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Disclosed herein are a communication terminal and communication network for partially updating software, a software update method, and a software creation device and method therefor. The software is divided into a plurality of areas each having a predetermined size, and unique identification keys are assigned to the areas of the software, respectively. A search is made for at least one changed area among the areas of the software on the basis of version information of the software or the identification keys, and data of the changed area is downloaded to upgrade the software. Therefore, it is possible to shorten an upgrade time of the software.

The invention discloses an incremental software updating method of an internet protocol television (IPTV) set top box. The method comprises the following steps of: A, when the set top box is started and powered on, performing updating detection, downloading an updating configuration file from an updating server according to an address of the updating server which is locally configured, judging whether updating is required according to contents of the configuration file and the current software version information of the set top box, if the updating is required, determining a software package to be updated and executing the step B, and if the updating is not required, normally starting; B, judging whether the number of day updating times of the set top box is greater than a preset threshold value, if the number of the day updating times of the set top box is greater than the preset threshold value, normally starting, and if the number of the day updating times of the set top box is not greater than the preset threshold value, executing the step C; and C, downloading the software package to be updated from the updating server, and performing local updating installation. The method has the advantages that: incremental updating is adopted, and only the software package to be updated is downloaded and updated, so bandwidth resources are saved, the updating efficiency of the IPTV set top box is improved, updating time is shortened, user experience is improved, and an updating mode is relatively flexible and easy to control.

The embodiment of the invention provides a terminal OTA (Over the Air) upgrading method and system and devices. A network management server identifies to-be-upgraded terminals on which firmware upgrading needs to be carried out, through identification addresses and address masks; and OTA upgrading commands are issued and uniform upgrading starting time is carried in the OTA upgrading commands, sowhen the upgrading starting time arrives, the to-be-upgraded terminals can be waken up uniformly, and firmware upgrading packets which are distributed by the network management server and are used forfirmware upgrading can be received on broadcast signals. According to the embodiment of the invention, batch upgrading can be carried out on the to-be-upgraded terminals, the OTA upgrading time of the terminals can be reduced, and the upgrading efficiency can be improved.

The invention discloses a firmware upgrade method and device of Zigbee equipment. The method comprises the following steps: a gateway groups the accessed Zigbee equipment, each Zigbee equipment has the firmware at the same type; when receiving a firmware upgrade notice, the gateway determines a target group needing to upgrade, and performs batch upgrade on the firmware of all Zigbee equipment in the target group, thereby simultaneously upgrading multiple Zigbee equipment. Compared with the way of upgrading the Zigbee equipment one by one, the upgrade time is greatly shortened by use of batch upgrade, the upgrade efficiency is doubled. And meanwhile, the firmware upgrade is performed by use of a differential upgrade way, so that only the different part data needs to transmit in the data transmission process, thereby greatly reducing the data size transmitted to the Zigbee equipment by the gateway, the effect of improving the firmware upgrade speed about dozens of times even hundreds of times; the problems of high upgrade cost and long upgrade time are effectively solved, and the user experience is promoted.

The invention discloses an embedded electronic equipment software updating method. The method includes the steps that different file catalogs are created under a system of a terminal device for downloading files corresponding to different operations, wherein the file catalogs comprise one or more of ADD, MOD, DEL and SKIP; an updating file information sheet of updating firmware is downloaded from a server side, filenames and verification values in the updating file information sheet are compared with filenames and verification values in an old file information sheet stored in the terminal device, and it is determined that any operation of ADD, MOD, DEL and SKIP is executed; for operations executing ADD or MOD, deviation values and the file length are used as parameters, requests for acquiring corresponding file data are sent to a server, the terminal device receives the file data and then conducts decryption processing on the file data, restores the file data into compressed sack files, and stores the compressed files in the ADD / MOD catalogs; when the updating process is started, the files in the ADD catalog are directly decompressed to the corresponding catalog according to file paths recorded in compressed sacks; old files in the files in the MOD catalog are firstly deleted and then decompression coverage is conducted. According to the software updating method, software updating of the terminal device is faster and safer, the harmful effect of device updating on users is reduced to the maximum degree, and maintenance complexity and maintenance cost of the terminal device are reduced.

Provided are a method, and a portable device having a program upgrade function. A method of upgrading a program of a portable device upgrades a program, such as a navigation program or firmware of the portable device, using another portable device within a predetermined range. Program upgrade can be performed between portable devices in movement, that is, it is possible to upgrade a program of a portable device regardless of a place in which the portable devices are located.

System and method configured to provide an access management system configuration that provides the benefits of single sign-on while reducing internal hardware and administration maintenance costs. The system is reconfigured to provide an access control module that directs authentication network traffic such that access management agents are not required to be installed on the application server for each protected application. The system provides a redirection of a login request from the application server to an external security gateway that authenticates the user via policy and sends authenticated user credentials on a back channel to the access control module to obtain a session cookie which is redirected back to the user so the user can establish a session with the application. The solution reduces the plethora of agents to be maintained and upgraded in order to remain compatible with the evolving hosting software, reducing both hardware and administration maintenance costs.

The invention discloses a software upgrading method and system based on the WiFiDirect. A menu item undergoing software upgrading through the WiFiDirect function and a submenu item sending a software upgrading request are set in advance; a main mobile device receives an operation order on the menu item by a user, the WiFiDirect function is started, an auxiliary mobile device with the WiFiDirect function is searched for, matching is performed, if matching succeeds, an operation order on the submenu item by a user is received, and the software upgrading request is sent to the auxiliary mobile device; the auxiliary mobile device sends upgrading files conforming to the software upgrading request to the main mobile device; the main mobile device carries out software upgrading according to the upgrading files. Thus, the function of obtaining upgrading resources between the mobile devices to carry out software upgrading in a situation that a network and a WiFi hot spot do not exist is achieved, the searching range is large, the transmission speed of the upgrading files is high, reliability is high, and the upgrading time is greatly shortened.

Disclosed herein are a communication terminal and communication network for partially updating software, a software update method, and a software creation device and method therefor. The software is divided into a plurality of areas each having a predetermined size, and unique identification keys are assigned to the areas of the software, respectively. A search is made for at least one changed area among the areas of the software on the basis of version information of the software or the identification keys, and data of the changed area is downloaded to upgrade the software. Therefore, it is possible to shorten an upgrade time of the software.

The invention relates to an online upgrade method based on an FTP. The method includes the steps that an FTP file server and an Oracle database are built on a server side; a system administrator uploads a file to be issued to the FTP file server on a client side and meanwhile writes the version number and storage address of the file to be issued into the Oracle database; when a user starts the client side, a system compares the version number of a local file stored in the client side with the version number, stored in the Oracle database, of the file to be issued; when the version number of the local file stored in the client side is lower than the version number, stored in the Oracle database, of the file to be issued, the system extracts the storage address of the file to be issued from the Oracle database and downloads the file from the FTP file server from the storage address. By means of the online upgrade method based on the FTP, software upgrade time is greatly shortened, operation and maintenance working efficiency is improved, the problem that online upgrade of client sides is difficult is solved, software can be updated in an online upgrade mode after being installed and deployed once, and maintainability of the software is improved.

The invention discloses a software upgrading system and method of a digital set-top box. The software upgrading system comprises the set-top box, wherein a set-top box software module is arranged in the set-top box. The software upgrading system is characterized in that a software module easy to update in the set-top box software module is manufactured into a dynamic link library, a description file matched with the dynamic link library is arranged inside the set-top box, the set-top box software module is in electrical communicating connection with a background thread monitoring module, and the background thread monitoring module is further in electrical communicating connection with a CRC checkout module. The software module easy to update is integrated into the dynamic link library, the background thread monitoring module monitors set-top box version information in real time and searches a newest set-top box version, and version information comparison can be performed on the description file and a privately-owned description list so as to download data of the newest set-top box version. Software update data are greatly decreased, the update time is shortened, occupied network resources are decreased, the software update risk is reduced, and convenience is brought to a set-top box user.

The invention relates to TV technology and provides a TV software online increment updating method which solves the problem that all the traditional TV software updating methods adopt entire software updating. The technical scheme of the TV software online increment updating method comprises the following steps of: during installing TV software for a TV set, firstly classifying the TV software into different library files according to different modules and creating an ramdisk for managing all the library files; making an updating comparison table and TV software of a certain library needing updating, packing into an updating packet and sending to an updating server for updating a version sign on the updating server by a software developer; when an online TV automatically directs the version sign on the updating server, judging whether the version sign is newer than an software version sign on the local; if not, not processing; and if so, downloading the updating packet from the updating server to the local for updating. The invention has the advantage of real-time updating and is applicable to TV sets.

The invention relates to the field of telecommunication, and discloses an online upgrade method for an operating system and a device with the operating system. In the invention, the method comprises the following steps: by using the function of an EFI (extensible firmware interface) that the EFI still can enable all hardware to run normally through a loading driver in the process of stating-up under the condition of no operating system, when an operating system is not started, in an EFI environment, downloading an upgrade package of the operating system from a server to the local through the Internet; and then carrying out online upgrade on the operating system according to the downloaded upgrade package. By using the method and device disclosed by the invention, the flexibility, convenience, reliability and stability of operating system upgrade are improved.

The invention discloses a method of managing software version files in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the following steps: packing the updated software version files into a mend software package; updating the software version files in the mend software package in a base station version server and notifying a base station to updating a base station version package; according to the notification from the version server, the base station downloading the updated software version files in the mend software package, resetting corresponding hardware and loading the updated software version files. The updated software version files in the mend software package can mix with the prior software version files in the base station version package, thereby avoiding the problem of conflicting software version files, and enabling a user not to care for a specific software version file. The system device only downloads the updated software version files without downloading all software version files in the whole base station version package, thereby avoiding meaningless service interruption and simultaneously reducing software updating time.

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, and especially relates to a remote firmware upgrading method and system for an intelligent Internet of Things metering instrument. The method comprises the following steps of: S1, uploading a latest firmware upgrade package to a server, the server compares the latest firmware upgrade package with the last firmware upgrade package in the metering instrument; if the difference point is smaller than the set threshold value, the information of the difference point is packaged into a firmware upgrade package to be upgraded, and if the difference point is larger than or equal to the set threshold value, the latest firmware upgrade package is used as the firmware upgrade package to be upgraded, and an upgrade instruction is issued atthe server side; S2, receiving an upgrading instruction by the metering instrument, connecting a server according to the upgrading instruction, and downloading a corresponding firmware upgrading package to be upgraded; and S3, the metering instrument completes firmware upgrading according to the to-be-upgraded firmware upgrading package. The method has two modes of whole package upgrading and difference point upgrading, and can effectively cope with various upgrading conditions.

The invention discloses a firmware updating method and device, and belongs to the technical field of electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: on the basis of a software upgrade package, upgrading software, wherein the software upgrade package at least comprises the FW (Firmware) mating relationship description file, the FW upgrading data and the FW upgrading tool of the software; after the software is successfully upgraded, obtaining a version number of current FW; according to the version number of the current FW and upgraded software information, inquiring the FW mating relationship description file to judge whether the version of the current FW and the upgraded software conform to the mating relationship; and when the version of the current FW and the upgraded software do not conform to the mating relationship, calling the FW upgrading data and the FW upgrading tool to upgrade the current FW. The firmware updating method and device can automatically identify which FWs need to be upgraded, automatically carries out an upgrading process, does not need manual intervention and can lower FW upgrading complexity and shorten FW upgrading time.

The invention provides a cloud platform upgrading method and device, a terminal and a storage medium. A software upgrading package and configuration upgrading information of a control node are used for generating a new version control node of a to-be-upgraded cloud platform; and the data in the original database is migrated to the new version component database and the data is updated. The underlying virtualization service of the cloud platform to be upgraded is updated, and the related service of the new version cloud platform for providing the computing and virtualization network interface is mirrored and started. According to the scheme, the control node and the computing node are upgraded respectively, only the data volume in the migration control node is involved in the upgrading process, the required migration data volume is small, the purposes of reducing the upgrading workload, shortening the upgrading time and improving the upgrading efficiency are achieved, services of the computing node do not need to be stopped in the upgrading process, and the purpose of smooth upgrading is achieved.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an application upgrading method. The method comprises the steps that a terminal acquires updating information of a target application installed in the terminal, wherein at least a first container is set in the terminal; mirror data corresponding to the target application is operated in the first container, therefore, the target application installed in theterminal is operated in the first container, and service requests for the target application are processed by utilizing the first container; new mirror data corresponding to the updated target application is acquired on the basis of the updating information; and the first container is updated according to the new mirror data to complete the updating process of the target application. The embodiment of the invention further discloses the terminal, a server and an application upgrading system.

Embodiments of the invention disclose a system upgrading method and apparatus. The method comprises: in a recovery mode, upgrading a first system file with an obtained first patch file in a system upgrade package; ending the recovery mode after completing the operation of upgrading the first system file, and starting a system according to the upgraded first system file; and upgrading a second system file with a second patch file in the system upgrade package. According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiments of the invention, an existing system upgrade mechanism can be optimized, the upgrade time in the recovery mode can be shortened, and the user experience can be improved.

The invention discloses a terminal upgrading method and device and a terminal, and belongs to the field of IOT (Internet of Things) communication. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining an upgrade patch of a device program file from a server through a framework program, wherein the device program file is at least one of a configuration file, an interconnection protocol library and a device operating library; analyzing the upgrade patch of the device program file through the framework program to obtain an upgrade file; upgrading the device program file based on the upgrade file through the framework program. According to the invention, the independent framework program and a program file module are arranged in firmware of the terminal, wherein the device program file is at least one of the configuration file, the interconnection protocol library and the device operating library, and the framework program is operated for independently loading and upgrading the configuration file, the interconnection protocol library or the device operating library respectively to save hardware and broadband resources of the terminal, and further save the upgrade time.

The present application relates to the field of Internet of Things, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for online upgrade of a Bluetooth cluster. The Bluetooth cluster online upgrade methodincludes: upgrading the device to select a central node in the Bluetooth cluster, establishing a Bluetooth connection with the central node; upgrading the device to select an upgrade path, and sendingthe upgrade data to the device to be upgraded through the central node according to the upgrade path, so that The device to be upgraded obtains the upgrade data and is upgraded. The device to be upgraded is part or all of the Bluetooth devices in the Bluetooth cluster. The Bluetooth cluster online upgrade method adopted in the present application has broadened the communication range of Bluetooth, and does not require user-to-operation, and uses the connection between Bluetooth devices in the existing Bluetooth cluster to send upgrade data, thereby solving the low upgrade success rate due todata congestion. At the same time, it solves the problem that the upgrade of the large scale of the Bluetooth cluster takes a long time, and the online upgrade of the Bluetooth cluster can be completed only by upgrading the operation of the device.

The invention provides a method for upgrading AP firmware. The method comprises the steps that when firmware upgrading is carried out on APs in each upgrading group, one AP in the upgrading group is selected by an AC, and firmware upgrading is carried out on the AP; the AC informs the APs without firmware upgrading to be the specified APs obtained after firmware upgrading, the APs without firmware upgrading are correlated to the specified APs obtained after firmware upgrading for firmware upgrading, and after firmware upgrading is finished, the AC is restarted and correlated; the step is repeated until no AP without firmware upgrading exists in the upgrading groups. Based on the same inventive concept, the invention further provides an AP firmware upgrading device. In the AP firmware upgrading process, consumption of bandwidths between the AC and the APs can be reduced, and AP firmware upgrading time can be reduced.

The invention provides a storage system software online upgrade method comprising the steps of starting a first virtual container in a storage controller, operating storage system software in the first virtual container, and processing reading-writing requests of a host via the storage system software in the first virtual container; for the upgrade of the storage system software, starting a second virtual container in the storage controller, and operating new-version storage system software in the second virtual container; forwarding new reading-writing requests of the host to the new-version storage system software in the second virtual container, and allowing the new-version storage system software to take over host businesses; destroying the first virtual container and the storage system software in the first virtual container. The method shortens the upgrade time of storage system software.

The invention provides an upgrading method and device. The method includes: sending a confirmation response message to a host computer if an upgrading request sent by the host computer is received, wherein the upgrade request contains information of a to-be-upgraded partition; if the upgrading package sent by the host computer is received, writing the upgrading package into the to-be-upgraded partition corresponding to the information of the to-be-upgraded partition; and sending upgrading completion information to the host computer, and restarting a system. Technical effects that the upgrade package is directly written into the to-be-upgraded partition, time of loading the upgrading package from an SD card into flash can be omitted, and thus a technical effect of shortening upgrading timecan be realized are realized.

A method for upgrading an upgrade object, an apparatus, equipment and a system thereof are disclosed. The scheme comprises the following steps: acquiring related information of the object to be upgraded; acquiring upgrade target version information which corresponds to the related information of the object; acquiring upgrade files which are needed by the object to be upgraded from current version information to the upgrade target version information; upgrading the object according to the upgrade files. In the scheme of the invention, the version to which the object needs to be upgraded is determined according to the related information of the object so that problems of upgrade failure or upgrade incompletion and the like can be avoided, wherein the problems are caused by large difference between a highest version that the object can be upgraded to and a current version of the object. And the upgrade files that the object does not need are not acquired from network equipment so that data downloading amounts of user equipment can be reduced.

The invention relates to a code testing method and device, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a code test request; wherein the code test request comprises a parameter identifier and breakpoint position data, and the breakpoint position data corresponds to a breakpoint position; Acquiring a target parameter corresponding to the parameter identifier; Capturing a to-be-updated message obtained by running the non-updated code to the breakpoint position; Updating the message to be updated according to the target parameter to obtain an updated message; and sending the updated message to the to-be-tested device, thereby enabling the to-be-tested device to test the to-be-tested code based on the updated message. By the adoption of the method, the test process can be improved, and code testing is conducted in advance under the condition that front-end and rear-end codes are not updated simultaneously.

The invention discloses a multi-board-card automatic updating method and system based on internal storage sharing. The method includes the following steps that a component update host checks original update files stored in the component update host and determines the update files and a master control board card and / or slave board cards which correspond to components needing to be updated; the component update host sends the update files to the master control board card, and the components are updated through the master control board card, or the master control board card sends the update files to the slave board cards by sharing internal storage and the components are updated through the slave board cards. The components of the multi-board-card embedded system can be updated automatically, and manual intervention is reduced.

The invention discloses a method for upgrading server firmware. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, storing the server firmware in a pre-created firmware packet, directly acquiring thefirmware packet when needing to upgrade original firmware in the server, and then analyzing a firmware packet to obtain target firmware corresponding to the original firmware in the upgraded server without respectively acquiring related target firmware from different storage regions; and finally upgrading the original firmware in the corresponding server according to the target firmware. The server firmware upgrade process is simplified, the upgrade time is saved, and the user experience is improved. Furthermore, the invention further discloses a device and equipment for upgrading the server firmware and a readable storage medium with the above effect.

The invention provides a packaging method of an upgrade package and an upgrading method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of embedded systems. The packaging method of the upgrade package andthe upgrading method thereof comprise the steps that a non-upgrade partition is preset to store upgrade progress information; according to an index n, data block size information and data block offset information from a head file are obtained; according to the data block size information and the data block offset information, a corresponding compressed data block is obtained; the data block is unzipped to obtained a first unzipped data block; according to partition name information and the index n, the first unzipped data block is written into a corresponding written-in offset address of a to-be-upgraded partition, the written-in offset address is the size of the data block corresponding to (n-x)*data block size information, x is a corresponding initial index of the data block in the to-be-upgraded partition, and the information is to be upgraded. The packaging method and upgrading method of the upgrade package have the advantages that the upgrade package can be configured, the packaging mode is flexible; after powering down the upgrade process before powering down can be continued, the upgraded data does not need to be re-upgraded, and the upgrading efficiency is improved.