KR20150077211A - Method and appratus for remote management of terminal's application on android paltform - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus of a remote management of an application on an android platform-based terminal. More specifically, the invention is about the method and apparatus that manages information in place of the application when a user who is familiar with an android platform-based terminal receives through a remote management server information about an installation or change of an application which is operated in a terminal of a user who is not familiar with the terminal and transfers a control command regarding the corresponding application. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method of a remote management of an application on an android platform-based terminal comprises: a step of generating object management information of the application in case of receiving a request for the installation or change of the application; a step of transferring the object management information to a manager terminal; a step of receiving the control command for the application from the manager terminal; and a step of performing a function corresponding to the control command. According to the present invention, the method and apparatus of a remote management of an application on an android platform-based terminal help a user who is familiar with the android platform-based terminal remotely control the application that is installed or changed in the terminal that is not familiar to the user. At the same time, it protects the terminal of the user who is not familiar with the terminal or a vaccine installed on the terminal from malignant codes, phishing attacks and the like.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF TERMINALS APPLICATION ON ANDROID PALTFORM BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001]

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for remotely managing an application on an Android platform based terminal, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for remotely managing an application on an Android platform based terminal, The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving information on the installation or change of an application executed in the application, and transmitting the control command for the application, thereby managing the application in place of the application.

2. Description of the Related Art [0002] Recently, as the use of various portable terminals including terminals such as a smart phone or a tablet computer has been increased, applications that can utilize functions of terminals have also been rapidly increasing.

In the conventional portable terminal, if the application contains a malicious code or is aimed at an SMS phishing (Smishing) attack, it is inevitably exposed to unprotected programs when a vaccine program functioning in the portable terminal is not installed. There is a problem that the portable terminal can not be protected from malicious code or smearing attack if the user is unfamiliar with the use of the vaccine program and the portable terminal.

For example, the Android platform is a Linux kernel that performs functions such as device driver, power management and memory management, and a library commonly used by applications. Library libraries with header files and library routines, Android runtime with Android virtual machine, Dalvik virtual machine and Java core libraries, and application developers. An application framework area and an application area area that provide various architectures for the application domain.

By monitoring an intent which is a class used for executing a new activity (ActivityManager) or executing various commands in an application framework area at the time of installation or change of a conventional application, an application in a preset database and an intent file There are some technologies for comparing the package information to determine the harmfulness of the application. However, there may be cases where the database does not contain information of all the harmful applications rapidly evolving. Especially in this case, And a user who is unfamiliar with the use of the portable terminal can not protect the portable terminal from a malicious code or a smearing attack.

Therefore, in the terminal based on the Android platform, the intent including the installation instruction of the application is monitored to determine the harmfulness of the application and the information of the application, and based on this, the user who is accustomed to using the terminal is not familiar with the use of the portable terminal There has been a demand for development of a method and an apparatus for remotely managing an application installed in a portable terminal.

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to remotely manage an application installed or changed in a terminal for a user who is not accustomed to using the terminal by a user who is accustomed to using the terminal, And protects the terminal of a user who is unfamiliar with the malicious code and the smashing attack.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to allow a user who is accustomed to using a terminal to remotely manage an application installed or changed on a terminal of a user who is not accustomed to using the terminal, Thereby providing user convenience.

The problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for remotely managing an application in an Android platform-based terminal, the method comprising: generating object management information of an application when a request for installing or changing an application is received; Transmitting the information to the administrator terminal, receiving a control command for the application from the administrator terminal, and applying a function corresponding to the control command.

According to another aspect of the present invention, object management information includes at least one of an application name, a size, an installation time, an installation location, an authority, a request path for installation, a request path for modification, Information, and the like.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the step of generating the object management information of the application includes a step of determining whether the application includes a malicious code or a virus based on a previously installed database to generate infection information .

According to another aspect of the present invention, the step of generating object management information of an application includes the steps of: requesting a database of a predetermined server for infection information about whether an application includes a malicious code or a virus; And a step of receiving the infection information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the steps of: checking whether an application includes a malicious code or a virus based on infection information; Further comprising the step of blocking execution and displaying a warning message.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer readable medium including instructions for remotely managing an application in an Android platform-based terminal according to the present invention, And a set of instructions for generating object management information, transmitting object management information to an administrator terminal, receiving a control command for an application from an administrator terminal, and applying a function corresponding to the control command.

According to another aspect of the present invention, object management information includes at least one of an application name, a size, an installation time, an installation location, an authority, a request path for installation, a request path for modification, Information, and the like.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a set of instructions for generating object management information of an application includes a set of instructions for determining whether an application includes a malicious code or a virus based on a previously installed database and generating infection information .

According to another aspect of the present invention, a set of instructions for generating object management information for an application includes a request for infecting information regarding whether an application includes malicious code or a virus in a database of a predetermined server, And a set of instructions for receiving infection information of an application.

According to another aspect of the present invention, when a malicious code or a set of commands for confirming whether an application includes a virus or an application based on infection information and an application include a malicious code or a virus, And a set of commands for blocking the performance of the function and displaying a warning message.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for remotely managing an application in an Android platform-based terminal, the method comprising: generating an object management information of an application when a request for installing or changing an application is received; And a communication unit for transmitting a control unit and object management information for applying a function corresponding to the control command received from the terminal to the administrator terminal and receiving a control command for the application from the administrator terminal.

According to the application remote management method and apparatus in the Android platform-based terminal of the present invention, a user who is accustomed to using the terminal can remotely manage an application installed or changed in the terminal for users unfamiliar with using the terminal, It is effective to protect a terminal of a user who is unfamiliar with the use of the vaccine or the use of the vaccine installed on the terminal from malicious code and smearing attack.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to allow a user who is accustomed to using a terminal to remotely manage an application installed or changed on a terminal of a user who is not accustomed to using the terminal, Thereby providing user convenience.

The effects according to the present invention are not limited by the contents exemplified above, and more various effects are included in the specification.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an algorithm of an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of remotely managing an application according to an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
3A and 3B illustrate an application for remote management according to an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

Although the first, second, etc. are used to describe various components, it goes without saying that these components are not limited by these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish one component from another. Therefore, it is needless to say that the first component mentioned below may be the second component within the technical spirit of the present invention.

In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used for the same elements in different drawings unless otherwise indicated.

It is to be understood that each of the features of the various embodiments of the present invention may be combined or combined with each other partially or entirely and technically various interlocking and driving is possible as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, It may be possible to cooperate with each other in association.

In the present specification, when any one element 'transmits' data or a signal to another element, the element can transmit the data or signal directly to the other element, and the at least one other element Data or signal can be transmitted to another component.

In this specification, a terminal, an administrator terminal, and a manager terminal may be implemented as devices such as a computer, a smart phone, a note pad, a notebook, and a tablet PC, and in particular, a mobile device such as a smart phone and a tablet PC, It is not limited to any particular device, as long as it is a device that is capable of running various applications on the Android platform installed on the device.

In this specification, the administrator terminal means a terminal of a user installing a program, an apparatus or a module for controlling an application on another terminal. When the application is installed or changed on the terminal, Means a terminal of a user installing a program, device, module, or the like that implements the application in a controllable manner.

In this specification, an application (APP) refers to all software executed in an operating system in a broad sense, but in this specification, application software excluding system software such as a compiler, which is driven on a mobile device in particular.

Various embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an algorithm of an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, an algorithm of an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a server 100, a control unit 111 and a communication unit 112 of an administrator terminal 110, And a control unit 121 and a communication unit 122 on the administrator terminal 120 side.

An apparatus including a control unit and a communication unit of each side terminal that performs an application remote management algorithm in an Android platform based terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention can be connected to the wireless Internet and various applications can be executed in the Android platform installed in the device Such as a computer, a smart phone, a notebook, a notebook, and a tablet PC, or the like.

The server 100 transfers information between the administrator terminal 110 and the managed terminal 120. The information transmitted from the server 100 includes object management information and control commands. According to an embodiment of the present invention, in response to a request from the manager terminal 120, The terminal 120 may transmit the infection information of the application in which the request for installation or change is received.

The object management information includes information such as a name, a size, an installation time, an installation location, an authority, a request path for installation, a request path for modification, and a malicious Code or information about whether or not the virus is contained.

Requests for installing or changing an application on an Android platform-based terminal can generally be made through a variety of Android market, which is an application providing server. It is also possible to use a short message service (SMS) It can also be done via a messenger. The request path for installing or changing the application may be the type of the above-mentioned Android market, SMS or messenger.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the infection information is information that is determined based on a database installed in the terminal or a database set in the server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. can do.

Specifically, the Android platform is a Linux kernel that performs functions such as device driver, power management, and memory management, and a library commonly used by applications. It is a library that contains header files and library routines (Android Runtime), which consists of Dalvik virtual machine, which is a dedicated virtual machine for Android, and Java Core Libraries, an application that provides various architectures for application developers, A framework area (Application framework) and an application area (Application). Here, the infection information monitors intent which is a class used to execute a new activity (ActivityManager) or execute various commands in the application framework area when an application is installed or changed, May be generated by comparing the application package information in the intent file with the database containing the information to determine the harmfulness of the application and may be generated by analyzing information and data information of the application installed on the terminal. The database containing information on malicious code or virus may be a database of a vaccine program previously installed in the terminal or a database of a predetermined server.

The control unit 111 of the administrator terminal 110 determines whether or not a request for installation or change on the managed terminal 120 is received from the manager terminal 110 based on the object management information received by the communication unit 112 Display information. At this time, the displayed application information may include information on the name, size, installation time, installation location and authority of the application included in the object management information, and may be installed or changed, such as a server capable of purchasing or updating the application And may display a warning message to the administrator terminal 110 if the application includes a malicious code or a virus. The communication unit 112 of the administrator terminal 110 receives the object management information from the server 100 and when receiving a control command for the application displayed by the control unit 111 from the user of the administrator terminal 110, To the server (100).

For example, when an application including malicious code is installed on the administrator terminal 120 or a request for installation is received, if information including the harmfulness of the application is displayed on the administrator terminal 110, The user of the application terminal 120 can input a control command for maintaining the installed state or requesting the deletion of the installed application when the corresponding application is already installed and if the application is not yet installed in the controlled terminal 120, A control command can be input. At this time, the input control command is transmitted to the manager terminal 120 via the server 100, and a function corresponding to the control command is performed by the controller 121 and the communication unit 122 on the side of the manager terminal 120 . In addition, the process of performing the function corresponding to the control command may be performed by performing a function according to the control command and displaying a message related to the performed function on the controlled terminal 120, or in the case of a control command such as' A message indicating that the administrator terminal 120 is to perform a function corresponding to a control command such as " deletion of an application from an administrator is requested ", and transmits the received control command to the manager terminal 120 As shown in FIG.

The control unit 121 of the manager terminal 120 generates the object management information of the application when the request for installation or change of the application is received and transmits the object management information of the application from the manager terminal 110 via the server 100 And performs a function corresponding to the control command received by the control unit 122. The communication unit 122 on the side of the manager terminal 120 transmits the object management information to the manager terminal 110 via the server 100 or receives the control command from the manager terminal 110. In this embodiment, The server 100 may request and receive infection information of an application in a predetermined database.

The procedure of executing the algorithm of the application remote management method in the Android platform based terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention through the server 100 between the administrator terminal 110 and the managed terminal 120 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. do.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of remotely managing an application according to an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Will be described with reference to Fig. 1 for convenience of explanation.

First, when a request to install or change an application is received in the slave administrator terminal 120 (S100), the controller 121 of the slave administrator terminal 120 generates object management information (S110). At this time, the object management information may include the application name, size, installation time, installation location, authority, request path for installation or modification, and infection information.

For example, the authority of an application refers to whether a request for access to information on a terminal capable of acquiring personal information such as an address book access right, a photo gallery access right, or an acquisition right of location information or an access exists. The request path may be a google play or a market provided by a typical Android market, or a SMS or a messenger may be connected to any server to perform a request, or may be connected to the aforementioned markets to request In this case, the message or URL link itself sent via SMS or messenger may be the request path. The name of the application means the corresponding name if the application has the designated name. In the case of the application intended only for malicious code distribution, the name may not be designated. In such a case, The path may be the name of the application.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, infection information can be generated by determining whether or not a malicious code or a virus is included in an application based on a database installed in the terminal, that is, a database of a vaccine program installed in the terminal, According to another embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to request a database of a predetermined server, that is, a server providing a vaccine program, to judge whether the application is infected or not, and receive infection information. The infection information of such an application can be generated based on the data of the installed application when the application is installed in the terminal. When a request for installing or changing the application is received, as described above with reference to FIG. 1, By monitoring the intent, it can be determined whether malicious code and virus are included or not.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the control unit 121 of the slave administrator terminal 120 may install or update the infected information generated based on the installed database or the infection information received through the database of the predetermined server If the application receiving the change request is determined to be a malicious application containing a malicious code or a virus, the function execution according to the request for installation or change can be blocked and a warning message can be displayed.

More specifically, for example, when installation of an application for smearing attack is requested to the terminal, the control unit 121 generates or receives infection information to determine the harmfulness of the application, A warning message can be displayed on the administrator terminal 120, and the function execution according to the installation request can be blocked until the user approves the installation.

When the object management information is generated by the control unit 121 of the manager terminal 120 (S110), the communication unit 122 transmits the generated object management information to the server 100 for transmission to the manager terminal 110 (S120), the server 100 transmits the received object management information to the administrator terminal 110 (S125).

In this specification, the transmission of information between the slave administrator terminal 120 and the administrator terminal 110 is performed through the server 100, but in transmitting the information between the slave administrator terminal 120 and the administrator terminal 110, The information transmitted from the supervised administrator terminal 120 to the supervisor terminal 110 or from the supervisor terminal 110 to the supervised supervisor terminal 120 Is expressed through the server 100 or through the server 100, it should be interpreted within the technical spirit of the invention.

When the manager terminal 110 receives the object management information through the server 100, the manager terminal 110 requests the manager terminal 120 to install or change the application through the predetermined notification method such as a notification message through the controller 111 If the application includes a malicious code or a virus, it can notify the user with a warning message. The controller 111 of the administrator terminal 110 having received the object management information provides a menu interface for controlling the application so that the user of the administrator terminal 110 can install It is possible to input a control command for an application requested to be changed. At this time, the control command that can be input by the user of the administrator terminal 110 may be a control command such as maintenance, installation permission, and deletion of the corresponding application, and may be a control command of a type requesting execution of a function according to the control command , Approval of the execution of the function related to the installation or change of the application received on the manager terminal 120, or a control command of a form to approve the maintenance of the performed state.

When the communication unit 112 of the administrator terminal 110 receives the control command from the user at step S130 and transmits the control command to the server 100 at step S140, the server 100 transmits the control command to the controlled terminal 120 (S145). The communication unit 122 of the supervised administrator terminal 120 receives the control command transmitted from the administrator terminal 110 through the server 100 and the control unit 121 performs a function corresponding to the control command at step S150.

Here, the control command transmitted from the user of the administrator terminal 110 is determined by the user of the administrator terminal 110, and the object management information is only the information on which the user of the administrator terminal 110 is judged, The command that the user of the administrator terminal 110 can transmit is not limited by the information. More specifically, even if an application requested to be installed or changed on the managed terminal 120 does not contain a malicious code or a virus, the application can notify the application via the name, request path and authority included in the object management information of the application If it is determined that the application is harmful, the control command such as deletion can be transmitted to the application. Similarly, even if the warning message indicates that the application includes malicious code or virus, Control commands may be transmitted.

The function corresponding to the control command applied to the slave administrator terminal 120 may be a function according to the control command received from the administrator terminal 110 and may be a form of a message requesting to perform a function according to the control command And may display the control command itself received from the administrator terminal 110 in the form of a message in the display area of the controlled terminal 120, And displaying the performance of the corresponding function in the form of a message in the display area of the manager terminal 120. [

3A and 3B illustrate an application remote management according to an application remote management method in an Android platform-based terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A is a diagram illustrating an example in which object management information of an application is transmitted to the administrator terminal 110 when a 'deposit transfer' application is requested to the manager terminal 120 and a part of the object management information of the application is displayed in the display area of the administrator terminal FIG. 3A, the user of the slave administrator terminal 120 approves the installation of the 'deposit money transfer' application received via an arbitrary path, and accordingly the control unit of the slave administrator terminal 120 transmits the object management information of the application And transmits the generated information to the administrator terminal 110 through the communication unit, the control unit of the terminal 110 stores the change information indicating that the application is installed including the infection information and the name of the application installed on the manager terminal 120, It can be confirmed that the terminal 110 displays it.

3B shows a case in which a control command for requesting deletion of the 'deposit money transfer' application on the manager terminal 120 is input to the manager terminal 110, A message indicating that the application is requested to be deleted by the user of the administrator terminal 110 is displayed. 3B, a user of the administrator terminal 110 is provided with a menu interface capable of controlling the state of the application of the manager terminal 120, inputs a control command for requesting deletion of the corresponding application, A control command is transmitted to the supervised administrator terminal 120 and a message is displayed to the display area of the supervised administrator terminal 120 to notify that the administrator, that is, the user of the administrator terminal 110, can confirm.

Each block of the accompanying block diagrams and combinations of steps of the flowchart may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus so that the instructions, which may be executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, And means for performing the functions described in each step are created. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to implement the functionality in a particular manner so that the computer usable or computer readable memory It is also possible for the instructions stored in the block diagram to produce a manufacturing item containing instruction means for performing the functions described in each block or flowchart of the block diagram. Computer program instructions may also be stored on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment so that a series of operating steps may be performed on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer- It is also possible that the instructions that perform the processing equipment provide the steps for executing the functions described in each block of the block diagram and at each step of the flowchart.

In this specification, each block may represent a portion of a module, segment, or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions mentioned in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may actually be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor, which is capable of reading information from, and writing information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral with the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

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Claims (11)

A method for remotely managing an application in an Android platform-based terminal,
Generating an object management information of the application when a request for installing or changing an application is received;
Transmitting the object management information to an administrator terminal;
Receiving a control command for the application from the administrator terminal; And
And applying a function corresponding to the control command. The method according to claim 1,
The object management information includes at least one of a name, a size, an installation time, an installation location, an authority, a request path for installation, a request path for modification, and infection information about whether the application includes a malicious code or a virus The method comprising the steps of: 3. The method of claim 2,
The step of generating object management information of the application includes:
Determining whether the application includes a malicious code or a virus based on the installed database, and generating infection information. 3. The method of claim 2,
The step of generating object management information of the application includes:
Requesting the database of the predetermined server for infection information on whether the application includes malicious code or virus, and
And receiving the infection information of the application from the database of the predetermined server. The method according to claim 3 or 4,
Checking whether the application includes malicious code or virus based on the infection information, and
Further comprising the step of, when the application includes a malicious code or a virus, blocking the function execution according to a request for installing or changing the application and displaying a warning message How to manage applications remotely. A computer readable medium comprising a set of instructions for remotely managing an application on an Android platform based terminal,
When a request for installing or changing an application is received, object management information of the application is generated,
The object management information is transmitted to the administrator terminal,
Receives a control command for the application from the administrator terminal,
And a set of instructions for applying a function corresponding to the control command. The method according to claim 6,
The object management information includes at least one of a name, a size, an installation time, an installation location, an authority, a request path for installation, a request path for modification, and infection information about whether the application includes a malicious code or a virus ≪ / RTI > The method according to claim 6,
A set of instructions for generating object management information of the application,
And a set of instructions for generating infection information by determining whether the application includes a malicious code or a virus based on a previously installed database. The method according to claim 6,
A set of instructions for generating object management information of the application,
Requesting the database of the predetermined server for infection information regarding whether the application includes malicious code or virus,
And a set of instructions for receiving the infection information of the application from a database of the predetermined server. 10. The method according to claim 8 or 9,
A set of instructions for confirming whether the application includes a malicious code or a virus based on the infection information, and
Further comprising a set of instructions for blocking function execution according to a request for installation or modification of the application and displaying a warning message when the application contains malicious code or viruses. media. An application remote management device in a terminal based on an Android platform,
A control unit for generating and generating object management information of the application when a request for installing or changing an application is received and applying a function corresponding to the control command received from the administrator terminal;
And a communication unit for transmitting the object management information to the administrator terminal and receiving a control command for the application from the administrator terminal.

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