DYNAMIC APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT

• US 20150365463A1
• Filed: 08/26/2015
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd. (Razer Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Nextbit Systems, Inc. (Razer Incorporated)
• Inventors: QUAN, Justin, CHAN, Michael A.
• Granted Patent: US 10,684,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• 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 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

In some examples, an electronic device may offload an application to network storage. Subsequently, if a user attempts to execute the application on the electronic device, the application may be executed remotely while the application is downloaded to the electronic device. As one example, a remote computer may use an emulator to execute the application and send application execution data to the electronic device. The user may interact with the remotely executing application while the application is downloaded and reinstalled on the electronic device. Application state information may be obtained from the remotely executing application and used to initiate execution of the application locally on the electronic device. As another example, a web application version of the application may be executed remotely and accessed through a browser on the electronic device while the application is downloaded and reinstalled on the electronic device.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions program the one or more processors to;

receive an application and associated application data from an electronic device;

receive a request from the electronic device for the application;

execute the application using an emulator to obtain execution data, wherein the emulator emulates, at least in part, execution of the application on the electronic device;

send the application and associated application data to the electronic device; and

send the execution data to the electronic device while at least a portion of the application or the associated application data is being sent to the electronic device.

2. The computing device as recited in claim 1, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to send application state information to the electronic device, the application state information indicating a state of the application executed using the emulator.

3. The computing device as recited in claim 2, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to obtain the application state information by:

moving the application executing using the emulator to a background processing condition to cause the application to save the application state information to a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and

obtaining the application state information from the non-transitory computer-readable medium.

4. The computing device as recited in claim 2, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to:

receive a request for the application state information from the electronic device; and

obtain the application state information by sending an instruction to the application to instruct the application to provide the application state information.

5. The computing device as recited in claim 1, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to:

in response to receiving the request for the application from the electronic device, determine device information related to the electronic device, the device information comprising at least one of;

a device type of the electronic device;

a brand of the electronic device;

a model of the electronic device;

a processor of the electronic device;

a memory size of the electronic device;

or

an operating system of the electronic device; and

select the emulator based at least in part on the device information.

6. A method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, a request from an electronic device for an application previously offloaded from the electronic device;

causing execution of the application remotely from the electronic device to cause application execution data to be sent to the electronic device; and

sending the application to the electronic device.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the causing execution of the application remotely from the electronic device further comprises:

executing or causing execution of a web application corresponding to the application, the web application sending the application execution data to a browser at the electronic device.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, further comprising:

prior to receiving the request, determining at network location of the web application based at least in part on receiving the application from the electronic device; and

saving information about a network location associated with the web application.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the causing execution of the application remotely from the electronic device further comprises:

sending the information about the network location to the electronic device, wherein the web application is executed at a web server that communicates with the browser of the electronic device.

10. The method as recited in claim 7, further comprising:

prior to receiving the request, determining at network location of the web application based at least in part on receiving the application from the electronic device; and

downloading the web application by the one or more processors.

11. The method as recited in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a request for application state information from the electronic device; and

obtaining the application state information from the web application; and

sending the application state information to the electronic device.

12. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the causing execution of the application remotely from the electronic device further comprises:

executing, by the one or more processors, the application using an emulator to obtain the application execution data, wherein the emulator emulates, at least in part, execution of the application on the electronic device; and

sending the application execution data to the electronic device.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a request for application state information from the electronic device;

causing processing of the application on the emulator to move to a background processing condition to cause the application to save the application state information; and

sending the application state information to the electronic device.

14. The method as recited in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a request for application state information from the electronic device;

obtaining the application state information by sending an instruction to the application to instruct the application to provide the application state information; and

sending the application state information to the electronic device.

15. An electronic device comprising:

a display;

one or more processors coupled to the display; and

one or more computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions program the one or more processors to;

send an application to a computing device over a network;

receive, via a user interface, a selection of the application;

send a request to the computing device for the application;

receive, over the network, application execution data corresponding to remote execution of the application; and

present at least a portion of the application execution data on the display.

16. The electronic device as recited in claim 15, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to:

receive the application from the computing device;

install the application on the electronic device; and

send a request for application state information.

17. The electronic device as recited in claim 16, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to:

receive the application state information; and

initiate execution of the application on the electronic device using at least a portion of the application state information.

18. The electronic device as recited in claim 15, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to:

obtain a screen shot of a graphic user interface corresponding to the received application execution data; and

present the screen shot of the graphic user interface on the display during startup of the application on the electronic device.

19. The electronic device as recited in claim 15, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to:

execute a browser on the electronic device; and

receive the application execution data via the browser.

20. The electronic device as recited in claim 15, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to determine to send the application to the computing device based at least in part on at least one of:

an amount of time since the application was last accessed on the electronic device;

a frequency with which the application was accessed over a period of time;

an amount of storage space consumed by the application;

or

an amount of available storage space remaining on the electronic device.

21. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions program the one or more processors to;

receive an application from an electronic device;

determine a plurality of fragments of the application able to be executed independently on the electronic device;

receive, from the electronic device, a request for the application;

send a first fragment of the plurality of fragments to the electronic device for execution on the electronic device; and

send, to the electronic device, at least one of;

the application;

or

remaining fragments of the plurality of fragments.

22. The computing device as recited in claim 21, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to determine an order of the fragments to send to the electronic device based at least in part on determining a likely order of execution of the fragments.

23. The computing device as recited in claim 22, wherein the instructions further program the one or more processors to determine the fragments based at least in part on using an emulator to execute the application, wherein the emulator emulates, at least in part, execution of the application on the electronic device.