Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080282222 | XML PUSH AND REMOTE EXECUTION OF A WIRELESS APPLICATIONS - A method is provided for facilitating generation of a wireless application capable of receiving messages from a server-side application. The method comprising the following steps. A structured data file defining the wireless application is parsed for identifying at least one exposed function. Message definitions are generated in accordance with the exposed function for enabling communication between the server-side application and the wireless application. At least one interoperability functions is generated. Each interoperability function is associated with one of the exposed functions. The interoperability function is configured to execute the associated exposed function upon receipt of a message defined by a corresponding message definition. | 11-13-2008 |
20080282223 | XML PUSH AND REMOTE EXECUTION OF A WIRELESS APPLICATIONS - A method is provided for facilitating generation of a server-side application capable of calling a function of a wireless application on a mobile device. The method comprises the following steps. A structured data file defining the wireless application is retrieved. The structured data file is parsed for identifying exposed functions. Code stubs are generated for each of the exposed functions. The code stubs are configured to be included as part of the server-side application and to define a message to be transmitted to the wireless application upon execution of the code stub. | 11-13-2008 |
20080320251 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICES - Methods and systems for controlling centralized memory management in wireless terminal devices. Memory management scripts associated with a wireless application are stored in a registry accessible through a data network for on-demand download and execution. A memory management kernel in each terminal device monitors a memory utilization of the terminal device. Based on the memory utilization, the memory management kernel interacts with an application gateway hosting the terminal device to download and execute one or more of the memory management scripts. | 12-25-2008 |
20090199218 | System and Method for Adaptable Provisioning of Generic Application Content - The current state of art for over-the-air (OTA) provisioning typically consists of a rigid set of operations that are suited to deliver a fixed content type. The runtime environment on the terminal is designed to handle a limited set of predefined content types and incapable of any content-adaptive or customized provisioning by the content provider or publisher. A system and method is provided for adaptable provisioning of an application program on a runtime environment of a terminal. The application includes generic application content. The method comprises the steps of configuring a provisioning API set including a generic API, such that the generic API is addressable by at least two dissimilar content types of the generic application content. the method also obtains an enabler related to a selected content type of the generic application content, such that the enabler is configured for executing provisioning instruction requests for the generic application content according to the selected application content. the method also provisions portions of the generic application content having the selected application content by using the enabler to access the generic API. | 08-06-2009 |
20090296678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERIC DATA MAPPING BETWEEN WIRELESS COMPONENT APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION DATA SOURCES - An application gateway is configured to facilitate message communication between an application executing on a wireless device and a backend server. The application gateway comprises a message interface, a backend connector and a transformer. The message interface facilitates communication between the wireless device and the application gateway in a compact format. The backend connector facilitates communication between the application gateway and the backend server using a schema-based internal format. The transformer translates data between the compact format and the internal format. The transformer further includes a transformer mapping document for correlating elements in the compact format with elements in the internal format. | 12-03-2009 |
20100042972 | DEVELOPMENTAL TOOL AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING DETECTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF NOTIFICATION-BASED COMPONENT APPLICATIONS - A notification module is provided for executing in combination with an application design tool for facilitating generation of a component application. The notification module includes a program wizard configured to assist with the development of the component application. That is, the program wizard detects a notification from at least one message. Notification operations are created in accordance with the detected notification. Corresponding elements are constructed in accordance with the created notification operations. Lastly, a mapping document is created for correlating the at least one message with its corresponding constructed elements. The mapping document is for use at a gateway server to facilitate communication between the application and a corresponding backend server. | 02-18-2010 |
20100050167 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPLICATION AND SUPPORTING ACCESS TO A PLURALITY OF HETEROGENEOUS BACKEND SERVERS - A plug-in is provided for use with an authoring application. The plug-in facilitates development of a wireless application in communication with a backend server via a corresponding connector. The plug-in comprises an interface and an assembler. The interface interfaces with the authoring application and receiving a desired inquiry from the authoring application to be posted to the backend server. The assembler creates a schema-based description document describing the inquiry in accordance with a set of predefined criteria for ensuring that the connector is able to interpret the description document. | 02-25-2010 |
20100069053 | System and Method For Transactional Application Lifecycle Management For Mobile Devices - The present disclosure relates to networks and lifecycle transaction management of mobile devices. There is provided a system and method for managing the lifecycle of applications on mobile devices. The system has components for implementing a method comprising the steps of creating a transaction context comprising a transaction command, sending the transaction context in a transaction context message to a plurality of mobile devices, and evaluating an ending scenario based on transaction statuses of the plurality of mobile devices. | 03-18-2010 |
20100075707 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA TO BE PUSHED TO A WIRELESS DEVICE WHEN THE DEVICE MAY BE OUTSIDE OF A COVERAGE RANGE - A push proxy server for pushing data to a wireless device having a coverage state of online or offline. The push proxy server comprises a coverage state detector, memory, a data store, and a transceiver. The coverage state detector determines the coverage state of the wireless device. The memory stores a coverage state indicator for indicating the coverage state of the wireless device. The data store stores the data to be pushed to the wireless device when the coverage state indicator indicates the wireless device is offline. The transceiver transmits the data to the wireless device when the coverage state indicator indicates the wireless device is online. A method for implementing the push proxy server is also described. | 03-25-2010 |
20100142406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING COMPONENT APPLICATIONS USING METADATA DEFINED MAPPING BETWEEN MESSAGE AND DATA DOMAINS - It is desirable to drive down the complexity involved in developing the wireless application by reducing the need to do any explicit coding, as well as reducing device resources utilized by the application when provisioned. Having an intelligent wireless device runtime environment (Device Runtime) that provides a set of basic services to manage the wireless application as a series if application components, and their interactions, can simplify the development effort and reduce resource allocation. The wireless application is described as a set of components. The data domain for this category of applications is defined using atomic data components. The communication between the device and a server is defined using atomic message components. Both message and data components are described in metadata using a structured definition language such as XML. The relationships between the message and data components are embedded in the XML definitions in the form of message/data mappings. Typically, outgoing messages are derived from some underlying data component and incoming messages affect the current state (or data representation) of the application. It is therefore apparent that the metadata defined mapping relationship is preferable between the expression of data and message components. | 06-10-2010 |
20100161767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE APPLICATION HOSTING ON A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method of dynamically hosting an application program on a wireless device, a content of the application partitioned into a plurality of module envelopes, each of the module envelopes having a portion of the modules comprising the application, the method comprising the steps of initializing the loading of the application comprising referencing an application information structure, the structure comprising relational information of the module envelopes, selecting one of the module envelopes from the plurality of the module envelopes according to the relational information, configuring a state of the selected module envelope according to a predefined envelope state, the envelope state being selected from a set of envelope states comprising at least two states selected from the group comprising an offline state, an executable state, and a raw state for conversion to the executable state, and providing the selected module envelope, when configured in the executable state, to an application manager for changing the configuration of the application on the device according to the configured module envelope. | 06-24-2010 |
20100179942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT TRANSFER OF APPLICATIONS AND DATA DURING DEVICE SWAP - A method for automatically registering the runtime environment and related component applications with an application gateway when transferring the applications from a first wireless device to a second wireless device is provided. Applications installed on the first wireless device are registered with an application gateway, which maintains a registration list of identification information for all registered wireless devices and applications installed thereon. A back-up is created of the applications and registration information for the runtime environment installed on the first wireless device for transfer to a second wireless device. An application container of the second wireless device determining installation and communicating to the application gateway identification information regarding the second wireless device and the restored applications. The application gateway registers the second wireless device by updating the registration list with the identification information for the second wireless device and the applications installed thereon. | 07-15-2010 |
20100223560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION FOR COMPONENT APPLICATIONS - An application gateway server is provided for managing communication between an application executing in a runtime environment on a device and at least one backend server. The application gateway server comprises a message listener, a connector subsystem, and a messaging subsystem. The message listener receives messages from the component applications. The connector subsystem comprises a plurality of connectors, each of the plurality of connectors for communicating with one or more associated backend servers. The messaging subsystem comprises a message broker for processing messages received from the message listener and transmitting them to an associated one of the plurality of connectors and a communication mapping for identifying which of the plurality of connectors is to be used for each message in accordance with an origin of the message. | 09-02-2010 |
20100235600 | System and Method of Waste Management - A method of application waste management in a wireless device is provided. The method comprised a first low-memory event. Deleting a first set of data records incrementally until event is cleared or no more records are present. Determining a second low-memory event when memory is still low. Executing a clean-up script to mark additional data records for deletion. Deleting the second set of data records until the second low-memory condition are cleared or no more records are present. | 09-16-2010 |
20100242033 | Method and System for Controlling Software Version Updates - Methods and systems are provided for controlling asynchronous distribution and installation of software updates affecting applications installed on terminal devices of a wireless network. A versioning schema enforced by the application development environment enables the runtime environment of a terminal device to evaluate a software update to identify potential compatibility issues and control installation of the update. | 09-23-2010 |
20100281472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF MUTATING APPLICATIONS - A method for adapting a provisioned content of an application program on a mobile device, the content of the application being partitioned into a set of addressable logical modules, the method comprising the steps of provisioning a first group of logical modules selected from the set of logical modules to provide provisioned content on the device, monitoring execution path information of the provisioned content during execution on the device, evaluating the execution path information to adapt the provisioned content by one or more of adding logical modules to the first group from the set of logical modules, removing logical modules from the first group of logical modules or suspending logical modules from the first group of logical modules, to form a second group of logical modules, revising the first group of logical modules to correspond to the second group of logical modules to provide a revised content; and adapting the provisioned content of the application on the terminal to correspond to the revised content, during execution on the device. | 11-04-2010 |
20110041138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRESENTING ENTITIES OF STANDARD APPLICATIONS IN WIRELESS DEVICES - A method of presenting data entities of standard device applications in wireless devices is provided. Component-based applications are hosted on a wireless device providing an application runtime environment for hosting at least one component-based application. Component definitions are hosted for developing the component-based application. A standard data component implements a standard data component definition; the standard data component definition is embedded into the component-based application definition during development. The standard data component providing access to a standard device data entity by invoking device dependent APIs the standard data component presenting the standard device data entity as a user defined data component. The application runtime environment automatically making functionality available of the user defined data components available to standard data component. | 02-17-2011 |
20110072044 | ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS APPLICATION PROVISIONING - A method for controlling access to content on a network, the method comprising the steps of associating access credentials with content to be published for download receiving a content download request from a mobile device, the content download request including access information, matching the received access information with the published content access credentials to permit access to the published content and allowing the permitted content to be downloaded by the mobile device. | 03-24-2011 |
20120072824 | CONTENT ACQUISITION DOCUMENTS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS - A method can extract content of interest from a structured electronic document with an electronic device having a processor, an input device, and a display device. The method includes receiving through the input device an indication of a plurality of content elements within a first structured electronic document; determining with the processor a portion of the first structured electronic document associated with each indicated content element; and forming with the processor a common expression based on the determined portions, the common expression being common to all of the determined portions, wherein when the common expression is applied to a second structured electronic document, another content element is extracted from the second structured electronic document. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072825 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method of identifying content of interest in a structured electronic document by an electronic device having a processor, an input device, and a display device, includes rendering a structured electronic document to the display device; receiving through the input device at least two separate indications of content elements within the rendered structured electronic document; and identifying with the processor a common characteristic of the indicated content elements, and identifying any further content element within the rendered structured electronic document sharing the common characteristic with the indicated content elements. | 03-22-2012 |
20120142330 | System and Method For Transactional Application Lifecycle Management For Mobile Devices - The present disclosure relates to networks and lifecycle transaction management of mobile devices. There is provided a system and method for managing the lifecycle of applications on mobile devices. The system has components for implementing a method comprising the steps of creating a transaction context comprising a transaction command, sending the transaction context in a transaction context message to a plurality of mobile devices, and evaluating an ending scenario based on transaction statuses of the plurality of mobile devices. | 06-07-2012 |
20120173652 | METHOD FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS OVER A NON-PERMANENT COMMUNICATION LINK - A method is disclosed for handling communications over a non-permanent communication link. The method comprising centrally receiving a message to transmit from a plurality of applications, checking the availability of the non-permanent communication link, if the non-permanent communication link is not-available, queuing the received message for future transmission, and providing the message to a transport/network layer if the communication link is available. | 07-05-2012 |
20120188264 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ENHANCED USER INTERFACE (UI) CONTENT DISPLAY FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A method for visually rendering data on a display of a mobile device having a native client user interface (UI) may include storing application data on a backend data server without visual attribute formatting associated therewith, and generating visual attribute formatting rules for storage on an application proxy server so that application data retrieved from the backend data server has the visual attribute formatting rules applied thereto. At least one application for the mobile device may be generated that is configured to at least cause the mobile device to retrieve the stored application data having the visual attribute formatting rules applied thereto from the backend data server via the application proxy server, and visually render on the display of the mobile device the retrieved application data having the visual attribute formatting rules applied thereto using the native client UI and without visual attribute formatting by the at least one application. | 07-26-2012 |
20130117430 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS APPLICATION PRIVILEGE MANAGEMENT - A method for providing an administration policy to a user device comprising a plurality of applications, the method comprising centrally generating the administration policy to be implemented in the user device, the administration policy comprising at least one of an application administration policy to be used by at least one of the plurality of applications and a client administration policy for the user device; and providing the generated policy to the user device. | 05-09-2013 |