WO2014183516A1

WO2014183516A1 - Application program loading method and device, terminal and storage medium

Info

Publication number: WO2014183516A1
Application number: PCT/CN2014/075308
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张玉洲; 林加卫; 张雅
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2013-11-18
Filing date: 2014-04-14
Publication date: 2014-11-20
Also published as: CN104657154A

Abstract

Disclosed are an application program loading method and device, a terminal and a storage medium. The method comprises: receiving a starting command of an application program sent by a server; according to the starting command, mounting a terminal directory to the server by means of a bootstrap program of the application program; and loading and operating the application program from the server by means of the bootstrap program.

Description

Application loading method and device thereof, terminal, storage medium

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an application loading method, an apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. Background technique

In recent years, with the development of broadband technology, the number of broadband users has risen sharply. Wired interactive TV, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and Internet TV have been rapidly developed, and the number of users of "TV + Set Top Box" is growing. Based on the Internet Protocol (IP) network, it is easy to present rich Internet content to users through the TV set-top box, so that users can enjoy on-demand, live broadcast, news, weather, public information and other services, enjoy video communication, Social, early education, voting, games, etc. with interactive value-added services.

Among these services, some applications need to be downloaded to run on a set-top box. For example, in various online games (such as J2ME games, Linux games, and cloud games) running on an IPTV set-top box, each time the game is started, the set-top box first needs to download the game program from the server before the game program can be run in the set-top box. , the user can start the game.

However, since the storage space of terminals such as set-top boxes is very limited, many large applications, such as large games, are inconvenient to be downloaded and stored through the set-top box, and of course, cannot be operated in a terminal such as a set-top box, thereby seriously affecting the user's network. The use of the application. Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the present invention provides an application loading method, a device, a terminal, and a storage medium, which are used to solve the technical problems in the prior art, and are used to solve the problem that the network application cannot be caused by the small storage space of the terminal in the prior art. The problem of being effectively used by the terminal. To solve the above technical problem, in one aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an application loading method, where the method includes: receiving an application startup command sent by a server; and passing the terminal directory through the application according to the startup command. A bootloader is mounted to the server; the application is loaded and executed from the server by the bootloader.

Preferably, the boot program is a boot program pre-stored in the terminal.

Preferably, the application startup command carries a startup parameter, where the boot program is pre-stored in the server; after the application startup command sent by the receiving server, according to the Before the boot command is used to mount the bootloader of the application to the server, the method further includes:

Determining a download address of the boot program of the application according to the boot parameter; downloading the boot program from the server according to the download address.

Preferably, the startup parameter includes a file name and a storage address of the application.

Preferably, after the loading and loading the application from the server by the booting program, the method further includes:

When the application finishes running, the boot program is unmounted from the server.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an application loading device, where the device includes a receiving unit, a mounting unit, a loading and running unit, where:

The receiving unit is configured to receive an application startup command sent by the server, and the mounting unit is configured to mount the terminal directory to the server by using a booting program of the application according to a startup command received by the receiving unit. Server

The load and run unit is configured to load and run the application from the server by the boot program mounted by the mount unit.

Preferably, the boot program is a boot program pre-stored in the terminal.

Preferably, the apparatus further includes an address determining unit and a boot program downloading unit; wherein: The address determining unit is configured to determine a download address of the boot program of the application according to the startup parameter;

The boot program download unit is configured to download the boot program from the server according to a download address determined by the address determining unit.

Preferably, the apparatus further includes a mount release unit configured to unmount the boot program from the server when the application finishes running.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes any one of the application loading devices provided above.

Preferably, the terminal is a set top box.

In still another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions, and the computer executable instructions are used to execute the application load method.

The application loading method and the device, the terminal, and the storage medium provided by the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving the application startup command sent by the server, may hang the terminal directory through the boot program of the application according to the startup command. Loading and running the application from the server through the boot program; thus, the embodiment of the present invention can change the traditional application mode in which the application is first downloaded and then run, thereby making the application It can be directly run locally without being downloaded to the local area, which effectively solves the problem that the network application caused by the small storage space of the terminal cannot be effectively used. DRAWINGS

FIG. 1-1 is a schematic flowchart of an implementation process of an application loading method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

1-2 is a schematic flowchart of another implementation process of an application loading method according to an embodiment of the present invention; 2 is a schematic flowchart of a specific implementation process of an application loading method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3-1 is a schematic structural diagram of an application loading device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3-2 is another schematic structural diagram of an application loading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3-3 is a schematic diagram showing another composition of an application loading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. detailed description

As shown in FIG. 1-1, an embodiment of the present invention provides an application loading method, which is applied to a terminal, where the terminal may be a set top box. The method includes:

Step S11, receiving an application startup command sent by the server;

Step S12: According to the startup command, the terminal directory is mounted to the server by using a booting program of the application;

Step S13: The application is loaded and run from the server by the booting program. The application loading method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving the application startup command sent by the server, may mount the terminal directory to the server through the boot program of the application program according to the startup command, and pass the The boot program loads and runs the application from the server, thereby changing a traditional application mode in which the application is first downloaded and then run, so that the application can be directly run locally without being downloaded to the local, thereby effectively The problem that the network application cannot be effectively used due to the small storage space of the terminal is solved.

The application bootloader is a short program that can indicate the storage path of the application in the server, and the terminal can accurately find the corresponding application through the bootloader. Optionally, the booting program may be a booting program stored in the terminal in advance, or may be a booting program stored in the server, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention. When the bootloader is pre- When stored in the terminal, the terminal can directly mount the terminal directory to the server through the boot program, and directly load the application corresponding to the boot program into the memory local to the terminal through the boot program. When the boot program is not stored in the terminal but stored in the server, the terminal first needs to download the boot program to the terminal local before it can be utilized.

In this case, optionally, as shown in FIG. 1-2, in the step S11, the application startup command may carry the startup parameter, and between the step S11 and the step S12, the application provided by the embodiment of the present invention The loading method can also include:

Step S101: Determine, according to the startup parameter, a download address of a boot program of the application;

Step S102: Download the booting program from the server according to the download address.

Since the bootloader itself is only a small program, the footprint is very small, so the terminal has enough storage space to accommodate the bootloader. After the boot program is downloaded, the terminal can start the boot program, and the terminal directory is mounted to the server through the boot program, thereby loading and running the corresponding application from the server through the boot program. It is not difficult to see that, in this embodiment, the terminal does not need to download the application of the large data amount to the storage device of the terminal first, and the application program can be directly loaded into the memory by the mounted boot program, thereby effectively saving the operation. The storage space of the terminal. Moreover, since the application is loaded from the server to the memory in real time every time the application is used, once the application is updated, the terminal can use the updated program in time, effectively avoiding the process of downloading the application. Update lag problem.

It should be noted that, in the above embodiment, when the terminal needs to download the boot program, it is necessary to determine a download address corresponding to the boot program, and the download address may be determined according to the startup command. In addition, the startup command further includes a startup parameter, which may include a file name and a storage address of the application, so that the terminal can find a corresponding application according to the startup parameter, and load the application into the local memory of the terminal. Running in.

Understandably, some applications may be repeatedly used by users during the use of the application. For the second use, the user information of the user, such as personal information or program usage information, is often stored in the application. Users often want applications to retain this information to make it easier for users to use the application next time. To this end, preferably, in some embodiments of the present invention, the startup parameter may further include user information, and when loading and running the application, the terminal may load the user information in the startup parameter into the application. For example, when the user performs a network game through the terminal and the server, the game application can record the information of different users' accounts and the game progress corresponding to the account through the user information in the startup parameter, thereby providing convenience for the user.

In this embodiment, during the process in which the application is loaded into the memory, the user can use and perform various interactive operations on the application. After the user finishes using the application, the application loading method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include: when the application ends, uninstalling the terminal directory from the server, Thereby freeing up server resources. Moreover, for the bootloader downloaded from the server, the terminal can either reserve it for the user's next use of the same application, or delete it to further release the terminal's storage space. The application loading method is described in detail.

As shown in FIG. 2, in this embodiment, a set-top box is taken as an example to illustrate that a user completes a network game process by interacting with a server through a set-top box, and the process mainly includes the following steps:

Step S201, the user views the game list, the game details, and starts the game from the server through the set top box;

Step S202, the server returns a game start command, where the start command carries a startup parameter; Step S203, the set top box parses the start command, downloads and starts a boot program corresponding to the game program;

Step S204, the set top box mounts the terminal directory to the server by using a boot program;

Step S205, the set top box reads the game file from the server and starts the game; Step S206, game interaction;

Step S207, the game ends, the set top box unmounts the terminal directory from the server; Step S208, the set top box deletes the booting program.

It should be noted that, in step S203, the action of downloading and starting the boot program corresponding to the game program is for the case where the boot program is stored in the server, and accordingly, after the game ends, in step S208, the set top box may The bootloader is removed. When the boot program has been previously stored in the terminal, the boot program can be directly started without downloading in step S203, and the boot program does not have to be deleted in step S208.

In this embodiment, by mounting the boot program to the game server, the server side storage space and the increasingly cheap bandwidth are utilized to directly load the game program into the memory of the set top box, thereby eliminating the download of the game program. The problem that the network application cannot be effectively used due to the small storage space of the terminal is effectively solved.

Correspondingly, as shown in FIG. 3-1, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an application loading device, which includes a receiving unit 31, a mounting unit 32, and a loading and running unit 33.

The receiving unit 31 is configured to receive an application startup command sent by the server;

The mounting unit 32 is configured to mount the terminal directory to the server through the boot program of the application according to the startup command received by the receiving unit 31;

The load and run unit 33 is configured to load and run the application from the server by the boot program mounted by the mount unit 32.

In the application loading device provided by the embodiment of the present invention, when the receiving unit 31 receives the application startup command sent by the server, the mounting unit 32 may mount the terminal directory through the boot program of the application program according to the startup command. To the server, the loading and running unit 33 can load and run the application from the server through the boot program, thereby changing the traditional application mode in which the application is first downloaded and then run, so that the application does not need to be Download to the local can be run directly in the local, which effectively solves the small storage space caused by the terminal The problem of web applications not being used effectively.

Optionally, the booting program may be a booting program stored in the terminal in advance, or may be a booting program stored in the server, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention. When the boot program is pre-stored in the terminal, the terminal can directly mount the terminal directory to the server through the boot program, and directly load the application corresponding to the boot program into the memory of the terminal locally through the boot program. When the boot program is not stored in the terminal but stored in the server, the terminal first needs to download the boot program to the terminal local before it can be utilized.

In order to implement the download function of the boot program, the application start command may carry a startup parameter. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3-2, the application loading device further includes an address determining unit 34 and a boot program download unit. 35, where:

The address determining unit 34 is configured to determine a download address of the boot program of the application according to the boot parameter;

The boot program download unit 35 is configured to download the boot program from the server in accordance with the download address determined by the address determining unit 34.

Optionally, the startup parameter may include a file name and a storage address of the application, and may further include user information.

Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 3-3, the application loading device may further include a mount release unit 36 configured to: when the application finishes running, upload the terminal directory from the Unmount the server.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, which includes any of the application loading devices provided in the foregoing embodiments, such as the application loading device shown in FIG. 3-1 to FIG. 3-3. The terminal of any one of the application loading devices provided by the foregoing embodiments can also achieve the corresponding beneficial effects of the embodiments of the present invention. Since the foregoing has been described in detail, no further details are provided herein.

Optionally, the terminal may be a set top box or the like, and the application may be a network game played by the set top box. The receiving unit, the mounting unit, the loading and running unit, the address determining unit, the boot program downloading unit and the mounting releasing unit in the application loading device according to the embodiment of the present invention can all be implemented by a processor in the terminal, and of course The terminal can be implemented by a specific logic circuit; the terminal can be a set top box; in a specific embodiment, the processor can be a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor (MPU), a digital signal processor (DSP), or a field. Programming gate arrays (FPGAs), etc.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if the above application loading method is implemented in the form of a software function module and sold or used as a stand-alone product, it may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product in essence or in the form of a software product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium and includes a plurality of instructions. A computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) is implemented to perform all or part of the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention. The foregoing storage medium includes: a U disk, a removable hard disk, a read only memory (Read Only Memory), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like, which can store program codes. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions, and the computer executable instructions are used to execute the application loading method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed for purposes of illustration, those skilled in the art will recognize that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, and the scope of the invention should not be limited to the embodiments described above. Industrial applicability

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal receives the application startup command sent by the server, the terminal may mount the terminal directory to the server through the boot program of the application program according to the startup command, and pass the boot program. Loading and running the application from the server In this way, the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention can change the traditional application mode in which the application is first downloaded and then run, so that the application can be directly run locally without being downloaded to the local, thereby effectively solving the terminal. The problem that network applications cannot be used effectively because of small storage space.

Claims

claims

1. An application loading method, the method includes:

Receive application startup commands sent by the server;

According to the startup command, mount the terminal directory to the server through the boot program of the application;

The application is loaded and run from the server through the bootloader.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the boot program is a boot program pre-stored in the terminal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application startup command carries startup parameters, and when the boot program is pre-stored in the server, when the application program sent by the receiving server After the startup command, and before mounting the boot program of the application program to the server according to the startup command, the method further includes:

Determine the download address of the boot program of the application program according to the startup parameters; download the boot program from the server according to the download address.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the startup parameters include the file name and storage address of the application program.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein, after loading and running the application program from the server through the boot program, the method further includes: when the application program At the end of the operation, the terminal directory is unmounted from the server.

6. An application loading device, the device includes a receiving unit, a mounting unit, a loading and running unit, where:

The receiving unit is configured to receive an application startup command sent by the server; the mounting unit is configured to load the terminal target according to the startup command received by the receiving unit. The directory is mounted to the server through the bootloader of the application;

The loading and running unit is configured to load and run the application program from the server through the boot program mounted by the mounting unit.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the boot program is a boot program pre-stored in the terminal.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the device further includes an address determination unit and a boot program downloading unit, wherein:

The address determination unit is configured to determine the download address of the boot program of the application program according to the startup parameters;

The boot program download unit is configured to download the boot program from the server according to the download address determined by the address determination unit.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the startup parameters include the file name and storage address of the application program.

10. The device according to any one of claims 6 to 9, the device further comprising a mounting unmounting unit configured to unmount the terminal directory from the server when the application program ends. load.

11. A terminal, the terminal comprising the application loading device according to any one of claims 6 to 10.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the terminal is a set-top box.

13. A computer storage medium, the computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions are used to execute the application program loading method described in any one of claims 1 to 5.