METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING APPLICATION

• US 20140358998A1
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: PARK, Ho-yeon
• Granted Patent: US 10,073,688 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/509 Offload
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/549 Remote execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method of executing, by a terminal, an application that is provided from an application server. The method includes operations of receiving, from the application server, execution environment information about the application; determining whether to execute a virtual application, by referring to the execution environment information; displaying an interface so as to request a virtualization server that performs application virtualization for virtualization, based on a result of the determining; and requesting the virtualization server for virtualization of the application, based on a user input via the interface.

Claims

1. A method of executing, by a terminal, an application that is provided from an application server, the method comprising:

receiving, from the application server, execution environment information about the application;

determining whether to execute a virtual application based on the execution environment information;

displaying an interface so as to request virtualization of the application to a virtualization server that performs application virtualization, based on a result of the determining; and

requesting the virtualization server for virtualization of the application, based on a user input via the interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the virtualization server, data that configures an execution result screen of the application that is executed in the virtualization server; and

rendering the execution result screen by using the data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, when it is determined that the terminal is not capable of executing the application, the terminal displays the interface so as to request virtualization of the application to the virtualization server, when it is determined that the terminal is capable of executing the application, the terminal downloads the application from the application server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining includes determining whether the terminal is capable of executing the application, based on whether a resource of the terminal is sufficient for execution of the application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining includes determining whether the terminal is capable of executing the application, based on at least one of a resource of the terminal for execution of the virtual application, and a network status for communication with the virtualization server.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program to execute the method of claim 1.

7. A method of virtualizing an application, the method comprising:

receiving, by a virtualization server which performs application virtualization, an application virtualization request message from a terminal;

determining whether to provide an application virtualization service to the terminal based on the application virtualization request message; and

performing virtualization on the application that is indicated by the application virtualization request message, based on the determining.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the performing of the virtualization includes:

executing the application, by the virtualization server; and

transmitting, to the terminal, data that configures an execution result screen of the application.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the application virtualization request message includes at least one of application information, application server information, terminal information, and terminal user information.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising setting a virtual machine for application execution, based on the application virtualization request message that is received from the terminal.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the performing of the virtualization further includes:

determining whether an application is already downloaded to the virtualization server;

and downloading the application from an application server, based on a result of the determining whether the application is already downloaded.

12. A terminal that executes an application provided by an application server, the terminal comprising:

a communication unit to communicate with a network;

a virtual execution determining unit to determine whether to execute a virtual application based on execution environment information with respect to an application that is received from the application server via the communication unit;

a display unit to display an interface so as to request virtualization of the application to a virtualization server that performs application virtualization, based on a result of the determining; and

a virtualization executing unit to request the virtualization server for virtualization of the application, based on a user input via the interface.

13. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the virtualization executing unit receives, from the virtualization server, data that configures an execution result screen of the application that is executed in the virtualization server, and renders the execution result screen by using the data.

14. The terminal of claim 12, wherein, when it is determined that the terminal is not capable of executing the application, the virtualization executing unit executes requests the virtualization of the application to the virtualization server, and

when it is determined that the terminal is capable of executing the application, the terminal downloads the application from the application server and executes the application.

15. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the determining includes determining whether the terminal is capable of executing the application, based on whether the terminal includes a platform in which the application is driven, and hardware or software to drive the application.

16. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the determining involves determining whether the terminal is capable of executing the application, based on whether a resource of the terminal is sufficient for execution of the application.

17. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the determining involves determining whether the terminal is capable of executing the application, based on at least one of a resource of the terminal for execution of the virtual application, and a network status for communication with the virtualization server.

18. A virtualization server comprising:

a communication unit to communicate with a network;

a virtualization determining unit to receive an application virtualization request message from a terminal via the communication unit, and to determine whether to provide an application virtualization service to the terminal, based on the application virtualization request message; and

a virtualization unit to perform virtualization on an application that is indicated by the application virtualization request message, based on the determining.

19. The virtualization server of claim 18, wherein the virtualization unit executes the application, and transmits, to the terminal, data that configures an execution result screen of the application.

20. The virtualization server of claim 18, wherein the application virtualization request message includes at least one of application information, application server information, terminal information, and terminal user information.

21. The virtualization server of claim 18, wherein the virtualization unit sets a virtual machine for application execution, based on the application virtualization request message that is received from the terminal.

22. The virtualization server of claim 18, further comprising a download unit to determine whether an application is already downloaded to the virtualization server, and downloading the application from an application server, based on a result of the determining whether the application is already downloaded.

24. A method of executing a virtual application, the method comprising:

requesting application information about an application from an application server;

transmitting the application information from the application server;

determining whether the terminal is capable of executing the application based on the application information;

when it is determined that the terminal is capable of executing the application, terminal, downloading the application from the application server to the terminal; and

when it is determined that the terminal is not capable of executing the application, transmitting an application virtualization request to a virtualization server for virtualization of the application.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the application information includes at least one of an application storage capacity, performance information of hardware and software required to execute the application, a recommended resource, an identification (ID) and uniform resource locator (URL) of the application server 100, and virtualization capability of a virtualization server.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the terminal transmits the application virtualization request to the virtualization server when the terminal receives a user input with respect to the application virtualization.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the virtualization server sets a virtual platform required to execute the application based on the application information included in the application virtualization request received from the terminal.

28. The method of claim 24, further comprising requesting, downloading and executing, by the virtualization server, the application from the application server when the application virtualization request is received in the virtualization server.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the virtualization server transmits a streaming address to the terminal so that the terminal receives a streaming content by accessing the streaming address.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the virtualization server transmits an output of the executed application to the terminal in real-time.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the terminal receives the streaming content from the virtualization server by executing the virtual application received from the virtualization server, and reproduces the streaming content.