Mobile application builder program and its functionality for application development, providing the user an improved search capability for an expanded generic search based on the user's search criteria

• US 10,073,794 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2016
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TPG Specialty Lending Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sprinklr Inc.
• Inventors: Thomas, Ragy, Singh, Pavitar
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatri, Anil
• Application Number:
  US15/200,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20170109141A1
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 717101-102, 717104-109, 717120-122
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/102 where the programme performs an interfacing function, e.g. device driver G06F13/105 takes precedence; scheduling within device drivers G06F9/52; contention policies within device drivers G06F9/4881
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44521 Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44594 Unloading

Abstract

A mobile “Applications Builder” established on the user'"'"'s mobile handheld device creates a bucket or container for mobile applications (Apps) and selectively downloads applications that are appropriate to a search initiated by the consumer. The user search inputs are used as a contextualization input to identify the relevant product, service or brand and identify the Apps of companies that fall within the search parameters. The identified Apps are downloaded into a bucket and made available to the user to enable his search using tokens or logos for the products, services and brands he is interested in. Users can perform searches using scanned visual logos or visual tokens scanned. Visual tokens and logos contained within the bucket can be used to reduce the customer'"'"'s effort during the search, while providing enlarged access to related items for consideration by the user as a marketing tool.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device comprising:

a program storage memory for storing program execution code, wherein the program execution code includes an application (APP) builder program, wherein the APP builder program is configured to;

receive a search request from a user of the mobile device,

retrieve search parameters from the search request, create a contextualized search criteria by combining the retrieved search parameters and a saved customer preference data,

create a temporary container for mobile applications identified using the contextualized search criteria, and

combine the contextualized search criteria with a location information to define a set of brand and product portals to selectively download APPs comprising

logos and optical tokens from a defined set of brand and product portals into the temporary container for enabling user access to identified applications identified using an expanded search related to the search request initiated by the user of the mobile communication device,

generate a consumer preference storage area in the program storage memory to store consumer preference data for the user of the mobile device, and

collect and compile consumer preference data of the user in the consumer preference storage area;

a data storage memory for storing the saved customer preference data and configuration information generated during execution of the APP builder program;

a communication module and a wireless connection communicatively coupled to the communication module; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the program storage memory and the data storage memory, the processor configured to execute the program execution code.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising a display buffer and a display, wherein the display buffer is communicatively coupled to the display.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising a location identification unit for identifying the location of the mobile communication device.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising an I/O module for receiving input from a user and providing output to the user.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising a common high-speed bus system, wherein the common high-speed bus system communicably couples the component units of the mobile communication device.

6. A method for downloading an APP builder program to a mobile handheld communication device comprising:

connecting to an APP supplier;

downloading the APP builder program from the APP supplier to the mobile handheld communication device;

storing the APP builder program into memory of the mobile handheld communication device;

executing and instantiating the APP builder program, wherein the APP builder program is configured to;

receive a customer search request, retrieve search parameters from the customer search request, generate a contextualized search criteria by combining the retrieved search parameters and a saved customer preference data saved on a data storage memory of the device,

create a temporary container for mobile applications on the mobile handheld communication device, and

selectively download applications related to expanded search using the contextualized search criteria based on the customer search request, wherein the mobile applications comprise logos and optical tokens, and

wherein the logos and optical tokens are presented to the user of the mobile handheld communication device to provide the expanded search to the user based on the customer search request,

generate a consumer preference storage area in memory to store consumer preference data for a user of the mobile handheld communication device; and

collect and compiling consumer preference data of the user using the APP builder program.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

storing the consumer preference data of the user in the consumer preference storage area.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising pre-allocating a temporary memory space for use during search activity by the user.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the temporary memory space is an APP container space.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the connecting to the APP supplier is over a wireless connection.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the APP builder program is stored in program storage memory.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising continuously updating the consumer preference data stored in the consumer preference storage area.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the updating is done based on user inputs and current and historic actions of the user.

14. A method comprising:

receiving search input by the user, wherein the search input comprises at least one of a picture, visual product scan, service token scan or a brand logo scan;

establishing a temporary application (APP) container;

connecting to a web portal corresponding to a supplier related to the search input;

downloading a website corresponding to the supplier from the web portal;

displaying the website on the display screen of the mobile handheld communication device;

retrieving search parameters from the search input;

combining retrieved search parameters from the search input with locally saved customer preference data to generate a contextualized search criteria;

combining the contextualized search criteria with location information of the user to identify a set of brand and product portals;

connecting to the set of brand and product portals;

requesting APPS that satisfy the contextualized search criteria to be downloaded from the set of brand and product portals into the temporary APP container location;

presenting logos and tokens from the downloaded APPs to the user to enable an expanded search capability to the user that meets the search parameters; and

collecting and compiling consumer preference data of the user.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising allowing the user to use the APPs presented to the user from the temporary APP container location once the search is completed by the user.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising updating the customer preference data using the search parameters.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising deleting the data in the temporary APP container after the search is completed.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the consumer preference data in memory.