Communication terminal

• US 8,392,907 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2010
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Makino, Hidekazu, Ito, Yuji, Katsuro, Tomokazu, Oshiumi, Nobuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phillip H
• Application Number:
  US12/820,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20100262960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• Field of Search: 717/171, 717/173, 717/176, 717/178, 717/172, 717/177
• US Class Current: 717/171
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1433 during software upgrading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

A communication terminal includes: an update section that obtains software via a communication network from a predetermined provider so as to update the software; and a failure monitor section that monitors whether there is a failure to interfere with an update of the software by the update section. The communication terminal further includes an update record section that records, if there is the failure and the update becomes an incomplete update on an occasion of the update by the update section, the presence of the incomplete update; and an update prompting section that prompts, if a monitor result by the failure monitor section changes from that there is a failure to that there is no failure, performing by the update section the update whose presence is recorded by the update record section.

Claims

1. A communication terminal, comprising:

a processor and memory, the memory configured to store program instructions and data the processor configured to execute the program instruction and process the data to implement;

a communication section that communicates with a communication network;

a record section that stores data;

an update section that obtains software via the communication section from the communication network from a predetermined provider so as to update the software;

a failure monitor section that monitors whether there is a failure to interfere with an update of the software by the update section;

an update record section that records, if there is the failure and the update becomes an incomplete update on an occasion of the update by the update section, the presence of the incomplete update in the record section; and

an update prompting section that prompts, if a monitor result by the failure monitor section changes from that there is a failure to that there is no failure, performing by the update section the update whose presence is recorded by the update record section;

wherein the failure monitor section includes;

a state monitor section that monitors a state of at least one of an inside and an outside of the communication terminal;

a registration section in which a monitor result by the state monitoring section is registered and which gives a notification if the registered monitor result is changed; and

a failure determination section that determines whether or not there is the failure based on the monitor result which is registered in the registration section, and determines, if the notification is given, whether or not there is a failure for the update whose presence is recorded by the update record section.

2. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the provider allocates an update time for the update section,

the update section starts the update when the update time allocated from the provider comes, and

the update prompting section requires the provider to re-allocate the update time.

3. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the failure monitor section monitors, as the failure, a communication failure between the update section and the provider.

4. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the failure monitor section monitors, as the failure, an internal physical state of the communication terminal, the internal physical state interfering with an update process.

5. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the failure monitor section monitors, as the failure, the presence of a process which is higher in priority than the update by the update section.