US 2010/0251231 A1Published application

Device dependent on-demand compiling and deployment of mobile applications

AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation

InventorsDidier Coussemaeker, Danny Lange, Joe Futty, Ashley Nathan Feniello, Graham Arthur Wheeler, Adrien Felon, Nicolas Mai

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Abstract

To accommodate different types and versions of execution environments on mobile devices, requests for applications from a programmable device, such as a smart phone or other mobile device include status data about the characteristics of the device. Information about the display, memory, storage, and/or script engine may be forwarded with a request. At a fulfillment server, the information is evaluated so that an appropriately versioned and configured application can be custom built, or selected from a pre-built inventory of applications. This allows a user to postpone an upgrade and still receive appropriate versions of executable, optimized to the particular mobile device.

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Dependent claims

A method of creating applications responsive to a request from a programmable device comprising:

determining a base configuration of the programmable device;
presenting a user interface with a list of available applications compatible with the base configuration of the programmable device;
receiving user input relating to a selected application from the list of available applications for installation on the programmable device;
collecting a specific configuration corresponding to the programmable device;
constructing a request package at the programmable device, the request package including component elements of the specific configuration including at least an identifier of the selected application, a script engine version identifier, and at least one of a device identifier and a device type identifier;
sending the request package from the programmable device to a fulfillment center;
receiving the request package at the fulfillment center;
parsing the request package with the specific configuration of the programmable device into the component elements of the request package;
creating a custom version of the selected application corresponding to the component elements of the request package;
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sending the custom version of the selected application to the programmable device.

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