited downloadable size (or available memory size). Therefore, there is a problem in that memory resources are wasted when the same classes are repeatedly stored in multiple middlelets. In addition, if you need to upgrade a commonly used class module, it is inconvenient to upgrade all the middlelets that include the common class module, respectively.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, to provide an application installation system and method that can be used in common to a common class module in a number of applications, and to provide a mobile communication terminal used therein There is.
Application installation method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a process of connecting to the server according to the application acquisition request, downloading the JAD file corresponding to the application from the server, through the JAD file Checking whether the common class module of the application is included; if the application includes the common class module; checking whether the common class module is already stored; and if the common class module is already stored And downloading a JAR file corresponding to the application.
In addition, the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention analyzes a connection processing unit for accessing a server according to an application acquisition request, a file processing unit for obtaining a JAD file and a JAR file corresponding to the application in the server, and the obtained JAD file And a common class module processing unit for checking whether the common class module is included in the application and acquiring the common class module from the server when there is no pre-stored common class module according to a check result.
In addition, the application installation method according to the present invention, the mobile terminal is connected to the server via the network in response to the application acquisition request, a JAD file transmission process of transmitting a JAD file corresponding to the application to the mobile terminal,
A process of acquiring a common class module for analyzing the JAD file transmitted by the mobile communication terminal and acquiring a common class module in response to the analysis result, and transmitting a JAR file in which a JAR file corresponding to the application is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal It characterized in that it comprises a process.
In addition, the application installation system according to the present invention is a server for providing a JAD file, a common class module and a JAR file corresponding to the application in accordance with an application request, and access the server to obtain the JAD file and JAR file, And a mobile communication terminal for acquiring the common class module corresponding to the analysis result by analyzing the JAD file.
An application installation system and method according to the present invention, and a mobile communication terminal used therein, separately generate and use a common class module commonly used by a plurality of middlelets. Therefore, since the same class modules can be minimized to be repeatedly stored in the mobile communication terminal, the capacity of the storage unit can be used more efficiently. In addition, when the upgrade of the common class module is required, it is possible to minimize the time required for the upgrade because only the common class module can be upgraded without upgrading all the middlelets as in the prior art.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Prior to the description of the present invention, the terms or words used in the specification and claims described below should not be construed as being limited to the ordinary or dictionary meanings, and the inventors should consider their own invention in the best way. For the purpose of explanation, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention on the basis of the principle that it can be appropriately defined as the concept of term. Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configuration shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, and various equivalents may be substituted for them at the time of the present application. It should be understood that there may be water and variations.
On the other hand, the application (application) described in this embodiment refers to all the application programs stored and executed in the mobile communication terminal, and more specifically refers to the Java MIDlet (Java MIDlet).
Hereinafter, in describing the embodiments, descriptions of technical contents which are well known in the technical field to which the present invention belongs and are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. In addition, detailed description of components having substantially the same configuration and function will be omitted.
For the same reason, some components in the accompanying drawings are exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated, and the size of each component does not entirely reflect the actual size.
1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an application installation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, the application installation system 10 according to the present invention downloads an application (or middlelet; MIDlet) that the
Here, the middlelet according to the present invention includes a JAD file, a JAR file, and a common class module. A JAD file is a file that lists information about the middlelet. A JAR file is a file in which class modules describing commands are compressed. Also, a common class module is a file in which class modules are compressed in the same way as a JAR file. However, a common class module refers to a file in which a plurality of class modules commonly used in one or more middlelets are compressed, not a class module used only in one specific middlelet. do. Therefore, the JAR file according to the present invention is composed of only the class modules other than the class modules included in the common class module.
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2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a structure of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The data area is an area in which user data according to the use of the
The program area may be an application required for an operating system (OS) for booting the
In addition, the program area of the
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When the application acquisition request is input from the user, the
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The common class module processor 196 analyzes the JAD file acquired by the
Next, the application installation method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following embodiments. The configuration of the above-described application installation system 10 will also be clearer from the following description of the application installation method.
3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating an application installation method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing a JAD file according to an embodiment of the present invention.
1 to 4, the method for installing an application according to the present embodiment is first performed from step S10 in which power is supplied to the
Next, a process S11 is performed in which an application acquisition request is received by the
When the application acquisition request is received, the
In addition, in the present embodiment, the
When the
The JAD file according to the present embodiment includes various information about the corresponding middlelet. Referring to FIG. 4, the JAR file corresponding to the middlelet through the MIDlet-Name field, the MIDlet-jar-URL field, and the like is an 'example.jar' file, and the file 'http://tnb.samsung.com/jar'. You can see that it is located at '/example.jar'.
In addition, the JAD file according to the present embodiment includes common class module related fields.
Common class module related fields according to the present embodiment are fields indicating whether a common class module is used (MIDlet-common-Class field) and fields indicating a URL address of a common class module (MIDlet-common-Class-URL field). ), And a field indicating the version of the common class (MIDlet-common-Class-version field). In the case of the JAD file illustrated in FIG. 4, the common class module used by the corresponding middlelet is 'CommonClass.jar', and the URL address for obtaining such a common class module is 'http://tnb.samsung' '.com / com / common.jar'.
These common class module related fields are not always defined, only when the corresponding middlelet uses the common class module. Therefore, when the JAD file is transmitted from the
In the present embodiment, a case in which a common class module is defined using a plurality of common class module related fields is described as an example, but is not limited thereto. That is, various applications are possible such that the contents of all the above fields are included in one common class module related field as follows.
'MIDlet ?? common ?? Class ?? URL: 2.0.0, http://tnb.samsung.com/com/common.jar'
4 illustrates an example in which only one common class module (eg, common.jar) is defined in the JAD file. However, it is also possible to define multiple common class modules as needed.
As a result of the analysis in step S14, when common class module related fields are not defined in the JAD file (S15), the common class module processing unit 196 recognizes that the corresponding middlelet is a middlelet that does not use the common class module. Therefore, the process proceeds to S20 to obtain the JAR file of the middlelet.
On the other hand, when common class module related fields are defined in the JAD file, the common class module processing unit 196 performs an operation S16 of checking whether the corresponding common class module is stored in the
As a result of the check, if the common class module defined in the JAD file is stored in the storage unit 170 (S17), it is not necessary to repeatedly acquire the common class module. Therefore, in this case, the common class module processor 196 skips the process of acquiring the common class module and enters S20 which is a process of acquiring the JAR file.
On the other hand, if there is no common class module defined in the JAD file in the storage unit 170 (S17), the common class module processing unit 196 performs the process S18 to obtain the corresponding common class module. That is, the common class module processor 196 requests a common class module (eg, common.jar) from the
In the above process, when there are a plurality of common class modules defined in the JAD file, the common class module processing unit 196 acquires and stores all defined common class modules.
At this time, the common class module is stored in another location (separate folder, etc.) to distinguish it from other general JAR files. This is for easier management such as updating or searching for common class modules. However, it is not limited thereto.
If all the common class modules required for the corresponding middlelet are stored in the
In operation S20, the
When the
When the middlelet is installed in the
Meanwhile, the common class module according to the present embodiment may be shared by one or more middlelets. Therefore, even if the user deletes one of the middlelets using the common class module, if the other middlelet uses the same common class module, the corresponding common class module is not deleted and is still used.
As described above, the application installation system and method according to the present invention, and the mobile communication terminal used therein separately generates a common class module commonly used by a plurality of middlelets to use it. Therefore, since the same class modules can be minimized to be repeatedly stored in the mobile communication terminal, the capacity of the storage unit can be used more efficiently. In addition, when the upgrade of the common class module is required, it is possible to minimize the time required for the upgrade because only the common class module can be upgraded without upgrading all the middlelets as in the prior art.
Application installation system and method according to the present invention as described above, the mobile communication terminal used therein is not limited to the embodiment, various modifications are possible by those skilled in the art within the technical idea of the present invention. . For example, in the present embodiment, a method of acquiring a JAR file after acquiring a common class module is used. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. It is also possible to acquire a common class module after acquiring a JAR file first. In addition, in the present embodiment, a case of installing and executing a Java application has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited thereto and may be widely applied to all kinds of applications using a common module.
In addition, the present embodiment exemplifies a case in which an application is installed and executed in a mobile communication terminal. However, in addition to this, any electronic device that can download and use an application from a server can be variously applied.
1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an application installation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram schematically showing the structure of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method for installing an application according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 schematically illustrates a JAD file according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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