Method and system for allocating ID of software component

• US 9,696,977 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2008
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Wuk, Keum, Ji-Eun, Jun, Hae-Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Wei
• Assistant Examiner(s): UNG, LANNY N
• Application Number:
  US12/131,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,319 Days
• Field of Search: 717120
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component is disclosed. The method includes generating information on software components by a Device Management (DM) server, generating a download package including the information on software components by the DM server, transmitting the download package from the DM server to a DM client, executing the download package by the DM client, and allocating an ID to each software component based on the information on software components if the download package is executed by the DM client.

Claims

1. A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component by a Device Management (DM) client, the method comprising:

receiving a download package from a DM server, wherein the download package includes deployed component information and a package identifier, and wherein the deployed component information is used for uniquely identifying software components after the software components are installed in the DM client;

executing the download package and installing the software components in the DM client;

generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to the deployed component information, after the download package is executed, wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier; and

allocating the deployed component ID to each of the software components;

wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components, and

wherein the software components installed in the DM client are updated, removed, activated, or deactivated by the DM server based on the deployed component information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the deployed component information comprises at least one of deployed component IDs of the software components and contents of the software components.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiving of the download package comprises receiving the download package by a software management unit of the DM client.

4. A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component by a Device Management (DM) client, the method comprising:

receiving, from a DM server, a Software Component Management Object (SCOMO) including deployed component information for uniquely identifying a software component after the software components are installed in the DM client, wherein the SCOMO includes a first information node including deployed component information and a second information node including a package identifier;

downloading a software package from the DM server according to an execution command of the DM client and installing the software components in the DM client;

generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to the deployed component information, after installing the software package, wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier; and

allocating the deployed component ID to each of the software components,

wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components, and

wherein the software components installed in the DM client are updated, removed, activated, or deactivated based on the deployed component information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the deployed component information comprises at least one of deployed component IDs of the software components and contents of the software components.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the receiving of the SCOMO comprises receiving the SCOMO by a software management unit of the DM client.

7. A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component by a Device Management (DM) client, the method comprising:

receiving, from a DM server, a Software Component Management Object (SCOMO);

downloading a software package from the DM server according to an execution command of the DM client, wherein the software package includes deployed component information uniquely identifying the software components after the software components are installed in the DM client and a package identifier;

installing the software components in the DM client;

generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to the deployed component information, after installing the software package, wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier; and

allocating the deployed component ID to each installed software component,

wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components, and

wherein the software components installed in the DM client are updated, removed, activated, or deactivated by the DM server based on the deployed component information.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the deployed component information comprises at least one of deployed component IDs of the software components and contents of the software components.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the receiving of the SCOMO comprises receiving the SCOMO by a software management unit of the DM client.

10. A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component by a Device Management (DM) client, the method comprising:

receiving a Software Component Management Object (SCOMO) from a DM server, wherein a download Management Object (MO) of the SCOMO includes a first sub-node describing deployed component information for uniquely identifying software components after the software components are installed in the DM client a package identifier, and a deployed MO of the SCOMO includes a second sub-node describing originator information of the software components;

downloading a software package from a DM server according to an execution command of the DM client and installing the software components in the DM client;

during installation of the software components, generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to contents of the first sub-node of the download MO, wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier; and

allocating the deployed component ID to each of the software components,

wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components, and

wherein the software components installed in the DM client are updated, removed, activated, or deactivated by the DM server based on the deployed component information.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the deployed component information comprises originator information.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the originator provides the deployed component information.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the allocating of the deployed component ID to each installed software component comprises allocating the originator information to the second sub-node of the deployed MO.

14. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the deployed component information comprises at least one of deployed component IDs of the software components and contents of the software components.

15. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the receiving of the SCOMO comprises receiving the SCOMO by a software management unit of the DM client.

16. A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component by a Device Management (DM) client, the method comprising:

receiving a download package from a DM server, the download package including deployed component information for uniquely identifying the software components after the software components are installed in the DM client and a package identifier;

executing the download package and installing the software components in the DM client;

generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to the deployed component information, after the download package is executed, wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier; and

allocating the deployed component ID to each of the software components;

wherein the download software component is installed in the DM client, and the installed software component is identified by the DM server based on the deployed component information,

wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components, and

wherein the software components installed in the DM client are updated, removed, activated, or deactivated by the DM server based on the deployed component information.

17. A Device Management (DM) client for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component, the DM client comprising:

a receiver for receiving a download package including deployed component information uniquely identifying the software components from a DM server after the software components are installed and a package identifier; and

a processor for executing the download package, installing the software components in the DM client, generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to the deployed component information, after the download package is executed, and allocating the deployed component ID to each of the software components,

wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier;

wherein the download software component is installed in the DM client, and the installed software component is updated, removed, activated, or deactivated by the DM server based on the deployed component information, and

wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components.