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Messaging and updating services over the air from application servers to applications in mobile devices

  • US 10,044,648 B2
  • Filed: 09/09/2012
  • Issued: 08/07/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method providing messaging and updating services over the air from application servers to their corresponding applications in mobile devices via instant messaging servers and communication networks, the method comprising the acts of:

  • setting up accounts by subscribers of said mobile devices and by application service providers of said application servers with said instant messaging servers via said communication networks;

    with permissions of said subscribers, creating registrations for said mobile devices and said applications with said application servers via said communication networks for instant messaging services from said application servers;

    if there are pending updates for registered said mobile devices and registered said applications from said application servers, then sending instant notification messages from said application servers to registered said mobile devices via said instant messaging servers and said communication networks;

    receiving and processing said instant notification messages in registered said mobile devices by registered said applications;

    registered said applications communicating back to said application servers and fetching updates from said application servers to registered said mobile devices via said communication networks;

    executing said updates by registered said applications;

    wherein said subscribers are the owners and/or users of said mobile devices; and

    wherein said application servers and said mobile devices have instant messaging clients that can subscribe to and communicate with each other for instant message exchange via said instant messaging servers and said communication networks.

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