US 2014/0237462 A1Published application

Method and system for software upgrade

AssigneeTencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited

InventorsWei ZHENG, Chunhua Luo, Yuedong Weng, Zhiqiang He, Guanyan Xu, Cheng Guo

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Abstract

A method of upgrading an application installed on a mobile device is performed at a server. The method includes: determining a current version of the application installed on the mobile device and a new version of the application to be installed on the mobile device; generating a binary incremental package by comparing the current version of the application and the new version of the application using a binary file difference tool; in response to a upgrade request from the mobile device: pushing the binary incremental package to the mobile device through a wireless network; and receiving an application upgrade confirmation message from the mobile device. The mobile device is configured to reconstruct a version of the application and replace the current version of the application with the new version of the application using the reconstructed version of the application.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method of upgrading an application installed on a mobile device, comprising:

at a computer server having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors:
determining a current version of the application installed on the mobile device and a new version of the application to be installed on the mobile device;
generating a binary incremental package by comparing the current version of the application and the new version of the application using a binary file difference tool, wherein the binary incremental package includes one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application;
in response to a upgrade request from the mobile device:
pushing the binary incremental package to the mobile device through a wireless network;
and
receiving an application upgrade confirmation message from the mobile device,
wherein the mobile device is configured to:
reconstruct a version of the application by merging the current version of the application installed on the mobile device and the binary incremental package;
compare the reconstructed version of the application with the one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application;
and
in accordance with a determination that the reconstructed version of the application matches the one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application:
replace the current version of the application with the new version of the application using the reconstructed version of the application;
and
send the application upgrade confirmation message to the server.

12 more elements

A computer system of upgrading an application installed on a mobile device, comprising:

one or more processors;
memory;
and
one or more programs stored in the memory to be executed by the processors, the one or more programs further including instructions for:
determining a current version of the application installed on the mobile device and a new version of the application to be installed on the mobile device;
generating a binary incremental package by comparing the current version of the application and the new version of the application using a binary file difference tool, wherein the binary incremental package includes one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application;
in response to a upgrade request from the mobile device:
pushing the binary incremental package to the mobile device through a wireless network;
and
receiving an application upgrade confirmation message from the mobile device,
wherein the mobile device is configured to:
reconstruct a version of the application by merging the current version of the application installed on the mobile device and the binary incremental package;
compare the reconstructed version of the application with the one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application;
and
in accordance with a determination that the reconstructed version of the application matches the one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application:
replace the current version of the application with the new version of the application using the reconstructed version of the application;
and
send the application upgrade confirmation message to the server.

15 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a server, cause the server to:

determine a current version of the application installed on the mobile device and a new version of the application to be installed on the mobile device;
generate a binary incremental package by comparing the current version of the application and the new version of the application using a binary file difference tool, wherein the binary incremental package includes one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application;
in response to a upgrade request from the mobile device:
push the binary incremental package to the mobile device through a wireless network;
and
receive an application upgrade confirmation message from the mobile device,
wherein the mobile device is configured to:
reconstruct a version of the application by merging the current version of the application installed on the mobile device and the binary incremental package;
compare the reconstructed version of the application with the one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application;
and
in accordance with a determination that the reconstructed version of the application matches the one or more parameters derived from the new version of the application:
replace the current version of the application with the new version of the application using the reconstructed version of the application;
and
send the application upgrade confirmation message to the server.

11 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.