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Application programming interface for provisioning services

  • US 7,444,386 B2
  • Filed: 06/20/2003
  • Issued: 10/28/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for provisioning services, comprising the operations of:

  • providing discovery transactions that allow an adapter software component to retrieve information regarding services available to a client device from a provisioning application, wherein the provisioning application includes client device information for each client device the provisioning application services, wherein each of said services comprises a plurality of content files capable of being installed on the client device;

    affording subscription transactions that allow said adapter software component to manage content in service directories, wherein one said service directories comprises a plurality of said services; and

    providing delivery transactions that allow said adapter to facilitate downloading of data related to said services to the client device, with the delivery transactions including an update transaction that allows said adapter to obtain a provisioning update comprising a list of said services that should be installed on the client device, and a notification transaction that allows the provisioning application to request said adapter to perform said update transaction.

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