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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
James LI, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Li, San Francisco, CA (US);
FRANCE TELECOM, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method is provided for downloading and running a non-native application designed for a source operating system (OS) on a target device having a target OS, the method includes: connecting the target device to a source device having the application in a paring operation; transferring a shareable provisional profile containing characteristics related to the application, including information on the source OS needed to run the application from the source device to the target device; and obtaining the source OS on the target device. Once the source OS is present on the target device, the method downloads the application from the source device to the target device, executes the source OS as a virtual machine on the target device, and runs the application within the source OS virtual machine.