Method for allowing distributed running of an application and related pre-processing unit

• US 9,342,281 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2011
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Guillou, Aurlien, Bhatia, Hernit, Vennegues, Elise, Pelendage, Nishantha
• Primary Examiner(s): Deng, Anna
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wu, Junchun
• Application Number:
  US13/278,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20120102452A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,670 Days
• Field of Search: 717/106
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/433 Dependency analysis; Data or control flow analysis

Abstract

Method for allowing distributed running of an application between a device and a server connected via a network. The method includes the following steps carried out by a pre-processing unit: analyzing a code of the application for identifying parts that satisfy or are assumed to satisfy at least one first criterion based on resource consumption; transmitting only the identified application code parts to the server; generating from the application code an enriched application code arranged to call for the execution of one of the identified application code parts on the server only if at least one second criterion based on resource overload is satisfied at the time the application code part is to be run; and transmitting the enriched application code to the device.

Claims

1. A method for allowing distributed running of an application between a device and a server connected via a network, the method comprising the following steps carried out by a pre-processing unit:

analyzing a code of the application for identifying parts that satisfy or are assumed to satisfy at least one first criterion based on resource consumption;

transmitting only the identified application code parts to the server;

generating from the application code an enriched application code, said enriched application code comprising the application code and at least one added code portion,

wherein said at least one added code portion is arranged to trigger the device to call for execution of one of the identified application code parts on the server only if at least one second criterion based on resource overload is satisfied at the time said application code part is to be run, and is arranged to trigger the device to execute said identified application code part if the second criterion is not satisfied; and

transmitting the enriched application code to the device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one first criterion based on resource consumption and/or the at least one second criterion based on resource overload relate to at least one of the following resources:

processing resource, random access memory, storage memory, power or network bandwidth.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein transmitting the enriched application code to the device is performed responsive to the device requesting downloading of said application.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, after the device has started running the enriched application code and each time an application code part within the enriched application code is to be run:

checking whether the at least one second criterion based on resource overload is satisfied with respect to the device;

if said at least one second criterion is satisfied, calling for execution of the corresponding application code part on the server; and

if said at least one second criterion is not satisfied, running said application code part on the device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein analyzing the code of the application comprises identifying the application code parts that require or are assumed to require more than the first criterion of resources to be executed.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein analyzing the code of the application comprises identifying the application code parts that require or are assumed to require the highest amount of resources to be executed.

5. A pre-processing apparatus configured to allow distributed running of an application between a device and a server connected via a network, the pre-processing apparatus comprising:

an analyzer configured to analyze code of the application for identifying parts that satisfy or are assumed to satisfy at least one first criterion based on resource consumption;

a transmitter configured to transmit only the identified application code parts to the server;

a code generator configured to generate from the application code an enriched application code, said enriched application code comprising the application code and at least one added code portion, wherein said at least one added code portion is arranged to trigger the device to call for execution of one of the identified application code parts on the server only if at least one second criterion based on resource overload is satisfied at the time said application code part is to be run, and is arranged to trigger the device to execute said identified application code part if the second criterion is not satisfied;

a transmitter configured to transmit the enriched application code to the device;

a computer; and

non-transitory computer-readable media comprising code instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the computer configure the computer to implement at least one of the analyzer or the code generator.