Method for the obtaining of deployment components to electronic devices

• US 20060190608A1
• Filed: 02/18/2005
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kaappa, Eero, Sahinoja, Mikko, Vento, Janne
• Application Number:
  US11/061,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190608A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

In a method for the delivery of deployment components to an electronic device, a management session is set-up between the electronic device and a server. The electronic device receives a location for a deployment component from the server. A target state is received for the deployment component in the electronic device from the server. A place for a management object representing the deployment component in a management object data structure is determined in the electronic device based on the target state. The deployment component is downloaded in the electronic device from the location.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining deployment components to an electronic device, the method comprising:

setting-up a management session between said electronic device and a server;

receiving in said electronic device a location for a deployment component from said server;

receiving a target state for the deployment component in said electronic device from said server;

determining a place for a management object representing said deployment component in a management object data structure in said electronic device based on said target state; and

downloading said deployment component in said electronic device from said location.

2. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving a node name for said deployment component in said electronic device; and

setting a name for said management object based on said node name in said electronic device.

3. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

determining a node name for said management object in said electronic device; and

indicating the node name for said management object from said electronic device to said server.

4. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

storing said location and said target state to a management information tree in said electronic device;

ending said management session before said downloading;

providing said location and said target state from said management information tree to an indirect delivery entity in said electronic device; and

performing said downloading by said indirect delivery entity.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said electronic device is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) client and said server is a device management server.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) specifies the place of said management object in said management object data structure.

7. A method for obtaining deployment components to an electronic device, the method comprising:

setting-up a management session between said electronic device and a server;

receiving in said electronic device a location for a deployment component from said server;

receiving a target state for the deployment component in said electronic device from said server;

downloading said deployment component in said electronic device from said location; and

determining a place for a management object representing said deployment component in a management object data structure in said electronic device based on said target state.

8. A method for delivery of deployment components to an electronic device, the method comprising:

forming in a server a first command that comprises a location;

forming in said server a second command that comprises a target state;

forming in said server a third command that indicates a node for triggering downloading of a deployment component; and

sending said first command, said second command and said third command in at least one package from said server to said electronic device.

9. An electronic device comprising:

a device management agent configured to set-up a management session between said electronic device and a server, to receive a location for a deployment component from said server, to receive a target state for the deployment component from said server, to determine a place for a management object representing said deployment component in a management object data structure in said electronic device based on said target state; and

a communication entity configured to download said deployment component from said location.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein said device management entity is further configured to receive a node name for said deployment component and to set a name for said management object based on said node name.

11. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein said device management entity is further configured to determine a node name for said management object and to indicate said node name for said management object to said server.

12. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein said electronic device comprises:

a device management entity configured to store said location and said target state to a management information tree, to end said management session before said download, to provide said location and said target state from said management information tree to an indirect delivery entity; and

an indirect delivery entity to perform said download.

13. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein said electronic device is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) client.

14. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) specifies a place of said management object in said management object data structure.

15. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein said electronic device comprises at least one of a General Packet Radio System terminal, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System terminal or a Wireless Local Area Network terminal.

16. A server comprising:

a device management entity configured to set-up a management session between an electronic device and said server,

to provide a location for a deployment component to said electronic device,

to provide a target state for said deployment component to said electronic device,

to issue an execution request associated with a management object referring to downloading of said deployment component.

17. The server according to claim 16, wherein said server is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management server.

18. The server according to claim 17, wherein said device management entity is further configured

to form a first command that comprises said location,

to form a second command that comprises said target state,

to form a third command that indicates the management object referring to the downloading of said deployment component, and

to send said first, second and third commands in at least one package to said electronic device.

19. A computer program comprising code adapted to perform the following steps when executed on a data-processing system:

setting-up a management session to a server;

receive a location for a deployment component from said server;

receiving a target state for the deployment component from said server;

determining a place for a management object representing said deployment component in a management object data structure based on said target state; and

downloading said deployment component from said location.

20. The computer program according to claim 19, wherein said computer program is stored on a computer readable medium.

21. The computer program according to claim 20, wherein said computer readable medium is a removable memory card.

22. The computer program according to claim 20, wherein said computer readable medium is a magnetic or an optical disk.

23. A computer program comprising code adapted to perform the following steps when executed on a data-processing system:

setting-up a management session between an electronic device and a server;

providing a location for a deployment component to said electronic device;

providing a target state for said deployment component to said electronic device; and

issuing an execution request associated with a management object referring to downloading of said deployment component.

24. The computer program according to claim 23, wherein said computer program is stored on a computer readable medium.

25. The computer program according to claim 24, wherein said computer readable medium is a removable memory card.

26. The computer program according to claim 24, wherein said computer readable medium is a magnetic or an optical disk.

27. A computer program comprising code adapted to perform the following steps when executed on a data-processing system:

setting-up a management session to a server;

receive a location for a deployment component from said server;

receiving a target state for the deployment component from said server;

downloading said deployment component from said location; and

determining a place for a management object representing said deployment component in a management object data structure based on said target state.

28. The computer program according to claim 27, wherein said computer program is stored on a computer readable medium.

29. The computer program according to claim 28, wherein said computer readable medium is a removable memory card.

30. The computer program according to claim 28, wherein said computer readable medium is a magnetic or an optical disk.