Remote start system, remote start server and communication terminal

• US 7,774,423 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2007
• Issued: 08/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Takashi, Fujimoto, Hiroshi, Kinno, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Osman; Ramy M
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCLEOD, MARSHALL M
• Application Number:
  US11/956,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20080155022A1
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/208, 709/209, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/208
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC

Abstract

An object of the invention is to allow a program execution domain to be specified and then a start target program to be started by the specified program execution domain. Disclosed is a remote start system including a communication terminal capable of switching multiple program execution domains from one to another, and a remote start server instructing, via a network, the communication terminal to start a start target program. In the remote server, generated is a switching program start message for requesting the communication terminal to start a switching program that switches a program execution domain to a specific program execution domain for executing the start target program. The switching program start message includes a switching program ID, a parameter for starting the switching program, and a parameter for starting the start target program. The parameter for starting the switching program includes the start target program ID and domain ID.

Claims

1. A remote start system comprising:

a communication terminal capable of switching a plurality of program execution domains from one to another; and

a remote start server configured to instruct, via a network, the communication terminal to start a start target program, wherein

the remote start server includes a generator configured to generate a first start message for requesting the communication terminal to start a switching program that switches a program execution domain to a specific program execution domain for executing the start target program,

the first start message includes,

a wireless datagram protocol (WDP) header,

a wireless session protocol (WSP) header having a first program identifier for identifying the switching program,

a wireless application protocol (WAP) message having a first program starting parameter used by the switching program, and

a second program starting parameter used by the start target program, the first program starting parameter including a second program identifier for identifying the start target program, a domain identifier for identifying the specific program execution domain to thereby switch the communication terminal to the specific program execution domain, and flags associated with a compression processing of the first and second program starting parameters, and

each of the program execution domains of the communication terminal includes,

a reconstructing unit configured to execute the switching program on the basis of the first start message in a case where the first start message is received, and then to reconstruct a second start message, separate from the first message, for requesting the specific program execution domain to start the start target program by extracting the second program identifier from the first program starting parameter in the WAP message; and

a starting unit configured to start the execution target program on the basis of the second start message in a case where the second start message is received, the second start message including the second program identifier, and the second program starting parameter.

2. A remote start server configured to instruct, via a network, a communication terminal capable of switching a plurality of program execution domains from one to another to start a start target program, the remote start server comprising:

a generator configured to generate a first start message for requesting the communication terminal to start a switching program that switches a program execution domain to a specific program execution domain for executing the start target program, wherein

the first start message includes,

a wireless datagram protocol (WDP) header,

a wireless session protocol (WSP) header having a first program identifier for identifying the switching program,

a wireless application protocol (WAP) message having a first program starting parameter used by the switching program, and

a second program starting parameter used by the start target program, the first program starting parameter including a second program identifier for identifying the start target program, a domain identifier for identifying the specific program execution domain to thereby switch the communication terminal to the specific program execution domain, and flags associated with a compression processing of the first and second program starting parameters.

3. The remote start server according to claim 2, wherein

the first program starting parameter includes a compression flag indicating whether or not the second program starting parameter has been subjected to compression processing, and

the generator performs compression processing for the second program starting parameter and sets the value of the compression flag to indicate that the parameter has been subjected to the compression processing, in a case where the data length of the second program starting parameter is greater than a specified value.

4. The remote start server according to claim 3, wherein the generator controls the compression processing in accordance with the second program identifier.

5. The remote start server according to claim 2, wherein

the generator stores, in the first start message, location information indicating the location, on the network, of the second program starting parameter as the second program starting parameter, and also stores, in the first program starting parameter, information indicating that the second program starting parameter is the location information.

6. The remote start server according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein

the first start message is transmitted to the communication terminal via a message transmission server that transmits a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) Push message, and

the generator notifies the message transmission server of a terminal identifier for identifying the communication terminal, the first program identifier, the first program starting parameter, and the second program starting parameter.

7. A communication terminal including a plurality of program execution domains and being instructed by a remote control server, via a network, to start a start target program, communication terminal comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a first start message for requesting the communication terminal to start a switching program that switches a program execution domain to a specific program execution domain for executing the start target program, wherein the first start message includes,

a wireless datagram protocol (WDP) header,

a wireless session protocol (WSP) header having a first program identifier for identifying the switching program,

a wireless application protocol (WAP) message having a first program starting parameter used by the switching program, and

a second program starting parameter used by the start target program, the first program starting parameter including a second program identifier for identifying the start target program, a domain identifier for identifying the specific program execution domain to thereby switch the communication terminal to the specific program execution domain, and flags associated with a compression processing of the first and second program starting parameter, and

each of the program execution domains of the communication terminal includes,

a reconstructing unit configured to execute the switching program on the basis of the first start message in a case where the first start message is received, and then to reconstruct a second start message, separate from the first message, for requesting the specific program execution domain to start the start target program by extracting the second program identifier from the first program starting parameter in the WAP message; and

a starting unit configured to start the execution target program on the basis of the second start message in a case where the second start message is received, the second start message including the second program identifier, and the second program starting parameter.

8. The communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein

the first program starting parameter includes a compression flag indicating whether or not the second program starting parameter has been subjected to compression processing, and

the reconstructing unit reconstructs the second start message after performing decompression processing for the second program starting parameter, in a case where the compression flag indicates that the second program starting parameter has been subjected to the compression processing.

9. The communication terminal according to claim 8, wherein the reconstructing unit controls the decompression processing in accordance with the second program identifier.

10. The communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein

the first start message stores, in the first start message, location information indicating the location, on the network, of the second program starting parameter as the second program starting parameter, and also stores, in the first program starting parameter, information indicating that the second program starting parameter is the location information, and

the reconstructing unit obtains an actual parameter on the basis of the location information in a case where the information indicating that the second program starting parameter is the location information is stored in the first start message, and reconstructs the second start message from the obtained actual parameter and the second program identifier.

11. The communication terminal according to any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein

each of the program execution domains further includes a receiver configured to receive the first start message by use of a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) Push message,

the first program identifier is stored in the message header of the WAP Push message, and

the first program starting parameter and the second program starting parameter are stored in the main message content of the WAP Push message.