WO2012081930A2

WO2012081930A2 - System, terminal and method for installing an application using a package file, and server for generating the package file

Info

Publication number: WO2012081930A2
Application number: PCT/KR2011/009715
Authority: WO
Inventors: 계동원
Original assignee: (주)네오위즈게임즈
Priority date: 2010-12-16
Filing date: 2011-12-16
Publication date: 2012-06-21
Also published as: WO2012081930A3; TW201232402A; KR101155218B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a server for generating a package file and to a terminal and a method for installing an application using the package file. More particularly, the present invention relates to a server for generating a package file, wherein the server generates a package file having a function in addition to a basic application installation function, executes the package file in a user mode and installs an application using the package file in a manager mode. The present invention also relates to a terminal and method for installing an application using the package file. To this end, the terminal for installing an application using a package file according to the present invention comprises: an installation preparation unit which prepares the execution of an application installation program using the package file; and an installation completion unit which executes the application installation program to complete installation of the application, wherein the package file includes information on the execution of the package file and information on the installation of the application.

Description

System that installs application using package file, terminal, method and server generating package file

The present invention relates to a server for generating a package file, a terminal for installing an application using the package file, and a method thereof, and more particularly, to generate a package file having additional functions in addition to the basic application installation function. And a server for generating a package file for installing an application in an administrator mode using the package file after executing the package file in a user mode, a terminal for installing the application using the package file, and a method thereof.

As related technologies, such as a wireless communication terminal including a computer and a smart phone, have developed, many applications for using or utilizing the same have been developed. In addition, an application for producing an application installation program for installing the developed application has been developed and introduced separately.

One of the most commonly used applications, InstallShield is an application manufacturing program, which provides functions such as file compression installation, installation password, split installation, and serial installation. However, it cannot cope with the UAC-User Account Control environment of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and Windows 7 operating system. It doesn't happen at all.

User Account Control (UAC-User Account Control) is a security technology first introduced in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. It has also been introduced in Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, and applications are standard users until they allow administrators to elevate their privileges. By restricting permissions, the company wanted to improve the security of the operating system.

A user with User Account Control with standard user rights can gain administrator rights, but an application that the user runs cannot obtain those rights unless the administrator has previously granted a higher level of permission. In other words, user interface separation is used to separate administrator and non-administrator tasks.

Therefore, if you log in with user rights in the Windows Vista operating system, you cannot change the items that may affect the entire system. For example, if you want to install a large application, you cannot install it with user privileges, so you will be asked for higher privileges by User Account Control, or ask for permission verification procedures. In addition, even if there is no request for high permission or there is no permission checking procedure, the file is validated as much as the file size of the application to be installed, which causes a long time. Therefore, if you want to run the installation application produced by the installation shield in Windows Vista or Windows 7 environment, it is inconvenient to cope with the user account control environment.

On the other hand, although InstallShield provides many functions such as file compression installation, installation password, split installation, serial installation, etc., it is inconvenient for users who develop because they cannot add or remove functions that developers or producers want. .

On the other hand, another commonly used application is NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). However, NSIS does not respond to Windows Vista and Windows 7's User Account Control environment, and, like the installation shield, does not handle any elevation of privilege, and the maximum size of a single package file is limited to 2 gigabytes, which means that more than 2 gigabytes may be used. Not supported

As such, the application installer created by an existing application (for example, an installation shield or NSIS) that makes an application installer does not have a countermeasure for user account control when installing an application in a Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system environment. There is this.

Furthermore, if the application installer is large or overloaded during installation, the computer may become unresponsive, freeze or shut down without cause, causing users to feel uncomfortable. do.

In addition, the existing application for producing an application installation program has been inconvenient from the user's point of view because it is not possible to add a function that the developer wants to add other than the function of installing the application.

The present invention was created to solve the above-mentioned problems, and installs an application using a server, a package file, which generates a package file that can proceed with an installation process without freezing in a user account control environment of Windows Vista and Windows 7. An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal and a method thereof.

In addition, the size of the package file is not limited, and an object thereof is to provide a server for generating a package file that may include additional functions other than an application installation function, a terminal for installing an application using the package file, and a method thereof. .

A terminal for installing an application using the package file according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the installation preparation unit for preparing to execute the application installation program using the package file and the application installation program by executing the application And an installation completion unit for completing the installation, wherein the package file includes execution information of the package file and application installation information.

On the other hand, the method for installing an application using a package file according to the present invention for achieving the above object comprises the steps of (a) preparing to run the application installation program using the package file and (b) the application installation program Executing to complete the installation of the application.

On the other hand, the server for generating a package file according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a first frame including a library for executing the package file and the first frame containing the execution information of the application installation program by the first frame; A fourth frame including a third frame including two frames and meta information of the entire package file or meta information of the second frame, and deletion information for deleting a temporary folder in which the package file is decompressed after installation of the program; and It includes a fifth frame containing the data of the application installation program.

On the other hand, a system for installing an application using a package file according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a first frame including a library for executing a package file, the execution information of the application installation program by the first frame A second frame comprising a; a third frame including meta information of the entire package file; or a third frame including meta information of the second frame; and deleting information to delete a temporary folder from which the package file is decompressed after program installation. A server for generating a package file including a fifth frame including four frames and data of the application installer, an installation preparation unit that prepares to execute an application installer using the package file, and executes the application installer By the application It includes a terminal for installing an application using a package file including an installation completion unit for completing the installation of the option.

According to the server for generating a package file according to the present invention, a terminal for installing an application using the package file and a method thereof,

First, the user's inconvenience is eliminated by enabling the application installation process without freezing by using the privilege elevation function in the user account control environment of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

Second, an application installation program can be produced without limiting the size of a package file for application installation.

Third, it may include additional functions in addition to the application installation function provides a convenience to the user to create an application installation program.

1 is a configuration diagram of a system for installing an application using a package file.

2 is a conceptual diagram of a server.

3 shows the structure of a package file.

4 illustrates an embodiment of a package file.

5 is a functional block diagram of a terminal.

6 is a flowchart of a method of installing an application using a package file.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to the common or dictionary meanings, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that it can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

The present invention provides a package file for installing an application in an administrator mode using the package file after generating a package file having an additional function in addition to the basic application installation function and executing the package file in a user mode. It relates to a server for generating, a terminal for installing an application using a package file, and a method thereof.

1 is a configuration diagram of a system for installing an application using a package file. The system for installing an application using a package file includes a server 100 generating and providing a package file and a terminal 200 connected to the server 100 using a wired or wireless network to receive a package file. In this case, the terminal 200 should use a wired or wireless network when receiving the package file. However, the terminal 200 does not need to connect to the wired or wireless network when executing the package file, and only needs to connect to the wired or wireless network when necessary.

In addition, the terminal 200 is a communication device that can be connected to the server 100 through a network. For example, various communication devices such as a wireless communication terminal such as a smart phone, a computer, a tablet PC, and a TV that can be connected to the Internet. Can be used.

The server 100 generates a package file. The package file is for application installation and includes execution information of the package file and application installation information.

2 is a conceptual diagram of a server, wherein the server 100 is a file generation application for generating a package file, a setup application for installing an application, a removal utility for removing an installed application, and a download application for downloading a package file to a terminal. And an engine including a DLL library for building and running the application.

The setup application is for use when installing an executable image file including a library in the package file, which includes elevation of user account control, end-user license agreement (EULA) registration, validation of folders and files, Contains information on installing files, creating program groups, creating shortcuts, registering registry and services, and registering uninstall information.

The engine is for executing the package file, including an execution library for distributing the setup application and the library, a download library including HTTP and Socket download libraries, supporting download and checksum, etc. This includes package libraries used, installation libraries that install executable files such as package files or exe files, and script libraries that analyze and process script languages.

The file generation application generates a package file using all of the setup application, the removal utility, the download application, and the engine. In this case, the package file may be generated by dividing the package file, and the package file further includes split information in the package file.

3 illustrates a structure of a package file, wherein the package file includes a first frame including a library for executing a package file, a second frame including execution information of an application installer by the first frame, and A third frame including meta information of the entire package file or meta information of the second frame, a fourth frame including deletion information for deleting a temporary folder in which the package file is decompressed after installation of the program and the application installation program; And a fifth frame containing data.

A typical application installation file is executed and application installation begins. However, the package file is divided into a first frame for executing the package file and a second frame including execution information of the installation program of the application, so that execution of the package file and application installation are separately performed. Due to this difference, it is possible to elevate privileges in the administrator mode when installing an application, and thus correspond to the user account control environment of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. This will be described again below.

4 illustrates an embodiment of a package file, in which A (Execution library) is the first frame, B (Meta file including setup information) is the third frame, C (Extracting Library) is the second frame, and G (Remover). ) Is the fourth frame, J (Data) is the fifth frame, and as shown, in addition to the first to fifth frames, folders, information for creating a file list, information for designating shortcuts, and EULA (End- User License Agreement) may further include frames for additional functions required for installation, such as information for registration, content to be added to the registry, service registration information, installation option information, and installation screen setting information, and so on, as well as file formats and File capacity can be changed. In addition, unlike in FIG. 4, the order of the frames may be changed as necessary. By adding a frame for an additional function as described above, convenience for the developing user is increased. Hereinafter, the package file of FIG. 4 will be described and described with reference to an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of a terminal, illustrating a terminal for installing an application using a package file with reference to FIG. 5.

The terminal 200 includes an installation preparation unit 210 for preparing an application installation program using the package file and an installation completion unit 230 for executing the application installation program to complete the installation of the application. .

The installation preparation unit 210 includes a meta information unit 211 for analyzing meta information of the package file, a file execution unit 213 for executing the package file using the meta information, and the application using the meta information. Decompression unit 215 for decompressing data necessary for installation of the temporary folder.

The file execution unit 213 reads an A (Execution Library) frame of the package file and executes the package file. At this time, the file execution unit 213 receives necessary meta information from the meta information unit 211. The meta information unit 211 obtains information from a B (Meta File) frame including setup information and analyzes meta information, wherein the B frame includes frame classification information, EULA registration information, and an image and icon for an application. It contains all the information necessary for the installation process of the application including the information, and uses the B frame to understand the structure of the remaining frames in the A frame.

The decompressor 215 decompresses necessary data such as an application installation program among package files by creating a temporary folder on a predetermined path. At this time, the file execution unit 213 checks whether there are files necessary for installation in the temporary folder using an execution library of the A frame, and if not, copies the installation file and the library from the package file to the temporary folder.

Here, the file execution unit 213 executes the package file in a user mode. The user mode is driven with user authority, and the user authority is one of user account control (UAC). Therefore, when the package file is executed in the user mode, there is no waiting time due to the file checking, so that the installation can be faster, and there is no request for a high permission or a separate permission check procedure, thereby providing convenience for the user. In addition, freezing does not occur when a large file is run in administrator mode, and there is no problem in adding uninstall information according to permissions. Therefore, it provides convenience to the user who installs the application using the application installation program.

The installation completion unit 230 includes an installation unit 231 for executing the application installation program and a completion unit 235 for completing the installation of the application installation program.

The installation unit 231 executes the application installation program in an administrator mode. The administrator mode refers to a state in which an administrator authority is executed among user account controls. Therefore, when the E (Setup Application) frame is executed in the A (Execution Library) frame of the package file to install the application, the E frame is executed in the administrator mode. Of course, the E frame can be set to run in the administrator mode in the A frame in this manner, but it can also be made to run in the manager mode when the E frame is produced.

In addition, the installation unit 231 may include an additional receiver 233 for receiving information necessary for installation from the server 100 through an online connection. In general, when the application is installed by the application installation program is installed using only the information of the package file, without having to access the server 100. However, there may be occasions when a package file has errors and needs to be fixed. In such a case, the modified file can be received using the additional receiver 233, and the real-time information necessary can be viewed because of the online connection. In addition, the server 100 may receive information or advertisements to be additionally provided by the terminal 200 through the additional receiver 233.

In addition, the additional receiving unit 233 may receive an external program, which is separate from an additional program, in particular, an installation program such as DirectX, vcredist_x86, etc., but required for executing the installed application through an online connection during the installation process. Of course, such an external program may be included in a package file and then installed together during the application installation process.

The completion unit 235 deletes the decompressed temporary folder after installation of the application. In addition, it may further include a removal unit 237 for removing the installed application. In this case, the package file should further include removal information of the installed application, and the installation unit 231 registers the removal information in the registry. Then, the removal unit 237 removes the application by referring to the removal information of the registered registry.

As such, by removing the application using the registry removal information, the problem of the conventional method of deleting on a folder basis can be improved. In other words, the conventional method of uninstalling (uninstalling) or uninstalling the application is a method of deleting a folder in which an application is installed, and thus a case of incorrectly removing it may not reflect changes such as moving a folder. However, when the removal unit 237 is used, since the uninstallation information is obtained by referring to the registry, the folder to be deleted is known, thereby reducing errors that are incorrectly deleted.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of installing an application using a package file, and a method of installing an application using a package file will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

In analyzing the meta information of the package file (S10), the package file and the meta information are the same as described above in the terminal for installing the application using the package file. The package file is executed using the meta information (S20). The data necessary for installing the application is decompressed into a temporary folder (S30). At this time, the execution of the package file (S20) is executed in the user mode. When the preparation of the application installation program is executed by executing the package file as described above, the application installation program is executed in the administrator mode (S40) and for the installation of the application The installation of the application is completed by deleting the created temporary folder.

The invention also includes a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the above method.

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

Claims

An installation preparation unit preparing to execute an application installation program using a package file; And

And an installation completion unit for completing the installation of the application by executing the application installation program.

The package file is,

And installing the application using the package file, wherein the package file includes execution information of the package file and installation information of the application.
The method of claim 1,

The installation preparation unit,

A meta information unit for analyzing meta information of the package file;

A file execution unit that executes the package file using the meta information; And

And a decompressor configured to decompress data necessary for installing the application into a temporary folder by using the meta information.
The method of claim 2,

The file execution unit,

A terminal for installing an application using a package file, characterized in that for executing the package file in a user mode.
The method of claim 2,

The installation completion unit,

An installation unit for executing the application installation program; And

Completion unit for completing the installation of the application installation program; Terminal for installing the application using a package file comprising a.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The installation unit,

A terminal for installing an application using a package file, characterized in that for executing the application installation program in an administrator mode.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The installation unit,

An additional receiving unit for receiving information required for installation from the server through the online connection; Terminal for installing the application using a package file, characterized in that it further comprises.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The completion unit,

Terminal for installing an application using a package file, characterized in that for deleting the decompressed temporary folder.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The package file is,

Further including the removal information of the application,

The installation unit,

Register the removal information of the application in the registry,

The completion unit,

And a removal unit for removing the installed application by referring to the removal information of the registered registry.
(a) preparing to execute an application installation program using a package file; And

(b) executing the application installation program to complete installation of the application;

The package file is,

And installing the application using the package file, wherein the package file includes execution information of the package file and installation information of the application.
The method of claim 9,

In step (a),

Analyzing meta information of the package file;

Executing the package file using the meta information; And

And decompressing data necessary for installation of the application to a temporary folder by using the meta information.
The method of claim 9,

In step (b),

Executing the application installation program; And

Completing the installation of the application installation program; Method of installing an application using a package file comprising a.
A first frame comprising a library for executing a package file;

A second frame including execution information of an application installation program by the first frame;

A third frame including meta information of the entire package file or meta information of the second frame;

A fourth frame including deletion information for deleting a temporary folder in which the package file is extracted after program installation; And

And a fifth frame including data of the application installation program.
The method of claim 12,

The package file is

Characterized in that the generated by dividing,

The divided package file server for generating a package file, characterized in that containing the partition information.
A first frame containing a library for executing a package file,

A second frame including execution information of an application installation program by the first frame;

A third frame including meta information of the entire package file or meta information of the second frame,

A fourth frame including deletion information for deleting a temporary folder in which the package file is extracted after installing a program; and

A server generating a package file including a fifth frame including data of the application installation program;

An installation preparation unit preparing to execute an application installation program using the package file;

And a terminal for installing the application using a package file including an installation completion unit for completing the installation of the application by executing the application installation program.