CN112015458A - Device upgrade method, terminal device, electronic device and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention relates to the field of Internet of things and discloses a device upgrading method, terminal equipment, electronic equipment and a storage medium. In the invention, an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded is obtained through the communication unit; storing the upgrade package into a memory space of the communication unit; and upgrading the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package. The upgrading of each unit is realized in the communication unit with rich resources, the resources of other units are saved, and the upgrading speed of the equipment is improved.

Description

Device upgrade method, terminal device, electronic device and storage medium

technical field

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of the Internet of Things, and in particular, to a device upgrade method, a terminal device, an electronic device, and a storage medium.

Background technique

The Internet of Things is the "Internet of all things connected", which is an extension and expansion of the Internet based on the Internet. It is a huge network formed by combining various information sensing devices with the Internet. These IoT devices composed of information sensors usually have the characteristics of small memory space and more restrictions on power consumption. In the process of using IoT devices, it is necessary to upgrade in order to update the functions. The existing Internet of Things equipment upgrade method generally completes the upgrade of each component unit separately, uses different upgrade logic, and downloads the upgrade package to the respective component unit.

The inventor found that there are at least the following problems in the prior art: a device uses a different upgrade method for each unit upgrade, and each downloads the upgrade package to the corresponding component unit, which occupies a lot of resources and space in the component units of the Internet of Things device. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The purpose of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a device upgrade method, a terminal device, an electronic device and a storage medium, which can realize the upgrade of each unit in a communication unit with rich resources, effectively save the resources of other units, and improve the upgrade of the device. speed.

In order to solve the above technical problems, embodiments of the present invention provide a method for upgrading equipment, including the following steps:

Obtain, through the communication unit, an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded;

storing the upgrade package in the memory space of the communication unit;

The functional unit to be upgraded is upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a terminal device, including:

a receiving module, configured to obtain an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit;

a storage module, configured to store the upgrade package in the memory space of the communication unit;

An upgrade module, configured to upgrade the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide an electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and,

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein,

The memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions being executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform any of the device upgrade methods described.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, including: implementing any one of the device upgrade methods when the computer program is executed by a processor.

Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the present invention stores the upgrade packages of different functional units in the communication unit, so as to avoid occupying the storage space of other functional units; the data of the functional unit to be upgraded is converted into differential block data to realize Minimize differentiated upgrades, reduce the workload of upgrades, and speed up the speed of equipment upgrades; because the invention can be applied to the upgrade of all functional units, the upgrade logic of each functional unit is unified, and the upgrade process is placed in more abundant resources. In the communication unit, the resources and space of other units are saved, making the upgrade more efficient and faster.

In addition, in the device upgrade method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining the upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded specifically includes: obtaining the upgrade package through the communication unit; marking the obtaining process to generate a mark point ; When the acquisition process is interrupted, continue the acquisition operation from the marked point after the acquisition is resumed. By setting the marker point, the device does not need to worry about wasting too much time in retransmission when the transmission is interrupted. After the transmission starts again, the transmission can be continued from the marker point, which saves the transmission process and reduces the transmission time.

In addition, in the device upgrade method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining, through the communication unit, the upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded includes: sending a registration information query request of the functional unit to be upgraded; receiving a response send the upgrade version query request of the functional unit to be upgraded; receive the upgrade version information; send the upgrade package acquisition request of the functional unit to be upgraded; receive the upgrade package. By acquiring the information of the functional unit to be upgraded and the information of the functional unit after the upgrade, a symbol table containing the comparison information can be generated according to the obtained information in the subsequent steps, and the difference part is finally upgraded through the symbol table, thereby improving the speed of the upgrade.

In addition, in the device upgrading method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the upgrading the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package includes: acquiring differential block data through the communication unit, wherein: The differential block data is the data of the different part of the data of the functional unit to be upgraded and the functional unit data after the upgrade; the communication unit is based on the differential block data and the upgrade package. , and upgrade the functional unit to be upgraded. Upgrading the functional unit according to the generated differential block data and the upgrade package is an upgrade method for upgrading only the difference part, which reduces the time for the communication unit to upgrade the functional unit.

In addition, in the device upgrade method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the acquiring differential block data by the communication unit specifically includes: acquiring the upgrade version information by the communication unit; generating a symbol table by the communication unit, wherein , the symbol table contains the comparison information of the upgrade version information and the version information of the functional unit to be upgraded; the differential block data is acquired according to the symbol table; the symbol table generated by the acquired version information to obtain differential block data, so that functional units can achieve minimal differentiated upgrades and improve the efficiency of functional unit upgrades by communication units.

Description of drawings

One or more embodiments are exemplified by the pictures in the corresponding drawings, and these exemplifications do not constitute limitations of the embodiments, and elements with the same reference numerals in the drawings are denoted as similar elements, Unless otherwise stated, the figures in the accompanying drawings do not constitute a scale limitation.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart 1 of a device upgrading method provided according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a second flowchart of a device upgrading method provided according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a third flowchart of a device upgrading method provided according to the first embodiment;

4 is a schematic structural diagram of a peripheral terminal provided according to a third embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device provided according to a fourth embodiment.

Detailed ways

In order to make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, those of ordinary skill in the art can appreciate that, in the various embodiments of the present invention, many technical details are set forth in order for the reader to better understand the present application. However, even without these technical details and various changes and modifications based on the following embodiments, the technical solutions claimed in the present application can be realized.

The following divisions of the various embodiments are for the convenience of description, and should not constitute any limitation on the specific implementation of the present invention, and the various embodiments may be combined with each other and referred to each other on the premise of not contradicting each other.

The first embodiment of the present invention relates to a device upgrading method, which is applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes: two or more functional units, and the functional units at least include a communication unit. The specific process is shown in Figure 1, including:

Step 101: Acquire an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit.

In this embodiment, the communication unit at least includes an upgrade capability module (Upgrade Agent, UA), an upgrade control module (Upgrade Control, UC) and a boot start module (BootLoader).

Among them, the function of the UA module is to use the upgrade package and symbol table to upgrade the differential block data and communicate with the ELB module; the BootLoader module of the communication unit is used to boot the UA upgrade function; the UC module is used to communicate with the network platform. . The network platform may be an Internet of Things platform, and this is only an example, and the network platform is not limited.

The functional unit to be upgraded includes at least an ELB module. Wherein, the ELB module of the functional unit to be upgraded has the function of booting the program and the function of communicating with the communication unit.

The above communication connection mode may be a wired connection or a wireless connection, wherein the wireless connection may be wifi, bluetooth, infrared, etc., which will not be described in detail here.

The process of acquiring the upgrade package in step 101 is that the UC module in the communication unit interacts with the network platform, transmits a request instruction, and receives the upgrade package. The specific process is shown in Figure 2, including:

Step 201, sending a registration information query request of the functional unit to be upgraded.

Step 202, receiving the returned registration information.

Step 203: Send an upgrade version query request of the functional unit to be upgraded.

Step 204, receiving the information of the upgraded version.

Step 205 , sending a request for obtaining an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded.

Step 206, receiving the upgrade package.

The upgrade package is downloaded from the network platform through the above steps 201-206.

In this implementation manner, the acquisition process may be interrupted, and the reason for the interruption may be poor network signal, interruption of network signal, power failure, etc. This is only an example. In the actual process, there are many reasons for interruption, which will not be described here. One more elaboration.

In order to prevent repeated transmission after the interruption cause is eliminated, the method of breakpoint marking is adopted.

Specifically, when the acquisition is interrupted, the acquisition process is marked to generate a mark point, and the acquisition operation is continued from the mark point after recovery. Among them, there are two ways to mark the acquisition process to generate mark points:

One is to track the entire acquisition process, and mark the current acquisition and reception progress regardless of whether there is an interruption, and generate a mark point.

The other is that when an interruption occurs, an instruction with an error occurs is popped up, and the current acquisition and reception progress is marked according to the instruction to generate a mark point.

Of course, the above two methods are only specific examples to illustrate, in the actual use process, the acquisition process may also be marked in other ways to generate mark points, which will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that, the process of obtaining the breakpoint mark may be the process of receiving registration information, the process of receiving upgraded version information, the process of receiving upgrade package, and the process of obtaining the function data to be upgraded mentioned in the next steps, etc. I won't go into details here.

Step 102: Store the upgrade package in the memory space of the communication unit.

Step 103, the functional unit to be upgraded is upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package.

In this embodiment, the upgrade method of step 103 is specifically:

After the upgrade package is downloaded, the UC module reports the download result to the network platform.

The UC module sends an upgrade request to the functional unit to be upgraded.

The UC module receives the returned upgrade instruction.

The UC module forwards the upgrade instructions to the Bootloader module.

The communication unit guides and executes the UA module upgrade function through the boot function of the Bootloader module.

At the same time, the functional unit to be upgraded enters an upgrade program through the boot function of the ELB module, wherein the upgrade program includes receiving flashing, restarting upgrade, and the like.

Specifically, the specific process of executing the upgrade function of the UA module is shown in Figure 3:

Step 301: Acquire data of the functional unit to be upgraded.

Step 302: Store the acquired upgrade functional unit in the memory space of the communication unit.

Step 303, acquiring the symbol table.

Specifically, the symbol table is generated according to the registration information of the existing functional unit to be upgraded and the upgraded version information obtained from the network platform. The symbol table is a comparison table of registration information and version information.

Step 304: Acquire differential block data according to the symbol table.

Specifically, the UA module splits the data in the functional unit to be upgraded in combination with the comparison information in the symbol table, and extracts differential block data. Wherein, the differential block data is the upgradeable part of the data of the functional unit to be upgraded, and the number of differential blocks may be one or more.

Step 305, upgrade the differential block data according to the upgrade package.

It should be noted that the upgrade data stored in the upgrade package is the differential data of the upgraded version, that is, the data to be upgraded for the differential block of the functional unit data to be upgraded.

After the upgrade of the differential block data is completed, a flash request is sent to the functional unit.

The UA module receives the flashing instruction returned by the functional unit, and flashes the functional unit.

After the flashing is completed, the next differential block data upgrade is performed until all differential blocks are upgraded.

The communication unit UA module sends an upgrade completion notification to the ELB module of the upgraded functional unit.

After receiving the upgrade completion notification, the ELB module of the upgraded functional unit executes the boot function of the ELB module, restarts, and completes the upgrade of the functional unit.

The ELB module of the upgraded functional unit sends the functional unit upgrade result to the UC module.

The UC module forwards the upgrade result to the network platform.

The second embodiment of the present invention relates to a device upgrading method. The second embodiment is substantially the same as the first embodiment,

The difference is that in the first embodiment, the communication unit and the functional unit to be upgraded are two units, that is, other functional units are upgraded through the communication unit. The second embodiment is to upgrade the communication unit itself.

In this embodiment, since the upgraded functional unit is a communication unit, in the specific implementation of step 103, there is no need to send an upgrade instruction request, and after receiving and storing the upgrade package, the UA module upgrade function is directly guided to execute the UA module upgrade function through the boot function of the Bootloader module. The upgrade process of the UA module is steps 301-304 in FIG. 3 .

It should be noted that the acquisition objects of steps 301 and 303 are communication units, which are different from the ELB modules of functional units other than the communication units in the first embodiment.

The steps of the above various methods are divided only for the purpose of describing clearly. During implementation, they can be combined into one step or some steps can be split and decomposed into multiple steps. As long as the same logical relationship is included, they are all within the protection scope of this patent. ;Adding insignificant modifications to the algorithm or process or introducing insignificant designs, but not changing the core design of the algorithm and process are all within the scope of protection of this patent.

The third embodiment of the present invention relates to a peripheral terminal, as shown in FIG. 4 , including:

The receiving module 401 is configured to obtain an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit.

The storage module 402 is configured to store the upgrade package in the memory space of the communication unit.

An upgrade module 403, configured to upgrade the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package.

It is not difficult to find that this embodiment is a system example corresponding to the first embodiment, and this embodiment can be implemented in cooperation with the first embodiment. The relevant technical details mentioned in the first embodiment are still valid in this embodiment, and are not repeated here in order to reduce repetition. Correspondingly, the related technical details mentioned in this embodiment can also be applied to the first embodiment.

It is worth mentioning that each module involved in this embodiment is a logical module. In practical applications, a logical unit may be a physical unit, a part of a physical unit, or multiple physical units. A composite implementation of the unit. In addition, in order to highlight the innovative part of the present invention, this embodiment does not introduce units that are not closely related to solving the technical problem proposed by the present invention, but this does not mean that there are no other units in this embodiment.

The fourth embodiment of the present invention relates to an electronic device, as shown in FIG. 5 , including:

at least one processor 501; and,

memory 502 in communication with at least one processor 501; wherein,

The memory 502 stores instructions executable by the at least one processor 501, and the instructions are executed by the at least one processor 501, so that the at least one processor 501 can execute the device upgrading methods according to the first to second embodiments of the present invention.

The memory and the processor are connected by a bus, and the bus may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, and the bus links one or more processors and various circuits of the memory together. The bus may also link together various other circuits, such as peripherals, voltage regulators, and power management circuits, which are well known in the art and therefore will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides the interface between the bus and the transceiver. A transceiver may be a single element or multiple elements, such as multiple receivers and transmitters, providing a means for communicating with various other devices over a transmission medium. The data processed by the processor is transmitted on the wireless medium through the antenna, and further, the antenna also receives the data and transmits the data to the processor.

The processor manages the bus and general processing, and can also provide various functions, including timing, peripheral interface, voltage regulation, power management, and other control functions. Instead, memory may be used to store data used by the processor in performing operations.

Those skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps in the method of the above embodiments can be completed by instructing the relevant hardware through a program. The program is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions to make a device (which may be a single-chip microcomputer) , chip, etc.) or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the various embodiments of the present application. The aforementioned storage medium includes: U disk, removable hard disk, Read-Only Memory (ROM, Read-Only Memory), Random Access Memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), magnetic disk or optical disk and other media that can store program codes.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that the above-mentioned embodiments are specific examples for realizing the present invention, and in practical applications, various changes in form and details can be made without departing from the spirit and the spirit of the present invention. scope.

Claims (10)

1. A device upgrading method, characterized in that, when applied to an electronic device, the electronic device comprises: at least two functional units, the functional units at least include a communication unit, and the method comprises: Obtain, through the communication unit, an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded; storing the upgrade package in the memory space of the communication unit; The functional unit to be upgraded is upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package. 2 . The device upgrading method according to claim 1 , wherein the acquiring an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit specifically comprises: 2 . Obtain the upgrade package through the communication unit; marking the acquisition process to generate marker points; When the acquisition process is interrupted, the acquisition operation is continued from the marked point after the acquisition is resumed. 3 . The device upgrading method according to claim 1 , wherein the obtaining, through the communication unit, an upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded comprises: 3 . sending a registration information query request of the functional unit to be upgraded; receiving the returned registration information; sending an upgrade version query request of the functional unit to be upgraded; receiving the information of the upgraded version; sending an acquisition request for the upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded; Receive the upgrade package. 4 . The device upgrading method according to claim 1 , wherein the upgrading the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package comprises: 4 . Obtain differential block data through the communication unit, wherein the differential block data is the data of the different part of the data of the functional unit to be upgraded and the data of the functional unit after the upgrade; The functional unit to be upgraded is upgraded by the communication unit according to the differential block data and the upgrade package. 5 . The device upgrade method according to claim 4 , wherein the acquiring differential block data through the communication unit, wherein the differential block data is the data of the functional unit to be upgraded, 6 . The data that differs from the upgraded functional unit data specifically includes: Obtaining a symbol table from the functional unit to be upgraded, wherein the symbol table includes comparison information between the upgraded version information and the version information of the functional unit to be upgraded; The differential block data is acquired according to the symbol table. 6 . The device upgrade method according to claim 1 , wherein after the upgrade of the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package, the method further comprises: 6 . After the upgrade is completed, the functional unit data is refreshed; The functional unit data that has been upgraded is sent back to the functional unit. 7 . The device upgrade method according to claim 6 , wherein after sending the upgraded functional unit data back to the functional unit, the method further comprises: 8 . receiving the upgraded functional unit data; The functional unit is restarted according to the upgraded functional unit data. 8. A terminal device, comprising: a receiving module, used for obtaining the upgrade package of the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit; a storage module, configured to store the upgrade package in the memory space of the communication unit; An upgrade module, configured to upgrade the functional unit to be upgraded through the communication unit according to the upgrade package. 9. An electronic device, characterized in that, comprising: at least one processor; and, a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein, The memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions being executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform any of the claims 1-7 Device upgrade method. 10 . A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein when the computer program is executed by a processor, the method for the device upgrading manner of any one of claims 1 to 7 is implemented. 11 .

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