Facilitating Communication Between Mobile Applications

A method comprising:

• identifying, by a processor of a mobile device, a first mobile application that is executing on a mobile device;
• encrypting, by the processor, a first state information of the first mobile application for transmission from the first mobile application to a shared location accessible to any mobile application executing on the mobile device and any mobile application activated at a later time in the mobile device than the first mobile application, resulting in an encrypted first state information;
• and
• maintaining the encrypted first state information beyond an execution lifetime of the first application by transmitting the encrypted first state information from the first mobile application to the shared location in a moving beacon before the execution lifetime of the first application is completed, wherein the first mobile application reloads a saved state from the first state information in the moving beacon upon restart.

An apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, may cause the apparatus to:
• identify a first mobile application that is executing on the apparatus;
• generate encrypted first state information of the first mobile application for transmission to a shared location to preserve a corresponding first state information of the first mobile application;
• and
• transmit, in a moving beacon, the encrypted first state information to the shared location accessible to any mobile application executing on the apparatus, wherein the moving beacon is configured to preserve the first state information of the first mobile application beyond an execution lifetime of the first mobile application to reload a saved state of the first mobile application upon restart of the first mobile application.