Google Inc.

Aurash Jonathan Mahbod

Ficus Kirkpatrick

Ilya Firman

Jasper S Lin

Christian Sonntag

Linda K Nguyen

Christoph Emanuel Studer

Michael Siliski

Andrew Devron Stadler

Jonathan Brunsman

Vachaspati Hemmige Varadarajan

Liyuan Gao

Jacob Peter Slack

Jeff Hao

Jesse D Wilson

Linda Nguyen

Christoph Studer

One or more processors of a computing device may receive, from an external computing device, a first one or more application elements of a plurality of application elements of a first application that is to be installed at the computing device. The one or more processors may further obtain from a second application that is installed at the computing device, a second one or more application elements of the plurality of application elements of the first application that is to be installed at the computing device. The one or more processors may further install, using the first one or more application elements and the second one or more application elements, the first application at the computing device.

Leveraging previously installed application elements to install an application

Embodiments of the invention provide methodologies for server-controlled throttling of client to server requests in order to improve client-server communication performance. Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods that provide routines for real-time monitoring of requests originating from client devices, for analyzing the characteristics of the requests, for developing protocols for managing requests within a client-server infrastructure, and for facilitating client adherence to the developed protocols. The systems and methods contemplated by the present invention involve means for monitoring the requests received by servers from client devices, means for analyzing the characteristics of the requests, means for developing client-server communication protocols intended to improve client-server communication performance, and means for delivering the protocols to a plurality of client devices.

Server controlled throttling of client to server requests

The presently disclosure provides methods and system for reducing the size of an application by replacing a media item in the application with a reference to the media item stored in a remote storage location. A method may include detecting a media item in an application and storing the media item in a remote storage location. The media item in the application may be replaced with a reference to the media item stored in the remote storage location and the application may be provided to a device. A media item request may be received from the device, and the media item request may indicate a parameter associated with the requested media item. The media item stored in the remote storage location may be scaled based on the parameter associated with the media item request and the scaled media item may be provided to the device.

Accessing media item referenced in application

A method for updating an application on a mobile device includes accessing, at the mobile device, application management information. The application management information identifies a plurality of applications installed on the mobile device and one or more granted permission settings associated with each installed application. The method also includes sending, from the mobile device to a server, a request for update information regarding each installed application and receiving, at the mobile device from the server, the update information. The update information identifies an update package for a respective application of the plurality of installed applications. The method also includes installing the update package without user interaction from a user of the mobile device if one or more required permission settings associated with the update package are included in the one or more granted permission settings associated with the respective application of the plurality of installed applications.

Automatic application updates

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, techniques for determining a timeout value for a mobile device are disclosed. The techniques include receiving a request for a timeout value from a mobile device. The request includes a current network provider identifier and a first current connection type identifier. The techniques further include accessing an analytics database that stores a plurality of realized latency values, each realized latency value corresponding to a different previously performed network operation. Each realized latency value has a network provider identifier indicating a network provider and a connection type identifier indicating a type of associated therewith. The techniques further include retrieving one or more of the plurality of realized latency values from the analytics database based on the current network provider identifier and the first connection type identifier. The techniques also include determining the timeout value based on the retrieved realized latency.

Apparatus and method for configuring network connection parameters of a mobile device

Systems and methods of optimizing communications for a mobile device are provided. The method includes determining a maximum allowable retransmission timeout interval allowed by the mobile device. The method also includes determining that a first communication session used by the mobile device to transmit data has a retransmission timeout interval that exceeds the maximum allowable retransmission timeout interval. The method further includes, in response to determining that the first communication session is using a retransmission timeout interval that exceeds the maximum allowable retransmission timeout interval, terminating the first communication session, and initiating a second communication session.

Optimizing TCP traffic for mobile devices using TCP backoff thresholds

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Aurash Jonathan Mahbod