US 2022/0191666 A1Published application

Apparatus, system and method for promoting apps to smart devices

AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.

InventorsArsham Hatambeiki, Jon Gallegos

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Abstract

Apparatus, system and method for promoting media apps to an end user of a smart device. The smart device gathers information of apps that have been installed into the smart device and provides this information to a remote server. The remote server compares the information sent by the smart device to an identification of promoted apps received from a remote source to identify apps that are not installed in the smart device that are included in the identification of promoted apps. The remote server then notifies the smart device of which apps in the identification of promoted apps are not installed into the smart device, so that a user of the smart device may choose to have the missing app installed.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory, computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a smart device, cause the smart device to perform steps comprising:

receiving, via the communication interface of the smart device, installed app information of a one or more other smart devices on a common local-area network as the smart device;
causing the received installed app information of each of the one or more other smart devices that provided installed app information to the smart device to be compared with an identification of promoted apps to determine a one or more missing apps, the one or more missing apps comprising a one or more apps listed in the identification of promoted apps that are not determined to be present in the one or more other smart devices;
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causing a notification to be provided to the one or more other smart devices indicating that the one or more of the missing apps are available for installation on the one or more other smart devices.

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Application: 17/686,314Filed 3 Mar 2022
Priority: 13 Dec 2016
Published: 16 Jun 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04W 4/60
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: subscription-based services using application servers or…
H04L 67/025
Based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]: for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
H04L 67/04
Protocols: specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
H04L 67/12
Protocols: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in…

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Application15/377,274Continuation · filed 13 Dec 2016
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