MOBILE APPLICATIONS

• US 20170192773A1
• Filed: 12/31/2015
• Published: 07/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kony, Inc. (Temenos AG)
• Original Assignee: Kony, Inc. (Temenos AG)
• Inventors: TERRY, Matthew A., PERI, Jagan, TREVATHAN, Matthew B., VENNAPUSA, Satyaprakash Reddy, SINGHAL, Ashish K., POTTABATHULA, Harikrishna, SWAMY, Dara Kumara
• Granted Patent: US 11,340,893 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/658 Incremental updates; Differential updates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing an update to a natively rendered application installed on a mobile device are provided. A method includes updating a base application with a unique tailored solution for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution. The method further includes storing, for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution, the base application with its unique tailored solution, as separate versions of the base application in a storage system. The method further includes adding common additional code to each of the separate versions of the base application, while preserving the unique tailored solution for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution. The method further includes pushing the base application with the common additional code to the client.

Claims

1. A method of providing an update to a natively rendered application installed on a mobile device, comprising:

updating a base application with a unique tailored solution for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution;

storing, for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution, the base application with its unique tailored solution, as separate versions of the base application in a storage system;

adding common additional code to each of the separate versions of the base application, while preserving the unique tailored solution for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution; and

pushing the base application with the common additional code to the client.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the unique tailored solution for each client is pushed to mobile devices with the common additional code.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the base application with its unique tailored solution for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution starts with common base code shared amongst each version of the base application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the base application with its unique tailored solution is identified with a respective one of the each client that has created its own unique tailored solution.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the adding of the additional common code is provided by a web based integrated development environment (IDE) tool.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the IDE tool has control of both server based end points that control mappings to backend services and bindings to object data of the base application.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the bindings are to a form of the base application.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising synchronizing the updates for the base application with a latest version of the base application with its unique tailored solution for each client that has created its own unique tailored solution.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein each base application with its unique changes is stored in its base state with the unique changes in a multi-tenant versioning system.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein any updates to a base code of the base application is provided to any version of the base application with the unique tailored solutions created by the clients.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein deployment of the updates of the base application avoids recompiling of the base application, even when the unique tailored solutions are made to the base application by the client.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising downloading a configuration of the base code at-runtime based on an end-user profile.

13. A computer program product comprising non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

publish multiple different configuration changes of a base application which is shared amongst multiple clients to a multi-tenant runtime component;

push the multiple different configuration changes of the base application as a new version of the base application to a metadata store for storage, to be shared amongst the multiple clients;

leverage the new version of the base application with client specific updates which were made to the base application prior to the publishing; and

push the new version of the base application to clients with their own client specific updates.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions cause the computing device to return a success notification that the configuration changes have been saved.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions cause the computing device to look up the configuration changes from the metadata store on each service call.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions cause the computing device to synchronize the base application with the multiple versions of the base application with the client specific updates.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions cause the computing device to update bindings of data to form elements, visual configurations, business logic and synchronization information of the base application.

18. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions cause the computing device to always maintain a base representation of the base application and push base application changes to the base application while maintaining customizations by the multiple clients to the base application.

19. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions cause the computing device to retrieve any application specific updates that need to be loaded into a mobile device, including service mappings, data bindings and any configuration data needed.

20. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the new version of the base application requires only installation and initialization on the mobile device.

21. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the multiple different configuration changes include an active custom configuration and one or more alternate configurations.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the active custom configuration and one or more alternate configurations are cached configurations.

23. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the program instructions executable by the computing device cause the computing device to:

identify changes between a local configuration and a new configuration; and

synchronize differences between the local configuration and the new configuration to reduce an amount of time required to update the local configuration with the new configuration.

24. The computer program product of claim 23, wherein the program instructions executable by the computing device cause the computing device to:

load the new configuration for a particular end-user in a background, while the base application is running, and after synchronization, run the local configuration with the new configuration.

25. A system comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium;

program instructions to save client specific changes of a base application to a metadata store as multiple versions of the base application, the multiple versions of the base application each include a common base code;

program instructions to update the multiple versions of the base application with a common change to the base code; and

program instructions to push the one of the updated multiple versions of the base application to specific clients with their own client specific changes of the base application,

wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.