Managing application updates

A computing system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• one or more processors configured to:
• determine a set of available application updates for one or more applications installed at a computing device;
• determine, based at least in part on an amount of metered data available during a time period and an amount of metered data used during the time period, an application update data budget for downloading application updates over a metered data network by at least determining one or more of a sliding window application update data budget and a daily application update data budget;
• determine a respective amount of data required to download each available application update from the set of available application updates;
• schedule, based the respective amounts of data required to download each available application update, a first set of application updates to be downloaded using the metered data network or an unmetered data network and a second set of application updates to be downloaded using only the unmetered data network;
• responsive to determining that the respective amount of data required to download a particular application update exceeds the sliding window application update data budget or the daily application update data budget:
• determine whether fewer than a threshold number of days remain in a data plan billing period;
• responsive to determining that fewer than the threshold number of days remain in the data plan billing period, determine whether the respective amount of data required to download the particular application update is less than a total amount of unused data in the data plan billing period;
• and
• responsive to determining that the respective amount of data required to download the particular application update is less than the total amount of unused data in the data plan billing period, include the particular application update in the first set of application updates;
• and
• responsive to determining that the computing device is connected to the metered data network, send, to the computing device, the first set of application updates.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the one or more processors to:

• determine a set of available application updates for one or more applications installed at a computing device;
• determine, based at least in part on an amount of metered data available during a time period and an amount of metered data used during the time period, an application update data budget for downloading application updates over a metered data network by at least determining one or more of a sliding window application update data budget and a daily application update data budget;
• determine a respective amount of data required to download each available application update from the set of available application updates;
• schedule, based the respective amounts of data required to download each available application update, a first set of application updates to be downloaded using the metered data network or an unmetered data network and a second set of application updates to be downloaded using only the unmetered data network;
• responsive to determining that the respective amount of data required to download a particular application update exceeds the sliding window application update data budget or the daily application update data budget:
• determine whether fewer than a threshold number of days remain in a data plan billing period;
• responsive to determining that fewer than the threshold number of days remain in the data plan billing period, determine whether the respective amount of data required to download the particular application update is less than a total amount of unused data in the data plan billing period;
• and
• responsive to determining that the respective amount of data required to download the particular application update is less than the total amount of unused data in the data plan billing period, include the particular application update in the first set of application updates;
• and
• responsive to determining that the computing device is connected to the metered data network, send, to the computing device, the first set of application updates.