Apparatus and method for managing application in incorporated equipment

• US 8,015,560 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2005
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Fujisawa, Kunimasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen; Wei
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coyer; Ryan D
• Application Number:
  US11/229,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20060041563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,177 Days
• Field of Search: 717120-121, 717168-178, 713 1- 2, 713/100, 709208-211, 709220-223
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

The invention provides a process for managing an application operating on a virtual machine. In the invention, information regarding a program file of the application is stored in an internal storing device of a managing apparatus. The program file is stored in an external storing device, and positional information indicating a position in the external storing device at which the program file is stored is registered in the internal storing device when the program file of the application is received from a client via a network.

Claims

1. An application managing apparatus that manages an application operating on a virtual machine, comprising:

first receiving means for receiving a program file of an application, an installation instruction to install the program file of the application, and a name of the application, from a client via a network;

install means for installing the program file received by said first receiving means in an external storing device;

path registration means for registering, in an internal storing means, path information indicating a path to access the program file installed in said external storing device in correspondence with the name of the application;

second receiving means for receiving a start instruction with a name of an application from the client via the network;

generation means for generating a loader for loading a program file of an application corresponding to the name of the application received with the start instruction;

application starting means for starting the application corresponding to the name of the application received with the start instruction by loading the program file from said external storing device by the loader generated in correspondence with the received name using the path information registered in correspondence with the name of the application;

loader registration means for registering the generated loader in the internal storing means; and

deletion means for deleting a loader corresponding to an inactive application from the internal storing means.

2. An application managing method for managing an application operating on a virtual machine, comprising:

a first receiving step of receiving a program file of an application, an installation instruction to install the program file of the application, and a name of the application, from a client via a network;

an installing step of installing the program file received in said first receiving step, in an external storing device;

a path registration control step of registering, in an internal storing means, path information indicating a path to access the program file installed in the external storing device in correspondence with the name of the application;

a second receiving step for receiving a start instruction with a name of an application from the client via the network;

a generation step of generating a loader for loading a program file of an application corresponding to the name of the application received with the start instruction;

an application starting step for starting the application corresponding to the name of the application received with the start instruction by loading the program file from said external storing device by the loader generated in correspondence with the received name using the path information registered in correspondence with the name of the application;

a loader registration step of registering the generated loader in the internal storing means; and

a deletion step of deleting a loader corresponding to an inactive application from the internal storing means.

3. A computer readable storage medium on which is stored computer executable code of an application management program for managing an application operating on a virtual machine, the computer executable code comprising code for performing:

a first receiving step of receiving a program file of an application, an installation instruction to install the program file of the application, from a client via a network;

an installing step of installing the program file received in said first receiving step, in an external storing device;

a path registration step of registering, in an internal storing means, path information indicating a path to access the program file installed in the external storing device in correspondence with the name of the application;

a second receiving step for receiving a start instruction with a name of an application from the client via the network;

a generation step of generating a loader for loading a program file of an application corresponding to the name of the application received with the start instruction;

an application starting step for starting the application corresponding to the name of the application received with the start instruction by loading the program file from said external storing device by the loader generated in correspondence with the received name using the path information registered in correspondence with the name of the application;

a loader registration step of registering the generated loader in the internal storing means; and

a deletion step of deleting a loader corresponding to an inactive application from the internal storing means.