Dynamic local function binding apparatus and method

• US 8,843,631 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Issued: 09/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yi, Kyoung-Hoon, Kwon, Won-Seok, Kim, Che-Uk, Jung, Jae-Gyu
• Primary Examiner(s): NANO, SARGON N
• Application Number:
  US12/828,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20110138016A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,545 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/203, 709/208, 709/220, 709/221, 709/223, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

A dynamic local function binding apparatus and method are provided. In an application virtualization environment, a terminal may register local services associated with local functions of the terminal, and a remote server may call the serviced local functions to be used while the server is executing an application for the terminal. The local functions may be unique functions of various local devices installed in the terminal. The servicing of the local functions may include creating service descriptions of the functions that are provided by the individual local devices and publishing the service descriptions.

Claims

1. A dynamic local function binding apparatus of a remote server, the apparatus comprising:

a service list requesting processor configured to request, from a terminal, a local service list comprising local services associated with local functions of the terminal, in response to the remote server receiving a virtualization application execution request from the terminal;

a service extracting processor configured to;

receive the local service list from the terminal; and

extract at least one available local service from the local service list, the extracted local service being a local service that is used by the virtualization application; and

a service binding processor configured to bind the extracted local service with the virtualization application at runtime such that the local service and the virtualization application are executable by the remote server.

2. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the local function comprises a function performed by a corresponding local device installed in the terminal; and

the local device comprises at least one of;

a camera, a microphone, a temperature sensor, a velocity sensor, an acceleration sensor, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module, a security module, and a biometric module.

3. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 1, wherein the local service list comprises service descriptions for the local services associated with the local functions of the terminal.

4. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service binding processor is further configured to use a loosely-coupled binding between the extracted service and the virtualization application according to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

12. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 1, wherein results of the executed virtualization application are transmitted to the terminal.

13. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 1, wherein in response to a connection request message sent by the remote server, the terminal sends a response message to the remote server.

5. A dynamic local function binding apparatus of a terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a service list registering processor configured to register a service list of local services associated with local functions of the terminal; and

a service list providing processor configured to;

receive a service list request for the service list from a remote server, the remote server configured to execute a virtualization application for the terminal; and

provide the service list to the remote server,

wherein the remote server is configured to access a local service from the service list while executing the virtualization application after the local service is bound, at runtime, to the virtualization application.

6. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the local function comprises a function performed by a corresponding local device installed in the terminal; and

the local device is at least one of;

a camera, a microphone, a temperature sensor, a velocity sensor, an acceleration sensor, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module, a security module, and a biometric module.

7. The dynamic local function binding apparatus of claim 5, wherein the service list comprises service descriptions for the local services associated with the local functions of the terminal.

8. A dynamic local function binding method, comprising:

registering, at a terminal, a service list of local services associated with local functions of the terminal;

transmitting, from the terminal to a remote server, a virtualization application request that requests the remote server to execute a virtualization application for the terminal;

requesting, at the remote server, the registered service from the terminal;

providing, at the terminal, the service list to the remote server;

receiving, at the remote server, the service list and extracting at least one available local service from the service list, the extracted local service being a local service that is used by the virtualization application; and

binding, at the remote server, the extracted local service with the virtualization application at runtime such that the local service and the virtualization application are executable by the remote server.

9. The dynamic local function binding method of claim 8, wherein:

the local function is a function performed by a corresponding local device installed in the terminal; and

the local device comprises at least one of;

a camera, a microphone, a temperature sensor, a velocity sensor, an acceleration sensor, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module, a security module, and a biometric module.

10. The dynamic local function binding method of claim 8, wherein the service list comprises service descriptions for the local services associated with the local functions of the terminal.

11. The dynamic local function binding method of claim 8, wherein the binding of the extracted service with the virtualization application is based on a loosely-coupled binding according to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).