CN105577787A - Method and device for downloading and distributing application programs - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and device for downloading and publishing an application program. The method comprises the steps of providing an application program download reservation interface for a user at a terminal side, receiving the download reservation information of an application program from the user, sending a reservation request message for making an appointment to download the application program to a server side according to the download reservation information, and automatically receiving an installation package file of the application program sent from the server side at the background of the terminal side on the condition that the reservation condition is met. According to the technical scheme of the invention, on the condition that the reservation condition of the user is met, the background of the terminal can automatically download the installation package file of the target APP. Meanwhile, the installation package file of the target APP can be downloaded during the idle period of the terminal according to the downloading condition set by the user, so that the normal usage of the terminal is not influenced at all for the user. Moreover, based on the above manner, the target APP can be downloaded by the user terminal the first time after just being published, so that the operation is timely and efficient. In addition, on the premise that the user confirmation is obtained in advance, the target APP can be installed immediately after being downloaded. Therefore, the operation is convenient and efficient.

Description

Method and device for downloading and distributing application programs

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of computer networks, in particular to a method and device for downloading and distributing application programs.

Background technique

With the popularization of terminal use, more and more users download and use function-rich application programs (also called: application, APP or software) on the terminal. For example, the user checks the weather through the "Weitiantong" APP, browses news through the "News" APP, plays games through the "Game" APP on the mobile phone, and so on. Therefore, users often need to download and install various APPs to the terminal.

For some types of APP, the installation package is large, and it takes a long time to download to the local terminal, which occupies the terminal traffic and affects the speed of the user's use of the terminal. Moreover, some APP fever users hope to download and install the APP as soon as it is released. Therefore, how to download the latest APP at the first time without affecting the user's use of the terminal is a technical problem faced by those skilled in the art.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above problems, the present invention is proposed to provide a method and device for downloading and distributing application programs that overcome the above problems or at least partially solve the above problems.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for downloading an application program is provided, including:

On the terminal side, provide the user with an application program download reservation interface, and receive the user's reservation download information for the application program;

Sending a reservation request message for reservation to download the application program to the server side according to the reservation download information;

When the reservation condition is satisfied, the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background.

Preferably, after the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background, it further includes:

On the terminal side, according to the installation method confirmed by the user in advance, the installation package file is automatically run to complete the installation of the application program, or an installation prompt is displayed to the user, and the installation package file is run after the user confirms, Complete the installation of the application.

Preferably, before the automatic operation of the installation package file, it also includes:

Pre-acquire instant install permissions for the application in question.

Preferably, before providing the application download reservation interface to the user and receiving the user's reservation download information for the application program, it further includes:

receiving a push message of the application program sent by the server side, the push message including release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program;

After determining that the user satisfies the user condition information, an application download reservation interface is provided to the user, a push message of the application program is displayed to the user, and the user's reservation download information for the application program is received.

Preferably, the meeting the reservation condition includes: reaching the release time of the application program, and/or meeting the download condition set by the user;

When the reservation condition is met, the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background, including:

After the release time of the application program arrives and the download condition set by the user is met, the terminal automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background.

Preferably, it also includes:

The download condition set by the user is received through the application download reservation interface, and the download reservation information including the download condition is obtained.

Preferably, the downloading conditions include: free downloading, the terminal is powered on, the terminal is in an idle state, and/or the terminal is connected to wifi.

Preferably, the free traffic download includes:

Configure a download channel with a traffic-free identifier for multiple network content provided by the network content server, and provide the download channel and its traffic-free identifier to the network access server; provide the terminal with the ability to download the traffic-free method through the network access server. A flow-free download area for multiple network contents, wherein the flow-free download area is provided with a plurality of download interfaces corresponding to each network content, and each download interface is used to access the download channel to download the download interface. corresponding web content.

A method of publishing an application comprising:

On the server side, receive the reservation request message of each user who subscribes to download the application program sent by each terminal, and add the user information of each user who requests the reservation to download the application program to the pre-established user reservation database;

When the reservation condition is met, the server sends the installation package file of the application program to the terminal where each reservation user in the user reservation database is located.

Preferably, it also includes:

On the server side, judge whether the user is the target user of the application program according to the pre-acquired user access records;

The user information of each target user of the application program is added to a pre-established user subscription database.

Preferably, the server side acquires user access

Records include:

Count the click frequency value of the user within the preset time period;

Receive the data packet sent by the terminal to count the number of users who click on a specific application based on the information in the data packet;

Based on the received data packet information, real-time update the relevant data value used to count the historical click probability data value of the specific application program, wherein the relevant data value includes the number of users who click on the specific application program within a preset time period, total number of users.

Preferably, it also includes:

On the server side, a user reservation database is established for the application program, which is used to record the user information of each user who subscribes to download the application program, wherein the number of user information recorded in the user reservation database is not greater than that of the release of the application program quantity.

Preferably, before receiving the reservation request message sent by each terminal for each user to reserve an application for downloading, the method further includes:

Sending a push message of the application program to each terminal, the push message including release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program; where only user reservations meeting the user condition information are received.

Preferably, sending the push message from the server to the terminal includes:

Determine one or more terminals for receiving push information according to the identification information of the terminal, query the user access record of the corresponding terminal according to the identification information of the terminal; and push the application related to the corresponding terminal through the pre-established long connection channel Program-related information.

Preferably, the reservation condition refers to reaching the release time of the application program and meeting the download condition set by the user.

Preferably, it also includes:

According to user information and/or user access records, classify the user level of each user;

The installation package file of the application program is preferentially sent to users with higher user levels.

A device for downloading an application program, comprising:

The scheduled download information acquisition unit is configured to receive the user's scheduled download information for the application program through the application download scheduled interface provided to the user;

A reservation request unit, configured to send a reservation request message for reservation to download the application program to the server side according to the reservation download information;

The silent downloading unit is configured to automatically receive the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background of the terminal when the reservation condition is met.

Preferably, it also includes:

The installation execution unit is configured to automatically run the installation package file according to the installation method pre-confirmed by the user to complete the installation of the application program, or display an installation prompt to the user, and run the installation package file after the user confirms, Complete the installation of the application.

Preferably, it also includes:

The installation permission acquisition unit is used to acquire the instant installation permission for the application program in advance.

Preferably, it also includes:

The push message receiving unit is configured to receive the push message of the application program sent by the server side, where the push message includes release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program.

Preferably, the silent downloading unit is specifically configured to automatically receive the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the terminal background after the release time of the application program arrives and the download conditions set by the user are met.

Preferably, the scheduled download information acquiring unit is further configured to receive the download condition set by the user through the application download scheduled interface, and obtain the scheduled download information including the download condition.

Preferably, the downloading conditions include: free downloading, the terminal is powered on, the terminal is in an idle state, and/or the terminal is connected to wifi.

Preferably, it also includes:

The flow-free download control unit controls the terminal to download the network content from the flow-free download area from the flow-free download area through the download channel of the flow-free mark from the server side, wherein the flow-free download area is provided with multiple and various A download interface corresponding to the network content, each download interface is used to access the download channel to download the network content corresponding to the download interface.

A device for distributing applications, comprising:

A reservation request receiving unit, configured to receive a reservation request message sent by each terminal for each user to reserve an application for downloading;

The reservation database maintenance unit is used to add the user information of each user who reserves to download the application program to the pre-established user reservation database;

The application release unit is configured to send the installation package file of the application program to the terminal where each reserved user in the user reservation database is located when the reservation condition is satisfied.

Preferably, it also includes:

a target user determination unit, configured to determine whether the user is the target user of the application program according to the pre-acquired user access records;

The reservation database maintenance unit is further configured to add user information of each target user of the application program to a pre-established user reservation database.

Preferably, it also includes:

The user access record acquisition unit is used to count the click frequency value of the user within the preset time period; receive the data packet sent by the terminal to count the number of users who click on the specific application based on the information in the data packet; based on the received data packet information, real-time update the relevant data value used to count the historical click probability data value of the specific application, wherein the relevant data value includes the number of users who click on the specific application within a preset time period, and the total number of users.

Preferably, it also includes:

A reservation database establishment unit, configured to establish a user reservation database for the application, and to record the user information of each user who reserves to download the application, wherein the number of user information recorded in the user reservation database is not greater than that of the application The number of releases of the program.

Preferably, it also includes:

A push message sending unit, configured to send a push message of the application program to each terminal, the push message including release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program;

Wherein, the reservation request receiving unit only receives user reservations satisfying user condition information.

Preferably, it also includes:

The push message control unit is used to determine one or more terminals for receiving push information according to the identification information of the terminal, and query the user access record of the corresponding terminal according to the identification information of the terminal; The terminal pushes information related to the application.

Preferably, the application release unit sends the installation package file of the application to the terminal where the user is located when the release time of the application is reached and the user's download conditions are met.

Preferably, it also includes:

The application publishing scheduling unit is configured to classify the user level of each user according to the user information and/or user access records; and send the installation package file of the application program to the user with a higher user level in priority.

Through the present invention, the download of the target APP installation package file can be automatically completed in the background of the terminal under the condition that the user's reservation is satisfied. Since the download can be performed when the terminal is idle according to the download conditions set by the user, it will not affect the user's normal use of the terminal. . Moreover, this method can ensure that the target APP is downloaded to the user terminal as soon as it is released, which is timely and efficient. In addition, if the user confirms in advance, it can be installed immediately after downloading, which is convenient and efficient.

The above description is only an overview of the technical solution of the present invention. In order to better understand the technical means of the present invention, it can be implemented according to the contents of the description, and in order to make the above and other purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable , the specific embodiments of the present invention are enumerated below.

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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment. The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating a preferred embodiment and are not to be considered as limiting the invention. Also throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same components. In the attached picture:

FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a method for downloading an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 shows a schematic structural diagram of a terminal-based traffic-free downloading system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a method for publishing an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of a method for downloading and publishing an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows a schematic diagram of an apparatus for downloading an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

Fig. 6 shows a schematic diagram of an apparatus for publishing an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided for more thorough understanding of the present disclosure and to fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.

As mentioned above, some APP installation package files are relatively large, for example, game APP installation package files, downloading and installing these files will take up a lot of resources and affect the speed of the user's normal use of the terminal. Therefore, the present invention proposes that when the APP is released, Silent download is performed at the first time, so as not to affect the user's use of the terminal, and it can ensure that the user obtains the APP as soon as the new APP is released.

Referring to FIG. 1 , it is a flowchart of a method for downloading an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes the following steps S101-S103.

S101: On the terminal side, provide an application program download reservation interface to the user, and receive the user's reservation download information for the application program.

On the download appointment interface, the prompt message can be displayed on the terminal in the form of a dialog box, or it can be displayed with the help of other APPs. For example, if a user wants to download a target game app through a mobile phone (for example, the target game app is the "Westward Journey" mobile game), it can be pushed on apps such as "Game Center", "Game Hall" or "Life Assistant". The download and appointment interface of Westward Journey. For example, a large number of life service providers are aggregated in the life assistant, and users can browse such webpages through the home page display and order corresponding life services. After ordering, users can use a number of convenient life services. The life service content is provided by the contracted life service provider (hereinafter referred to as "life service provider"), and the life service provider is responsible for the service process and after-sales service. To accept various services of "Life Assistant", users need to provide personal information necessary for the service, including mobile phone number, delivery address, etc. The personal information necessary for the "Life Assistant" service is directly transmitted to the life service provider in an encrypted form. The user sets parameters on the download reservation interface of the life assistant, for example, sets the download conditions, and the download will only be performed when the download conditions are met. Therefore, after the user sets the parameters, the terminal can obtain the scheduled download information including the download conditions.

Among them, there may be one or more download conditions, which may be selected by the user through options, or receive a download condition command from the user. For example, in order not to affect the user's normal use of the mobile phone, downloading can be avoided when the user is using the mobile phone. Therefore, downloading can be performed only when the terminal is in an idle state. For another example, considering that downloading may take a long time, in order to ensure that the battery of the mobile phone is sufficient, it can be set to download only when the terminal is powered on. For another example, considering that downloading will consume a certain amount of network traffic, you can set the terminal to download only when it is connected to wifi. Specifically, one or more of the downloading conditions may be set at the same time, and there is no limitation on this. Moreover, the above three downloading conditions are only illustrative, and the actual situation is not limited thereto. For example, a specific time period for downloading can be set, such as setting to start downloading at 23:00-24:00 at night. The download is confirmed and the terminal is required to remind again next time (for example, remind again tomorrow), etc.

In addition, taking the promotion of the "Westward Journey" APP on the "Life Assistant" APP as an example, since the Life Assistant APP provides a data-free function, users can get a certain amount after binding the local number they are using in the Life Assistant. of free traffic. Therefore, when downloading is required in a non-WiFi environment, free traffic is given priority. Therefore, in this case, the user can set the download condition as: downloading the target APP with free traffic.

Regarding the traffic-free downloading, please refer to FIG. 2 , which shows a schematic structural diagram of a terminal-based traffic-free downloading system. As shown in FIG. 2 , the system includes: a traffic-free downloading device 11 , a network content server 12 , a network access server 13 and a mobile terminal 14 . Wherein, the user of the mobile terminal 14 is the terminal user. The network access server 13 is usually provided by a network operator (such as China Unicom, China Telecom or China Mobile), and is used to provide terminal users with Internet access services. The network content server 12 is usually provided by an Internet Content Provider (Internet Content Provider, ICP), and is used to provide terminal users with rich and diverse network content (such as applications, games, etc.) by using network resources of the Internet. The flow-free downloading device 11 is used as an intermediate platform between the network content server 12 and the network access server 13, that is, the network content provided by the network content server 12 is connected to the network access server 13 through the flow-free downloading device 11, and finally provided to the mobile terminal 14. The flow-free downloading method realized based on the system in Fig. 2 includes: configuring a download channel with a flow-free identification for multiple network contents provided by the network content server, providing the download channel and the flow-free identification to the network access server; The server provides the terminal with a traffic-free download area capable of downloading the plurality of network contents in a traffic-free manner, wherein the traffic-free download area is provided with a plurality of download interfaces corresponding to various network contents, and each download interface is used for Access the download channel to download the network content corresponding to the download interface.

In actual situations, the terminal may collect scheduled download information from the user through the download booking interface after receiving the notification from the server that the target APP is to be published. Therefore, before providing the user with an application download reservation interface and receiving the user's reservation download information for the application program, it also includes: receiving the push message of the application program sent by the server side, the push message includes the release time information and the release quantity information of the application program, And/or, user condition information; after determining that the user meets the user condition information, provide the user with an application download reservation interface, display the push message of the application program to the user, and receive the user's reservation download information for the application program. Wherein, the push message mainly notifies the user of some information of the target APP, for example, information such as when to start publishing. At the same time, the user condition information can inform the user of the conditions for downloading the target APP, for example, whether it can be downloaded and installed for free for all users, or only for specific users, for example, only a part of users are divided according to user grades (or user history points, etc.) You have permission to download, or you need to purchase and download.

The process of sending a push message from the server side to the terminal side will be described in detail below.

First, one or more terminals for receiving push information can be determined according to the identification information of the terminal, and then the network access record of the corresponding terminal can be queried according to the identification information of the terminal; Push the information associated with the above network access records.

Specifically, a message pushing device may be set on the server side, and the message pushing device detects terminals in the online state in the preset terminal group, and establishes long connection channels with each terminal in the online state. Among them, the long connection channel between the message push device and the terminal can be established in the following manner: first, the message push device sends a long connection establishment request message to a certain terminal in the online state; then, the terminal receives the long connection establishment request message Afterwards, return the persistent connection establishment confirmation message to the message push device, and the identification information of the terminal is included in the long connection establishment confirmation message; finally, after the message push device receives the above-mentioned persistent connection establishment confirmation message, it establishes a long connection with the terminal The channel is connected, and the channel identifier of the long connection channel is stored in a pre-configured terminal list in association with the identification information of the terminal contained in the long connection establishment confirmation message.

Wherein, the identification information of the terminal includes one or more of the following information: device information of the terminal, which is used to uniquely identify the terminal device (such as MR information of a mobile phone); terminal number information associated with the terminal device, It is used to identify the user of the terminal device (such as the mobile phone number or SIM card number of the mobile phone); and, the network type information corresponding to the terminal number is used to identify the type of network accessed by the terminal number (such as China Unicom network, telecommunications network or mobile network, etc.).

Preferably, the terminal identification information stored in the terminal list includes the above multiple pieces of information at the same time. To this end, the above-mentioned pieces of information can be collected in the following two ways:

In the first way, the identification information of the terminal contained in the persistent connection establishment confirmation message sent by the terminal includes the above-mentioned multiple pieces of information at the same time. At this time, the terminal program (such as a mobile phone assistant program) on the terminal can directly Obtain multiple pieces of information above.

In the second manner, the identification information of the terminal contained in the persistent connection establishment confirmation message sent by the terminal only includes one or two items of information above, and the other information is pre-collected by the message push device. For example, assuming that the identification information of the terminal contained in the persistent connection establishment confirmation message sent by the terminal only includes the device information of the terminal, at this time, the message pushing device needs to collect the number information and network type of the terminal corresponding to the device information in advance. For specific collection, each terminal may be required to provide the message push device with a number corresponding to the device information when joining a preset terminal group, that is, when ordering a certain network service or installing a certain terminal program (such as a mobile phone assistant). information and network type, and then, the message pushing device associates and stores the device information with the corresponding number information and network type in an associated information list. Thus, after the message pushing device receives the device information contained in the persistent connection establishment confirmation message, it can search the associated information list to determine the number information and network type corresponding to the device information, and store these items of information They are also associated and stored in the above-mentioned terminal list. Still taking the above example of promoting the "Westward Journey" APP on the "Life Assistant" APP, first, the "Life Assistant" APP will receive a push message from the server side for Westward Journey, which informs the release time, quantity, User conditions and other information; secondly, the download reservation interface is displayed to the user on the Life Assistant APP; then, the user sets or enters the download conditions on the download reservation interface to complete the reservation function, and the terminal obtains the reservation download information according to the user's settings , and subsequently feed back to the server side according to the reservation information.

S102: According to the reserved download information, send a reservation request message to the server side to reserve the download of the application program.

As mentioned above, after the user sets the parameters on the download reservation interface, the terminal obtains the user's reservation download information. At this time, it needs to send a reservation request message to the server side, indicating the user's download request.

Still taking the above example of promoting the "Westward Journey" APP on the "Life Assistant" APP, the "Life Assistant" APP receives the reservation download information according to the user's settings, and then feeds back a reservation request message to the server side, indicating that the user has downloaded Westward Journey. will. Wherein, the reservation request message includes user information (for example, user identification, user level information, etc.), download conditions and other information.

S103: When the reservation condition is satisfied, the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background.

Reservation conditions refer to reaching the release time of the target APP and the download conditions set by the user. For example, if the target APP is released at 0:00 on December 12, then the time to download the target APP must be after 0:00 on December 12. In addition, if the user sets the download conditions for downloading the target APP include: , then it is necessary to judge whether the downloading condition is met, and if the downloading condition is met, the downloading starts.

When the reservation conditions are met, the terminal automatically completes the operation of receiving the installation package file in the background without user intervention. It can be understood that obtaining the user's reservation download information through the previous steps indicates that the user's authorization is obtained, so the download of the file can be automatically completed when the reservation condition is met. Specifically, the installation package sent by the server side may be received through a preset interface. Still taking the promotion of the "Westward Journey" APP on the "Game Center" APP as an example above, the "Game Center" APP determines that the reservation conditions are met through judgment, and calls a specific interface through the API, and the control terminal receives in the background from the server side. Install package files.

So far, through the present invention, the download of the target APP installation package file can be automatically completed in the background of the terminal under the condition that the user's reservation is satisfied, and the user is "unaware" and will not affect the user's normal use of the terminal. Moreover, this method can ensure that the target APP is downloaded to the user terminal as soon as it is released, which is timely and efficient.

After the target APP is downloaded locally, the target APP needs to be installed. There are many ways to install the target APP. A preferred method is to immediately allow the installation of the package file to install the APP after the target APP is downloaded locally. This method needs to obtain the user's permission in advance. For example, when the user's scheduled download information can be collected in step S101, At the same time, the user is asked to set whether to allow instant installation (also called "secondary installation"). Of course, other methods can also be used to enable the user to set whether to allow instant installation. In this way, it is necessary to obtain the instant installation permission to install the target APP in advance, for example, the root permission has been obtained in advance, or the signature permission of the system is used. In addition, if the user does not set instant installation, after the download is complete, the user may be asked whether to allow the installation in a dialog box, and after the user confirms that the installation is allowed, the installation package file is allowed to complete the installation.

Referring to FIG. 3 , it is a flowchart of a method for publishing an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes the following steps S301-S302.

S301: On the server side, receive a reservation request message sent by each terminal for each user to reserve and download the application, and add the user information of each user requesting to reserve the download of the application to a pre-established user reservation database.

On the server side, a user reservation database needs to be established for the application to record the user information of each user who subscribes to download the application, wherein the number of user information recorded in the user reservation database is not greater than the number of application releases. The server on the network side needs to be connected to the open platform of a specific application. The specific application can also configure a reserved dedicated download channel for each network content in each connected network content server. The number of the download channels can be one or more Can be multiple. User information includes at least a user ID, and may also include information such as user access records. Through the user reservation database that records user information, it is possible to count how many users have reserved and downloaded the target APP. During specific operations, the server side may establish multiple databases for multiple different target APPs. After the user information is obtained through the user reservation database, these users can be added to a target APP download list, and when the reservation conditions are met, the download list is scheduled and the installation package file is delivered to each user.

Preferably, before receiving the reservation request message sent by each terminal for each user to reserve and download the application program, it also includes: sending a push message of the application program to each terminal, and the push message includes release time information and release quantity information of the application program, and/or Or, user condition information; wherein, only user reservations meeting the user condition information are received.

S302: When the reservation condition is satisfied, the server sends the installation package file of the application program to the terminal of each reservation user in the user reservation database.

Wherein, the reservation condition means that the release time of the application program is reached and the download condition set by the user is met. As described before, for example, if the target APP is released at 0:00 on December 12, then the time to download the target APP must be after 0:00 on December 12. In addition, if the user sets the download conditions for downloading the target APP include: If the terminal is connected to wifi and the terminal is charging, then it is necessary to judge whether the download condition is met. If the download condition is met, the installation package file will be transmitted between the server and the terminal.

Under normal circumstances, there will be a large number of users who reserve to download the target APP, and transmitting installation package files to many users at the same time will cause congestion on the server side. Therefore, how to control traffic is a problem that needs to be considered on the server side. One method is to perform flow control through user priority, for example, divide the user level of each user according to user information and/or user access records; send application installation package files to users with higher user levels in priority. Another method is to control the flow according to the reservation time. For example, according to the time stamp of the user's reservation target APP, according to the principle of early reservation priority, the installation package file is given priority to the early reservation user.

The above introduction is the method of releasing the application program by user reservation and recording the reservation user on the server side. This method is a "passive" release from the server side. In fact, other "active" methods can also be adopted. The release of the target APP. For example, for some historical users, it may be determined whether the user is a target user according to user access records. The so-called target users refer to users who are very interested in the upcoming APP or can be inferred to be relevant. For example, if a user has used a certain APP on his PC, then when the user uses the same user ID on a mobile phone, it can be inferred that the user is interested in this APP or a similar APP or an upgraded version of the APP. Target users. Therefore, for this situation, preferably, the above method further includes the steps: on the server side, according to the pre-acquired user access records, judging whether the user is the target user of the application program; adding the user information of each target user of the application program to the Pre-established user reservation database. This active release method can avoid the problem that the target user fails to make an appointment in time and misses the problem of downloading the favorite APP at the first time.

It can be understood that in the case of publishing the target APP in the above-mentioned "active" manner, the server side needs to obtain user access records in advance. The following describes in detail about obtaining user access records.

Step 1. Count the click frequency values of the users within the preset time period.

The click frequency value is specifically obtained by dividing the number of users who click on a specific application software within a preset time period by the total number of users, and the server counts the users who click on a specific application software within a preset time period according to the information uploaded by the terminal. number, and divide the counted number of users clicking on the specific application by the total counted number of users, so as to obtain the value of the user's click frequency within a preset time period. Wherein, the preset time can be set to 10 days or other time values.

Step 2. The server receives the data packet sent by the terminal, and counts the number of users who click on the specific application software based on the information in the data packet.

The information in the data packet includes software name, ID number, version number, software icon, and user account information. The application software clicked by the user can be uniquely determined based on the software name, and the ID number is an identifier assigned to the application software by the server in advance, which can be used to uniquely determine the application software clicked by the user. The version number of the application software is used to distinguish the click rate of different versions of the application software, and is combined with the software name or ID number to determine the application software clicked by the user. The software icon can also be used to uniquely determine the application software clicked by the user. The user account is used to count which users have clicked on the application software. If new users are included, the total number of users will be updated at the same time.

Step 3, based on the received data packet information, the server updates in real time the relevant data value used to count the historical click probability data value of the specific application software, wherein the relevant data value includes clicking on the specific application program within a preset time period The number of users and the total number of users.

Referring to FIG. 4 , it shows a flowchart of a method for downloading and publishing an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention.

S401: The server sends a push message for the target APP to the terminal;

S402: On the terminal side, display the download reservation interface of the target APP to the user, and obtain the reservation download information set by the user;

S403: The terminal sends a reservation download request message to the server;

S404: When the reservation condition is met, the terminal receives the installation package file of the target APP sent by the server;

S405: In the case that the user sets the installation in seconds, run the installation package file immediately after downloading the installation package file to complete the installation.

Through the present invention, the download of the target APP installation package file can be automatically completed in the background of the terminal under the condition that the user's reservation is satisfied. Since the download is performed according to the download conditions set by the user, for example, the download is performed while charging, so it will not Affect the normal use of the terminal by the user. Moreover, this method can ensure that the target APP is downloaded to the user terminal as soon as it is released, which is timely and efficient. In addition, if the user confirms in advance, it can be installed immediately after downloading, which is convenient and efficient.

Corresponding to the above method, the present invention provides a device for downloading application programs. The device is located at the terminal side, and can be implemented by hardware, software, or a combination of software and hardware. Preferably, the device refers to an application running on the terminal, such as the "Life Assistant" APP in the above example.

Taking the life assistant APP as an example, those skilled in the art can understand that its implementation can be logically divided into multiple functional layers. For example, it includes: product display layer: that is, all recommended pages that users see in the life assistant, including the appointment download interface of the present invention; server-side front-end interface: used to repackage the data returned by the recommendation interface into a form that can be displayed by the front-end , the present invention communicates with the server through the interface; data layer: original application data, including application name, application label, application classification, etc.; user access record data, including user browsing behavior and user downloading behavior.

Referring to FIG. 5 , it is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for downloading an application program provided by an embodiment of the present invention. The unit includes:

The scheduled download information obtaining unit 501 is configured to receive the user's scheduled download information for the application program through the application download scheduled interface provided to the user;

A reservation request unit 502, configured to send a reservation request message for reservation to download the application program to the server side according to the reservation download information;

The silent downloading unit 503 is configured to automatically receive the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the terminal background when the reservation condition is met.

Preferably, the device also includes:

The installation execution unit 504 is configured to automatically run the installation package file according to the installation method confirmed by the user in advance to complete the installation of the application program, or display an installation prompt to the user, and then run the installation package file after the user confirms to complete the installation of the application.

Preferably, the device also includes:

The installation permission obtaining unit 505 is configured to pre-acquire the instant installation permission for the application.

Preferably, the device also includes:

The push message receiving unit 506 is configured to receive the push message of the application program sent by the server side, where the push message includes release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program.

Preferably, the silent download unit 503 is specifically configured to automatically receive the installation package file of the application sent by the server side in the terminal background after the release time of the application arrives and the download conditions set by the user are met. .

Preferably, the scheduled download information obtaining unit 501 is further configured to receive the download condition set by the user through the application download scheduled interface, and obtain the scheduled download information including the download condition.

Preferably, the downloading conditions include: free downloading, the terminal is powered on, the terminal is in an idle state, and/or the terminal is connected to wifi.

Preferably, the device also includes:

The flow-free download control unit 507 controls the terminal to download the network content from the flow-free download area from the flow-free download zone through the download channel of the flow-free mark from the server side, wherein there are multiple and each A download interface corresponding to an item of network content, each download interface is used to access the download channel to download the network content corresponding to the download interface

Corresponding to the above method, the present invention provides a device for distributing application programs. The device is located on the server side and can be realized by hardware, software or a combination of software and hardware.

Referring to FIG. 6 , it is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for publishing application programs provided by an embodiment of the present invention. The unit includes:

A reservation request receiving unit 601, configured to receive a reservation request message sent by each terminal for each user to reserve an application for downloading;

A reservation database maintenance unit 602, configured to add the user information of each user of the reservation download application program to the pre-established user reservation database;

The application issuing unit 603 is configured to send the installation package file of the application program to the terminal where each reserved user in the user reservation database is located when the reservation condition is met.

Preferably, the device also includes:

A target user determining unit 604, configured to determine whether the user is the target user of the application program according to the pre-acquired user access records;

The reservation database maintenance unit 602 is further configured to add user information of each target user of the application program to a pre-established user reservation database.

Preferably, the device also includes:

The user access record acquisition unit 605 is used to count the click frequency value of the user within the preset time period; receive the data packet sent by the terminal, and count the number of users who click on the specific application based on the information in the data packet; based on the received data The package information is used to update relevant data values used for counting the historical click probability data values of the specific application in real time, wherein the relevant data values include the number of users who click on the specific application within a preset time period and the total number of users.

Preferably, the device also includes:

A reservation database establishment unit 606, configured to establish a user reservation database for the application, and to record user information of each user who reserves to download the application, wherein the number of user information recorded in the user reservation database is not greater than the The number of publications for the application.

Preferably, the device also includes:

A push message sending unit 607, configured to send a push message of the application to each terminal, where the push message includes release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application; wherein, the The reservation request receiving unit 601 only receives user reservations satisfying user condition information.

The push message control unit 608 is configured to determine one or more terminals for receiving push information according to the identification information of the terminals, and query the user access records of the corresponding terminals according to the identification information of the terminals; The corresponding terminal pushes information related to the application.

Preferably, the application release unit 603 sends the installation package file of the application to the terminal where the user is located when the release time of the application is reached and the user's download conditions are satisfied.

Preferably, the device also includes:

The application release scheduling unit 609 is configured to classify the user level of each user according to the user information and/or user access records; and send the installation package file of the application program to the user with a higher user level in priority.

The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, virtual system, or other device. Various generic systems can also be used with the teachings based on this. The structure required to construct such a system is apparent from the above description. Furthermore, the present invention is not specific to any particular programming language. It should be understood that various programming languages can be used to implement the content of the present invention described herein, and the above description of specific languages is for disclosing the best mode of the present invention.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure the understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, in order to streamline this disclosure and to facilitate an understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or its description. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the modules in the device in the embodiment can be adaptively changed and arranged in one or more devices different from the embodiment. Modules or units or components in the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-assemblies. All features disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) and any method or method so disclosed may be used in any combination, except that at least some of such features and/or processes or units are mutually exclusive. All processes or units of equipment are combined. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will understand that although some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments but not others, combinations of features from different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention. and form different embodiments. For example, in the following claims, any of the claimed embodiments may be used in any combination.

The various component embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, or in software modules running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP) can be used in practice to realize some or all functions of some or all parts in the device for downloading and distributing application programs according to the embodiment of the present invention . The present invention can also be implemented as an apparatus or an apparatus program (for example, a computer program and a computer program product) for performing a part or all of the methods described herein. Such a program for realizing the present invention may be stored on a computer-readable medium, or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may be downloaded from an Internet site, or provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In a unit claim enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The use of the words first, second, and third, etc. does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

Visible, the present invention provides following scheme:

A1. A method for downloading an application program, comprising:

On the terminal side, provide the user with an application program download reservation interface, and receive the user's reservation download information for the application program;

Sending a reservation request message for reservation to download the application program to the server side according to the reservation download information;

When the reservation condition is satisfied, the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background.

A2. The method described in A1, after the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background, further includes:

On the terminal side, according to the installation method confirmed by the user in advance, the installation package file is automatically run to complete the installation of the application program, or an installation prompt is displayed to the user, and the installation package file is run after the user confirms, Complete the installation of the application.

A3, the method as described in A2, before the described automatic operation described installation package file, also include:

Pre-acquire instant install permissions for the application in question.

A4. The method as described in A1, before providing the user with an application download reservation interface and receiving the user’s reservation download information for the application program, further includes:

receiving a push message of the application program sent by the server side, the push message including release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program;

After determining that the user satisfies the user condition information, an application download reservation interface is provided to the user, a push message of the application program is displayed to the user, and the user's reservation download information for the application program is received.

A5. The method as described in A4, the meeting the reservation condition includes: reaching the release time of the application program, and/or meeting the download condition set by the user;

When the reservation condition is met, the terminal side automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background, including:

After the release time of the application program arrives and the download condition set by the user is met, the terminal automatically receives the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background.

A6, the method as described in A5, also includes:

The download condition set by the user is received through the application download reservation interface, and the download reservation information including the download condition is obtained.

A7. The method as described in A6, wherein the download conditions include: free downloading, the terminal is powered on, the terminal is in an idle state, and/or the terminal is connected to wifi.

A8, the method as described in A7, the described flow-free downloading includes:

Configure a download channel with a traffic-free identifier for multiple network content provided by the network content server, and provide the download channel and its traffic-free identifier to the network access server; provide the terminal with the ability to download the traffic-free method through the network access server. A flow-free download area for multiple network contents, wherein the flow-free download area is provided with a plurality of download interfaces corresponding to each network content, and each download interface is used to access the download channel to download the download interface. corresponding web content.

B9. A method for publishing an application program, comprising:

On the server side, receive the reservation request message of each user who subscribes to download the application program sent by each terminal, and add the user information of each user who requests the reservation to download the application program to the pre-established user reservation database;

When the reservation condition is met, the server sends the installation package file of the application program to the terminal where each reservation user in the user reservation database is located.

B10. The method as described in B9, further comprising:

On the server side, judge whether the user is the target user of the application program according to the pre-acquired user access records;

The user information of each target user of the application program is added to a pre-established user subscription database.

B11. The method described in B10, where the server side obtains the user access record includes:

Count the click frequency value of the user within the preset time period;

Receive the data packet sent by the terminal to count the number of users who click on a specific application based on the information in the data packet;

Based on the received data packet information, real-time update the relevant data value used to count the historical click probability data value of the specific application program, wherein the relevant data value includes the number of users who click on the specific application program within a preset time period, total number of users.

B12. The method as described in B9, B10 or B11, further comprising:

On the server side, a user reservation database is established for the application program, which is used to record the user information of each user who subscribes to download the application program, wherein the number of user information recorded in the user reservation database is not greater than that of the release of the application program quantity.

B13. The method as described in B12, before receiving the reservation request message of each user who subscribes to download the application program sent by each terminal, it also includes:

Sending a push message of the application program to each terminal, the push message including release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program; where only user reservations meeting the user condition information are received.

B14. The method as described in B13, sending the push message from the server side to the terminal includes:

Determine one or more terminals for receiving push information according to the identification information of the terminal, query the user access record of the corresponding terminal according to the identification information of the terminal; and push the application related to the corresponding terminal through the pre-established long connection channel Program-related information.

B15. The method as described in B9, B10 or B11, the reservation condition refers to the release time of the application, and the download condition set by the user is met.

B16. The method as described in B9, B10 or B11, further comprising:

According to user information and/or user access records, classify the user level of each user;

The installation package file of the application program is preferentially sent to users with higher user levels.

C17. A device for downloading an application program, comprising:

The scheduled download information acquisition unit is configured to receive the user's scheduled download information for the application program through the application download scheduled interface provided to the user;

A reservation request unit, configured to send a reservation request message for reservation to download the application program to the server side according to the reservation download information;

The silent downloading unit is configured to automatically receive the installation package file of the application program sent by the server side in the background of the terminal when the reservation condition is met.

C18. The device as described in C17, further comprising:

The installation execution unit is configured to automatically run the installation package file according to the installation method pre-confirmed by the user to complete the installation of the application program, or display an installation prompt to the user, and run the installation package file after the user confirms, Complete the installation of the application.

C19. The device as described in C18, further comprising:

The installation permission acquisition unit is used to acquire the instant installation permission for the application program in advance.

C20. The device as described in C19, further comprising:

The push message receiving unit is configured to receive the push message of the application program sent by the server side, where the push message includes release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program.

C21. The device as described in C20, the silent download unit is specifically used to automatically receive the application sent by the server side in the terminal background after the release time of the application arrives and the download conditions set by the user are met. The installation package file of the program.

C22. The method described in C21, wherein the scheduled download information acquiring unit is further configured to receive the download condition set by the user through the application download scheduled interface, and obtain the scheduled download information including the download condition.

C23. The device described in C22, wherein the downloading conditions include: free downloading, the terminal is powered on, the terminal is in an idle state, and/or the terminal is connected to wifi.

C24. The device as described in C23, further comprising:

The flow-free download control unit controls the terminal to download the network content from the flow-free download area from the flow-free download area through the download channel of the flow-free mark from the server side, wherein the flow-free download area is provided with multiple and various A download interface corresponding to the network content, each download interface is used to access the download channel to download the network content corresponding to the download interface.

D25. A device for distributing application programs, comprising:

A reservation request receiving unit, configured to receive a reservation request message sent by each terminal for each user to reserve an application for downloading;

The reservation database maintenance unit is used to add the user information of each user who reserves to download the application program to the pre-established user reservation database;

The application release unit is configured to send the installation package file of the application program to the terminal where each reserved user in the user reservation database is located when the reservation condition is met.

D26. The device as described in D25, further comprising:

a target user determination unit, configured to determine whether the user is the target user of the application program according to the pre-acquired user access records;

The reservation database maintenance unit is further configured to add user information of each target user of the application program to a pre-established user reservation database.

D27. The device as described in D26, further comprising:

The user access record acquisition unit is used to count the click frequency value of the user within the preset time period; receive the data packet sent by the terminal to count the number of users who click on the specific application based on the information in the data packet; based on the received data packet information, real-time update the relevant data value used to count the historical click probability data value of the specific application, wherein the relevant data value includes the number of users who click on the specific application within a preset time period, and the total number of users.

D28. The device as described in D25, D26 or D27, further comprising:

A reservation database establishment unit, configured to establish a user reservation database for the application, and to record the user information of each user who reserves to download the application, wherein the number of user information recorded in the user reservation database is not greater than that of the application The number of releases of the program.

D29. The device as described in D28, further comprising:

A push message sending unit, configured to send a push message of the application program to each terminal, the push message including release time information, release quantity information, and/or user condition information of the application program;

Wherein, the reservation request receiving unit only receives user reservations satisfying user condition information.

D30. The device as described in D29, further comprising:

The push message control unit is used to determine one or more terminals for receiving push information according to the identification information of the terminal, and query the user access record of the corresponding terminal according to the identification information of the terminal; The terminal pushes information related to the application.

D31. The device described in D25, D26 or D27, wherein the application release unit sends the installation package file of the application to the terminal where the user is located when the release time of the application is reached and the user's download conditions are satisfied.

D32. The device as described in D25, D26 or D27, further comprising:

The application release scheduling unit is configured to classify the user level of each user according to the user information and/or user access records; and send the installation package file of the application program to the user with a higher user level in priority.

Claims (10)

1. a method for down load application program, is characterized in that, comprising:

In end side, provide application program to download reservation interface to user, receive the reservation Download Info of user for application program;

According to described reservation Download Info, send to server side the reservation request message that described application program is downloaded in reservation;

When satisfied reservation condition, the installation kit file of described end side described application program that server side sends described in the automatic reception of backstage.

2. the method for claim 1, is characterized in that, in described end side after the installation kit file of the described application program of server side transmission described in the automatic reception of backstage, also comprises:

In described end side, according to the mounting means that user confirms in advance, automatically run described installation kit file, complete the installation of described application program, or, show installation suggestion to user, rerun after being determined by user described installation kit file, completes the installation of described application program.

3. method as claimed in claim 2, is characterized in that, before the described installation kit file of described automatic operation, also comprise:

Obtain the instant installation authority for described application program in advance.

4. the method for claim 1, is characterized in that, provides application to download reservation interface, before receiving the reservation Download Info of user for application program, also comprise described to user:

The PUSH message of the described application program that reception server side sends, described PUSH message comprises issuing time information, the publish quantities information of described application program, and/or, user's conditional information;

After determining that described user meets described user's conditional information, provide application to download reservation interface to user, show the PUSH message of described application program to user, receive the reservation Download Info of user for application program.

5. method as claimed in claim 4, it is characterized in that, described satisfied reservation condition comprises: the issuing time reaching described application program, and/or, meet the download condition that user is arranged;

Described when satisfied reservation condition, the installation kit file of described end side described application program that server side sends described in the automatic reception of backstage, comprising:

After the issuing time of described application program arrives, and under meeting the download condition that user arranges, the installation kit file of the described application program that described terminal sends at backstage automatic reception server side.

6. method as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, also comprise:

Download reservation interface by described application, receive the described download condition that user is arranged, obtain the described reservation Download Info comprising described download condition.

7. method as claimed in claim 6, it is characterized in that, described download condition comprises: exempt from flow download, terminal switches on power, terminal is in idle condition, and/or, under terminal is in wifi connection.

8. a method for release application program, is characterized in that, comprising:

At server side, each user receiving the transmission of each terminal preengages the reservation request message of down load application program, adds in the user's reservation databases set up in advance by the user profile of each user of request reservation down load application program;

When satisfied reservation condition, described server sends the installation kit file of described application program to each subscriber place terminal in user's reservation databases.

9. a device for down load application program, is characterized in that, comprising:

Reservation Download Info acquiring unit, downloads reservation interface for the application by providing to user, receives the reservation Download Info of user for application program;

Reserve requests unit, for sending to server side the reservation request message that described application program is downloaded in reservation according to described reservation Download Info;

To mourn in silence download unit, for when satisfied reservation condition, the installation kit file of the described application program that server side sends described in the automatic reception of terminal backstage.

10. a device for release application program, is characterized in that, comprising:

Reserve requests receiving element, each user sent for receiving each terminal preengages the reservation request message of down load application program;

Reservation databases maintenance unit, the user profile for each user by reservation down load application program is added in the user's reservation databases set up in advance;

Application release unit, for when satisfied reservation condition, sends the installation kit file of described application program to each subscriber place terminal in user's reservation databases.