Method, system, terminal and device management server for installing software components

• US 8,261,262 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2009
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Cui, Shouling, Chai, Xiaoqian, Tian, Linyi, Li, Kepeng
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bui, Hanh T
• Application Number:
  US12/498,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271781A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1433 during software upgrading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/12 Protecting executable software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• 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: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A method, system, and apparatus for installing software components are provided. The method includes a terminal which receives a software component package delivered by a Device Management (DM) server directly or a download address of the component package and a command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, where the software component package contains more than one software component; if the terminal receives the download address and the command instructing to download, the terminal downloads the software component package from the download address; the terminal installs the obtained software component package locally and generates management nodes and subnodes of the management nodes corresponding to the software components under a Deployed subtree of the Software Component Management Object (SCOMO) of the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for installing software components, comprising:

receiving, by a terminal, a software component package directly delivered by a Device Management (DM) server or a download address of the software component package and a command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, wherein the software component package contains one or more software components;

downloading, by the terminal, the software component package according to the download address if the terminal receives the download address and the command instructing to download; and

installing, by the terminal, the obtained software component package locally and generating management nodes corresponding to the software components as well as subnodes of the management nodes under a Deployed subtree of a Software Component Management Object (SCOMO),

wherein if the command instructing to download is DownLoadInstall or DownLoadInstallInactive and the terminal downloads the software component package successfully but fails to install the software component package, the method further comprises;

generating, by the terminal, a management node corresponding to the software component package and subnodes of the management node under a Delivered subtree in the SCOMO; and

assigning, by the terminal, access control rights to the management node and the subnodes of the management node,

wherein before the DM server delivers the command instructing to download, the method further comprises generating a management node for the software component package under a Download subtree of the SCOMO, and

wherein assigning access control rights to the management node under the Delivered subtree comprises one of following modes;

assigning access control rights of the management node generated under the Download subtree to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree;

setting access control rights of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree to null so that the management node inherits access control rights of its parent node;

assigning specific access control rights to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree; and

combining access control rights of the management node generated under the Download subtree and access control rights of the parent node of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree, and assigning the combined access control rights to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein assigning access control rights to subnodes of the management node under the Delivered subtree comprises at least one of following modes:

letting the subnodes of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree inherit access control rights of the management node, and assigning access control rights of executable nodes under the Download subtree to executable nodes under the management node generated under the Delivered subtree.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

delivering, by the DM server, parameters to the terminal; and

downloading, by the terminal, the software component package, installing, by the terminal, the software component package, removing, by the terminal, the software component package, activating, by the terminal, the software components, deactivating, by the terminal, the software components or removing, by the terminal, the software components, according to the parameters,

wherein delivering the parameters to the terminal comprises delivering, by the DM server, the parameters to a subnode after the subnode is added under the SCOMO tree of the terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating management nodes corresponding to the software components as well as subnodes of the management nodes under a Deployed subtree of the SCOMO comprises:

obtaining, by the terminal, an ID of one software component and assigning the ID to a value of an ID subnode of the management node corresponding to the software component under the Deployed subtree of the SCOMO,

wherein the ID of the software component is provided by a network and delivered to the terminal as a part of the software component package or delivered to the terminal independently of the software component package.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein after installing the software component package and before generating management nodes corresponding to the software components as well as subnodes of the management nodes, the method further comprises judging whether one software component in the software component package is identical with a software component corresponding to a management node and subnodes of the management node already existing under the Deployed subtree, and if so, modifying information of the management node and the subnodes already existing under the Deployed subtree to information of the software component in the software component package, or else, generating a management node and subnodes of the management node corresponding to the software component in the software component package under the Deployed subtree.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein after modifying information of the management node and the subnodes already existing under the Deployed subtree to information of the software component in the software component package if it is judged that one software component in the software component package is identical with a software component corresponding to a management node and subnodes of the management node already existing under the Deployed subtree, the method further comprises assigning a combination of access control rights of the management node generated for the software component package under the Delivered or Download subtree and access control rights of the management node already existing under the Deployed subtree to the management node generated under the Deployed subtree.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein after generating management nodes corresponding to the software components as well as subnodes of the management nodes under a Deployed subtree of the SCOMO, the method further comprises assigning access control rights to the management nodes and the subnodes of the management nodes.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein assigning access control rights to the management nodes comprises one of following modes:

assigning access control rights of the management node corresponding to the software component package generated under the Delivered or Download subtree to the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree;

setting access control rights of the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree to null so that the management nodes inherit access control rights of their parent nodes;

assigning specific access control rights to the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree; and

combining access control rights of the management node generated under the Delivered or Download subtree and access control rights of the parent nodes of the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree and assigning the combined access control rights to the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein assigning access control rights to subnodes of the management nodes comprises letting the subnodes of the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree inherit access control rights of the management nodes, and/or assigning access control rights of executable nodes under the Delivered or Download subtree to executable nodes of the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein after generating management nodes corresponding to the software components as well as subnodes of the management nodes under the Deployed subtree of the SCOMO, the method further comprises:

reporting, by the terminal, an installation response message to the DM server, wherein the installation response message comprises;

Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) of the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree;

wherein if the terminal generates a management node corresponding to the software component package under the Delivered subtree of the SCOMO, the installation response message further comprises the URI of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree; and

wherein if the command instructing to download is DownLoad, after download is complete and before the software component package is installed, or if the command instructing to download is DownLoadInstall or DownLoadInstallInactive, when download is complete but installation fails, the method further comprises reporting, by the terminal, a download response message to the DM server, and

wherein the download response message comprises, comprises the URI of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the download response message and the installation response message are reported in a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode, and wherein if the synchronous reporting mode is applied, the URI in the download response message or the installation response message is carried in an ITEM element of a STATUS command.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the download response message further comprises a name and/or an identifier (ID) of the software component package, and wherein the installation response message further comprises the names and/or the IDs of the software components.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein after generating a management node for the software component package under the Delivered subtree of the SCOMO and adding a subnode under the management node for recording a state of the software component package, the method further comprises updating, by the terminal, a state value of the software component package recorded in the subnode when the state of the software component package changes.

14. A terminal having at least a processor executing instructions, comprising:

a receiving unit, adapted to receive a software component package delivered by a Device Management (DM) server or a download address of the software component package and a command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, wherein the software component package contains more than one software component;

a downloading unit, adapted to download the software component package according to the download address if the terminal receives the download address and the command instructing to download; and

an installing unit, adapted to install the obtained software component package locally and generate management nodes corresponding to the software components as well as subnodes of the management nodes under a Deployed subtree of a Software Component Management Object (SCOMO),

wherein if the command instructing to download is DownLoadInstall or DownLoadInstallInactive and the terminal downloads the software component package successfully but fails to install the software component package, the terminal further comprises;

a first generating unit, adapted to generate a management node and subnodes of the management node corresponding to the software component package under a Delivered subtree; and

a first right assigning unit, adapted to assign access control rights to the management node and the subnodes of the management node,

wherein the receiving unit is further adapted to generate a management node for the software component package under the Download subtree, and

wherein the first right assigning unit is further adapted to assign access control rights of the management node generated under the Download subtree to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree, set access control rights of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree to null so that the management node inherits access control rights of its parent node, assign specific access control rights to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree, or combine access control rights of the management node generated under the Download subtree and access control rights of the parent node of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree and assign the combined access control rights to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree.

15. The terminal of claim 14, further comprising a second right assigning unit, adapted to assign access control rights to the management nodes and the subnodes of the management nodes after the management nodes and the subnodes of the management nodes corresponding to the components are generated under the Deployed subtree.

16. The terminal of claim 14, further comprising a reporting unit, adapted to:

report an installation response message to the DM server after the management nodes corresponding to the software components are generated under the Deployed subtree of the SCOMO, wherein the installation response message comprises Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) of the management nodes generated under the Deployed subtree; and

report a download response message to the DM server if the command instructing to download is DownLoad, after download is complete and before the software component package is installed, or if the command instructing to download is DownLoadInstall or DownLoadInstallInactive, when download is complete but installation fails,

wherein the download response message comprises;

the URI of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree.

17. A system for installing software components, comprising:

a Device Management (DM) server having at least a first processor executing instructions; and

a terminal having at least a second processor executing instructions,

wherein the DM server is adapted to deliver a software component package containing a plurality of software components directly to a terminal or deliver a download address of the software component package and a command instructing to download to the terminal,

wherein the terminal is adapted to receive the software component package delivered by the DM server, or the download address of the software component package and the command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, and if the download address and the command instructing to download are received, download the software component package from the download address, install the obtained software component package locally, and generate management nodes corresponding to the software components and subnodes of the management nodes under a Deployed subtree,

wherein the terminal is further adapted to generate a management node corresponding to the software component package and subnodes of the management node under a Delivered subtree in the SCOMO and assign access control rights to the management node and the subnodes of the management node if the command instructing to download is DownLoadInstall or DownLoadInstallInactive and the terminal downloads the software component package successfully but fails to install the software component package,

wherein the terminal is further adapted to generate a management node for the software component package under a Download subtree of the SCOMO before the DM server delivers the command instructing to download, and

wherein assigning access control rights to the management node under the Delivered subtree comprises one of following modes;

assigning access control rights of the management node generated under the Download subtree to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree;

setting access control rights of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree to null so that the management node inherits access control rights of its parent node;

assigning specific access control rights to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree; and

combining access control rights of the management node generated under the Download subtree and access control rights of the parent node of the management node generated under the Delivered subtree, and assigning the combined access control rights to the management node generated under the Delivered subtree.