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In a communication arrangement in accordance with the invention, a server is employed to collect and organize information for mobile device users according to the user profiles, e.g., personal profile, business profile, vacation profile, etc., which reflect different user personae. By using this arrangement, the user advantageously maintains only the necessary information in the mobile device and downloads any additional information from the server on an as needed basis. In addition, the server is capable of serving mobile devices which may be incompatible to one another, thereby facilitating an exchange of information between such devices. Moreover, with the server, incoming messages for the user are organized and stored according to the source of the messages and the user criteria established in the user profiles. Further, information in a mobile device may be organized using electronic information cards, referred to as “E-cards,” which facilitate, among others, transfer of information from the mobile device to the server, or other mobile devices to conduct various commercial and data transactions.

The present invention provides for the efficient downloading of data set addresses from among a plurality of host computers, using a plurality of web crawlers. Each web crawler identifies URL's in data sets downloaded by that web crawler, and identifies the host computer identifier within each such URL. The host computer identifier for each URL is mapped to the web crawler identifier of one of the web crawlers. If the URL is mapped to the web crawler identifier of a different web crawler, the URL is sent to that web crawler for processing, and otherwise the URL is processed by the web crawler that identified the URL. Each web crawler sends URL's to the other web crawlers for processing, and each web crawler receives URL's from the other web crawlers for processing. In a preferred embodiment, each web crawler processes only the URL's assigned to it, which are the URL's whose host identifier is mapped to the web crawler identifier for that web crawler. Each web crawler filters the URL's assigned to it by comparing them against a database of URL's already known by the web crawler and removing the already known URL's. If a URL is not already known to the web crawler, the data set corresponding to the URL is scheduled for downloading.

According to the first aspect, the present invention provides a music distribution method for downloading, in response to a request from a user, music data for one or more musical pieces included in the latest hit charts from a server storing a lot of music data, comprising the steps of determining whether music data to be downloaded from said server are already stored in a terminal of said user, and downloading, from said server to said terminal, only music data that are not stored in said terminal. According to the second aspect, the present invention provides a music distribution system comprising a server for storing a lot of music data, and means responsive to a request from a user for downloading, from said server, music data for one or more musical pieces included in the latest hit charts, wherein said downloading means including means for determining whether music data to be downloaded from said server are already stored in a terminal of said user, and means for selectively downloading, from said server to said terminal, only music data that are not stored in said terminal.

A system for efficiently downloading a page of broadband content includes a mass storage device, a bandwidth measurement device, a download manager, and a presentation manager. The bandwidth measurement device determines the bandwidth of a network connection over which the content file will be downloaded by the system. The download manager retrieves and stores in the mass storage device a portion of the content file, the size of the portion determined responsive to the bandwidth determination made by the bandwidth measurement device. The presentation manager retrieves the stored portion of the content file from mass storage and displays the portion using a standard media player application.

The invention discloses a multithreading downloading method. The multithreading downloading method and device comprises the steps of confirming the size of downloading fragments and the number of concurrent downloading threads of audios and videos supporting multithreading download according to the length of a downloading unit, starting downloading threads with the same number as the confirmed concurrent downloading threads and performing concurrent downloading; transmitting any one downloading fragment to perform playing when the downloading fragment finishes download and if the downloading fragment is confirmed to be a first downloading fragment of the downloading unit. The invention further provides a multithreading downloading device based on the same concept. The multithreading downloading device can efficiently utilize network bandwidth to download audio and video data under the condition of low central processing unit (CPU) power consumption and further improves the audio and video playing fluency.

An information processing device is configured to start a download module at a predefined date and time. A transmitter unit 210 is configured to transmit authentication information to an authentication server. A determination unit 270 is configured to determine a file to be downloaded after an authentication process by the authentication server. A download execution unit 252 is configured to download the determined file from a file provider server.

A system for efficiently downloading a page of broadband content includes a mass storage device, a bandwidth measurement device, a download manager, and a presentation manager. The bandwidth measurement device determines the bandwidth of a network connection over which the content file will be downloaded by the system. The download manager retrieves and stores in the mass storage device a portion of the content file, the size of the portion determined responsive to the bandwidth determination made by the bandwidth measurement device. The presentation manager retrieves the stored portion of the content file from mass storage and displays the portion using a standard media player application.

Managing a plurality of multifunction network devices on a network, each multifunction network device having a plurality of hardware resources including a storage memory for storing a plurality of function modules, a program memory for use by the function modules and a processor for executing each of the function modules, including detecting a reconfiguration event for one of the plurality of multifunction network devices, sending a reconfiguration command to the one multifunction network device, the reconfiguration command being a deletion command to delete at least one of the function modules or an allocation command to reallocate an amount of at least one of the hardware resources available for use by each of the plurality of function modules, and receiving confirmation that the one multifunction network device has been reconfigured in accordance with the reconfiguration command.

A method and system for downloading high volumes of content from the Internet without adversely affecting the source of the content or being detected. A director server processes data received from a data source to generate a list of addresses for content to download. The director server assigns a portion of the list of addresses to one or more puller servers. Puller servers initiate requests to download content that corresponds to their assigned list of addresses. A proxy gateway server receives the download request for content, and downloads the content via various Internet Protocol addresses.

An efficient software download to a configurable communication device is disclosed herein. The method of efficiently downloading software begins with a step of receiving a request to configure a communication device to run a communication application. The communication device being configured has a plurality of function blocks with a fixed portion of hardware and a flexible portion of hardware, wherein the same plurality of function blocks is capable of operating a plurality of communication applications. In a next step, the capability of the fixed portion and the flexible portion of hardware of the communication device is evaluated for a capability of implementing the communication application. Next, configuration information only for the flexible portion of hardware of the communication device is transmitted to the communication device to enable it to operate the communication application. An identification of the communication application is also transmitted to the communication device for purposes of tracking its implementation.

The present invention relates to a contents download system and method a using wireless internet platform. The contents download system of the present invention includes a contents providing server which stores a transmission log including transmission volume information in contents transmission; a short message server which transforms transmission log information into a short message and transmits it when the transmission log information is received from the contents providing server; and a mobile communication terminal which receives contents from the contents providing server. According to the present invention, more efficient contents retransmission as a result of the interruption of the contents transmission occurred in transmitting the contents is possible.

A data backup system includes a mobile device, a data storing apparatus for backup-saving user data used in the mobile device, and a user management apparatus for managing user information about a user using the mobile device, where the device and apparatuses communicate with each other. When the mobile device is a replacement for an old mobile device, the user management apparatus stores and manages a device ID of the mobile device in association with an old device ID of the old mobile device and personal identification information of a user using the mobile device and who has used the old mobile device. When downloading old user data previously used in the old mobile device from the data storing apparatus, the mobile device creates and transmits a user data acquiring request message with an old device user data acquiring request flag activated to the data storing apparatus. If the flag is set in the user data acquiring request message, the data storing apparatus verifies identification of the user with respect to the user management apparatus. If the identification of the user of the mobile device and the old mobile device is verified, the data storing apparatus retrieves and transmits the old user data to the mobile device.

An activation history storage stores an activation history of applications. A determination unit refers to the activation history and determines a file that is related to an application and that should be downloaded from a server. A processing unit downloads the determined related file. The activation history storage maintains an activation history that maps identification information identifying an application into the latest activation date and time of the application, and the determination unit refers to the activation date and time and determines the related file to be downloaded.

The present invention is enables the high-speed download of a large volume of data stored in a tag memory without a remarkable change in conventional wireless communication techniques. According to one aspect of the present invention, an RFID tag comprises; a transmitting unit for transmitting a download command for instructing the download of tag data stored in a user memory bank of the RFID tag; and a receiving unit for receiving, from the RFID tag, tag data in a plurality of record block units, each of which is smaller than the size of the memory bank.

The invention provides a mobile terminal cooperation download method based on a self-organizing network. The method comprises the following steps: a main download user acquires target file basic information via a cellular network and sends the information to a management server; the management server calculates price required to be paid by the main download user; the main download user describes surrounding users and establishes a Bluetooth management network; the main download user establishes a WiFi transmission network; the main download user and assistant download users request for downloading a target file via the cellular network; all the users in the WiFi transmission network start downloading data segments, and the assistant download users forward the data to the main download user; after completion of downloading, all the users upload download records to the management server; and the management server allocates certain price for each assistant download user according to the download records of all the assistant download users. Efficient download is realized by utilizing idle client terminal resources via a cooperation download mechanism.

The invention discloses a configuration method, a client and a system for plugin compressing and uncompressing. The configuration method comprises that a server sends data specifications which are supported by the environment of the server, and a calling interface which is used for loading a compression and decompression engine which is configured in the server to a first client, a compression and decompression plugin is generated and saved according to the data and the calling interface, and the server sends the compression and decompression plugin to a second client. According to the configuration method, the client and the system for plugin compressing and uncompressing, the corresponding data specifications and the compression and decompression plugin of the data interface are uploaded into the server through a plugin configuration client for downloading by a client which is used for obtaining the plugin, and therefore tasks such as development of the plugin, maintenance, control and downloading can be efficiently completed between a developer and a user.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and apparatus for obtaining a file in a distributed file system cluster. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining path information of a downloaded file, sending the path information to a software development kit, and obtaining a unified cluster entrance network protocol IP, a unified cluster service port number and a logical file path corresponding to the path information through the software development kit; determining a distributed file system corresponding to a to-be-downloaded file in the distributed file system cluster by usingthe unified cluster entrance network protocol IP and the unified cluster service port number, sending path conversion request information to the distributed file system, and when the distributed filesystem receives the path conversion request information, generating a real file path by using a path mapping server according to the logical file path; and obtaining the to-be-downloaded file according to the real file path. By application of the method and apparatus provided by the embodiment of the invention, the network data transmission between a client and a server of the file system can beavoided, thereby simplifying the data flow, reducing the time consumption, reducing the network bandwidth cost and improving the production efficiency.