Method and system for transmitting large object

• US 9,300,438 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2012
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xi'An Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd. (ZTE Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Shuang, Jianping, Chen, Bo, Liu, Xing, Xu, Luyong
• Primary Examiner(s): Alphonse, Fritz
• Application Number:
  US14/351,628
• Publication Number:
  US 20140317465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 714/746, 714/748, 714/749, 714/776, 714/800
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/00 Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received correcting synchronisation H04L7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting a large object, after a server establishes a session with a client, the method includes: the server divides a pre-transmitted large object into data blocks, and transmits one by one in sequence acquired data blocks and their sizes to the client; the client determines whether a received data block is transmitted successfully, if the received data block is transmitted successfully, the data block is saved, and a current data block transmission success message is returned to the server; if the received data block is not transmitted successfully, an end session request message or a re-transmitting current data block request message is returned to the server; and the server transmits the corresponding data block and its size or ends the session according to the received messages. The present disclosure further provides a system for transmitting a large object. When there is an error in transmitting a data block of a large object, the method and the system in the present disclosure process it in advance, thus saving bandwidth resources.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a large object from a server to a client based on Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Synchronization Markup Language (SyncML) protocol, the method comprising:

dividing, by a server, a pre-transmitted large object into data blocks, and transmitting one by one in sequence acquired data blocks and their sizes to the client, wherein the large object is an object the size of which is larger than a maximum number of bytes in a message supported by the client;

determining, by the client, whether a received data block is transmitted successfully;

if the received data block is transmitted successfully, saving the data block, and returning a current data block transmission success message to the server;

if the received data block is not transmitted successfully, returning an end session request message or a re-transmitting current data block request message to the server; and

transmitting, by the server, the corresponding data block and its size or ending the session according to the received messages;

wherein the client determines whether the received data block is transmitted successfully by the following way;

calculating an actual size of the data block, and

comparing the actual size of the data block with the received size of the data block, if they are the same, the data block is transmitted successfully, otherwise, the data block is transmitted unsuccessfully;

wherein the step of transmitting, by the server, the corresponding data block and its size or ending the session according to the received messages comprises;

when the current data block transmission success message is received and there are other data blocks to be transmitted, transmitting, by the server, a next data block and its size to the client,

when the re-transmitting current data block request message is received, transmitting sequentially, by the server, the current data block and its size to the client, and

when the end session request message is received, ending, by the server, the current session.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein if a currently-transmitted data block is a first data block of the large object, the server further transmits the size of the large object to the client;

and

the client saves the received size of the large object.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein if a currently-transmitted data block is a final data block of the large object, the server further transmits a transmission end indicator to the client;

after the transmission end indicator is received and the current data block is transmitted successfully, the client executes the following steps;

combining in sequence the saved data blocks and calculating a total size of the data blocks; and

comparing the total size of the data blocks with the saved size of the large object, if they are the same, returning a large object transmission success message to the server;

otherwise, returning a large object transmission fail message to the server.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the server transmits the data block and its size, the size of the large object and a transmission end indicator to the client by an extended Synchronization Markup Language (SyncML) message;

and

the extended SyncML message comprises a Size element, a Data element, a BlockSize element and a Final element, wherein the value of the Size element is the size of the large object, the value of the Data element is the currently-transmitted data block, the value of the BlockSize element is the size of the currently-transmitted data block, and the value of the Final element is the transmission end indicator.

5. A system for transmitting a large object from a server to a client based on Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Synchronization Markup Language (SyncML) protocol, comprising a server and a client,

wherein the server is configured to:

divide a pre-transmitted large object into data blocks and transmit one by one in sequence acquired data blocks and their sizes to the client; and

transmit corresponding data block and its size or end a session according to messages returned by the client;

wherein the large object is an object the size of which is larger than a maximum number of bytes in a message supported by the client; and

wherein the client is configured to;

determine whether a received data block is transmitted successfully, save the data block and return a current data block transmission success message to the server when the data block is transmitted successfully, and return an end session request message or a re-transmitting current data block request message to the server when the data block is not transmitted successfully;

wherein the server is further configured to;

transmit a next data block and its size to the client when the current data block transmission success message is received and there are other data blocks to be transmitted, transmit sequentially the current data block and its size to the client when the re-transmitting current data block request message is received, and end the current session when the end session request message is received; and

wherein the client is further configured to calculate an actual size of the data block and compare the actual size of the data block with the received size of the data block, if they are the same, the data block is transmitted successfully;

otherwise, the data block is transmitted unsuccessfully.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the server is further configured to:

transmit the size of the large object to the client when a first data block and its size are sent, and transmit a transmission end indicator to the client when a final data block and its size are sent; and

the client is further configured to;

save the received size of the large object; and

combine in sequence saved data blocks, calculate a total size of the data blocks, and compare the total size of the data blocks with the saved size of the large object, if they are the same, a large object transmission success message is returned to the server, if they are different, a large object transmission fail message is returned to the server.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the server transmits the data block and its size, the size of the large object and the transmission end indicator to the client by an extended SyncML message.

8. The system according to claim 5, wherein the server transmits the data block and its size, the size of the large object and the transmission end indicator to the client by an extended SyncML message.

9. The system according to claim 5, wherein the server transmits the data block and its size, the size of the large object and the transmission end indicator to the client by an extended SyncML message.