WO2001011466A2 - Gestionnaire de telechargement - Google Patents

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WO2001011466A2
WO2001011466A2 PCT/US2000/022265 US0022265W WO0111466A2 WO 2001011466 A2 WO2001011466 A2 WO 2001011466A2 US 0022265 W US0022265 W US 0022265W WO 0111466 A2 WO0111466 A2 WO 0111466A2
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  • the present invention relates to a system to download files to one or more computer systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to the automatic downloading and execution of systems that perform the downloading of such files.
  • the Internet is an inherently fragile environment in which to conduct commerce. It has become especially critical and necessary to provide an optimal user- friendly experience for first time users. After all, the competition is a mere 'click away.' In particular, on-line delivery of software products, and other large files, using a browser is often a tedious and frustrating task. Therefore, non-browser downloading methods have become important for vendors involved in Internet commerce. Current non-browser download systems come in two varieties: A) download managers, and B) micro-clients. Download managers present obstacles for first time users. These limitations include: 1) Before a user may use a download manager system, he/she must first separately select to download it. 2) After downloading the manager, but before using it, the user is then obliged to manually install the manager.
  • Micro-client systems are miniature "download managers" that reside on a user's computer only for the duration of downloading a limited number of products, after which, the micro-client deletes from the user's computer.
  • micro-client systems do not have limitations 1-4 above, they also do not evoke automatically when the user's browser attempts to download software products. Rather, each time the user downloads a product; the requesting users are sent another micro-client that they must manually launch. Therefore, the micro-client systems also do not provide a seamless unobtrusive download process for first time users, let alone experienced users.
  • the present invention provides a seamless, user-friendly, non-browser on-line download delivery system that addresses the above-discussed limitations.
  • the payload also contains, aside from the download application, in a preferred embodiment, an installer and an abbreviated download application (AC) that is stored on the user's system and referenced to the user's browser in such a way that when the browser requests to download a file from a vendor, and receives the payload in return, the browser delegates the downloading and launching of the payload to AC.
  • AC abbreviated download application
  • the vendor Because all requests for downloads are served the payload, irrespective of whether or not they are first time users, the vendor has the advantage that there is no need to handle first time users any differently than experienced users.
  • the present invention allows the vendor to easily and seamlessly upgrade the AP application without usabilility issues. This is because the AP application resides on the user's computer only for the duration of the download of the requested products, after which it self deletes, and because each user that requests a download is sent a payload. Thus when the vendor wants to up-grade the download application (AP), the old AP in the payload file stored on the vendor's server simply must be replaced by the new AP. Then all users downloading from the site will automatically and invisibly receive the new AP, and there are no users utilizing the old AP application. Because of the advantages of the present invention, different vendors may utilize different versions of AP without any usability issues for users.
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram of the payload' s contents.
  • Fig. 2 is a block flow diagram of a browser request to download two products where a payload is instead downloaded which has the two product's URLs within it.
  • Fig. 3 is a block flow diagram of a sequence of the present invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a flow block diagram of an alternative method to that shown in Fig. 2.
  • the payload 2 is a self-extracting and automatically executing program (e.g. wwpack32) that links and wraps: 1) a download application (AP) 4 which functions to download files; 2) an installer 6; and 3) an application (AC) 8 that downloads and/or launches a payload.
  • a download application e.g. wwpack32
  • AP download application
  • AC application
  • AP is a download application of any type that does not require any manual steps by the user for its installation, thus, upon its first execution by a user it immediately yields its GUI.
  • An example of this type of program is EthosPath (trademark of Ethos Technology). It is further desirable for such an application to also require no manual steps, after its execution, to initiate the downloading of requested files.
  • a user via his browser initiates a download 12 of three products 18 from a vendor's site 16.
  • 'products' may be software programs, or non-executable data such as graphic files, documents, music files, etc.
  • the vendor is employing the present invention, and in response to the download request the vendor's server returns the payload of Fig. 1.
  • That payload contains, among other things as referenced above, the URL (universal resource locator) of each of the three products at a server.
  • the delivery of the payload may be performed via email, a download, or by physical distribution on a readable medium such as a compact disk (CD) or floppy disk.
  • CD compact disk
  • Fig. 3 shows the sequence implementing the transfers of Fig. 2 for a first time user and an experienced user.
  • the payload downloaded 20 in response to the user's first request 22 is manually executed 24 by the user. This manual execution is a simply process, merely being a double click of the mouse on the payload' s desktop icon.
  • the payload launches or executes 26 the installer.
  • the installer searches 28 the memory of the user's computer system for a copy of the AC program. Thus, since this is the user's first download of the payload, the AC is not found, and the installer stores 30 a copy of the AC program from the payload to a location within the disk space.
  • the installer launches the AP program from the payload, which directly presents 32 its graphical users interface (GUI) to the user.
  • GUI graphical users interface
  • AP may be configured in such a way that after its execution, without further user interaction, it will automatically initiate the downloading of the three programs 18 selected. This is discussed more fully below.
  • AP may be configured to self-delete.
  • the user's browser will recognize (by it's unique and identifying attributes) that the AC program 34 is installed in the user's system and transfer the tasks of downloading and launching the payload to the AC program. This may be accomplished by a variety of methods such as DE and COMM, which are well known commands that all browsers support.
  • the AC program then downloads the payload, verifies that it indeed is the payload, and executes the payload 36.
  • the payload contains the AP program that contains the loca- tion of each of the two products on the server.
  • the payload container launches 26 the installer, which of course finds AC 38 already installed onto the user's computer.
  • the installer launches AP 32.
  • AP may self-delete. If AC is deleted or becomes non-functional
  • the payload 40 is modified (herein 'payload*') by deleting the installer and the AC program to contain only the AP program.
  • these links will either point to the payload or payload* depending on whether or not the browser is configured to download and execute Active X Controls (or the analogous plug-ins for Netscape).
  • the vendor's server responds by sending an Active X control, herein ACX 40.
  • the ACX similar to AC, downloads, verifies, and executes the payload*. If the user's browser does not support Active X Controls, the download links 42 serve the original payload to the user, as in Fig. 2.
  • ACX then functions to download the payload* which has contained within it AP including the desired product(s) URL(s).
  • payload* is executed by ACX.
  • the payload then executes AP, which directly presents its interface to the user as in the above methods. If later the user disallows the browser's support of Active X controls, when attempting to download again from a vendor who has installed the present invention, the user's browser will not show the links for ACX but rather the links for the payload as in Fig. 2. In this case, the user will simply use the original method described above.

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En réponse à une demande de téléchargement d'un produit, un vendeur envoie une charge contenant un installateur, une application de téléchargement (AP), laquelle contient la localisation du produit demandé au niveau d'un serveur, et une version simplifiée de l'application de téléchargement (AC). Lorsque l'utilisateur exécute la charge, elle lance l'installateur qui vérifie s'il existe ou non une copie de l'AC dans l'ordinateur de l'utilisateur. Si le navigateur de l'utilisateur prend en charge les commandes Active X, on sert à cet utilisateur une légère variante de l'invention qui évite cette exécution manuelle ponctuelle de la charge. Si l'installateur ne trouve pas l'AC, une copie de l'AC est stockée dans l'ordinateur. Puis l'installateur lance l'application AP. Cette application de téléchargement AP est conçue de sorte qu'après son exécution, aucune étape supplémentaire est requise par l'utilisateur pour visionner son interface utilisateur graphique (GUI). Puis l'utilisateur peut donner une consigne à l'AP, via son GUI de façon à lancer le téléchargement du produit, ou ce lancement peut être effectué automatiquement. Par la suite, lorsque cet utilisateur demande de télécharger un produit à un vendeur qui a installé cette invention, ce vendeur envoie à nouveau la charge. Le navigateur de l'utilisateur délègue le téléchargement et l'exécution de la charge à l'AC qui à préalablement été stockée dans l'ordinateur de l'utilisateur. Une fois exécutée, la charge donne directement priorité au GUI de son AP sans que l'utilisateur ait besoin de recourir à des étapes comme auparavant. Cet utilisateur peut alors donner une consigne à l'AP pour lancer le téléchargement ou ce lancement peut être effectué automatiquement.
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