WO2007019768A1

WO2007019768A1 - A loading method and a terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2007019768A1
Application number: PCT/CN2006/001604
Authority: WO
Inventors: Pei Dang; Yimin Li
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 2005-08-15
Filing date: 2006-07-07
Publication date: 2007-02-22
Also published as: CN100395978C; CN1794633A

Abstract

A loading method comprises the steps: terminal loading agent unit requests loading descriptor from loading server, and acquires loading server information corresponding a plurality of loading content by the loading descriptor. The terminal parallelly requests the loading content from the plurality of loading servers. The plurality of loading servers transmit the loading content to terminal loading agent unit. The terminal loading agent unit receives the loading content. For the case of loading a plurality of disrelated contents once, the present invention can realize synchronous loading for a plurality of contents, and can increase efficiency. Also, the present invention can provide selection chance for user as it is abnormality and can increase user experience.

Description

Method for downloading and terminal

The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a download method and a terminal. Background technique

With the development of wireless networks, mobile phone download services are becoming more and more colorful, and download functions are becoming more and more enhanced. For example, considering that users may need to download multiple content at a time, there is currently a plurality of users that can select users. The function of downloading the content of different download servers together, but the current function is to download multiple content at a time, and the download is performed serially instead of synchronously, thereby affecting the download efficiency. In addition, when the user cannot download multiple content at the same time for some reasons (such as the memory after the user is still insufficient to download all the objects at the same time), the user is not given the opportunity to select the content that can be downloaded and is the highest priority to download, thus causing Bad user experience.

The current process of downloading multiple content at a time is shown in Figure 1. As can be seen from Figure 1, the following steps are included:

501. After the user finds multiple content of interest, request downloading;

502. The terminal download proxy unit requests a download descriptor from the download server.

503. The download server sends a download descriptor (DD, Download Descriptor) of each download content to the terminal download proxy unit, where the download descriptor includes information such as the type and size of the content to be downloaded;

504. The terminal downloading proxy unit checks the device capability according to the information in each download descriptor, such as whether there is sufficient memory, whether the type of the content to be downloaded is supported, and the like;

505. After checking the capability of the device, confirm to the user whether to download;

506. The user confirms the download;

507. The terminal downloading proxy unit requests to download the object according to information in a descriptor of the media object Media Object(1);

508. The download server B sends the Media Object (1) to the terminal to download the proxy unit. S09. The terminal downloads the proxy unit to perform installation of the Media Object (1);

S010. After the installation is successful, the terminal download agent unit sends a media object (l) to the download server B to successfully install the report;

5011. After sending the installation report of the Media Object (1), the terminal downloading the proxy unit and requesting to download the object according to the information in the descriptor of the Media Object (2);

5012, download server C sends Media Object (2) to the terminal;

5013. The terminal downloads the proxy unit to perform installation of the Media 0bject (2);

5014. After the installation is successful, the terminal download agent unit sends the Media Object (2) to the download server C to successfully install the 4 report.

With the above scheme, since the downloading of a plurality of contents is performed in series, the downloading of the terminal is inefficient. At the same time, if the device does not support downloading all objects at the same time (such as the user's memory is still insufficient to download all the objects at the same time), it does not give the user a certain chance to select the content that can be downloaded and is the highest priority to download. Summary of the invention

The present invention provides a method and a terminal for enhancing simultaneous downloading of multiple contents, which can not only enable multiple download contents to be downloaded synchronously, but also give the user a certain selection opportunity when an abnormality occurs.

The method of the invention comprises:

A download method, including the following steps:

The terminal downloading proxy unit requests a download descriptor from the download server, and obtains download server information corresponding to the plurality of download contents by using the download descriptor;

The terminal requests the downloaded content to the plurality of download servers in parallel;

The plurality of download servers send the downloaded content to the terminal download agent unit; and the terminal download agent unit receives the downloaded content.

The download descriptor further includes data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content.

Before the step of the terminal requesting the downloading content from the plurality of download servers in parallel, the method further includes the steps of: The terminal downloading proxy unit checks the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content.

The terminal downloading proxy unit in the step of checking the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, if the terminal device capability is insufficient to download the plurality of downloaded content, the user terminal is insufficient in capability.

The terminal downloading proxy unit, in the step of checking the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, further includes the step of the terminal downloading proxy unit prompting the user to select the downloadable content that can be downloaded.

The step of the terminal downloading proxy unit in the step of checking the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, further comprising the step of the user selecting a plurality of download contents that meet the terminal capability to be downloaded among the plurality of downloaded content. .

The terminal downloading proxy unit, in the step of checking the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, further includes the terminal downloading proxy unit transmitting a status report indicating that the terminal capability is insufficient to the download server corresponding to the unselected download content.

The terminal downloading proxy unit includes the step of checking the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, and further includes the step of the user improving the terminal capability.

The terminal downloading proxy unit is incapable of the terminal device in the step of checking the terminal device capability according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, including insufficient memory of the terminal, or the type of the downloaded content that the terminal does not support.

And the step of the terminal downloading proxy unit receiving the downloading content, further comprising the step of the terminal downloading the proxy unit installing the plurality of downloaded content.

The step of the terminal download agent unit installing the plurality of download contents may be installed in parallel. The method further includes the step of the terminal download agent unit transmitting a successful installation report to the download server.

The step of sending a successful installation report may be sent in parallel.

The terminal of the invention comprises:

A terminal, comprising: a terminal downloading proxy unit, configured to generate download request information, and send the download request information to the download server;

The terminal capability determining unit is configured to receive the downloading and describing information sent by the downloading server, and determine the terminal capability according to the downloading description information;

The downloading agent unit is configured to:

The parallel download processing unit is configured to control the terminal download agent unit to send a parallel download request to the download server, and control the terminal download agent unit to receive the download content sent by the server.

The terminal further includes a user prompting unit, which receives the judgment result information sent by the terminal capability determining unit, and prompts the user to perform processing according to the judgment result information.

The beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows:

In the case of downloading a plurality of contents at a time, the present invention can synchronously download a plurality of contents, thereby greatly improving efficiency, and at the same time, giving the user a certain selection opportunity and enhancing the user experience when an abnormality occurs. DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic diagram of a download process in the prior art;

2 is a schematic diagram of a downloading process of the present invention;

3 is a schematic flowchart of Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

4 is a schematic flowchart of Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to the present invention. detailed description

Specific embodiments of the present invention are described below in conjunction with the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 2, it is a schematic diagram of a terminal structure of the present invention, and the terminal includes a terminal downloading proxy unit and a terminal capability determining unit.

The terminal downloading proxy unit is configured to generate download request information, and send the download request information to the download server;

a terminal capability determining unit, configured to receive download description information sent by the download server, according to the The download description information determines the terminal capability, and interacts with the terminal download proxy unit to describe the terminal capability determination information.

In the terminal of the present invention, it is further provided with:

The parallel download processing unit is configured to control the terminal download agent unit to send a parallel download request to the download server, and control the terminal download agent unit to receive the downloaded content after the parallel download, and perform corresponding processing.

The terminal prompting unit is further provided with a user prompting unit, which receives the judgment result information sent by the terminal capability determining unit, and prompts the user to perform processing according to the judgment result information.

As shown in FIG. 3, it is a schematic diagram of the main flow of the present invention. As can be seen from the figure, the present invention mainly includes the following steps.

51. The terminal downloading proxy unit requests a download descriptor from the download server, and obtains download server information corresponding to the plurality of download contents by using the download descriptor;

After the user finds a plurality of download contents of interest by some means, the download descriptor of the download contents is requested from the download server by the terminal download agent unit.

The download descriptor has a description of the related information of the plurality of downloaded content, and may include a type of downloaded content, a data amount, and the like, and a plurality of download server information that provides a download content download service. The terminal initiates the download based on the information of the download descriptor.

52. The terminal downloading proxy unit requests the downloading content from the plurality of download servers in parallel;

The terminal download agent unit initiates a download request based on the plurality of download server information provided in the download descriptor.

In this step, before the terminal download agent unit initiates the download request, there may be other optional steps:

The terminal downloading proxy unit first determines whether the terminal capability can support the download operation according to the information provided in the download descriptor, for example, according to the data volume information of the downloaded content recorded in the download descriptor, whether the storage space of the terminal can store all Download content? If the terminal storage space is insufficient to store all the downloaded content, the user may be prompted to perform some terminal capability improvement operations. For example, finishing the storage space of the terminal, deleting some unnecessary data to expand the terminal storage space.

If the terminal capability is still insufficient to download all the downloaded content after the user performs the terminal capability improvement operation, the user may be prompted to perform selective downloading and select the downloaded content that can be accepted by the terminal capability.

For example, after the terminal organizes the memory, it still has a memory capacity of only 4.5k, and the end user requests to download 3 objects, each of which is 2k of data volume. According to the current terminal memory capacity, only two objects can be downloaded. Therefore, the user needs to select the two objects that he most wants to download at this time to download, and the user experience can greatly enhance the user experience.

For the scheme of selecting a partial download content to be downloaded, as a supplement, the terminal download agent unit may also send a status of the terminal memory shortage to the download server corresponding to the download content that is not selected for the download operation.

The plurality of download servers send the downloaded content to the terminal downloading proxy unit; download the plurality of download servers corresponding to the content, and send the downloaded content to the terminal downloading proxy unit.

54. The terminal downloading proxy unit receives the downloaded content.

The terminal download agent unit receives the downloaded content from the plurality of download servers.

In this step, other selections may also be included.

After receiving the plurality of downloaded content, the terminal downloading proxy unit may install the plurality of downloaded content, and the step of installing may be processed in parallel.

After the installation is completed, the terminal download agent unit sends a successful installation report to the plurality of download servers.

Example 1:

In Embodiment 1, the terminal capability can support downloading all downloaded content. As shown in Fig. 4, it is a schematic flow chart of Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

S11. After the user finds multiple downloads of interest (Media Object(1), Media Object(2)), request downloading; The downloaded content information that is of interest to the plurality of users can be obtained through different ways, such as a network, a medium, and the like.

512. The terminal download proxy unit requests a download descriptor from the download server.

513. The download server sends a download descriptor of each content together with the terminal downloading proxy unit, where the download descriptor includes information about the type of the content to be downloaded, the amount of data, and the like;

514. The terminal downloading proxy unit checks the terminal capability according to the information in each download descriptor, such as whether there is sufficient memory, whether the type of the content to be downloaded is supported, and the like;

515. After checking the capability of the device, confirm to the user whether to download;

516, the user confirms the download;

517. S18. The terminal downloading proxy unit downloads the content in parallel from different download servers according to the information in each descriptor.

S19, S110. Download server B, download server C sends Media Object (1), Media Object (2) to the terminal;

S11K S112, S113, S114, the terminal download agent unit synchronizes the installation of the Media Object (1), Media Objectp) and the transmission of the installation report.

Example 2:

In the second embodiment, the terminal capability cannot support downloading all the downloaded content, and the user needs to select the downloading part of the downloaded content. As shown in FIG. 5, it is a schematic flowchart of Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

521. After the user finds multiple content of interest, requesting to download;

522. The terminal download proxy unit requests a download descriptor from the download server.

523. The download server sends a download descriptor of each content together with the terminal downloading proxy unit, where the information includes the type and size of the content to be downloaded.

524. The terminal downloading proxy unit checks the terminal capability according to the information in each download descriptor, and finds that the terminal has insufficient memory.

525. The terminal downloading the proxy unit prompts the user to have insufficient memory;

526. The user deletes the useless content and confirms the download;

527. The terminal downloads the agent unit to perform the terminal capability check again, and finds the memory after the user sorts. Not enough to download multiple downloads at the same time, only one of them can be downloaded;

528. The terminal downloading proxy unit prompts the user to select one of the downloaded content for downloading;

529. The user selects Media Object(2) and confirms the download;

S210, the terminal download agent unit sends a status report of "out of memory" to the download server B; S211, the terminal download agent unit requests the download server C to download the media object (2);

5212. The download server C sends the Media Object (2) to the terminal to download the proxy unit;

5213. The terminal downloads the agent unit to install the Media Object (2);

5214. After the installation is successful, the terminal download agent unit sends a successful installation report to the download server C.

Embodiment 2 only describes the case of downloading two download contents at the same time. For the case of downloading multiple (more than 2) download contents at the same time, the following principles can be followed:

1. When the terminal downloads the agent unit to notify the user that the memory is still insufficient, the user can select multiple download contents that meet the terminal capability requirements;

2. The downloading of multiple download contents that meet the capability requirements selected by the user may be downloaded synchronously;

3. For the rest of the downloaded content that the user has not selected, it is necessary to send a status report indicating that the terminal has insufficient memory to the respective download server.

In the case of downloading a plurality of irrelevant contents at a time, the present invention can be used to synchronously download a plurality of contents, thereby greatly improving efficiency, and at the same time, giving the user a certain selection opportunity and enhancing the user experience when an abnormality occurs.

It is apparent that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of the inventions

Claims

Rights request

A download method, comprising the steps of:

The method according to claim 1, wherein the download descriptor further includes a plurality of pieces of information of the downloaded content.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein before the step of the terminal requesting the downloading content from the plurality of download servers in parallel, the method further comprises the steps of:

The terminal download agent unit checks the terminal device capability based on the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded contents.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the terminal downloading proxy unit checks the terminal device capability step according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, if the terminal device capability is insufficient to download the The plurality of downloaded content described above prompts the user terminal to have insufficient capabilities.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the terminal downloading proxy unit checks the terminal device capability step according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, and further includes the terminal downloading proxy unit prompting the user to select to download The steps to download the content.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the terminal downloading the agent unit according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, the step of checking the terminal device capability, further comprising: the plurality of download contents of the user In the process of selecting multiple downloads that meet the terminal capabilities for downloading.

The method according to claim 6, wherein the terminal downloading proxy unit checks the terminal device capability step according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, and further comprises: downloading the proxy unit to the unselected download The download server corresponding to the content transmits a status report with insufficient terminal capabilities.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the step of downloading the proxy unit according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, the step of checking the capability of the terminal device, further comprising the step of the user improving the capability of the terminal.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the terminal downloading proxy unit inspects the terminal device capability step according to the data amount information of the plurality of downloaded content, wherein the terminal capability is insufficient, including insufficient terminal memory , or the terminal does not support the type of content downloaded.

The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of the terminal downloading proxy unit receiving the downloading content further comprises the step of the terminal downloading the proxy unit installing the plurality of downloaded content.

The method according to claim 10, wherein the step of downloading the plurality of downloaded content by the terminal downloading agent unit may be installed in parallel.

The method according to claim 10 or 11, further comprising the step of the terminal downloading proxy unit transmitting a successful installation of the advertisement to the download server.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step of transmitting a successful installation report may be sent in parallel.

14. A terminal comprising:

a terminal downloading proxy unit, configured to generate download request information, and send the download request information to a download server;

The terminal capability determining unit is configured to receive the download description information sent by the download server, and determine the terminal capability according to the download description information;

The downloading agent unit is configured to:

The terminal according to claim 14, further comprising a user prompting unit that receives the judgment result information sent by the terminal capability judgment unit, and prompts the user to perform the processing according to the judgment result information.