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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2014
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
David K. Fultz, Raymore, MO (US);
Dhananjay Indurkar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Nathan Schwermann, Lawrence, KS (US);
M. Jeffrey Stone, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of installing an application on a mobile communication device which comprises receiving, on a mobile communication device, a selection of a virtually preloaded application, identifying the repository from a plurality of repositories, communicating with the repository to obtain the full application, identifying a first location of an icon associated with the virtually preloaded application on the mobile communication device, relocating the icon associated with the virtually preloaded application to a second location, and installing the full application on the mobile communication device. The virtually preloaded application corresponds to a full application available in a repository.