SOFTWARE UPGRADE METHOD AND TERMINAL

摘要

The present invention relates to a software upgrade method for a terminal. The method includes: receiving, by a second terminal, a first message broadcast by at least one first terminal, where the first message includes information of application software maintained by the first terminal; determining, by the second terminal according to the information of the application software maintained by the first terminal, whether there is upgradeable application software on the second terminal; when it is determined that there is upgradeable application software on the second terminal, sending an upgrade request to the first terminal; receiving, by the second terminal, an upgrade response that is returned by the first terminal according to the upgrade request, and downloading upgrade data of the upgradeable application software; and updating the application software according to the upgrade data of the upgradeable application software.

主权项

1. A software upgrade method, applied to a second terminal in a local area network, wherein the local area network further comprises at least one first terminal, the method comprising:
receiving, by the second terminal, a first message broadcast by the at least one first terminal, wherein the first message comprises information of application software maintained by the first terminal, and the information of the application software comprises a software name of the application software and version information of the application software; determining, by the second terminal according to the information of the application software maintained by the first terminal, whether there is upgradeable application software on the second terminal; when it is determined that there is upgradeable application software on the second terminal, sending an upgrade request to the first terminal, wherein the upgrade request is used to acquire, from the first terminal, upgrade data of the upgradeable application software on the second terminal, and the upgrade data comprises a name of the upgradeable application software on the second terminal; receiving, by the second terminal, an upgrade response that is returned by the first terminal according to the upgrade request, and downloading the upgrade data of the upgradeable application software; and updating the upgradeable application software according to the upgrade data of the upgradeable application software.