Patent ID: 8555060
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A managing method for an application program, which is used for ensuring that, terminals having a running environment of the application program on various running platforms can recover and run the application program managed, the managing method comprising: converting, locally by a first terminal, a file of a specified application program stored by the first terminal into an intermediate file in a predetermined intermediate format, the file of the specified application program including additional information of the application program generated after being installed and run on the first terminal, wherein the intermediate format can be identified by other terminals having the running environment of the application program in different virtual machines; and performing, by the first terminal, backup management on the specified application program by storing the intermediate file into a specified storage location, so as to enable a second terminal to recover the application program that has been made a backup, wherein both the second terminal and the first terminal have the running environment of the application program.