APPARATUS TO MANAGE BINDING INFORMATION ON BUNDLES REMOTELY INSTALLED INTO AN OSGi SERVICE PLATFORM AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090282400A1
• Filed: 05/06/2009
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Jung, Dong-shin, Sreekanth, Siddapur Channakeshava
• Granted Patent: US 8,375,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/174
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5058 Service discovery by the service manager
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

An apparatus to generate and manage binding information that is used to map a bundle remotely installed into an open service gateway initiative (OSGi) framework, to at least one controller device that is interested in a change of a life cycle of the bundle, by using a controlled device, in which an OSGi service platform is installed.

Claims

1. A method of managing a bundle that is remotely installed by a controller device, the method executed by an open service gateway initiative (OSGi)-based controlled device, the method comprising:

in response to a service event indicating that a predetermined service that is provided by the bundle is registered in an OSGi service registry occurring, generating binding information that is used to map the bundle to the controller device, by using the service; and

notifying an event on a change of a life cycle of the bundle to the controller device by using the generated binding information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the binding information comprises adding an identifier of the controller device to a bundle property of the bundle by using the service.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising, in response to uninstallation of the bundle being requested by the controller device, storing the identifier in a region which is not deleted even though the bundle is uninstalled, wherein the notifying of the event comprises, in response to a bundle event indicating that the bundle has been uninstalled occurring, notifying the bundle event to the controller device by referring to the stored identifier.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising, in response to an event unsubscription request on the bundle being received from the controller device, deleting the identifier from the bundle property by using the service.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

in response to detecting that the controller device is disconnected from the network, retrieving bundles comprising the identifier in the bundle property, among bundles of the OSGi framework; and

deleting the identifier from bundle properties of the retrieved bundles by using predetermined services that are provided by the retrieved bundles.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating of the binding information comprises, in response to an identifier of other controller devices being included in an action invocation message or an event subscription request message received from the controller device, together with the identifier of the controller device, adding the identifiers to the bundle property by using the service.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the identifier is a universal resource identifier (URI) of the controller device.

8. An apparatus to manage a bundle that is remotely installed by a controller device, wherein the apparatus is an open service gateway initiative (OSGi)-based controlled device, comprising:

a binding information management unit generating binding information that is used to map the bundle to the controller device, by using a predetermined service in response to a service event indicating that the service that is provided by the bundle is registered in an OSGi service registry occurring; and

an event notification unit notifying an event on a change of a life cycle of the bundle to the controller device by using the generated binding information.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the binding information management unit adds an identifier of the controller device to a bundle property of the bundle by using the service.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a binding information backup unit to store the identifier in a region which is not deleted even though the bundle is uninstalled in response to uninstallation of the bundle being requested by the controller device, wherein the event notification unit notifies the bundle event to the controller device by referring to the stored identifier in response to a bundle event indicating that the bundle has been uninstalled occurring.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the binding information management unit deletes the identifier from the bundle property by using the service in response to an event unsubscription request on the bundle being received from the controller device.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a retrieval unit to retrieve the bundle comprising the identifier in the bundle property, among bundles of the OSGi framework, in response to detecting that the controller device is disconnected from the network, wherein the binding information management unit deletes the identifier from bundle properties of the retrieved bundles by using predetermined services that are provided by the retrieved bundles.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the binding information management unit adds the identifiers to the bundle property by using the service in response to an identifier of other controller devices being included in an action invocation message or an event subscription request message received from the controller device, together with the identifier of the controller device.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the identifier is a universal resource identifier (URI) of the controller device.

15. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program to perform a bundle management method executed by an open service gateway initiative (OSGi)-based controlled device, comprising instructions to cause a computer to:

in response to a service event indicating that a predetermined service that is provided by the bundle is registered in an OSGi service registry occurring, generate binding information that is used to map the bundle to the controller device, by using the service; and

notify an event on a change of a life cycle of the bundle to the controller device by using the generated binding information.