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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2008
Jimmy Shih, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cedric Beust, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joanne Mckinley, Waterloo, CA;
Derek Phillips, Waterloo, CA;
Alex Nicolaou, Waterloo, CA;
Zhanna Shamis, Burlingame, CA;
Jimmy Shih, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cedric Beust, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joanne Mckinley, Waterloo, CA;
Derek Phillips, Waterloo, CA;
Alex Nicolaou, Waterloo, CA;
Zhanna Shamis, Burlingame, CA;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for downloading customized applications from a server are described. In some embodiments, a server receives a request from a client device to download an application. The server identifies a type of the client device and a user characteristic. In response to the request, the server obtains a customized environment file associated with the user characteristic for the application, where the customized environment file defines an interface appearance of the application. The server sends to the client device, the customized environment file and the application appropriate for the type of the client device, such that the customized environment file gives the application running on the client device an appearance associated with the user characteristics. Other embodiments are also described.