Mobile information processing
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsMaria Cuevas Ramirez, Jonathan Hart
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Abstract
An application deployment manager 8 associated with an associated Mobile Edge Computing server receives a notification (step 222) of a newly-attached terminal, and queries a database 60 (step 223) to identify any computing applications the terminal is associated with, and interrogates an application platform 12 and an update record 72 to determine whether the current version of each required service is currently hosted on the platform 12 (steps 225, 250). The application deployment manager 8 then retrieves any programme data not already hosted on the application management system (step 227) for installation ready for use by the terminal 2.
Claims13
A method of connecting mobile terminals to a mobile communications network through an interface server, the interface server being capable of installing computing applications for co-operation with mobile terminals attached to the interface server, wherein, when a mobile terminal attaches to the network through the interface server, the interface server interrogates a database to identify associations between computing applications and the attached terminal and, if the server does not already have the computing applications associated with the attached terminal installed, downloads programme information from a programme store to allow the required applications to be installed.
An interface server for connecting mobile terminals to a mobile communications network, the interface server having an application platform capable of supporting computing applications for co-operation with mobile terminals operationally attached to the interface server, having an attachment notification interface for identifying when a mobile terminal attaches to the network through the interface server, and having an application deployment management system having an authentication interface for interrogating a database for identifying associations between computing applications and the attached terminal when the attachment notification interface identifies that the mobile terminal attaches to the network through the interface server, an application platform interface for interacting with the application platform to identify applications installed on the platform, and an accession interface to download application programme information from a programme store to install computing applications associated with the attached terminal if they are not already present on the platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.