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System and method for verifying and redirecting mobile applications

  • US 10,491,590 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2015
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for securely providing a mobile device application on a mobile device access to a fleet operator datacenter for the mobile device application to obtain fleet data therefrom for use by a mobile device user, the system comprising:

  • a verification server, comprising a non-transitory computer readable data storage and a processor, and a verification server uniform resource locator (URL) to facilitate communication therewith, the processor configured to;

    provide a fleet operator list, of fleet operators having fleet operator datacenters, one of which is a selected fleet operator the mobile device user would like to gain access to, to a mobile device application on a mobile device in response to a request from the mobile device application for the fleet operator list, wherein the fleet operator list is a subset of all fleet operators known by the verification server, such subset comprising fleet operators using the mobile device application, such subset further based on a geographic location of the mobile device user;

    obtain the selected fleet operator from a plurality of fleet operators, from a mobile device user selection on the mobile device;

    receive a credential information request from the fleet operator server of the selected fleet operator;

    send the credential information request to the mobile device;

    communicate the credential information received from the mobile device to the fleet operator server to authenticate the mobile device user; and

    when the mobile device user is authenticated, transmit a fleet operator URL of the fleet operator server of the selected fleet operator to the mobile device application to be a mobile device fleet operator URL to which the mobile device application communicates to receive fleet data;

    wherein the request was provided by the mobile device to the verification server URL configured in the mobile device application before the mobile device application was downloaded from an app store and installed on the mobile device.

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