NETWORK BASED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

• US 20120221701A1
• Filed: 01/26/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Mair, Geoffrey Ross, Geddes, Simon David, Toube, Larry Vaughan
• Granted Patent: US 9,396,499 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

An environment for facilitating the management of content for users associated with specific partner networks is provided. Users may be granted access to such specific partner networks in accordance with each user'"'"'s affiliation with one or more organizations. In accordance with the above, a content management system facilitates the content/information exchange by accepting software applications from content providers. Additionally, the content management system accepts software application specifications or manifests from partner network administrators. Accordingly, the content management system can audit and recommend actions to users regarding applicable software application based one user organizational associations. Still further, the content management system can facilitate requests from affiliated users for specific types of content that can be forwarded to content providers and later made available to affiliated users.

Claims

1. A method for managing mobile devices comprising:

obtaining an information portal request, the information portal request corresponding to at least one computing device associated with a user, the user having an affiliation with an organization;

obtaining one or more affiliations associated with at least one information portal request;

obtaining program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations, the program information corresponding to executable code to be provided to a computing device associated with the user;

processing the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user;

providing the program information to the user responsive to the information portal request; and

processing the provision of program information to at least one content provider, wherein financial terms of the provision of program information are based on the affiliation information.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein obtaining one or more affiliations associated with at least one information portal request includes identifying a domain associated with a user electronic mail address.

3. The method as recited in claim 2 further comprising determining affiliation information based on comparing the identified domain with a domains associated with one or more organizations.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein obtaining program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations includes initiating an audit of one or more computing devices associated with the information portal request, the audit attempting to identify executable code already maintained on the one or more computing devices.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein obtaining program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations includes filtering program information based on organizational affiliation information associated with the user.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein at least some executable code versions are mutually exclusive based on organizational affiliation information.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user includes determining pricing information associated with executable code.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, further comprising obtaining configuration information associated with at least one of the user or computing device and determining pricing information based on the configuration information.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user includes causing the generation of a user interface on a computing device.

10. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising generating a notification corresponding to the selection of executable code to be transmitted to a computing device.

11. A method for managing mobile devices comprising:

obtaining an information portal request, the information portal request corresponding to at least one computing device associated with a user, the user having an affiliation with an organization;

obtaining one or more affiliations associated with at least one information portal request;

obtaining program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations, the program information corresponding to executable code to be provided to a computing device associated with the user;

processing the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user; and

providing the program information to the user responsive to the information portal request.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein obtaining one or more affiliations associated with at least one information portal request includes identifying a domain associated with a user electronic mail address.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein obtaining program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations includes initiating an audit of one or more computing devices associated with the information portal request, the audit attempting to identify executable code already maintained on the one or more computing devices.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein obtaining program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations includes filtering program information based on organizational affiliation information associated with the user.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein processing the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user includes determining pricing information associated with executable code.

16. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising obtaining configuration information associated with at least one of the user or computing device and determining pricing information based on the configuration information.

17. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein processing the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user includes causing the generation of a user interface on a computing device.

18. A system for managing mobile devices comprising:

a data store, implemented on a computing system having a processor and a memory, the data store maintain program information defined according to affiliation relationships;

a content management system, implemented on a computing system, the content management system operable to;

obtain an information portal request, the information portal request corresponding to at least one computing device associated with a user, the user having an affiliation with an organization;

obtain one or more affiliations associated with at least one information portal request;

obtain program information corresponding to the one or more affiliations, the program information maintained in the data store;

process the program information to provide an indication of the program information available to the user; and

provide the program information to the user responsive to the information portal request.

19. The system as recited in claim 18 wherein the content management system is further operable to process the provision of program information to at least one content provider, wherein financial terms of the provision of program information are based on the affiliation information.

20. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein the content management system is further operable initiate an audit of one or more computing devices associated with the information portal request, the audit attempting to identify executable code already maintained on the one or more computing devices.