The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Brunsman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ilya Firman, San Mateo, CA (US);
Ficus Kirkpatrick, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jasper Lin, Monterey Park, CA (US);
Aurash Mahbod, San Jose, CA (US);
Linda K. Nguyen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Siliski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christian Sonntag, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Devron Stadler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christoph Studer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
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.