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US 8,020,157 B2Granted
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AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
InventorsSvante Alnås, Angana Ghosh
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Abstract
Communication devices that include one or more software components can determine whether a software component is missing, notify a computer server of a software component determined as missing, and request a download of the missing software component to the device.
Claims17
A method of operating a user equipment (UE) in a communication system that includes a computer server, comprising the steps of:
- determining, by the UE, that an application, which uses a software component that supports a specific interface identifier, has not successfully started and identifying the software component missing from the UE;
- if the software component is determined as missing,
- sending, by an operating system or an application manager of the UE, an internal request to a client of the UE;
- sending, by the client, a first request for the missing software component to the computer server;
- and
- accessing and installing the software component according to the first request.
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A communication system, comprising:
- a computer server;
- and
- a user equipment (UE) that is selectively able to communicate with the computer server and that includes a processor configured to execute software components existent in the UE;
- wherein the UE is configured to send, if the processor determines that an application that uses a software component that supports a specific interface identifier has not successfully started and identifies the software component missing from the UE, an internal request by an operating system or an application manager to a client of the UE, and a first request by the client to the server for the missing software component;
- and to access and install the missing software component;
- and the server is configured to decide, based on the first request, the missing software component to be provided to the UE.
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