METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING APPLICATION PACKAGES BASED ON USER DEMANDS

• US 20090138876A1
• Filed: 11/22/2007
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hsuan-Yeh Chang
• Original Assignee: Hsuan-Yeh Chang
• Inventors: Chang, Hsuan-Yeh
• Application Number:
  US11/944,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20090138876A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/176
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1015 to users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/121 Restricting unauthorised execution of programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/22 Payment schemes or models
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/20 Network management software packages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A method and a system are provided for delivering on-demand software packages. In one aspect, the method may include subscribing services of a service provider operating a server, the server including an operating system and several application packages installed therein, initiating a client terminal by performing a network booting process using the operating system installed in the server, and executing in the client terminal a subscribed application package installed in the server using resources of the operating system resident in the client terminal. The method may further include charging the user a fee according to the application packages and the operating system subscribed by the user.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

subscribing services of a service provider operating a server, the server including an operating system and a plurality of application packages installed therein;

initiating a client terminal by performing a network booting process using the operating system installed in the server; and

executing in the client terminal a subscribed application package installed in the server using resources of the operating system resident in the client terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the services comprise licenses to use the operating system and the application packages installed in the server.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the services comprise rights to use a storage unit of the server for storing user data in the storage unit.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising saving, into the storage unit, a data file generated from executing the subscribed application package.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising retrieving, from the storage unit, a data file previously generated in the executed subscribed application package.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the services comprise output services.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising outputting the data file through an output unit of the server.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising backing up the storage unit by storing the user data into a recording medium.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the network booting process comprises:

associating the client terminal with a communication network via an access point to communicate with the server of the service provider; and

initiating the client terminal using the operating system installed in the server, the operating system being subscribed by a user of the client terminal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the access point comprises a wireless access point.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the communication network comprises a wireless communication network or an intranet.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing to the client terminal a list of application packages installed in the server, the list including application packages subscribed by a user; and

selecting from the list an application package to be executed on the client terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising updating the list of application packages by subscribing an additional application package or by unsubscribing a currently subscribed application package.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising charging the user a fee according to the list of application packages the user subscribed and according to the operating system the user subscribed.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein charging the user comprises periodically billing the user.

16. A method, comprising:

initiating a client terminal using an operating system installed in a server, the client terminal accessing the server through a communication network via an access point;

providing to the client terminal a list of subscribed application packages, the subscribed application packages being installed in the server;

selecting an application package from the list;

executing the selected application package on the client terminal using resources of the operating system resident in the client terminal; and

charging the user of the client terminal a fee by the service provider according to the list of application packages the user subscribed.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising updating the list of application packages by subscribing an additional application package or by unsubscribing a currently subscribed application package.

18. A system, comprising:

means for initiating a client terminal using an operating system installed in a server, the client terminal accessing the server through a communication network via an access point;

means for providing to the client terminal a list of subscribed application packages, the subscribed application packages being installed in the server;

means for selecting an application package from the list;

means for executing the selected application package on the client terminal using resources of the operating system resident in the client terminal; and

means for charging the user of the client terminal a fee by the service provider according to the list of application packages the user subscribed.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising means for updating the list of application packages by subscribing an additional application package or by unsubscribing a currently subscribed application package.