System, method and apparatus for enabling access to applications and interactive services

• US 9,210,214 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2014
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aprese Systems Texas, LLC
• Original Assignee: Keertikiran Gokul
• Inventors: Gokul, Keertikiran, Jonnala, Premkumar
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rivera, Anibal
• Application Number:
  US14/468,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20140379776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 469 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/04 Speed or phase control by synchronisation signals H04L7/0075 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention provides a system, a method and a computer program product that facilitate access to one or more applications by a computing device. The invention includes determining one or more contexts associated with at least one of the computing device and a user of the computing device, such that the one or more contexts describe at least one of an environment and an activity of the at least one of the user and the computing device. Thereafter at least one contextual tag corresponding to the one or more contexts is generated. Subsequently, the one or more applications associated with the at least one contextual tag are identified and the computing device is enabled to access the one or more applications.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer-readable program stored therein, said computer-readable program comprising sets of instructions executable by a processor associated with a client device, execution of a set of instructions associated with said computer-readable program enables said client device to at least:

a. determine a first plurality of information comprising information related to at least a portion of a phone number;

b. send said first plurality of information to one or more information processing devices, at least one of said one or more information processing devices are not physically connected to or not physically associated with said client device;

c. enable a user interface to accept a third plurality of information, wherein at least a portion of said third plurality of information can be determined based on at least a portion of contents of a second plurality of information received by said client device;

d. determine a contextual tag comprising information related to at least a portion of said third plurality of information;

e. determine one or more set of instructions based on at least a portion of said contextual tag, said one or more set of instructions comprising a first set of instructions; and

f. enable access to, or enable execution of at least one instruction from said first set of instructions;

at least one instruction from said one or more set of instructions can be associated with at least one of a one or more applications, at least a portion of said one or more applications is stored in an application repository, said application repository allows applications to at least one of;

be updated or modified in said application repository over a period of time;

be added to said application repository over a period of time; and

be deleted from said application repository over a period of time.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein at least one instruction from said first set of instructions is part of or present in sets of instructions associated with said computer-readable program.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein sending said first plurality of information enables said client device to receive said second plurality of information.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein sending said first plurality of information enables said client device to receive at least a portion of said second plurality of information using at least one of a wired communication interface, a wireless communication interface, a cellular communication interface, a Wi-Fi communication interface and a Bluetooth communication interface.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is associated with one of a smart phone, a tablet, a smart device, a mobile device, a laptop, a desktop and a gaming console.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein at least one of said one or more applications is a web application.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein at least one of said one or more applications is available on said client device.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said first plurality of information is determined based on information related to at least a portion of at least one of:

a. a phone number;

b. a number dialed on a user interface associated with said client device;

c. a number associated with a phone call associated with said client device; and

d. a number associated with a voice service associated with said client device.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said first plurality of information is sent to one or more information processing devices, at least one of said one or more information processing devices are not physically connected to or not physically associated with said client device, and at least one of said one or more information processing devices is a generator device.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said computer-readable program further comprises second sets of instructions, execution of a set of instructions from said second sets of instructions enables said client device to at least a portion of at least one or more of:

a) enable a user to at least one of make and receive phone calls;

b)enable a user to purchase a product;

c) enable a user to make stock transactions;

d) enable a user to search for an item;

e) enable a user to provide rating or vote related to an audiovisual program;

f) enable a user to determine information related to items in a store; and

g) enable a user to determine information related to items purchased by said user.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer-readable program stored therein, said computer-readable program comprising sets of instructions executable by a processor associated with a client device, execution of a set of instructions associated with said computer-readable program enables said client device to at least:

determine at least one of;

a first context information;

a first identifier associated with a first set of instructions;

associate at least one of said first context information, said first identifier and said first set of instructions with said client device;

wherein said association of at least one of said first context information, said first identifier and said first set of instructions with said client device enables said client device to at least;

enable execution of at least one instruction from said first set of instructions, based on at least a portion of a second context information received by said client device, wherein at least;

i. at least a portion of said second context information is received by said client device from at least one provider device over a wireless communication medium;

ii. at least a portion of said second context information can be received by said client device when said client device is not physically presented to or not physically associated with at least one of said at least one provider device;

iii. said second context information is related to said first context information, or at least a portion of said second context information is same as or matches at least a portion of said first context information;

wherein said first set of instructions and said computer-readable program are related to or part of at least one application from an application repository, said application repository allows applications to at least one of ;

be updated or modified in said application repository over a period of time;

be added to said application repository over a period of time; and

be deleted from said application repository over a period of time.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein said non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is associated with one of a smart phone, a tablet, a smart device, a mobile device, a laptop, a desktop, a server computer and a gaming console.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein at least a portion of said second context information is received by said client device over one of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication medium.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein at least a portion of said second context information is received by said client device by a broadcast or a multicast communication in a wireless communication medium.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein execution of at least one instruction from said first set of instructions enables display of a user interface or information on a display associated with said client device.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein said computer-readable program further comprises a third set of instructions, execution of said third set of instructions enables said client device to send a third context information to at least one secondary device in a network comprising one or more secondary devices, wherein said third context information comprises at least a portion of information determined based on at least one of:

a. at least a portion of said second context information received by said client device;

b. at least a portion of at least one of an environment and activity associated with at least one of said client device and a user associated with said client device; and

c. at least a portion of information associated with at least one of said user and said client device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein said second context information is related to said first context information based on execution of a set of instructions that at least one of compare and process at least:

a portion of said second context information; and

a portion of said first context information.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a generator computer-readable program stored therein, said generator computer-readable program comprising sets of instructions executable by a processor associated with a generator device, execution of a set of instructions associated with said generator computer-readable program enables said generator device to at least send a first context information to one or more client devices, wherein:

a. said first context information can be sent by said generator device when a first client device from said one or more client devices is not physically presented to or not physically associated with said generator device;

b. sending of said first context information by said generator device enables a first client processor associated with said first client device to determine and execute a first client set of instructions associated with a client computer-readable program, said client computer-readable program comprising sets of instructions and stored on a client non-transitory computer-readable storage medium associated with said first client device, wherein at least one of said first client set of instructions and said client computer-readable program are determined based on at least a portion of contents of said first context information; and

c. said client computer-readable program is related to or part of an application from an application repository, said application repository allows applications to at least one of ;

i. be updated or modified in said application repository over a period of time;

ii. be added to said application repository over a period of time; and

iii. be deleted from said application repository over a period of time.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein said non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is associated with one of a smart phone, a tablet, a smart device, a mobile device, a laptop, a desktop and a gaming console.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein at least a portion of said first context information is sent by said generator device over one of WiFi and Bluetooth communication medium.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein at least a portion of said first context information is sent by a broadcast or a multicast communication in a wireless communication medium.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein at least a portion of contents of said first context information are determined based on execution of at least one instruction associated with said generator computer-readable program by said processor.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer-readable program stored therein, said computer-readable program comprising sets of instructions executable by a processor associated with a client device, said client device capable of determining a first plurality of information comprising information related to at least a portion of a phone number, said client device capable of sending said first plurality of information to one or more information processing devices, at least one of said one or more information processing devices are not physically connected to or not physically associated with said client device, execution of a set of instructions associated with said computer-readable program enables said client device to at least:

a. enable a user interface to accept a third plurality of information, wherein at least a portion of said third plurality of information can be determined based on at least a portion of contents of a second plurality of information received by said client device;

b. determine a contextual tag comprising information related to at least a portion of said third plurality of information;

c. determine one or more set of instructions based on at least a portion of said contextual tag, said one or more set of instructions comprising a first set of instructions; and

d. enable access to, or enable execution of at least one instruction from said first set of instructions;

at least one instruction from said one or more set of instructions can be associated with at least one of a one or more applications, at least a portion of said one or more applications is stored in an application repository, said application repository allows applications to at least one of;

be updated or modified in said application repository over a period of time;

be added to said application repository over a period of time; and

be deleted from said application repository over a period of time.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein at least one instruction from said first set of instructions is part of or present in sets of instructions associated with said computer-readable program.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein sending said first plurality of information enables said client device to receive at least a portion of said second plurality of information using at least one of a wired communication interface, a wireless communication interface, a cellular communication interface, a Wi-Fi communication interface and a Bluetooth communication interface.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein said non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is associated with one of a smart phone, a tablet, a smart device, a mobile device, a laptop, a desktop and a gaming console.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein said computer-readable program further comprises second sets of instructions, execution of a set of instructions from said second sets of instructions enables said client device to at least a portion of at least one or more of:

a. enable a user to at least one of make and receive phone calls;

b. enable a user to purchase a product;

c. enable a user to make stock transactions;

d. enable a user to search for an item;

e. enable a user to provide rating or vote related to an audiovisual program;

f. enable a user to determine information related to items in a store; and

g. enable a user to determine information related to items purchased by said user.