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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Keith Newstadt, West Newton, MA (US);
Petrus Johannes Viljoen, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Anubhav Savant, Culver City, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A mobile app is provisioned with an identifier of a specific partner of an app provider, on a sandboxed OS on a mobile device. A link to the app provider's website containing the partner ID is received from the partner's website. The user navigates to the provider's website, which writes a cookie containing the partner ID and redirects to an app store. The app is downloaded to the mobile device, and registers itself with the OS as a protocol handler for a provider specific protocol. The app launches the provider's website, which retrieves the partner ID from the cookie, and returns a redirect to the provider specific protocol. The redirect contains the partner ID, and causes the app to execute as the registered protocol handler for the provider specific protocol. The app reads the partner ID from the redirect, and uses it to provide partner specific features.