Cellco Partnership

Huiyu Wang

Kathleen J Chylinski

Lily H Zhu

Stephen J Kolanowski

Martin Abbott

Ioannis Tsampalis

Snehal Desai

Shelley K Allen

Jerome A Bankos, Jr

Frank D Larocca

An exemplary system and method avoids unannounced software updates for a connected device by acquiring installation consent from the user for each software update to the connected device. Consent is acquired by leveraging an extended interface application described below, to facilitate notifications from the connected device to the user and receive user inputs indicating consent in response to the notifications.

Application assisted software update for connected devices without a display

A disclosed method of transferring information between application programs on a mobile device may involve executing a browser application program on the mobile device to display a page containing one or more objects on a touch panel display; responsive to user touching of the display, identifying an object from the displayed page as having been selected by the user; and copying the selected object from the displayed page. The method further includes steps of displaying on the display a list of one or more destination programs available for selection and execution on the mobile device. The method may also involve steps of, responsive to user touching of the touch screen display, identifying one destination program as having been selected by the user, and launching the identified program. Then, the copied object is pasted for use in the execution of the identified destination program.

Browser based objects for copying and sending operations

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Huiyu Wang