KR20130127630A - Apparatus and method for sharing virtual application - Google Patents

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KR20130127630A
KR20130127630A KR1020120051291A KR20120051291A KR20130127630A KR 20130127630 A KR20130127630 A KR 20130127630A KR 1020120051291 A KR1020120051291 A KR 1020120051291A KR 20120051291 A KR20120051291 A KR 20120051291A KR 20130127630 A KR20130127630 A KR 20130127630A
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The apparatus for sharing a virtualized application according to the present invention includes a service gateway unit that delivers a list of applications to a user terminal, a plurality of virtual terminal units that execute installed applications, and transmit execution results of executed applications to the user terminal, and a plurality of sharing allowed. The service storage unit stores a plurality of applications and a plurality of applications that are not allowed to be shared, and a share management unit that manages sharing rights for the plurality of applications stored in the service storage unit. In addition, the apparatus and method for sharing an application according to the present invention is a system for providing heterogeneous mobile application sharing, which enables more people to use a shared heterogeneous application and to induce a service evaluation to purchase an application useful to the user. Can be.

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Virtualization Application Sharing Devices and Methods {APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING VIRTUAL APPLICATION}

The present invention addresses shared technologies for virtualization applications through cloud and thin-client technologies.

Advanced mobile terminals such as smartphones and tablet PCs are rapidly spreading recently, and these advanced mobile terminals can be combined with cloud computing technology to utilize high-performance computing resources anytime, anywhere, and personal data and contents. It is forming a mobile cloud (mobile cloud) provided with a variety of possible services, such as synchronization. In particular, by using a mobile terminal such as a smart phone as a thin client device through a mobile cloud environment, it is possible to overcome the limitations of the resources of the mobile terminal.

Cloud computing is a computing style in which IT-related functions are provided as services. Unlike existing computing environments that depend on independent hardware performance of each terminal, it refers to technology that integrates resources of computers in different physical locations with virtualization technology. In other words, programs or documents that have been stored separately on personal computers or corporate servers can be stored on large computers that can be connected to the Internet, and various applications such as mobile PCs and mobile devices can be used to perform necessary tasks such as web browsers. User-oriented computer environment.

The thin client is provided with a user terminal composed of the minimum necessary devices, and is a concept in which a central server is responsible for data storage, processing, and execution of software. Currently, thin client systems are implemented through desktop virtualization, a representative technology of cloud computing. Desktop virtualization technology manages the client through the virtual machine running on the server or session management technology of the server operating system, executes the software entirely on the server or the virtual machine of the server, and transmits the result screen to the terminal of the client. That's the way it is. The application of the cloud computing-based thin client technology makes it possible to overcome the disadvantages of mobile devices, which are relatively scarce of terminal resources.

As these technologies accelerate the spread of mobile terminals, various applications for mobile terminals are being developed and serviced accordingly. The conventional application purchase system and sales policy may be provided with a service after purchasing the application in the case of a paid application. And once purchased application, even if the service is not useful to you, it is hard to get a refund. In addition, in the case of an application purchased from a mobile market such as an app store, it is difficult to share or rent the purchased application with other users.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a technology for sharing applications through virtualization technology.

The application sharing apparatus according to the present invention delivers a list of applications to a user terminal, a service gateway unit for delivering a user request received from the user terminal, a plurality of executing the installed application, and delivering the execution result of the executed application to the user terminal. Stores the virtual terminal of the application, a plurality of applications that are allowed to share and a plurality of applications that are not allowed to share, and stored in the service storage unit and the service storage unit for installing the application in the virtual terminal unit according to the received application installation command A sharing management unit that manages sharing rights for multiple applications, manages application information and application sharing information of owners who have obtained application licenses, and sends application installation instructions to the service store upon user request. In addition, the application sharing method according to the present invention first sets the owner who has obtained an application use right license through the sharing management unit so that the owner can use the application with his or her own license rights to others who he / she wants to share. .

In the shared application using method, first, a shared user receives a shared application list request from a user terminal. The application list is transmitted to the user terminal according to the received application list request. In response to a user request received from the user terminal, the application is installed with the permission of the owner who allows sharing, the installed application is executed with the owner's authority, and the execution result of the installed application is transmitted to the user terminal to use the shared virtualized application. can do.

Application sharing apparatus and method according to the present invention is a system for providing heterogeneous mobile application sharing, it is possible to share the virtualized application with others by adding a sharing function for each application in the virtualized application system. This will enable more people to use shared, heterogeneous applications, and by evaluating their services to help them purchase applications that are useful to them, reducing unnecessary financial burdens and stimulating the paid applications market. . In addition, the user may be provided with more various applications.

1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a virtualized application sharing device according to the present invention.
2 is a detailed view of an IVAD of a service storage unit of a virtualized application sharing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart of a method for providing a virtualization application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Terms used in the present specification are terms selected in consideration of functions in the embodiments, and the meaning of the terms may vary depending on the intention of the user or the operator. Therefore, the meaning of the terms used in the embodiments to be described later, according to the definition when specifically defined in the present specification, if there is no specific definition will be interpreted as meanings generally recognized by those skilled in the art.

1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a virtualized application sharing device according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the virtual application sharing apparatus 100 according to the present invention is executed in a virtual machine in an application market of a cloud environment in which cloud and thin-client technologies are applied. Shared virtualization applications. The virtual application sharing apparatus 100 according to the present invention includes a service gateway 110, a sharing manager 120, a service storage 130, and a virtual terminal 140.

The service gateway 110 transmits a list of applications that can be provided to the user terminal 200. When the service gateway unit 110 receives the service request signal from the user terminal 200, the service gateway unit 110 transmits a service request signal among a plurality of applications stored in the service storage unit 130 to the user terminal 200. The list of available applications is searched and the list of searched applications is delivered to the user terminal. The service gateway 110 receives a user request from the user terminal 200 and transfers the received user request to the sharing manager 120.

The service storage unit 130 includes a plurality of individual virtual application directories (IVADs) and a shared virtual application directory (SVADs). The service storage 130 has an IVAD for each of a plurality of users. For example, there is a first IVAD for a first user, and the first IVAD stores a number of applications owned by the first user. In the plurality of applications stored in the service storage unit 130, a sharing authority is determined by a user who owns each application. The user may set whether to share each application stored in the IVAD of the service storage unit 130. In addition, when you share an application, you can set the user scope that can share the application. A detailed configuration diagram of the service storage unit 130 will be described later with reference to FIG. 2.

The sharing manager 120 manages the sharing authority and the sharing range set by the owner for each of the plurality of applications stored in the service storage 130. The plurality of applications stored in the service storage 130 have different sharing rights and ranges. The sharing manager 120 stores and manages information on applications having different sharing rights and ranges.

The sharing management unit 120 searches for an application stored in the service storage unit 130 according to a user request received from the service gateway 110 and determines whether the user terminal that has delivered the user request has a sharing authority for the found application. do. If the user terminal has a sharing authority for the found application, the command is transmitted to the service storage unit 130 to install the found application in the virtual terminal unit 140.

The virtual terminal unit 140 is a virtual machine allocated within the virtual application sharing apparatus 100, and a plurality of virtual terminal units 140 are provided in response to a user terminal and a user request connected to the virtual application sharing apparatus according to the present invention. ) Can be assigned and various operating systems can be installed and run. The virtual terminal unit 140 installs an application according to a user's request, and executes the installed application to transmit an execution result to the user terminal. The user may share the virtualized application through the execution result of the application delivered to the user terminal. The user can then control the application through remote control technology. The virtual terminal unit 140 controls the running virtualization application according to the control signal received from the user terminal through the remote control technology.

In addition, since the application is executed in the virtual machine and only the execution result is transmitted to the user, the user can share the application without depending on the hardware capabilities of the operating system and the user terminal.

In other words, the user can utilize the user terminal as a thin-client (thin-client), share the application by receiving the execution result of the application through the virtual application sharing device 100 of the cloud server, and share the application through the remote control technology By controlling, regardless of the type of operating system of the user terminal, it is possible to receive the same shared service that is actually executed in the user terminal.

2 is a detailed view of an IVAD of a service storage unit of a virtualized application sharing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the IVAD 131 of the service storage unit 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of applications 133 and SVADs 132.

The IVAD 131 is a storage space allocated to the user of the virtualized application sharing apparatus 100 according to the present invention. In general, one IVAD 131 corresponds to one user. The IVAD 131 stores an application owned by the user, that is, an application for which a license right is obtained. Many of the applications stored in the IVAD 131 include unshared applications that are available only to the licensed user and SVAD 132 that is allowed to share with others.

The SVAD 132 is included in the IVAD 131 and stores an application that is allowed to be shared with others among a plurality of applications owned by the user. You can choose to share some of your own applications among a number of applications you own. When you share an application, you can share it to all of your sharers, or you can categorize and share a specific sharer or specific sharegroup. For example, if a group called 'work colleagues' is created and a specific application is shared only with a work colleagues group, the application can be shared only by the sharers belonging to the work group.

The application determined to be shared by the user is transferred to the SVAD 132 included in the IVAD 131 and stored. Depending on the sharing and non-sharing decisions of the application, the application can be stored in the SVAD 132 or moved from the SVAD 132 at any time.

When a sharer shares an application and uses it, the sharer uses the application with the license rights of the user who owns the application. Personal information about the application also runs through the personal information of the user who owns the application. The virtual application sharing apparatus 100 according to the present invention does not directly share an application, but executes it through a virtual terminal unit to provide a result of execution and to control the application through a remote control technology. Share. In other words, it is similar to running an application through a mobile terminal and sharing the mobile terminal itself on which the application is running. As a result, violations of license rights resulting from application sharing can be avoided.

3 is a flowchart of a method for providing a virtualization application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the method for providing a virtualized application according to an embodiment of the present invention first receives an application list request from the user terminal 200 (301). The user terminal 200 wishing to share transmits an application list request to the application providing apparatus 100. The application list request transmitted from the user terminal 200 is received by the service gateway 110 of the application providing apparatus 100. When the application list request occurs, the service gateway 110 generates a packet for providing a service and transmits the packet to the user terminal 200.

Next, the application list is transmitted to the user terminal 200 (302). Upon receiving the application list request from the user terminal 200, the service gateway 110 transmits a list of applications allowed to be shared to the user terminal 200 from the stored application list to the user terminal 200. Applications that are allowed to be shared with others are stored in SVAD. In addition, many applications stored in SVAD have different targets. An application that can be shared with the corresponding user terminal is selected from the plurality of applications, and the list of selected applications is transmitted to the user terminal 200. If no sharing is set, the license owner must set sharing for the user, but the application can be shared.

Next, a user request is received from the user terminal (303). The user terminal 200 which receives the list of applications allowed to be shared from the service gateway 110 selects an application to be provided with a service from the list of applications. In operation 304, the user request received from the user terminal is transferred to the sharing manager 120. The user terminal 200 transmits a user request for an application to be provided to the service gateway 110. The service gateway 110 receiving the user request from the user terminal 200 transmits the user request to the sharing manager 120.

Next, in response to the received user request, the sharing manager 120 transmits an application installation command to the service storage 130 (305). The sharing manager 120 receiving the user request from the service gateway 110 transmits an installation command of the corresponding application to the service storage 130 that can share the corresponding application.

Next, the application is installed in the virtual terminal unit 140 according to the application installation command received from the sharing management unit 120 (306). The service storage unit 130 installs the corresponding application in the virtual terminal unit 140 according to the received application installation command. The service storage unit 130 installs an application by selecting a virtual terminal unit 140 in which an operating system capable of executing a corresponding application is installed among the plurality of virtual terminal units 140.

Next, the execution result of the application running in the virtual terminal unit 140 is transmitted to the user terminal 200 (307). The virtual application sharing method according to the present invention does not share the application itself, but provides an execution result of the application executed through the virtual terminal unit 140 and shares the application by a method of controlling the application through a remote control technology. . Therefore, the user terminal 200 accesses the virtual terminal 140 running the requested application, receives the application execution result, and shares the application.

The shared application runs under the license and information of the owner who owns the application, not the shared sharer. Thus, the coverage and effectiveness of the application is determined by the owner. For example, in case of a schedule management application that requires user information, even if the application is shared and used, the application will not be used according to the owner's personal information or the owner's information. Is executed. That is, the method for providing a virtualized application according to the present invention has an effect similar to borrowing a mobile device of another person and executing and using an application stored in the mobile device. As a result, licensing issues associated with common application sharing will be reduced.

When a sharer shares an application and uses it, the sharer uses the application with the license rights of the user who owns the application. Personal information about the application also runs through the personal information of the user who owns the application. The virtual application sharing apparatus 100 according to the present invention does not directly share an application, but provides an execution result executed through a virtual terminal unit and shares a virtualized application through a method of controlling the application through a remote control technology. do. In other words, it is similar to running an application through its mobile terminal and sharing the mobile terminal itself on which the application is running. As a result, violations of license rights resulting from application sharing can be avoided.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, It is possible.

100: virtualization application sharing device
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130: service storage unit
131: Personal Virtualization Application Directory (IVAD)
132: Shared Virtualization Application Directory (SVAD)
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In a virtualized application sharing device that can share applications in the application market of the cloud environment,
A service gateway unit transferring an application list to a user terminal and delivering a user request received from the user terminal;
A plurality of virtual terminal units which execute installed applications and deliver execution results of the executed applications to the user terminal;
A service storage unit configured to store a plurality of applications allowed to be shared and a plurality of applications not to be shared, and to install applications in the virtual terminal unit according to the received application installation command; And
Manages sharing rights for a plurality of applications stored in the service storage unit, manages application information of an owner who has obtained the application license and information on a sharing target of an application, and stores the information on the service storage unit in response to the user request A sharing manager for delivering an application installation command;
Virtualized application sharing device comprising a. The method of claim 1,
The service storage unit,
A plurality of personal virtualized application directories that correspond one-to-one to a user and store a plurality of applications owned by the corresponding user; And
A shared virtualized application directory included in the personal virtualized application directory and storing a plurality of applications allowed to be shared by the corresponding user among a plurality of applications owned by the corresponding user;
Virtualized application sharing device further comprising. The method of claim 3, wherein
And an application stored in the shared virtualized application directory is shared and executed according to a license right of the owner. The method of claim 1,
The plurality of applications stored in the service storage unit has a virtualized application sharing device, characterized in that each has a different sharing range. In a virtualized application sharing device that can share applications in the application market of the cloud environment,
Installing an application with the authority of the owner who allowed sharing according to a user request received from a user terminal;
Executing the installed application as the owner, and sharing a virtualized application by transmitting an execution result of the installed application to the user terminal;
Virtualized application sharing method comprising a. 6. The method of claim 5,
Requesting a list of shared applications; And
Delivering the application list to the user terminal;
Virtualized application sharing method characterized in that it further comprises. 6. The method of claim 5,
Setting a use rights license of an application owned by the owner to the user;
Virtualized application sharing method characterized in that it further comprises.
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