Updating system and method of portable executable programs

• US 20100050166A1
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Xu, Jenny, Chiu, Chaucer
• Application Number:
  US12/230,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20100050166A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

An update system of a portable executable program and the method thereof are provided. By verifying a vendor identification code and machine identification code and checking information of the portable executable program, the system can update the portable executable program in a portable storage device. This solves the inconvenience problem in updating a portable executable program in a portable storage device that requires repeated registrations. Using the system and method, the portable executable program in a portable storage device can be updated without involving repeated registrations.

Claims

1. An updating system of a portable executable program stored in a portable storage device to be loaded into and run on a computer executable platform, comprising:

a server, which includes;

a receiving module, which receives a vendor identification code, a machine identification code, and portable executable program information;

a comparing module, which compares the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information with data in a identification database; and

a transmitting module, which transmits update information when the comparison of the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information is successful; and

a client, which includes;

a data reading module, which reads the vendor identification code and the machine identification code of the portable storage device from the hardware information of the portable storage device and reads the portable executable program information;

a connecting module, which connects to the server, transmits the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information to the server, and receives the update information from the server; and

an updating module, which updates the update information to the portable executable program.

2. The update system of claim 1, wherein the portable executable program information includes a portable executable program product code, a portable executable program version serial number, and a portable executable program version language.

3. The update system of claim 1, wherein the update information includes an update program and update data for the portable executable program.

4. The update system of claim 1, wherein the transmitting module sends terminating information when the comparison of the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information fails, the connecting module receives the terminating information, and the updating module includes an update termination procedure following the terminating information.

5. An updating method of a portable executable program stored in a portable storage device to be loaded into and run on a computer executable platform, comprising the steps of:

reading a vendor identification code and a machine identification code of the portable storage device from the hardware information thereof using the portable executable program at a client and reading portable executable program information of the portable executable program;

connecting the client to a server and transmitting the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information to the server;

receiving the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information by the server;

comparing the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information with data in an identification database using the server;

sending update information from the server to the client when the comparison of the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information is successful;

receiving the update information from the server at the client; and

updating the update information to the portable executable program at the client.

6. The updating method of claim 5, wherein the portable executable program information includes a portable executable program product code, a portable executable program version serial number, and a portable executable program version language.

7. The updating method of claim 5, wherein the update information includes an update program and update data for the portable executable program.

8. The updating method of claim 5 further comprising the steps of:

sending terminating information when the comparison of the vendor identification code, the machine identification code, and the portable executable program information fails;

receiving the terminating information from the server by the client; and

terminating the update procedure at the client following the terminating information.