System and method of providing contents for mobile communication terminal

• US 8,050,663 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2007
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: STD IP Holding Inc.
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: Kim, Sung-Woo, Seo, In-Wook, Back, Gap-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro, Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nair, Sowmini
• Application Number:
  US11/724,698
• Publication Number:
  US 20070162538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,691 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 709/200
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/658 Incremental updates; Differential updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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

The present invention relates to a system and a method of providing content for a mobile communication terminal, and a computer readable medium comprising a program for implementing the method. There is provided a method of: providing content for a mobile communication terminal, storing content organized into sub-content files, wherein the sub-content files comprises at least one of an executable file, a DLL file, and a resource file; generating package list data for the multi files; transmitting the package list data to the mobile communication terminal; and transmitting the sub-content files in the package list data to the mobile communication terminal, wherein a download agent program in the mobile communication terminal checks if the transmission completes. By organizing content into a plurality of sub-content files, it is advantageous to transmit the sub-content files efficiently.

Claims

1. A method of providing an individual file to the mobile communication system including a content server of providing content to the mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving package list data for content stored in the mobile communication terminal, wherein the content is organized into a plurality of individual files and the package list data comprises a content master ID and an individual file data, wherein the individual files are sub-content files associated with the content, wherein the sub-content files are classified according to file types, and wherein the file types comprise an executable file, a dynamic library link (DLL) file and a resource file;

comparing, at the content server, the individual file data in the received package list with the individual file data for the content stored in the content server, wherein the individual file data comprises individual ID, size and version data of each of the individual files, and wherein the comparing comprises comparing at least one of the sizes and individual version data of two files, having the same individual ID, stored in the content server and mobile communication terminal; and

transmitting, after the comparing, one of individual files stored in the content server having different individual file data from the file in the received package list data to the mobile communication terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the individual file data is at least one of individual file size and individual file version data.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

producing a required file list of files having different individual file data; and

transmitting the required file list to the mobile communication terminal,

wherein a download agent program in the mobile communication terminal checks if the transmission of all required files completes by using the required file list.

4. A computer readable medium containing a program consisting of instructions, executable by a digital processing device of receiving individual files of content for a mobile communication terminal from a content server, that, when executed, causes the computer to perform:

receiving latest package list data corresponding to the content stored in the mobile communication terminal from the content server, wherein the content is organized into a plurality of individual files, wherein the individual files are sub-content files associated with the content, wherein the sub-content files are classified according to file types, wherein the file types comprise an executable file, a dynamic library link (DLL) file and a resource file, and wherein the latest package list data comprises a content master ID, content unified version data, and individual file data;

comparing the individual file data in the latest package list data with the individual file data for the content stored in the mobile communication terminal, wherein the individual file data comprises individual ID, size and version data of each of the individual files, and wherein the comparing comprises comparing at least one of the sizes and individual version data of two files, having the same individual ID, stored in the content server and mobile communication terminal; and

requesting for download of files among a plurality of individual files in the latest package list data having different individual file data from the file in the mobile communication terminal to the content server, wherein the comparing is performed before the requesting of the download.

5. A computer readable medium containing a program consisting of instructions, executable by a digital processing device of receiving extension pack files corresponding to basic packs of content pre-stored in a mobile communication terminal from a content server, that, when executed, causes the computer to perform:

receiving extension pack package list data corresponding to the extension pack content from the content server, wherein the content is organized into a plurality of individual files, wherein the individual files are sub-content files associated with the content, wherein the sub-content files are classified according to file types, wherein the file types comprise an executable file, a dynamic library link (DLL) file and a resource file, and wherein the extension pack package list data comprises a content master ID, content unified version data and individual file data;

comparing individual file data in the extension pack package list data with individual file data for the content pre-stored in the mobile communication terminal, wherein the individual file data comprises individual ID, size and version data of each of the individual files, and wherein the comparing comprises comparing at least one of the sizes and individual version data of two files, having the same individual ID, stored in the content server and mobile communication terminal; and

requesting for download of files among a plurality of individual files in the extension pack package list data having different individual file data from the file corresponding to the basic packs, wherein the comparing is performed before the requesting of the download.