METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTEGRATED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

• US 20100287552A1
• Filed: 12/05/2008
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kang, Sung Joo, Ku, Kyoung I, Choi, Wan, Chung, Moon Young, Kim, Won Young
• Application Number:
  US12/808,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20100287552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing integrated application management, and more particularly, to a method which can provide a convenient usage environment by integrately managing various types of contents and application programs. To achieve these, the method for providing integrated application management using an integrated application service module and a plurality of execution/management engines includes: integratedly managing a plurality of applications driven in different application deployments, and providing a single user interface irrespective of the application deployments; and executing at least one of the applications. The present invention enables various types of application driven in different application deployment to be integratedly executed and managed by a single common interface in a same manner irrespective of each application deployment.

Claims

1. A method for providing integrated application management using an integrated application service module and a plurality of execution/management engines, the method comprising:

integratedly managing a plurality of applications driven in different application deployments

providing a single user interface irrespective of the application deployments; and

executing at least one of the applications.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing of the applications comprises:

managing, by the an integrated application service module, a list of the application available in a computer, and controlling overall operations for the available application execution;

collecting, by the execution/management engines, information of the applications, and executing the applications and interworking the integrated application service module with the execution/management engines.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein in the collecting of the information and the executing of the applications, the respective execution/management engines drive the applications in the different application deployments.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the executing of the applications comprises at least one of:

driving an application based on a host;

driving an application based on the Web;

driving an application in a streaming manner;

driving an application based on a server; and

driving a non-installation package application.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing relationship information between at least one application driven by the execution/management engines and contents accessible by the applications.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding a corresponding linkage module and a corresponding execution engine, which service an application driven in a new application deployment, using service addition script.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing information of each application and its alternative application.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising executing an alternative application capable of executing specific contents on the basis of the stored information when a requested application is not available upon request of contents execution.

9. A method for providing intergrated application management for a plurality of applications driven in different application deployments, the method comprising:

receiving information of the applications capable of being executed in a computer;

receiving the execution command of a specific application through a single user interface;

confirming an availability of the specific application;

determining the execution application from the specific application and its alternative application in accordance with a result of the confirmation

selecting a corresponding execution engine pertinent to the determined execution application and

executing the determined application via the use of the selected execution engine.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining of the execution application comprises:

determining the specific application as the execution application, when the specific application is availed; and

selecting the alternative application as the execution application, when the specific application is not available.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the selecting of the alternative application includes:

providing the alternative application to a user through user interface and receiving user'"'"'s selection command.