The present disclosure relates to the field of communication, in particular to a mobile terminal and a method for implementing a browser thereof.
After the entry into Third Generation (3G) mobile communication era, the function of mobile terminal is richer and richer, especially the browser is becoming a common function for mobile terminal users. However, the mobile terminal is inferior to a computer in computing processing capability, and data parsing and image rendition speed, which results in the problems of unsmooth refreshing of webpage and the like when a user browses a webpage through the browser in the mobile terminal.
Therefore, an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) processor and a mobile application processor with higher performance are applied in the mobile terminal to certainly improve the processing performance of the mobile terminal and further improve the effect of browsing web pages through the browser in the mobile terminal. However, the power consumption is also increased along with the improvement of the processing performance of the mobile terminal; meanwhile, the popularization of the high-performance processor will take some time due to its price factor, thus, the current situations of a significant market share of middle and low end mobile terminals and poor computing capacity of function mobile terminals are still not solved effectively.
Another method is to obtain a powerful computing and storage capability provided by distributed processing through a data centre by cloud computing, specifically the mobile terminal accessing 3G network or Internet. However, this method needs to occupy the bandwidth of a communication network and the user charge expense is relatively high; and meanwhile, the radio frequency part of the mobile terminal needs much power to maintain network connection.
In view of this, the main objective of the disclosure is to provide a mobile terminal and a method for implementing a browser of the mobile terminal, so as to improve the performance and reduce the power consumption of the browser of the mobile terminal.
To achieve the objective above, the technical scheme of the disclosure is implemented as follows.
The method for implementing the browser of the mobile terminal includes the following steps:
Furthermore, before the mobile terminal establishes the remote browser connection with the computing entity, the method may further include:
The step that the mobile terminal establishes the remote browser connection with the computing entity may include:
Furthermore, after the mobile terminal establishes the remote browser connection with the computing entity, the method may further include:
The step that the mobile terminal remotely calls the browser engine to parse the webpage data and render the image for the data to be parsed through the distributed program interface of the browser engine provided by the computing entity may include:
Furthermore, the method may further include:
The mobile terminal includes a wireless task module, a CPU and a mobile application processor task module, and the mobile terminal may further include: a remote browser connection module, a virtual coprocessor task module and a remote browser engine task module;
Furthermore, the wireless task module may specifically be configured to search for the computing entity, send a wireless connection request to the found computing entity, and establish a wireless connection with the computing entity after receiving access agreement information from the computing entity.
Furthermore, the remote browser connection module may further include a remote client sub-module and a transmission adaption task sub-module, wherein
Furthermore, the CPU may be configured to, after receiving remote browser selection information from a user, enable a remote browser engine mode, terminate a software task of a mobile application processor of the mobile terminal, disconnect the data communication between the CPU and the mobile application processor, and set the mobile application processor to a hibernate state.
Furthermore, the virtual coprocessor task module may specifically be configured to receive a webpage datablock to be parsed and a parsing command from its own CPU, buffer the webpage data block and the parsing command, and send them to the remote browser engine task module;
Furthermore, the CPU is further configured to, when it is detected that the remote browser connection of the remote browser connection module is disconnected, switch the remote browser engine mode to a local browser engine mode, close the remote browser connection module, the virtual coprocessor task module and the remote browser engine task module, and wake up the mobile application processor and start the software task of the mobile application processor.
According to the mobile terminal and the method for implementing the browser of the mobile terminal provided by the present disclosure, the mobile terminal establishes a remote browser connection with the computing entity having established wireless connection, the browser engine of the computing entity based on distributed implementation is shared to the mobile terminal as a component; and the browser engine is remotely called by the distributed program interface of the browser engine provided by the computing entity to process the data to be parsed by the mobile terminal, receive the frame dataflow from the computing entity, and display a webpage by the browser of the mobile terminal. Therefore, the performance of the browser of the mobile terminal is improved, the power consumption is small, extra expense of the user is avoided and the cost is saved; and in addition, additional client software is not needed, thereby improving the usability.
The basic idea of the disclosure is: a mobile terminal establishes a remote browser connection with a computing entity, remotely calls a browser engine to parse webpage data and render an image for data to be parsed through a distributed program interface of the browser engine provided by the computing entity, and receives frame dataflow from the computing entity.
The disclosure is explained below in detail with reference to the embodiments and accompanying drawings below to show the objective, technical scheme and advantages of the disclosure more clearly.
Step 101: The mobile terminal establishes a remote browser connection with a computing entity,
Step 102: The mobile terminal remotely calls the browser engine of the computing entity to parse webpage data to be parsed and render an image for data to be parsed through the distributed program interface of the browser engine provided by the computing entity, and receives frame dataflow from the computing entity;
Step 1: The mobile terminal receives a short distance wireless connection enabling request from a user, and enables its own short distance wireless connection function, wherein
Step 2: The computing entity enables its own short distance wireless connection,
In addition, it should be appreciated that the computing entity in the step refers to the computing entity in the effective range of the short distance wireless connection of the mobile terminal, and Steps 1 and 2 can be implemented in any sequence.
Steps 3 to 4: The mobile terminal searches for the computing entity in the adjacent areas in a short distance wireless communication way, and sends a wireless connection request to the computing entity when the computing entity is found,
Steps 5 to 6: The computing entity verifies the received wireless connection request, and returns access agreement information to the mobile terminal when the verification is passed; and at this moment, the establishment of the wireless connection between the mobile terminal and the computing entity is completed;
Step 7: The mobile terminal starts its own remote browser connection module and the computing entity starts its own terminal server module to establish remote browser connection therebetween;
The computing entity starts a terminal server module to set related environments such a distributed component service; the browser engine based on distributed implementation is shared to the mobile terminal as a component and further serves as the browser engine of the mobile terminal; specifically, the mobile terminal is added to the distributed component service, and the remote browser engine is added in the distributed component service at the same time; at this moment, the browser list of the mobile terminal displays the shared browser engine, and correspondingly, the displayed browser engine can be shared by the mobile terminal.
Step 8: The mobile terminal enables a remote browser engine mode after receiving remote browser selection information from a user,
Steps 9 to 10: The mobile terminal starts a virtual coprocessor task module, receives webpage data to be parsed and a parsing command from the CPU, starts the remote browser engine task module, and sends the webpage data block to be parsed and the parsing command to the remote browser engine task module after buffering them; and the remote browser engine task module calls the browser engine to parse the webpage data to be parsed through the distributed program interface of the remote browser engine,
Steps 11 to 12: The wireless task module of the computing entity sends the received data to the browser engine; and the browser engine locally parses the data and returns frame dataflow to the mobile terminal;
Step 13: The mobile terminal processes the received frame dataflow and displays it through a local browser;
In addition, when the CPU of the mobile terminal determines that the remote browser connection between the mobile terminal and the computing entity established in Step 7 is disconnected, the CPU of the mobile terminal switches the remote browser engine mode into the local browser engine mode, closes the virtual coprocessor task module, the remote client task sub-module, the remote browser engine task module, the transmission adaption task sub-module and the like, enables the software task of the mobile application processor and wakes up the mobile application processor, wherein the disconnection of the remote browser connection can be conditions that a message for terminating the remote browser engine mode is received from a user, or it is detected that the mobile terminal is not in the service range of the computing entity, or the computing entity stops providing the mobile terminal with the remote browser engine service and the like.
Furthermore, the wireless task module 31 is specifically configured to search for the computing entity, send a wireless connection request to the found computing entity, and establish wireless connection with the computing entity after receiving access agreement information from the computing entity.
Furthermore, the remote browser connection module 34 further includes a remote client sub-module 341 and a transmission adaption task sub-module 342, wherein
The computing entity starts its own terminal server module to set related environments such as a distributed component service; the browser engine based on distributed implementation is shared to the mobile terminal as a component and further serves as the browser engine of the mobile terminal; specifically, the mobile terminal is added to the distributed component service, and the remote browser engine is added in the distributed component service at the same time; at this moment, the browser list of the mobile terminal displays the shared remote browser engine, and correspondingly, the displayed browser engine can be shared by the mobile terminal.
Furthermore, the CPU 32 is configured to, after receiving remote browser selection information from a user, enable a remote browser engine mode, terminate the mobile application processor software task of the mobile application processor task module 33 of the mobile terminal, disconnect the data communication between the mobile application processor of the mobile application processor task module 33 of the mobile terminal and the CPU 32, and set the mobile application processor to a hibernate state.
Furthermore, the virtual coprocessor task module 35 is specifically configured to receive a webpage data block to be parsed and a parsing command from the CPU 32, and send the webpage data block and the parsing command to a remote browser engine task module 36 after buffering them;
The local browser engine of the computing entity pareses the webpage data and renders the image by using the CPU and other hardware, and then returns the obtained frame dataflow to the mobile terminal by the wireless task module of the computing entity; the wireless task module 31 of the mobile terminal receives the frame dataflow and sends the received data to the transmission adaption task sub-module 342; the transmission adaption task sub-module 342 converts the data of the wireless protocol data format into the data which can be processed by the virtual coprocessor task module 35 and then sends the converted data to the virtual coprocessor task module 35; the virtual coprocessor task module 35 processes the received data, such as buffering and accelerating, and then provides the finally obtained data to the browser of the mobile terminal; and the browser calls the local LCD of the mobile terminal and other hardware for presentation.
Furthermore, the CPU 32 is further configured to, when detecting that the remote browser connection of the remote browser connection module 34 is disconnected, switch the remote browser engine mode to a local browser engine mode, close the remote browser connection module 34, the virtual coprocessor task module 35 and the remote browser engine task module 36, and start the mobile application processor task module 33, specifically waking up the mobile application processor and starting the software task of the mobile application processor.
The above is only the preferred embodiment of the disclosure, and not intended to limit the scope of protection of the disclosure.
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