Method and system for automatically updating software

• US 20070143303A1
• Filed: 10/10/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Sung-hyun
• Application Number:
  US11/544,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20070143303A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

A method and a system for performing automatic software updating capable of efficiently managing update cycles are provided. The method of performing automatic software updating in a client includes requesting information on an update cycle from a server at a check cycle of an update cycle change representing a cycle with which a change of a software update cycle is checked, and receiving the information on the update cycle from the server in response to the request for the information on the update cycle and updating the information on the update cycle of the client.

Claims

1. A method of performing automatic software updating in a client, the method comprising:

requesting information on an update cycle from a server; and

receiving the information on the update cycle from the server in response to the request for the information on the update cycle and updating the information on the update cycle of the client.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting information on the update cycle is performed at a check cycle on a change in the update cycle.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether to perform periodical software updating based on the information on the update cycle of the client; and

performing the periodical software updating if it is determined to perform the periodical software updating.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

requesting the server to update software at the update cycle;

receiving a software update item from the server in response to the request for the software updating; and

updating software installed in the client using the received software update item.

5. A method of performing automatic software updating, the method in a server supporting automatic software updating of a client, the method comprising:

receiving a request for information on an update cycle from the client;

searching for information on the update cycle for the client; and

sending found information on the update cycle, if the information is found as a result of the searching, to the client.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information on the update cycle is updated based on information input by a supervisor.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a request for updating software from the client;

searching for a corresponding software update item for the client; and

sending the software update item to the client if the software item is found as a result of searching.

8. A client for performing automatic software updating, the client comprising:

a communication unit which communicates with a server;

a storage unit storing information on an update cycle and information on a check cycle on a change in the update cycle; and

a control unit requesting the information on the update cycle through the communication unit from the server at the check cycle on the change in the update cycle, storing the information on the update cycle received from the server to the storage unit, and determining whether to perform periodical software updating based on the information on the update cycle.

9. The client of claim 8, wherein the control unit performing the periodical software updating requests the server to update software through the communication unit at the update cycle, receives a software update item through the communication unit from the server, and updates a software installed in the client using the received update item.

11. The server of claim 8, wherein the storage unit further stores information on a software update item, and

the control unit searches for and sends through the communication unit to the client the software update item for the client, if the control unit receives a request for updating software through the communication unit from the client.

12. The server of claim 11, further comprising an input unit operable to input information,

wherein the control unit updates the information on the update cycle for the client which is stored in the storage unit, based on information input through the input unit.

10. A server for supporting automatic software updating of a client, the server comprising:

a communication unit which communicates with the client;

a storage unit which stores information on an update cycle for the client; and

a control unit which searches for the information on the update cycle for the client in the storage unit and sends the information on the update cycle through the communication unit to the client, if the control unit receives a request for the information on the update cycle.