Mobile device with local server
AssigneeTelmap Ltd.
InventorsEmanuel Dotan, Michael Menachem Kupferman, Adi Avram
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Abstract
A method for operating a mobile computing device includes running a platform-independent application program using a virtual machine operating on the mobile computing device. A server program runs on the mobile computing device so as to access a native function of the mobile computing device that is not supported by the virtual machine. The native function is invoked from the application program by opening a communication connection to the server program using a communication application programming interface (API) of the virtual machine, and sending a message to the server program via the communication connection, so as to cause the server program to access the native function.
Claims23
A method for operating a mobile computing device, comprising:
- running a platform-independent application program using a virtual machine operating on the mobile computing device;
- running a server program on the mobile computing device so as to access a native function of the mobile computing device that is not supported by the virtual machine;
- and
- invoking the native function from the platform-independent application program by:
- opening a communication connection to the server program using a communication application programming interface (API) of the virtual machine;
- sending a message to the server program via the communication connection, so as to cause the server program to access the native function;
- running the native function by the server program;
- and
- sending a reply to the message from the server program to the platform-independent application program returning a result of the native function.
A mobile computing device comprising a microprocessor, the microprocessor is programmed to:
- run a platform-independent application program using a virtual machine operating on the mobile computing device;
- run a server program on the mobile computing device so as to access a native function of the mobile device that is not supported by the virtual machine;
- invoke the native function from the platform-independent application program by:
- opening a communication connection to the server program using a communication application programming interface (API) of the virtual machine;
- and
- sending a message to the server program via the communication connection, so as to cause the server program to access the native function;
- and
- run the server program to execute the native function,
- wherein the server program is adapted to send a reply to the message to the platform-independent application program returning a result of the native function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.