Method and system for performing services in server and client of client/server architecture

• US 8,732,694 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2010
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Yuan, Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEN, XI DONALD
• Application Number:
  US13/259,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20120144387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,439 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/176
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/162 involving adaptations of sockets based mechanisms secure socket layer H04L63/168

Abstract

A method and system for performing services in a server and a client of a client/server architecture are provided, and the method includes: when performing to a preset user decision point during the service performing process, the server interrupting the service performing and initiating a user decision request to a client, wherein the user decision request includes information requesting the user to decide a service performing action after the user decision point; after a user decision information made by the client responding to the user decision request is received, determining the service performing action corresponding to the received user decision information according to the corresponding relationship between the user decision information and a service performing rule, and performing the service according to the determined service performing action. The service performing action or flow can be intervened or influenced by the client through the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for performing services in a server of a client/server architecture, comprising:

when performing to a preset user decision point during the service performing process, the server interrupting the service performing and initiating a user decision request to a client, wherein the user decision request includes information requesting the user to decide a service performing action after the user decision point; and

after a user decision information made by the client responding to the user decision request is received, determining the service performing action corresponding to the received user decision information according to the corresponding relationship between the user decision information and a service performing rule, and performing the service according to the determined service performing action;

wherein the communications between the client and the server are via a message channel which is an inter-process communication carrier and comprises a socket, a pipe or a message queue; and

wherein the method is applied in a software package installation of the client/server (C/S) architecture in a mobile phone, and a user interface is the client while a software package installation program of a backstage is the server during the installation of the software package;

the server detects the safety of the software package installation according to the service performing conditions during the software package installation, and if there are safety risks, sets a user decision point to interrupt the service performing and sends a user decision request to the client, the client indicates the user to decide whether to install, and the server determines whether to go on with the software package installation after receiving the user decision information of whether to install from the client; and

wherein the user decision request comprises different mark-bit information for requesting a user to make a choice, wherein different mark-bit information corresponding to different service performing actions in the service performing rule;

the user decision information is chosen mark-bit information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

the user decision point is set by the server according to service performing conditions or configured by the client.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

the user decision point is set by the server according to service performing conditions or configured by the client.

4. A method for performing services in a client of a client/server architecture, comprising:

receiving a service performing request from a user and sending it to a server, requesting the server to initiate service performing;

receiving information from the server during the service performing, if the information is a user decision request, indicating the user that a decision is needed and waiting for the user'"'"'s response to the user decision request, wherein the user decision request comprises information for requesting the user to decide a subsequent service performing action; and

receiving user decision information made by the user responding to the user decision request, the client sending the user decision information to the server;

wherein the communications between the client and the server are via a message channel which is an inter-process communication carrier and comprises a socket, a pipe or a message queue; and

wherein the method is applied in a software package installation of the C/S architecture in a mobile phone, and a user interface is the client while a software package installation program of a backstage is the server during the installation of the software package;

during the software package installation, after the client receives a user decision request sent by the server for detecting safety risks, the client indicates that the user needs to decide whether to go on with the software package installation, waits for user decision information made by the user, and sends the user decision information to the server; and

wherein the user decision request comprises different mark-bit information for requesting a user to make a choice, wherein different mark-bit information corresponding to different service performing actions in the service performing rule;

the user decision information is chosen mark-bit information.

5. A system for performing services in a server and a client of a client/server architecture, comprising:

a processor configured to execute program units stored on a memory, wherein the program units comprises;

a service performing unit in the client, configured to initiate a service performing request to the server, when receive a user decision request from the server, to indicate the user that a decision is needed and to wait for the user'"'"'s response to the user decision request, and to send user decision information made by the user responding to the user decision request to the server; and

a service performing unit in the server, configured to start performing the services after receiving the service performing request from the client, when performing to a preset user decision point during performing the services, to interrupt the service performing and to initiate a user decision request to the client, after receiving user decision information made by the client responding to the user decision request, to determine a service performing action after the user decision point according to the user decision information;

wherein the communications between the client and the server are via a message channel which is an inter-process communication carrier and comprises a socket, a pipe or a message queue; and

wherein the system is applied in a software package installation of the Client/Server architecture in a mobile phone, and a user interface is the client and a software package installation program of a backstage is the server during the installation of the software package;

the service performing unit in the server detects the safety of the software package installation according to service performing conditions during the software package installation, and if there are safety risks, sets a user decision point to interrupt the service performing and sends a user decision request to the client, the client indicates the user to decide whether to install, and the server determines whether to go on with the software package installation after receiving the user decision information of whether to install from the client;

the service performing unit in the client, after receiving the user decision request sent by the server for detecting safety risks, indicates that the user needs to decide whether to go on with the software package installation and waits for the user decision information made by the user, and sends the user decision information to the server; and

wherein the user decision request comprises different mark-bit information for requesting a user to make a choice, wherein different mark-bit information corresponding to different service performing actions in the service performing rule;

the user decision information is chosen mark-bit information.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein, the service performing unit in the server comprises:

a decision point setting unit, configured to set the user decision point needed for a user to make decisions during the service performing of the server;

a decision request initiating unit, configured to interrupt the service performing and to initiate a user decision request to the client when the server processes to the preset user decision point during the service performing, wherein the user decision request includes information for requesting the user to decide a service performing action after the user decision point;

a performing unit, configured to determine the service performing action corresponding to the received user decision information according to the corresponding relationship between user decision information and a service performing rule after the user decision information made by the client responding to the user decision request is received, and to perform the services according to the determined service performing action.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein, the service performing unit in the client comprises:

a service performing request unit, configured to initiate a service performing request to the server according to user'"'"'s demands, and to request the server to start the service performing;

a receiving unit, configured to receive information from the server during the service performing;

a decision requesting unit, configured to indicate the user that a decision is needed and to wait for the user'"'"'s response to the user decision request when the received information is the user decision request, wherein the user decision request comprises information for requesting the user to decide the subsequent service performing action;

a sending unit, configured to send the user decision information made by the user responding to the user decision request to the server.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein,

the decision point setting unit comprises a setting unit in the server and a setting unit the client,

the setting unit in the server, configured to set the user decision point by the server in the service performing flow according to service performing conditions;

the setting unit in the client, configured to set the user decision point by the client in the service performing flow.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein, the service performing unit in the client comprises:

a service performing request unit, configured to initiate a service performing request to the server according to user'"'"'s demands, and to request the server to start the service performing;

a receiving unit, configured to receive information from the server during the service performing;

a decision requesting unit, configured to indicate the user that a decision is needed and to wait for the user'"'"'s response to the user decision request when the received information is the user decision request, wherein the user decision request comprises information for requesting the user to decide the subsequent service performing action;

a sending unit, configured to send the user decision information made by the user responding to the user decision request to the server.