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20130346958 | AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO A DEVICE ECOSYSTEM - A method for automatically provisioning a platform implementation package to a client device may include receiving from an application executing on the client device, a request for functionality. The request may be received via a client library distributed with the application, and may be for functionality provided by the platform implementation package. The platform implementation package may provide functionality that is not provided by the client library. It may be further automatically determined, by the client device, that the functionality requires an update to the platform implementation package. In response, a request for the update to the platform implementation package may be communicated to a computing system. The update to the platform implementation package may be received from the computing system and installed on the client device. The requested functionality may be provided to the application by the updated platform implementation package. | 12-26-2013 |
20140137094 | AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO A DEVICE ECOSYSTEM - A method for automatically provisioning a platform implementation package to a client device may include receiving from an application executing on the client device, a request for functionality. The request may be received via a client library distributed with the application, and may be for functionality provided by the platform implementation package. The platform implementation package may provide functionality that is not provided by the client library. It may be further automatically determined, by the client device, that the functionality requires an update to the platform implementation package. In response, a request for the update to the platform implementation package may be communicated to a computing system. The update to the platform implementation package may be received from the computing system and installed on the client device. The requested functionality may be provided to the application by the updated platform implementation package. | 05-15-2014 |
20140137098 | AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF A SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO A DEVICE ECOSYSTEM - A method for automatically provisioning a platform implementation package to a client device may include receiving from an application executing on the client device, a request for functionality. The request may be received via a client library distributed with the application, and may be for functionality provided by the platform implementation package. The platform implementation package may provide functionality that is not provided by the client library. It may be further automatically determined, by the client device, that the functionality requires an update to the platform implementation package. In response, a request for the update to the platform implementation package may be communicated to a computing system. The update to the platform implementation package may be received from the computing system and installed on the client device. The requested functionality may be provided to the application by the updated platform implementation package. | 05-15-2014 |
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20120233163 | DETECTING APPLICATION SIMILARITY - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes selecting for analysis by a computing device, an executable application, and identifying a group of application programming interfaces (APIs) utilized by the application when the application is executed. The method may also identifying a group of related applications that are each related to the application based on the group of APIs utilized by the application, wherein each related application of the group of related applications utilizes one or more APIs of the group of APIs utilized by the application. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233165 | DETECTING APPLICATION SIMILARITY - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes selecting for analysis by a computing device, an executable application, and identifying a group of application programming interfaces (APIs) utilized by the application when the application is executed. The method may also identifying a group of related applications that are each related to the application based on the group of APIs utilized by the application, wherein each related application of the group of related applications utilizes one or more APIs of the group of APIs utilized by the application. | 09-13-2012 |
20130024820 | MOVING A GRAPHICAL SELECTOR - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for moving a graphical selector. In one example, a method includes activating, by a computing device, a graphical key that is displayed with a presence-sensitive interface of the computing device. Upon activation of the graphical key, the method also includes receiving gesture input corresponding to a directional gesture using the presence-sensitive interface of the computing device and moving a graphical selector displayed with the presence-sensitive interface from a first graphical location to a second graphical location by at least one selected increment based on a property of the gesture input. | 01-24-2013 |
20130036388 | MOVING A GRAPHICAL SELECTOR - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for moving a graphical selector. In one example, a method includes activating, by a computing device, a graphical key that is displayed with a presence-sensitive interface of the computing device. Upon activation of the graphical key, the method also includes receiving gesture input corresponding to a directional gesture using the presence-sensitive interface of the computing device and moving a graphical selector displayed with the presence-sensitive interface from a first graphical location to a second graphical location by at least one selected increment based on a property of the gesture input. | 02-07-2013 |
20130232229 | Distribution of Application Files - A system includes a server system interface arranged to receive, from a client application of one of a plurality of client computing devices, a communication that corresponds to a request to obtain or update a software application; and an application marketplace server system programmed to identify, in response to the communication, application files that include an application binary file that corresponds to the software application and one or more supplemental files associated with the software application, and to send information that relates to the application files to the client application in response to receiving the communication, and identify stored files on the computing device that correspond to the application files, determine particular ones of the application files to download based on the identified stored files and the information that relates to the application files sent from the application marketplace server system, and initiate download. | 09-05-2013 |
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20130339942 | Automatic Application Updates - A method for updating an application on a mobile device includes accessing, at the mobile device, application management information. The application management information identifies a plurality of applications installed on the mobile device and one or more granted permission settings associated with each installed application. The method also includes sending, from the mobile device to a server, a request for update information regarding each installed application and receiving, at the mobile device from the server, the update information. The update information identifies an update package for a respective application of the plurality of installed applications. The method also includes installing the update package without user interaction from a user of the mobile device if one or more required permission settings associated with the update package are included in the one or more granted permission settings associated with the respective application of the plurality of installed applications. | 12-19-2013 |
20140259001 | AUTOMATIC APPLICATION UPDATES - A method for updating an application on a mobile device includes accessing, at the mobile device, application management information. The application management information identifies a plurality of applications installed on the mobile device and one or more granted permission settings associated with each installed application. The method also includes sending, from the mobile device to a server, a request for update information regarding each installed application and receiving, at the mobile device from the server, the update information. The update information identifies an update package for a respective application of the plurality of installed applications. The method also includes installing the update package without user interaction from a user of the mobile device if one or more required permission settings associated with the update package are included in the one or more granted permission settings associated with the respective application of the plurality of installed applications. | 09-11-2014 |
20150039427 | Identifying Media Store Users Eligible for Promotions - A developer/requestor may select a subset of users for a promotion by querying a database; however, the developer may not be provided with specific details about each user (e.g., purchase history, browsing history, etc.). The system returns a response to the query that obfuscates a user's data while simultaneously providing the developer with a response to indicate to the developer whether or not a user or group of users is promotion eligible based on the developer's criteria. The developer may dispatch a promotion to the one or more users determined to be promotion eligible. | 02-05-2015 |
20150193225 | AUTOMATIC APPLICATION UPDATES - A method for updating an application on a mobile device includes accessing, at the mobile device, application management information. The application management information identifies a plurality of applications installed on the mobile device and one or more granted permission settings associated with each installed application. The method also includes sending, from the mobile device to a server, a request for update information regarding each installed application and receiving, at the mobile device from the server, the update information. The update information identifies an update package for a respective application of the plurality of installed applications. The method also includes installing the update package without user interaction from a user of the mobile device if one or more required permission settings associated with the update package are included in the one or more granted permission settings associated with the respective application of the plurality of installed applications. | 07-09-2015 |
20150207823 | SERVER CONTROLLED THROTTLING OF CLIENT TO SERVER REQUESTS - Embodiments of the invention provide methodologies for server-controlled throttling of client to server requests in order to improve client-server communication performance. Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods that provide routines for real-time monitoring of requests originating from client devices, for analyzing the characteristics of the requests, for developing protocols for managing requests within a client-server infrastructure, and for facilitating client adherence to the developed protocols. The systems and methods contemplated by the present invention involve means for monitoring the requests received by servers from client devices, means for analyzing the characteristics of the requests, means for developing client-server communication protocols intended to improve client-server communication performance, and means for delivering the protocols to a plurality of client devices. | 07-23-2015 |
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20080222351 | HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT AND REMOTELY LOCATED RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - A data transmission assembly includes a first connection terminal coupled to a processing unit and a second connection terminal coupled to a random access memory (RAM) resource. The data transmission assembly also includes a first electrical/optical (EO) signal converter and a second EO signal converter. The first EO signal converter is coupled to the first connection terminal and the second EO signal converter is coupled to the second connection terminal. The data transmission assembly also includes an optical signal propagation medium with a first end and a second end. The first end is attached to the first EO signal converter, and the second end is attached to the second EO signal converter. The signal propagation medium carries signals between the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal to support memory accesses performed by the processing unit to access data at memory locations within the RAM resource. | 09-11-2008 |
20100028022 | MULTI-LEVEL OPTICAL DATA COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT - A driver circuit is coupled to an optical waveguide transmitter. The driver circuit has a current generator that is in series with the transmitter, and a current robbing circuit is coupled to the transmitter. The current robbing circuit is to divert first and second amounts of current from the transmitter, in accordance with predetermined values of first and second bit streams, respectively, in which data is received to be transmitted. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 02-04-2010 |
20100129084 | BI-DIRECTIONAL PARALLEL OPTICAL LINK - A system is disclosed. The system includes a first optical transceiver having a first set of transmitters and a first set of receivers and a second optical transceiver having a second set of transmitters coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of receivers of the first optical transceiver and a second set of receivers coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of transmitters of the first optical transceiver. | 05-27-2010 |
20120020671 | BI-DIRECTIONAL PARALLEL OPTICAL LINK - A system is disclosed. The system includes a first optical transceiver having a first set of transmitters and a first set of receivers and a second optical transceiver having a second set of transmitters coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of receivers of the first optical transceiver and a second set of receivers coupled anti-symmetrically to the first set of transmitters of the first optical transceiver. | 01-26-2012 |