Modifying the execution of a native application running on a portable electronic device

• US 9,104,442 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2014
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Sharoni, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Lechi
• Application Number:
  US14/446,719
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: 719/310
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• 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 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for sharing enterprise data. One of the methods includes receiving data that specifies one or more updated conditions under which a first server-based enterprise application and a second server-based enterprise application may share certain enterprise data from a portable computing device that includes (i) a first native enterprise application that corresponds to the first server-based enterprise application, (ii) a second native enterprise application that corresponds to the second server-based enterprise application, and (iii) data that specifies one or more conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data, and modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving data that specifies one or more updated conditions under which a first server-based enterprise application and a second server-based enterprise application may share certain enterprise data from a portable computing device that includes (i) a first native enterprise application that corresponds to the first server-based enterprise application, (ii) a second native enterprise application that corresponds to the second server-based enterprise application, and (iii) data that specifies one or more conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data;

modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data;

receiving, by the first native application after modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data, input indicating an update for particular enterprise data;

providing, by the first native application, the update for the particular enterprise data to the first server-based enterprise application; and

receiving, by the second native application, the update for the particular enterprise data from the second server-based enterprise application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second native application is prohibited by an operating system on the portable computing device from sharing enterprise data with the first native application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the data that specifies the one or more updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises receiving data that specifies a change in a location at which enterprise data shared by the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application is stored.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises modifying execution of the first native enterprise application while the first native enterprise application is executing or the second native enterprise application while the second native enterprise application is executing to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein modifying the execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises:

receiving, by the portable computing device, a module for the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application; and

executing, by the portable computing device, the received module to modify the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application.

6. A system comprising:

a portable computing device and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the portable computing device, to cause the portable computing device to perform operations comprising;

receiving data that specifies one or more updated conditions under which a first server-based enterprise application and a second server-based enterprise application may share certain enterprise data from the portable computing device that includes (i) a first native enterprise application that corresponds to the first server-based enterprise application, (ii) a second native enterprise application that corresponds to the second server-based enterprise application, and (iii) data that specifies one or more conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may the share certain enterprise data;

modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data;

receiving, by the first native application after modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data, input indicating an update for particular enterprise data;

providing, by the first native application, the update for the particular enterprise data to the first server-based enterprise application; and

receiving, by the second native application, the update for the particular enterprise data from the second server-based enterprise application.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the second native application is prohibited by an operating system on the portable computing device from sharing enterprise data with the first native application.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein receiving the data that specifies the one or more updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises receiving data that specifies a change in a location at which enterprise data shared by the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application is stored.

9. The system of claim 6 wherein modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises modifying execution of the first native enterprise application while the first native enterprise application is executing or the second native enterprise application while the second native enterprise application is executing to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data.

10. The system of claim 6 wherein modifying the execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises:

receiving, by the portable computing device, a module for the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application; and

executing, by the portable computing device, the received module to modify the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by a portable computing device which, upon such execution, cause the portable computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving data that specifies one or more updated conditions under which a first server-based enterprise application and a second server-based enterprise application may share certain enterprise data from the portable computing device that includes (i) a first native enterprise application that corresponds to the first server-based enterprise application, (ii) a second native enterprise application that corresponds to the second server-based enterprise application, and (iii) data that specifies one or more conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data;

modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data;

receiving, by the first native application after modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data, input indicating an update for particular enterprise data;

providing, by the first native application, the update for the particular enterprise data to the first server-based enterprise application; and

receiving, by the second native application, the update for the particular enterprise data from the second server-based enterprise application.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the second native application is prohibited by an operating system on the portable computing device from sharing enterprise data with the first native application.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein receiving the data that specifies the one or more updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises receiving data that specifies a change in a location at which enterprise data shared by the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application is stored.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein modifying execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises modifying execution of the first native enterprise application while the first native enterprise application is executing or the second native enterprise application while the second native enterprise application is executing to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein modifying the execution of the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application to reflect the updated conditions under which the first server-based enterprise application and the second server-based enterprise application may share the certain enterprise data comprises:

receiving, by the portable computing device, a module for the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application; and

executing, by the portable computing device, the received module to modify the first native enterprise application or the second native enterprise application.