Auto-deploying an application from a mobile device to a host in a pervasive computing environment

• US 8,285,199 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2008
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lu, Charles H., Hsu, Tony S. T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kelley, Steven
• Application Number:
  US12/258,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20090111453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,443 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/3.06, 455/420, 717/178, 463 39- 42
• US Class Current: 455/3.06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

Disclosed is a technique for auto-deploying an application from a mobile communication device to a host in a pervasive computing environment. The technique can detect and can select an available host around the mobile communication device. The technique can determine if the mobile communication device issues a request of auto-deploying a selected application into the available host. In response to the issued auto-deploying request, the selected application can be auto-deployed into the available host for execution.

Claims

1. A method for auto-deploying an application from a mobile communication device to a host, comprising:

downloading said selected game application to said mobile communication device over a wireless network via a mobile telephony communication protocol;

detecting and selecting an available host around the mobile communication device;

determining if the mobile communication device issues a request of auto-deploying a selected game application into said available host;

in response to the issued auto-deploying request, auto-deploying said selected game application into said available host for execution, wherein the auto-deploying conveys the core functions of the selected game application from a memory of the mobile communication device to the host over the wireless communication network via a mobile telephony communication protocol, wherein the auto-deploying causes core functions that are a portion of the selected game application for launching the selected game application to be conveyed to the host, wherein additional functions of the selected game applications are accessed by the host from the mobile communication device when necessary thereby alleviating a need to deploy a full size of the selected game application into the host from the mobile device; and

using the mobile communication device as a wireless controller for the selected game application as the selected game application executes on the host.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the auto-deploying of the selected game application is implemented by utilizing an OSGi model, wherein digital rights management information for the selected game application is maintained by an application management service of the mobile communication device.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of downloading the selected game application to the mobile communication device is performed by directly copying said selected game application from said server storing said selected game application to the mobile communication device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of downloading the selected game application to said mobile communication device is performed by downloading said selected game application from said server storing said selected game application to said mobile communication device being a wireless connection type.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of sending out a request from said mobile communication device to launch said selected game application deployed in said host to direct said host to auto-run said selected game application.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising a step of synchronizing communication to establish the consistency of configuration and environment setup between any input device on the mobile communication device and said selected game application deployed in said host in order to interact with said host for controlling said selected game application in a running state.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said mobile communication device comprises a built-in motion detector to interact with said host for controlling said selected game application in a running state.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said selected game application is the game software utilizing motion sensing capabilities of the mobile communication device.

9. A mobile communication device for auto-deploying an application to a host, comprising:

means for downloading a selected game application from a server to a memory of a mobile communication device over a wireless network via a mobile telephony communication protocol;

means for detecting and selecting an available host around the mobile communication device;

means for determining if the mobile communication device issues a request of auto-deploying the selected game application into the available host; and

in response to the issued auto-deploying request, means for auto-deploying said selected game application into said available host for execution, wherein said auto deploying conveys at least a portion of the functions of the selected game application from the memory of the mobile communication device to the host over the wireless communication network via a mobile telephony communication protocol, wherein additional functions of the selected game application are accessed by the host from the mobile communication device when necessary thereby alleviating a need to deploy a full size of the selected game application into the host from the mobile device;

means for sending out a request from said mobile communication device to launch said selected game application deployed in said host to direct said host to auto-run said selected game application; and

means for using the mobile communication device as a wireless controller for the selected game application when it executes on the host.

10. The mobile communication device according to claim 9, further comprising means for downloading said selected game application from said server storing said selected game application to said mobile communication device in wireless connection type.

11. The mobile communication device according to claim 9, wherein said means for auto-deploying is implemented by utilizing an OSGi model.

12. The mobile communication device according to claim 9, further comprising means for using the mobile communication device as a wireless microphone for the selected game application executing on the host.

13. The mobile communication device according to claim 12, further comprising means for synchronizing communication to establish the consistency of configuration and environment setup between any input device on the mobile communication device and said selected game application deployed in said host in order to interact with said host for controlling said selected game application in a running state.

14. The mobile communication device according to claim 13, wherein said mobile communication device comprises a built-in motion detector to interact with said host for controlling said selected game application in a running state.

15. The mobile communication device according to claim 14, wherein said selected game application is the game software utilizing motion sensing capabilities of the mobile communication device.

16. A method for auto-deploying an application from a mobile communication device to a host, comprising:

downloading a selected game application to a memory of a mobile communication device over a wireless network via a mobile telephony communication protocol;

detecting and selecting an available host from a plurality of different hosts around the mobile communication device;

determining if the mobile communication device issues a request of auto-deploying the selected game application into said available host; and

in response to the issued auto-deploying request, auto-deploying a portion of said selected game application from the memory of the mobile communication device into said available host for execution, wherein additional functions of the selected game application are accessed by the host from the mobile communication device as necessary thereby alleviating a need to deploy a full size of the selected game application into the host from the mobile communication device, wherein the auto-deploying of the selected game application is implemented by utilizing an OSGi model, wherein said mobile communication device comprises a built-in motion detector and a built in microphone to interact with said host for controlling said selected game application in a running state.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the auto-deploying causes core functions of the selected game application for launching the selected game application to be conveyed to the host, wherein digital rights management information for the selected game application is maintained by an application management service of the mobile communication device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein said auto deploying conveys the portion of said selected game application from the memory of the mobile communication device to the host over the wireless communication network via a mobile telephony communication protocol, said method further comprising:

sending out a request from said mobile communication device to launch said selected game application deployed in said host to direct said host to auto-run said selected game application.