WO2012051906A1

WO2012051906A1 - Iptv set-top box wireless upgrade method and control terminal therefor

Info

Publication number: WO2012051906A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/080533
Authority: WO
Inventors: 郭之坤; 秦小庆; 林延福
Original assignee: 华为终端有限公司
Priority date: 2010-10-18
Filing date: 2011-10-08
Publication date: 2012-04-26
Also published as: CN102137296A

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention are a wireless upgrade method for set-top boxes and a control terminal therefor, which resolve the low-efficiency problem of existing one-to-one set-top box upgrade methods. A binding relation is established with at least two set-top boxes; an upgrade control message is sent to the bound set-top boxes by radio-frequency means so as to induce the set-top boxes, upon receiving the upgrade control message, to make an update-pending response; the set-top boxes to be upgraded are confirmed according to the response messages fed back from the set-top boxes; upgrading data is sent to the set top boxes to be upgraded by radio-frequency means so as to induce the set top boxes to upgrade after reception of the upgrade data. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the upgrading data is sent simultaneously by radio-frequency means to a plurality of set top boxes bound with the control terminal, so that the plurality of set top boxes can be upgraded simultaneously according to the upgrading data, thereby improving the work efficiency.

Description

Set-top box wireless upgrade method and control terminal thereof

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a wireless upgrade method for a set top box and a control terminal thereof.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Set-top box products often require upgrade and maintenance due to changes in customer requirements or improvements in their functions. For example, a set-top box that has been officially operated is generally upgraded online through an online upgrade server. In actual applications, there are often upgrades in the following situations: 1. When a large number of set-top boxes are stored in the warehouse, these set-top boxes need to be upgraded collectively; 2. Multiple set-top boxes in the hotel hotel need to be upgraded collectively; 3. In the maintenance department, multiple set-top boxes need collective upgrade.

In the process of implementing the above-mentioned set-top box upgrade, the inventors found that at least the following problems exist in the prior art: The existing upgrade method can only be upgraded one-to-one, and the work efficiency is low, which is inconvenient for centralized upgrade of the set-top box. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless upgrade method for a set top box and a control terminal thereof, which achieve the purpose of simultaneously upgrading a plurality of set top boxes.

In order to achieve the above object, the embodiment of the present invention adopts the following technical solutions:

A wireless upgrade method for a set top box, comprising:

Establish a binding relationship with at least two set top boxes;

Sending an upgrade control message to the bound set top box by means of radio frequency, so that the set top box receives the upgrade control message and then responds to the upgrade;

Determining the set top box to be upgraded according to the response message to be upgraded by the set top box;

After the data is upgraded. A control terminal, the device further comprising:

a binding relationship establishing unit, configured to establish a binding relationship with at least two set top boxes; The upgrade control message sending unit is configured to send, by using a radio frequency, an upgrade control message to the binding set top box, so that the set top box receives the upgrade control message and then sends a response to be upgraded;

Determining a unit to be upgraded, and determining, according to the response message to be upgraded by the set top box, determining the set top box to be upgraded;

According to the upgrade, the set-top box receives the upgrade data. In the embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade data is sent to the plurality of set top boxes to be upgraded, which are bound to the control terminal, and the plurality of set top boxes can be simultaneously upgraded according to the upgrade data, thereby improving work efficiency. DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some implementations of the present invention. For example, other drawings may be obtained from those skilled in the art without any inventive labor. 1 is a flow chart of a wireless upgrade method of a set top box;

2 is a flow chart of establishing a binding relationship between a control terminal and a set top box;

Figure 3 is a flowchart of the upgrade of the set top box;

Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the control terminal. detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

In order to solve the problem that the existing set-top box upgrade method can only be upgraded one-to-one, resulting in low work efficiency, the embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless upgrade method for a set-top box and a control terminal thereof. The hardware of the embodiment of the invention consists of two parts: a control terminal and a set top box. The number of set-top boxes can be one or more than two; the set-top box should have an antenna that can receive RF signals. In this embodiment, the control terminal may be disposed in the remote controller or in the set top box; however, the control terminal must store the upgrade file; an antenna must be disposed to receive the radio frequency signal.

Set-top box wireless upgrade method The following describes the set-top box wireless upgrade method:

As shown in FIG. 1, a wireless upgrade method for a set top box includes:

101. Establish a binding relationship with at least two set top boxes. In this embodiment, control terminals and at least two

A set-top box establishes a binding relationship.

102. Send an upgrade control message to the bound set-top box by using a radio frequency, so that the set-top box receives the

After the control message is upgraded, the response to be upgraded is made;

In this embodiment, the upgrade control message includes the following information: vendor ID, hardware version number, file version number, file name, file type, total file size, module ID, total module number, module size, timeout period, and check data. ;

The format of the upgrade control message is as follows:

The length of the Tag in the TLV structure is 8 bits, and the values are as follows:

06 file type

07 total file size

08 module ID

09 total number of modules

0a module size

Ob timeout

Other reservation

Ff check data

The set-top box receives the upgrade control message, and removes the hardware version number and the file version number from the upgrade control message; determines whether the extracted hardware version number, the file version number is consistent with the hardware version number and the file version number, and if the upgrade status is consistently entered, The control terminal sends a response message to be upgraded; if it is inconsistent, it cannot enter the upgrade state, and sends the reason for not entering the upgrade state to the control terminal;

In the embodiment, the control terminal receives a plurality of response messages to be upgraded, and the response message can determine a certain number of set-top boxes to be upgraded by using the response message to be upgraded. ;

In this embodiment, the control terminal determines, according to the response message to be upgraded by the set-top box, the set-top box that needs to be upgraded and the set-top box that does not need to be upgraded. In this embodiment, because of the relationship with multiple set-top boxes, if After receiving the response message of the set-top box to be upgraded, it is determined that the set-top box needs to be upgraded, and other set-top boxes that do not receive the response message may be listed as a set-top box that does not need to be upgraded, and the control terminal will be bound with the set-top box that does not need to be upgraded. Clear. Certainly, each set-top box can also feedback the response message, and the control message carries the identifier information of the upgrade and the identification information of the set-top box, and the control terminal can determine which set-top boxes are to be determined by the identifier information to be upgraded and the identification information of the set-top box. Upgraded set-top boxes, which set-top boxes do not need to be upgraded, thus eliminating the binding relationship with set-top boxes that do not need to be upgraded. In this embodiment, the set top box that needs to be upgraded can be understood as the set top box to be upgraded.

104. Send the upgrade data to the set-top box to be upgraded by using the radio frequency, so that the set-top box receives the upgrade data and then upgrades. In this embodiment, when there are multiple set-top boxes to be upgraded, the control terminal simultaneously sends the upgrade data to the plurality of set-top boxes to be upgraded by using radio frequency. The format is sent as follows:

In the embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade data is sent to the plurality of set top boxes bound to the control terminal by using the wireless method of the radio frequency, so that the plurality of set top boxes can be upgraded according to the upgrade data at the same time, thereby improving work efficiency.

In this embodiment, the binding relationship between the step 101 and the at least two set top boxes is as described in FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a specific flowchart of establishing a binding relationship with at least two set top boxes.

201. Start a first timer.

The first timer is used to time the time when the control terminal receives the response message. For details, see steps 203 and 204.

202. Send a broadcast discovery packet to the at least two set top boxes, where the format of the sequence discovery message carrying the control terminal is as follows:

For example: The control terminal ID is the serial number of the upgrade file sending device. Example: Set-top box A is used as an upgrade file sending device to send broadcast discovery packets to set-top boxes C and D. The packets carry the ID of set-top box A.

203. Determine whether the first timer expires. After the first timer is started, the control terminal sends a broadcast discovery message, and receives the response message within the timeout period.

204. If the first timer does not time out, determine whether the response packet sent by the set top box is received. The format of the response message is as follows:

During the first timer time, if it is determined that the response message has not been received, step 203 is performed. If the response packet is received, the control terminal records the ID of the set-top box, establishes a binding relationship with the set-top box, and then continues to receive the response packet sent by the other set-top box, and then executes 203.

If the first timer expires, it is determined whether there is a received response message; in this embodiment, if it is determined that there is no response message received, the upgrade process is exited;

If it is determined that there is a received response message, executing 207, it is required to send an upgrade control message to the corresponding set top box, which can also be understood as sending an upgrade control message to the bound set top box.

In this embodiment, the control terminal acquires the set-top box ID carried in the received response message, and uses the set-top box corresponding to the acquired set-top box ID as the object to be upgraded in the coverage of the radio frequency signal of the control terminal, and binds Therefore, it is more targeted to send upgrade control information and upgrade data later.

In this embodiment, the control terminal sends the upgrade data to at least two set top boxes in the control range of the radio frequency signal; the set top box is upgraded after obtaining the upgrade data, and the upgrade method is as follows:

Figure 3 shows the flow chart of the set-top box upgrade;

301. Start a second timer.

302. Determine whether data is received.

303. If no data is received, determine whether the second timer expires; if there is no timeout, re-receive the data; if timeout, feedback the reason for not receiving the data to the control terminal, to control the terminal to clear the binding of the set-top box and the control terminal. relationship.

304. If the data is received, determine whether the data reception is complete; Judging whether the data reception is complete means: If the control terminal sends 10 data packets, if the receiving end receives 10 data packets, the received data is complete; if 10 data packets are not received, the data reception is incomplete. .

305. If the data is not received completely, determine whether the second timer expires;

If the timeout occurs, the reason for the failure of the feedback data is received, and the reason is fed back to the control terminal, so that the control terminal clears the binding relationship between the set top box and the control terminal;

If there is no timeout, continue to receive data.

306. If the data reception is complete, clear the second timer.

307. Verify that the data is correct.

If it is incorrect, the reason for the incorrect feedback data is given to the control terminal, so as to control the terminal to clear the binding relationship between the set top box and the control terminal;

If the data is correct, save the data, binding relationship, and version number;

308, restart;

309. Determine whether the verification version number is successfully upgraded.

If the upgrade is unsuccessful, the control terminal returns the upgrade failure reason to control the terminal to clear the binding relationship between the set top box and the control terminal;

If the upgrade is successful, the result is fed back to the control terminal.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the upgrade data is sent to the plurality of set top boxes bound to the control terminal by using the radio frequency wireless method, and the plurality of set top boxes can be upgraded according to the upgrade data to improve the work efficiency.

In this embodiment, during the upgrade of the set-top box, the upgrade or failure information fed back by the terminal receiver is controlled, and the set top box and the upgraded set-top box are successfully upgraded, and the binding relationship between the set-top box that cannot be upgraded and the control terminal is cleared. , the upgrade operation is completed.

As shown in FIG. 4, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a control terminal, where a radio frequency antenna is disposed at a front end thereof, and the device further includes:

The binding relationship establishing unit 401 is configured to establish a binding relationship with the at least two set top boxes. In this embodiment, the binding relationship establishing unit 401 may further send a broadcast discovery report to the at least two set top boxes. And receiving the response message sent by the set top box, where the response message carries the identification information of the set top box, and records the sequence number of the set top box to determine a binding relationship with the set top box.

The upgrade control message sending unit 402 is configured to send an upgrade control message to the binding set top box by using a radio frequency, so that the set top box receives the upgrade control message and then responds to the upgrade.

The unit to be upgraded 403 is configured to determine the set top box to be upgraded according to the response message to be upgraded by the set top box. In this embodiment, since the relationship with the plurality of set-top boxes is bound, if it is determined that the to-be-upgraded unit 403 receives the response message of the certain set-top box to be upgraded, it is determined that the set-top box needs to be upgraded, and the response message may not be received. The other set-top boxes are listed as set-top boxes that do not need to be upgraded, and the control terminal will be cleared from the binding relationship of the set-top boxes that do not need to be upgraded. Certainly, each set-top box can also feedback the response message, and the control message carries the identifier information of the upgrade and the identification information of the set-top box, and the control terminal can determine which set-top boxes are to be determined by the identifier information to be upgraded and the identification information of the set-top box. Upgraded set-top boxes, which set-top boxes do not need to be upgraded, thus eliminating the binding relationship with set-top boxes that do not need to be upgraded.

The upgrade data sending unit 404 is configured to send upgrade data to the set top box to be upgraded by using a radio frequency, so that the set top box receives the upgrade data and then upgrades. In this embodiment, when there are multiple set-top boxes to be upgraded, the control terminal simultaneously sends upgrade data to the plurality of set-top boxes to be upgraded by means of radio frequency.

In this embodiment, the binding relationship establishing unit 401 includes:

The first timer 401 1 is configured to time the time when the control terminal receives the response message, and the discovery message sending module 4012 is configured to send the broadcast discovery message when the first timer 401 1 starts timing, and the message is sent. Carrying the serial number of the control terminal;

The response message receiving module 4013 is configured to send a response message to the top box of the receiver.

The first determining module 4014 is configured to determine whether the first timer 401 1 is timed out;

The second judging module 4015 is configured to: when the first judging module 4014 determines that the first timer 401 1 has not timed out, determine whether the response message receiving module 4013 receives the response message sent by the top box;

The relationship determining module 4016 is configured to: when the second determining module 4015 determines the response message receiving module When receiving the response message sent by the set top box, the 4013 records the ID of the set top box and establishes a binding relationship with the set top box.

In this embodiment, when the first determining module 4014 determines that the first timer 401 1 has timed out, the notification upgrade control message sending unit 402 sends an upgrade control message to the set top box that determines the binding relationship in the relationship determining module 4016.

The control terminal of the embodiment of the present invention transmits the upgrade data to the plurality of set-top boxes bound to the control terminal by using the wireless method of the radio frequency, so that the plurality of set-top boxes can be upgraded according to the upgrade data at the same time, thereby improving work efficiency.

In this embodiment, because the set-top box receives the upgrade data during the process of receiving the upgrade data, the upgrade is unsuccessful, the upgrade data is incomplete, the upgrade is unsuccessful, the upgrade data is incorrect, the upgrade is unsuccessful, and the verification version number is The unsuccessful upgrade event occurs. When these events occur, the set-top box feeds back to the control terminal the reason for the unsuccessful upgrade, to control the terminal to clear the binding relationship between the set-top box and the control terminal. Of course, when the set-top box is successfully upgraded, The feedback success message is fed back to the control terminal, so that the control terminal saves the binding relationship.

In this embodiment, the control terminal may further include a binding relationship elimination unit (not shown) for canceling the binding relationship between the unsuccessful set top box and the control terminal according to the unsuccessful upgrade message fed back by the set top box.

The serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for the description, and do not represent the advantages and disadvantages of the embodiments.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the embodiments of the present invention can be implemented by means of software plus the necessary general hardware platform. Based on the understanding, the computer software product of the embodiment of the present invention may be stored in a storage medium, such as a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc., and includes a plurality of instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, The server, or network device, etc.) performs the methods described in various embodiments or portions of the embodiments of the present invention.

The above specific embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalents, and improvements made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the present invention. And so on, should be included in the scope of protection of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

A wireless upgrade method for a set top box, characterized in that:

Establish a binding relationship with at least two set top boxes;

Determine the set-top box to be upgraded according to the response message to be upgraded by the set-top box;

The method for wirelessly upgrading a set-top box according to claim 1, wherein the step of establishing a binding relationship with the at least two set-top boxes comprises:

Sending a broadcast discovery message to at least two set top boxes;

Receiving a response message sent by the set top box, the response message carrying the identification information of the set top box; recording the serial number of the set top box to determine a binding relationship with the set top box.

The wireless upgrade method of the set top box according to claim 1, further comprising: a message that the upgrade of the receiver top box is unsuccessful, and the binding relationship with the set top box is eliminated.

The wireless upgrade method of the set top box according to claim 1, further comprising: a message that the upgrade of the receiver top box is successful, and the binding relationship with the set top box is saved.

The method for wirelessly upgrading a set-top box according to claim 1, wherein the response message carries the upgraded identification information and the identification information of the set-top box, and the set-top box to be upgraded is determined according to the response message to be upgraded by the set-top box. The steps include:

The set top box is determined to be a set top box to be upgraded according to the upgraded identification information and the identification information of the set top box.

The wireless upgrade method of the set-top box according to claim 1, wherein the response message carries the identification information that is not upgraded and the identification information of the set-top box, and further includes:

Determining, according to the identifier information that is not upgraded and the identifier information of the set top box, that the set top box is a set top box that is not upgraded;

Eliminate the binding relationship with the set top box.

7. A control terminal, comprising:

a binding relationship establishing unit, configured to establish a binding relationship with at least two set top boxes;

The upgrade control message sending unit is configured to send, by using a radio frequency, an upgrade control message to the binding set top box, so that the set top box receives the upgrade control message and then responds to the upgrade;

Determining the to-be-upgraded unit, and determining the set-top box to be upgraded according to the response message to be upgraded by the set-top box;

Upgrade the data sending unit,

Allow the set-top box to upgrade after receiving the upgrade data.

8. The control terminal according to claim 7, further comprising:

The binding relationship elimination unit is configured to remove the binding relationship between the unsuccessful set top box and the control terminal according to the unsuccessful upgrade message fed back by the set top box.

The control terminal according to claim 7, wherein the response message carries the upgraded identification information and the identification information of the set top box, and the determining the to be upgraded unit further determines the upgraded identification information and the identification information of the set top box. , determining that the set top box is a set top box to be upgraded.

The control terminal according to claim 7, wherein the binding relationship establishing unit further sends a broadcast discovery message to the at least two set top boxes, and receives the response message sent by the set top box, the response message. Carrying the identification information of the set top box, recording the serial number of the set top box to determine a binding relationship with the set top box.