Method and system for content delivery of mobile terminal applications

• US 10,200,465 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2015
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wangsu Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Wangsu Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huang, Zhongwang
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thanh T
• Application Number:
  US15/533,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20170339220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,271 Days
• Field of Search: 709227, 709206, 709217, 709223, 709204, 455436, 4554563, 715200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method and system for content delivery used in a mobile terminal application. The method includes: (a) integrating, by the mobile terminal application, a software development kit (sdk) into the mobile terminal application, importing a download request into the sdk, and waiting to receive downloaded data; (b) receiving, by the sdk, the download request imported by the mobile terminal application, downloading an initial packet from a cache system or a source station based on the download request, and determining if P2P download can be started based on the initial packet, the initial packet being an initial data fragment of data to be downloaded; (c) when it is determined to start the P2P download, fragmenting, by the sdk, remaining undownloaded data to a plurality virtual files; and (d) sequentially downloading the plurality of virtual files and caching a download result until downloading of all of the virtual files is completed.

Claims

1. method for content delivery used in a mobile terminal application, comprising:

(a) integrating, by the mobile terminal application, a software development kit (sdk.) into the mobile terminal application, importing a download request into the sdk, and waiting to receive downloaded data;

(b) receiving, by the sdk, the download request imported by the mobile terminal application, downloading an initial packet from, a cache system or a source station based on the download request, and determining if P2P download can be started based on the initial packet, the initial packet being an initial data fragment of data to be downloaded;

(c) when it is determined to start the P2P download, fragmenting, by the sdk, remaining undownioaded data into a plurality virtual tiles;

(d) sequentially downloading, by the sdk, the plurality of virtual files and caching a download result until downloading of all of the virtual files is completed, wherein, during downloading of the virtual files, the sdk forwards downloaded virtual files to the mobile terminal application in real-time; and

(e) during the downloading of the virtual files, sharing, by the sdk, resources that are downloaded and cached based on a sharing strategy.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein importing a download request into the sdk by the mobile terminal application in step (a) includes applying one of an active proxy method and a passive hijacking method.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein downloading of the virtual files in step (d) includes;

using an http protocol to download the virtual files from the source station or the cache system and/or using a P2P method to download, wherein the sdk calculates a download speed using the http protocol and a download speed using the P2P method, and determines a method to download a current virtual, file based on a demand of data by the mobile terminal application;

when the current virtual file cannot be downloaded through the P2P method, or the download speed using the P2P method, does not meet a regular demand of the mobile terminal application, and the download speed using the P2P method is lower than the download speed using the http method, using the http protocol to directly download the current virtual file from the cache system or the source station, otherwise using the P2P method to download data of the current virtual file.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sharing strategy in step (e) includes:

based on a network standard of a mobile terminal, a remaining battery power of the mobile terminal, a usage of RAM of the mobile terminal, and a usage of CPU of the mobile terminal, determining whether the downloaded data can be used as seed tor sharing;

when the downloaded data is suitable as seed, for sharing, registering data sharing, and waiting to receive download requests from other mobile terminal applications.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining when P2P download can be started, in step (b) includes:

based on a tile length and a transfer encoding type of the data in the initial packet, determining whether P2P download can be started, when condition is not satisfied, sending an http request to the cache system or the source station to download the remaining undownloaded data; and

when the condition, is satisfied, executing step (c).

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein, obtaining a demand of data by the mobile terminal application includes:

providing, by the sdk, a data-usage-status notification interface to the mobile terminal application to obtain a current consumption of data by the mobile terminal application.