US 12,182,558 B2Granted

Application rendering platform

AssigneeVobo LLC

InventorsJeremy Knight, Peter Fyhrie

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Abstract

An Application Rendering Platform (“ARP”) is described. The platform facilitates application rendering, which is the ability of a single application to manifest multiple application behavior sets. The ARP may include Application Rendering Server and a client component, for example a Client Rendering Software. The Client Rendering Software is an Application designed such that its overall behavior, including its user interface components and its functionality, can be controlled dynamically by the Application Rendering Server component. A user (“owner”) can access the ARP configure a unique Behavior Set to be manifested for their Registrants (“end users”) alone. Such a Behavior Set includes, but is not limited to, such qualities as the application badge, the user interface, color scheme, the feature menu contents, the functionality set, the graphical imaging and layout and the feature naming and language used.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a server computing system including:
an Application Rendering Database that stores owner data, application configuration data, and registrant data;
an administrative interface module configured to specify a set of application behaviors stored as configuration data in the Application Rendering Database;
a registration server configured to register an invited registrant user who operates a client device;
and
a device Application Programming Interface (“API”) configured to transmit to client rendering software on the client device configuration data including the specified set of application behaviors, thereby causing the client rendering software on the client device to implement the specified set of application behaviors as configured via the administrative interface module,
wherein an Application Owner receives a unique invitation (“Uniform Resource Locator”) URL or scannable code from the server computing system to invite prospective community of registrant app users;
wherein a prospective registrant user when activating the invitation URL or scannable code is presented with a custom registration form that collects identification data from the registrant user;
wherein the registration server, once registrant data entry is complete, stores all collected registration data with a unique registration reference key;
wherein the registration server, once registrant data entry is complete, transmits a dynamic link via an SMS (“Short Message Service”) text message to a smartphone number entered by the registrant user that directs the client device to a correct download server to install the client rendering software;
and
wherein the SMS text message transmitted by the registration server includes the unique registration reference key such that the client rendering software, upon initial instantiation, accesses that unique registration reference key and, by exchanging the key with the registration server receives all application configuration data and registrant identification data required to immediately, without any further registrant user interaction, manifest the set of application behaviors configured by the Application Owner.

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A method comprising:

by an application rendering server,
providing an invitation registration form via a first Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that is associated with a specific set of application behaviors;
receiving, from a client device and based on the first URL, registrant information;
transmitting to the client device a second URL that is based on the registrant information and that references an app download server, thereby causing the client device to download and install client rendering software obtained from the app download server;
receiving, from the client device, registrant identification;
and
transmitting to the client device configuration data that is based on the registrant identification and that includes multiple sets of application behaviors to the client device, each set of application behaviors defining a different rendered application to execute on the client device,
wherein transmission of the second URL is accomplished via a Short Message Service (“SMS”) text message to the client device, thereby:
directing the client device to the app download server to download and install the client rendering software and
validating a phone number entered by an invited registrant user,
wherein the SMS message includes a unique registration reference key such that the client rendering software, upon initial instantiation, accesses the unique registration reference key and, by exchanging the key with an application rendering server, receives all application configuration data and registrant identification data required to immediately, without any further registrant user interaction, manifest the application behaviors configured by an application owner.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions that are configured, when executed by an application rendering server computer system, to perform a method comprising:

providing a registration form via a first Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that is associated with a specified set of application behaviors;
receiving, from an invited registrant user based on the first URL, registrant information data;
transmitting to a client device a second URL that is based on the registrant information data and that references an app download server, thereby causing the client device to download and install client rendering software obtained from the app download server;
receiving, from the client device, registrant identification;
and
transmitting to the client device configuration data that is based on the registrant identification and that includes multiple sets of application behaviors to the client device, each set of behaviors defining a different rendered application to execute on the client device,
wherein transmitting the second URL includes transmitting an SMS text message to the client device, thereby directing the client device to the app download server to download and install the client rendering software,
wherein the Short Message Service (“SMS”) message includes a unique registration reference key such that the client rendering software, upon initial instantiation, accesses that unique registration reference key and, by exchanging the key with an application rendering server, receives all application configuration data and registrant identification data required to immediately, without any further registrant user interaction, manifest the application behaviors configured by an application owner.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/671,482Filed 14 Feb 2022 · us provisional application
Priority: 12 Feb 2021
Published: US 2022/0261232 A118 Aug 2022
Granted: 31 Dec 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 8/61
Software deployment: installation
G06F 8/60
Arrangements for software engineering: software deployment
G06F 8/71
Software maintenance or management: version control ; Configuration management
G06F 16/955
Retrieval from the web: using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

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Application63/149,183Us provisional application · filed 12 Feb 2021
US 2022/0261232 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Aug 2022
US 12,182,558 B2This patent

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