CN100395978C - A downloading method and a terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a downloading method, comprising the following steps: A. A terminal downloading agent unit requests a downloading descriptor from a downloading server, and obtains multiple downloading server information corresponding to multiple different downloading contents through the downloading descriptor; B. The terminal requests the corresponding multiple download contents from the multiple download servers in parallel; C. the multiple download servers send the corresponding multiple download contents to the terminal download agent unit; D. the terminal downloads The proxy unit receives the downloaded content. For the case of downloading a plurality of irrelevant contents at one time, the present invention can make the plurality of contents download synchronously, greatly improving the efficiency, and at the same time, it can also give the user a certain selection opportunity in case of abnormality, so as to enhance the user experience.

Description

A downloading method and a terminal

technical field

The invention relates to the field of wireless communication, in particular to a downloading method and a terminal.

Background technique

With the development of wireless networks, mobile phone download services are becoming more and more colorful, and the download function is also more and more enhanced. For example, considering that users may need to download multiple contents at a time, there is currently a multi- The function of downloading content located on different download servers together, but the current function is to download multiple contents at a time, downloading them serially instead of synchronously, which affects the download efficiency. In addition, when the user cannot download multiple contents at the same time due to some reasons (for example, the memory after the user sorts out is still insufficient to download all objects at the same time), the user is not given the opportunity to choose the content that can be downloaded and is the highest priority to download, thus causing Bad user experience. This article provides a method to enhance simultaneous downloading of multiple contents, which not only enables simultaneous downloading of multiple contents, but also gives the user a certain choice when an exception occurs.

The current existing process for downloading multiple contents at one time is shown in Figure 1, and it can be seen from Figure 1 that it includes the following steps:

S01. After the user finds a plurality of interesting contents, request to download them;

S02. The terminal download agent unit requests a download descriptor from the download server;

S03, the download server sends the download descriptor (DD, Download Descriptor) of each download content together to the terminal download agent unit, wherein the download descriptor includes information such as the type and size of the content to be downloaded;

S04, the terminal download agent unit checks the device capability according to the information in each download descriptor, such as whether there is enough memory, whether it supports the type of content to be downloaded, etc.;

S05. After checking the capability of the device, confirm to the user whether to download;

S06. The user confirms the download;

S07, the terminal download agent unit requests to download the object according to the information in the descriptor of the Media Object (1);

S08, the download server B sends the Media Object (1) to the terminal download agent unit;

S09, the terminal download agent unit carries out the installation of Media Object (1);

S010, after the installation is successful, the terminal download agent unit sends the Media Object (1) successful installation report to the download server B;

S011, after sending the installation report of Media Object (1), the terminal download agent unit requests to download the object according to the information in the descriptor of Media Object (2);

S012, the download server C sends Media Object (2) to the terminal;

S013, terminal download agent unit carries out the installation of Media Object (2);

S014. After the installation is successful, the terminal download agent unit sends the Media Object (2) successful installation report to the download server C.

For the above solution, since the downloading of multiple contents is performed serially, the terminal downloading efficiency is not high. 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 objects at the same time), the user is not given a certain opportunity to select the content that can be downloaded and is the most prioritized download.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to solve the problem of only serial downloading in the prior art, and provide a method and terminal for enhancing simultaneous downloading of multiple contents, which not only enables simultaneous downloading of multiple downloading contents, but also gives users Certain choices.

The inventive method comprises:

A downloading method, comprising the following steps:

A. The terminal download agent unit requests a download descriptor from the download server, and obtains multiple download server information corresponding to multiple different download contents through the download descriptor;

B. The terminal requests the corresponding multiple download contents from the multiple download servers in parallel;

C. The plurality of download servers send the corresponding plurality of download contents to the terminal download agent unit;

D. The terminal download agent unit receives the download content.

In the step A, the download descriptor further includes data amount information and type information of multiple different download contents for checking the terminal capability.

Before the step B, it also includes the step: B1, the terminal download agent unit checks the capability of the terminal device according to the data volume information and type information of the multiple different downloaded contents.

In the step B1, if the capability of the terminal device is not enough to download the plurality of different download contents, the user is prompted that the capability of the terminal is insufficient.

Said step B1 also includes the step of the terminal download agent unit prompting the user to select downloadable downloadable content.

The step B1 further includes a step in which the user selects a plurality of different download contents that meet the capabilities of the terminal to download from the plurality of different download contents.

In the step B1, the terminal download agent unit further includes sending a status report that the terminal capacity is insufficient to the download server corresponding to the unselected download content.

Said step B1 also includes a step for the user to improve the capability of the terminal.

In the step B1, the insufficient capacity of the terminal is insufficient memory of the terminal.

In the step B1, the terminal capability is insufficient, which means that the terminal does not support the type of downloaded content.

Said step D also includes the step of installing said plurality of different downloaded contents by the terminal download agent unit.

The step of installing the plurality of different downloaded contents by the terminal download agent unit is performed in parallel.

Said method also includes the step of sending a successful installation report to said download server by the terminal download agent unit. The step of sending the successful installation report is sent in parallel.

The terminal of the present invention includes:

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

receiving the download description information sent by the download server, and obtaining multiple download server information corresponding to multiple different download contents according to the download description information;

a terminal capability judging unit, configured to judge the terminal capability according to the download description information;

Described terminal download agent unit is provided with:

The parallel download processing unit is used to control the terminal download proxy unit to send parallel download requests to multiple download servers corresponding to the multiple different download contents, and to control the terminal download proxy unit to receive multiple download requests sent by the multiple download servers. Different downloads.

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

The beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows:

For the case of downloading a plurality of contents at one time, the present invention can make the plurality of contents download synchronously, greatly improving the efficiency, and at the same time, can give the user a certain selection opportunity in case of abnormality, thereby enhancing the user experience.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of downloading process in the prior art;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the download process of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the schematic flow chart of embodiment 1 of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a schematic flow chart of Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The specific implementation manners of the present invention will be described below in conjunction with the accompanying 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 download agent unit and a terminal capability judging unit.

The terminal download agent unit is used to generate download request information, and send the download request information to the download server;

The terminal capability judgment unit is configured to receive the download description information sent by the download server, judge the terminal capability according to the download description information, and exchange the terminal capability judgment information with the terminal download agent unit.

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

The parallel download processing unit is used 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 after parallel download and perform corresponding processing.

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

As shown in Figure 3, it is a schematic diagram of the main process of the present invention, as can be seen from the figure, the present invention mainly includes the following steps:

S1. The terminal download agent unit requests a download descriptor from the download server, and obtains the download server information corresponding to multiple download contents through the download descriptor;

When the user finds multiple download contents that he is interested in through some way, the download agent unit requests the download server for the download descriptors of these download contents.

In the download descriptor, there is a description of related information of the plurality of download contents, which may include the type and data amount of the download contents, etc., and also includes information of a plurality of download servers providing the download service of the download contents. The terminal initiates the download according to the information of the download descriptor.

S2. The terminal download agent unit requests the download content from the plurality of download servers in parallel;

According to the multiple download server information provided in the download descriptor, the terminal download proxy unit initiates a download request.

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

The terminal download agent unit first judges whether the terminal capability can support this download operation according to the information provided in the download descriptor, for example, judges whether the storage space of the terminal can store all downloads for ? If the terminal storage space is not enough to store all downloaded content, the user may be prompted to perform some operations to improve the terminal capability, such as tidying up the terminal storage space and deleting some unnecessary data, so as to expand the terminal storage space.

If the terminal capability is still not enough to download all the downloaded content after the user performs the operation of improving the terminal capability, the user may be prompted to perform selective download, and select the download content acceptable by the terminal capability.

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

For the solution of selecting part of the download content for download, as a supplement, the terminal download agent unit may also send a status report of insufficient memory of the terminal to the download server corresponding to the download content not selected for download operation.

S3. The multiple download servers send the download content to the terminal download agent unit;

Multiple download servers corresponding to the download content send the download content to the terminal download agent unit.

S4. The terminal download agent unit receives the download content.

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

In this step, other selection contents may also be included.

After receiving multiple downloading contents, the terminal download agent unit may install the multiple downloading contents, and the installation step 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 may support downloading of 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 downloading contents (Media Object (1), MediaObject (2)) of interest, request to download;

The downloaded content information that the multiple users are interested in can be obtained through different ways, such as network, media and so on.

S12. The terminal download agent unit requests a download descriptor from the download server;

S13. The download server sends the download descriptor of each content to the terminal download agent unit together, wherein the download descriptor includes information such as the type and data volume of the content to be downloaded;

S14. The terminal download agent unit checks the terminal capabilities according to the information in each download descriptor, such as whether there is enough memory, whether it supports the type of content to be downloaded, etc.;

S15. After checking the capability of the device, confirm to the user whether to download;

S16. The user confirms the download;

S17, S18. The terminal download agent unit simultaneously downloads content from different download servers in parallel according to the information in each descriptor;

S19, S110. download server B, download server C send Media Object (1), MediaObject (2) to terminal;

S111, S112, S113, S114. The terminal download agent unit synchronously installs Media Object (1), Media Object (2) and sends the installation report.

Example 2:

In Embodiment 2, the terminal capability cannot support downloading of all download content, and the user needs to select and download part of the download content, as shown in FIG. 5 , which is a schematic flowchart of Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

S21. After the user finds a plurality of interesting contents, request to download them;

S22. The terminal download agent unit requests a download descriptor from the download server;

S23. The download server sends the download descriptor of each content to the terminal download agent unit, which includes information such as the type and size of the content to be downloaded;

S24. The terminal download agent unit checks the terminal capabilities according to the information in each download descriptor, and finds that the terminal memory is insufficient;

S25. The terminal download agent unit prompts the user that memory is insufficient;

S26. The user deletes useless content and confirms the download;

S27. The terminal download agent unit checks the terminal capability again, and finds that the user's organized memory is not enough to download multiple downloads at the same time, and only one of them can be downloaded;

S28. The terminal download agent unit prompts the user to select one of the download contents to download;

S29, the user selects Media Object (2), and confirms the download;

S210, the terminal download agent unit sends a status report of "insufficient memory" to the download server B;

S211, the terminal download agent unit requests to download the Media Object (2) from the download server C;

S212, the download server C sends the Media Object (2) to the terminal download agent unit;

S213, the terminal download agent unit carries out the installation of Media Object (2);

S214. 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 situation of downloading two download contents at the same time. For the situation of downloading multiple (greater than 2) download contents at the same time, the following principles can be followed:

1. When the terminal download agent unit notifies the user that the sorted memory is still insufficient, the user can choose multiple download contents that meet the terminal capability requirements;

2. For the downloading of multiple downloading contents selected by the user and meeting the capability requirements, the downloading may be performed synchronously;

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

For the case of downloading multiple irrelevant contents at one time, using the present invention can make multiple contents be downloaded synchronously, which greatly improves the efficiency, and can also give the user a certain selection opportunity in case of abnormality, so as to enhance the user experience.

Obviously, those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalent technologies, the present invention also intends to include these modifications and variations.

Claims (16)

1. a method for down loading is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:

A, terminal downloads agent unit be to downloading the server requests Download Descriptor, knows a plurality of Download Server information of a plurality of different download content correspondences by described Download Descriptor;

B, the parallel a plurality of download contents of terminal to the described correspondence of described a plurality of Download Server requests;

C, described a plurality of Download Server send to the terminal downloads agent unit with a plurality of download contents of described correspondence;

D, terminal downloads agent unit receive described download content.

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, in the described steps A, in the described Download Descriptor, also comprises the data amount information, the type information that are used for a plurality of different download content that terminal capability is checked.

3. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, before the described step B, also comprises step:

B1, terminal downloads agent unit check terminal unit ability according to data amount information, the type information of described a plurality of different download contents.

4. method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, if described terminal unit ability is not enough to download described a plurality of different download content, then reminding subscriber terminal scarce capacity.

5. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, also comprises the step of the download content that terminal downloads agent unit prompting user selection can be downloaded.

6. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, also comprises the user in described a plurality of different download contents, selects to meet the step that a plurality of different download content of terminal capability is downloaded.

7. method as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, comprises that also the terminal downloads agent unit sends the status report of terminal capability deficiency to the pairing Download Server of nonoptional download content.

8. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, comprises that also the user improves the step of terminal capability.

9. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, described terminal capability deficiency is the terminal low memory.

10. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, among the described step B1, described terminal capability deficiency is not supported to download the type of content for terminal.

11. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, among the described step D, comprises that also the terminal downloads agent unit installs the step of described a plurality of different download content.

12. method as claimed in claim 11 is characterized in that, described terminal downloads agent unit is installed the step of described a plurality of different download content, is parallel the installation.

13. as claim 11 or 12 described methods, it is characterized in that, comprise that also the terminal downloads agent unit sends the step of successful Installation Report to described Download Server.

14. method as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that, the step of the successful Installation Report of described transmission is parallel the transmission.

15. a terminal comprises:

The terminal downloads agent unit is used to generate download request information, and described download request information is sent to Download Server; And

Receive the download descriptor that described Download Server sends, and know a plurality of Download Server information of a plurality of different download content correspondences according to described download descriptor;

The terminal capability judging unit is used for judging terminal capability according to described download descriptor;

It is characterized in that described terminal downloads agent unit is provided with:

Parallel download processing unit, be used for control terminal download agent unit and send parallel download request, and control terminal download agent unit receives a plurality of different download content that described a plurality of Download Server sends to a plurality of Download Server of described a plurality of different download content correspondences.

16. terminal as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, also comprises the user prompt unit, the judged result information that its receiving terminal ability judging unit sends, and the prompting user handles according to judged result information.

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