Method and device arrangement for managing a user application/device management server/client device environment

• US 8,037,160 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2006
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capricode Oy
• Original Assignee: Capricode Oy
• Inventors: Oikarinen, Jarkko, Koskela, Lasse
• Primary Examiner(s): Hwang, Joon H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mesa, Joel
• Application Number:
  US11/484,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20070038699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,918 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/220
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/045 comprising client-server management architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and data transfer arrangement for executing consecutive instructions in a client device (21) in a mobile user application—device management server—client device environment (23, 22, 21). The invention also relates to an instruction execution module utilized in the implementation of the method. In the procedure according to the invention, the user application (23) forms the instructions to be executed in the client device (21) into an instruction sequence (200), which is transmitted to the device management server (22) controlling the client device (21). The instruction execution module in the device management server breaks up the instruction sequence into command sequences and control structures. The command sequences are executed in the client device (21). The conditional commands belonging to the instruction sequence, specified by the control structures, are executed by the instruction execution module individually, without the help of the user application. The device management server sends a message describing the success of the execution of the instruction sequence to the user application.

Claims

1. A device management method for changing a data structure in a separate wireless mobile client device by executing consecutive instructions in the wireless mobile client device, the method comprising:

forming at least one device management instruction sequence by a user application residing in a second electronic device, wherein the device management instruction sequence comprises;

command sequences including single commands, and;

control structures including conditional commands to be executed in the mobile client device;

transmitting the formed device management instruction sequence from the user application residing in the second electronic device to a device management server residing in a third electronic device; and

executing the command sequences and control structures of the device management instruction sequence by remote control of the device management server in the separate wireless mobile client device for changing the data structure in the wireless mobile client device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

directing the separate mobile client device to execute the instructions belonging to the device management instruction sequence one instruction at a time by an instruction execution module of the device management server, and;

sending a message describing the success of the execution of the device management instruction sequence from the instruction execution module of the device management server to the user application.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the transmitting includes the user application transmitting the device management instruction sequence as one entity to the device management server.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said device management instruction sequence comprises at least one control structure, which includes one or more of the following conditional commands:

IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein said device management instruction sequence comprises at least one control structure, which includes one or more of the following conditional commands:

IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said device management instruction sequence comprises at least one control structure, which includes one or more of the following conditional commands:

IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL.

7. A wireless device management arrangement comprising:

wireless mobile client devices;

a second electronic device comprising a user application; and

a third electronic device comprising a device management server that includes a processor unit;

in which wireless device management arrangement for executing device management instructions in a separate mobile client device;

the user application residing in the second electronic device is configured to;

form at least one device management instruction sequence, the device management instruction sequence comprising;

command sequences with single commands; and

control structures containing conditional commands; and

transmit the formed device management instruction sequence to the device management server residing in the third electronic device; and

the device management server device is configured to control execution of said device management instruction sequence in a processor unit of the separate wireless mobile client device for changing the data structure in the separate mobile client device.

8. The device management arrangement according to claim 7, wherein:

the device management instruction sequence is configured to be transmitted from the user application to the device management server;

an instruction execution module of the device management server is configured to control the execution of the device management instruction sequence in the mobile client device one instruction at a time, and;

the instruction execution module of the device management server is configured to send a message describing the success of the execution of the device management instructions to the user application.

9. The device management arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the user application is configured to transmit the device management instruction sequence as one entity to the device management server.

10. The device management arrangement according to claim 9, wherein said device management instruction sequence comprises at least one control structure, which contains one or more of the following conditional commands:

IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL.

11. The device management arrangement according to claim 8, wherein said device management instruction sequence comprises at least one control structure, which contains one or more of the following conditional commands:

IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL.

12. The device management arrangement according to claim 7, wherein said device management instruction sequence comprises at least one control structure, which contains one or more of the following conditional commands:

IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL.

13. A device management server comprising a processor unit and an instruction execution module which comprises:

means for receiving a device management instruction sequence transmitted by a user application residing in a second electronic device for changing a data structure in a separate wireless mobile client device;

means for breaking up the device management instruction sequence into single instructions, which are either command sequences or control structures;

means for controlling the execution of the command sequences in the separate wireless mobile client device;

means for executing the control structures in the processor unit of the device management server;

means for drawing up a message describing the success of the execution of the device management instruction sequence, and

means for sending a message describing the success to the user application residing in the second electronic device.

14. The device management server according to claim 13, which further comprises means for executing conditional commands IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL belonging to the control structures, if the conditional commands are included in the device management instruction sequence transmitted by the user application.

15. The device management server according to claim 13, where the processor unit is configured to execute a set of instructions comprising:

a receiving code segment for receiving a device management instruction sequence transmitted by a user application residing in the second electronic device;

a breaking up code segment for breaking up the device management instruction sequence into single instructions, which are either command sequences or control structures;

a controlling code segment for controlling the execution of the command sequence in a separate wireless mobile client device;

an executing code segment for executing the control structures in a processor unit of the device management server;

a drawing up code segment for drawing up a message describing the success of the execution of the device management instruction sequence, and;

a sending code segment for sending a message describing the success to the user application.

16. The device management server according to claim 15, where the processor unit is further configured to execute a second executing code segment of the conditional commands IF, THEN, ELSE, WHILE, DO-UNTIL, FOREACH or CALL belonging to the control structures, if they the conditional commands are included in the device management instruction sequence transmitted by the user application.