Research in Motion Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Vitanov, Kamen

Shenfield, Michael

Goring, Bryan

Bibr, Viera

Bryan R Goring

Michael Shenfield

Viera Bibr

Kamen B Vitanov

Brindusa L Fritsch

David DeBruin

Jeffrey Christopher Rogers

Kenneth Wallis

Daniel Mateescu

Laura Brindusa Fritsch

Michael Cacenco

Srimantee Karmakar

Vladimir Blagojevic

Robert Kline

Zhong Hai Luo

John F A Dahms

Laura Doktorova

Richard X Qing

Cameron Bateman

Zhonghai Luo

Igor Tsenter

Curtis Wetherly

David Paul Yach

Alexander Sherkin

Jeffery C Rogers

Brindusa Fritch

David Debruin

John F Dahms

A method for providing an administration policy to a user device comprising a plurality of applications, the method comprising centrally generating the administration policy to be implemented in the user device, the administration policy comprising at least one of an application administration policy to be used by at least one of the plurality of applications and a client administration policy for the user device; and providing the generated policy to the user device.

Method for providing wireless application privilege management

A versioning schema enforced by the application development environment enables the runtime environment of a terminal device to evaluate a software update to identify potential compatibility issues and control installation of the update. The versioning schema includes a respective field for each one of a plurality of aspects of the application and defines an initial value of each field when an initial application load is released. For each successive software update affecting the application, the method involves identifying each aspect of the application affected by the software update and incrementing a value of the respective field of each identified aspect. The version number can be in the form D.M.F where D, M and F are incremented in response to changes in the application relating to data components, message components and features.

System and method for implementing data-compatibility-based version scheme

A method for adapting a provisioned content of an application program on a mobile device, the content of the application being partitioned into a set of addressable logical modules, the method comprising the steps of provisioning a first group of logical modules selected from the set of logical modules to provide provisioned content on the device, monitoring execution path information of the provisioned content during execution on the device, evaluating the execution path information to adapt the provisioned content by one or more of adding logical modules to the first group from the set of logical modules, removing logical modules from the first group of logical modules or suspending logical modules from the first group of logical modules, to form a second group of logical modules, revising the first group of logical modules to correspond to the second group of logical modules to provide a revised content; and adapting the provisioned content of the application on the terminal to correspond to the revised content, during execution on the device.

System and method for management of mutating applications

Scripting Language based applications can be limited in their ability to supply and execute sophisticated logic and complex processing. More traditional programming languages contain explicit function and/or procedure calls to implement more complex functionality, however, these languages use more complicated syntax and traditionally require mosophisticated programming knowledge to use. There are provided systems and methods for extending the capabilities of an application program for execution by a terminal. The application includes a script based workflow and non-executable content. One such method comprises loading the workflow for interpretation by a script interpreter, such that the workflow is configured for having a plurality of executable elements. This method also provides a global symbol structure for reference by the executable elements, the global symbol structure including addressing for coupling selected ones of the executable elements to corresponding external components. The external components are provided by a native runtime environment of the terminal for performing the action specified by the selected executable elements. This method also executes the executable elements in sequence such that execution of the selected ones of the execution elements are redirected to the respective external components through the corresponding global symbols of the global symbol structure. Predefined knowledge of the contents of the global symbol structure is shared by the runtime environment and the workflow of the application.

System and method for extending capabilities and execution efficiency of script based applications

Methods and systems are provided for controlling asynchronous distribution and installation of software updates affecting applications installed on terminal devices of a wireless network. A versioning schema enforced by the application development environment enables the runtime environment of a terminal device to evaluate a software update to identify potential compatibility issues and control installation of the update.

Method and system for controlling software version updates

A method for extending a script language in a runtime environment of a data processing system to support an application, the runtime environment having a script language interpreter, the method comprising: subclassing a predetermined object defined by the script language to create a subclassed object, the predetermined object having an original method, the subclassed object having a respective replacement method for supporting the application; dynamically registering a symbol corresponding to the subclassed object; detecting the subclassed object in the application with the script language interpreter; and, executing the replacement method with the script language interpreter.

Method and system for extending scripting languages

A secure license key solution provides software license keys for enabling and/or tracing use of software where a license key comprises a message encrypted by a private key and the public key for verifying the message according to asymmetric encryption techniques. The message and public key may be used by a software enabler (e.g. an installation wizard) to enable the software and/or create a secure tag for incorporating with an output of the software to uniquely the license of the software used to create the output. A license key management system may generate license keys for respective software licensees and comprise a database to store an association between respective software licensees and their license keys to identify the license associated with output obtained.

Secure license key method and system

A system and method for generating an application based on a first component having definitions expressed in a structured definition language and a second component having a series of instructions. The component applications comprise data components, presentation components, and message components, which are written in XML code. The component applications further comprise workflow components which are written in a subset of ECMAScript, and are augmented with the XML code. The components define the processing on a device runtime environment of messages communicated over a network between the device and a datasource. The system and method have a data model for providing a persistent state of the application including the component definitions and the series of instructions. The system and method also have a code module for obtaining the components from the data model and for generating a first application element including code representing the component definitions. The system and method also have a mappings module for obtaining datasource mapping information from the data model and for generating a second application element including mapping file descriptors corresponding to the datasource mapping information, the mapping information for use in communication of the messages between the device runtime environment and the datasource. The system and method also have a resource module for collecting application resources and for generating a third application element including the resources, wherein the application elements are subsequently packaged as a deployable form of the application.

System and method for generating component based applications

A system and method of creating and communicating with wireless component applications is provided. Mobile communication devices communicate with a web service via a wireless network, the Internet, and optionally a message-map service. Each wireless component application is executed by a component framework on one of the mobile communication devices, and comprises data components, presentation components, message components, and workflow components. The component framework executes the component application in an application container which provides access to framework services which include a communication service, a screen service, a persistence service, an access service, a provisioning service, and a utility service. Messages can be sent from the component application to the message-map service, which converts each of the messages to a format required by the web service using an application message-map, and then sends the message to the web service. The web service sends a response to the message-map service, which converts the response to the format required by the wireless component application, and sends the response to the wireless component application.

System and method of creating and communicating with component based wireless applications

The current state of art for over-the-air (OTA) provisioning typically consists of a rigid set of operations that are suited to deliver a fixed content type. The runtime environment on the terminal is designed to handle a limited set of predefined content types and incapable of any content-adaptive or customized provisioning by the content provider or publisher. Systems and methods are provided for customized provisioning of an application program on a runtime environment of a terminal. The application includes application content having at least one specified content type. A method comprises: obtaining the application content by the runtime environment; and obtaining by the runtime environment a set of provisioning instructions related to the application content. The provisioning instructions are coupled to the application for specifying a provisioning API set for provisioning the application content. This method also executes the provisioning instructions for employing the API set to provision the application according to the specified content type.

System and method for customized provisioning of application content

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Bryan R Goring