Method and system for restoring user settings after over-the-air update of mobile electronic device software

• US 20090017812A1
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chan, Weng Chong, Ishli, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US11/827,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20090017812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/62 Uninstallation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Method and system for restoring user selections of device settings after an over-the-air update of mobile electronic device software. A restoration package is installed on a mobile electronic device after installation on the device of a software update package, resulting in automatic restoration transparent to the user of any user selections of device settings that may have been modified during installation of the software update package.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a memory adapted to store a device setting and a restoration package;

a wireless interface adapted to receive a software update package; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the wireless interface and the memory and adapted to execute the software update package whereby the device setting is initialized to a default selection and adapted to execute the restoration package whereby the device setting is restored to a user selection.

2. The mobile electronic device of claim 1 wherein the processor is further adapted to detect user selection of a device setting.

3. The mobile electronic device of claim 2, wherein the processor is further adapted to detect an impending over-the-air software update.

4. The mobile electronic device of claim 3, wherein the processor is further adapted in response to detection of the impending over-the-air software update to transmit to a server node via the wireless interface information indicative of a device setting change.

5. The mobile electronic device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further adapted to receive from the server node via the wireless interface the software update package and the restoration package, and wherein the restoration package is created based at least in part on the information indicative of the device setting change.

6. The mobile electronic device of claim 3, wherein in response to detection of the impending over-the-air software update the processor is further adapted to create the restoration package based at least in part on information indicative of a device setting change.

7. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, wherein the memory is a non-volatile memory.

8. A method for restoring a device setting after an over-the-air update of mobile electronic device software, comprising the steps of:

receiving over the air a software update package;

executing the software update package whereby a device setting is initialized to a default selection; and

executing a restoration package whereby the device setting is restored to a user selection.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of:

detecting user selection of a device setting; and

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of:

detecting an impending over-the-air software update.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of:

transmitting to a server node via the wireless interface in response to detection of the impending over-the-air software update information indicative of a device setting change.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of:

receiving from the server node via the wireless interface the software update package and the restoration package, wherein the restoration package is created based at least in part on information indicative of the device setting change.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of:

creating in response to detection of the impending over-the-air software update the restoration package based at least in part on information indicative of the device setting change.

14. A method for restoring a device setting after an over-the-air update of mobile electronic device software, comprising the steps of:

changing a device setting from a first default selection to a user selection via a user input;

changing the device setting value from the user selection to a second default selection by executing an over-the-air software update; and

changing the device setting from the second default selection to the user selection by executing restoration software.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of changing the device setting from the user selection to the second default selection comprises the steps of:

generating on a server node a software update package;

transmitting over the air by the server node to a mobile electronic device the software update package; and

executing on the mobile electronic device the software update package.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of changing the device setting from the second default selection to the user selection comprises the steps of:

transmitting over the air by a mobile electronic device to the server node information indicative of a change to the device setting;

generating on the server node a restoration package using the information indicative of the change to the device setting;

transmitting over the air by the server node to the mobile electronic device the restoration package; and

executing on the mobile electronic device the restoration package.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of changing the device setting from the second default selection to the user selection comprises the steps of:

generating on a mobile electronic device a restoration package; and

executing on the mobile electronic device the restoration package.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the first and second default selections are the some.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the first and second default selections are different.