Fulfillment of applications to devices

• US 9,307,026 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2012
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chud, Andrew C., Olivieri, Josiah P., Mathiesen, Thomas M., Blanchard, Laura A., Vilkotski, Andrei V., Bhatti, Ata U.
• Primary Examiner(s): NDIAYE, CHEIKH T
• Application Number:
  US13/623,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20140082050A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,293 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/219, 709/226, 717/168, 717/169, 717/170
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• 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 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• 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

Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating fulfillment of applications to various devices that may be associated with a user account. When a request to obtain access to an application is received, a device characteristic of the various devices is identified and a corresponding application binary associated with the application is identified. The corresponding application binaries are distributed to the devices corresponding to the user account. Additionally, an appropriate browser accessible application is identified and access can be granted to a device depending upon the capabilities of a browser executed by the device.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, comprising:

code that obtains a request to access an application on behalf of a user account, the request obtained from a client device;

code that determines whether the client device is registered with the user account;

code that registers the client device with the user account when the client device is not registered with the user account;

code that determines whether the user account is authorized to access the application;

code that authorizes the user account to access the application;

code that identifies a device characteristic associated with the client device;

code that identifies an application binary corresponding to the application that is associated with the device characteristic;

code that transmits the application binary to the client device; and

code that entitles the client device to access a browser accessible version of the application corresponding to a browser capability of the client device, the browser accessible version of the application being selected based at least in part upon the device characteristic.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the program further comprises code that initiates fulfillment of a respective compatible application binary corresponding to the application to a plurality of client devices associated with the user account.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the browser accessible version of the application is accessible via a browser executed on the client device, the browser being associated with the browser capability of the client device.

3. A system, comprising:

at least one computing device; and

an application distribution service executable in the at least one computing device, the application distribution service comprising;

logic that obtains a request to access an application on behalf of at least one client;

logic that identifies at least one characteristic corresponding to the at least one client;

logic that identifies a first respective compatible version of the application, the first respective compatible version comprising a binary application corresponding to the application that is associated with the at least one characteristic;

logic that identifies a second respective compatible version of the application, the second respective compatible version of the application comprising a browser accessible version of the application corresponding to a browser capability of the at least one client, the browser accessible version of the application being selected based at least in part upon the at least one characteristic; and

logic that initiates fulfillment of the first respective compatible version or the second respective compatible version to the at least one client.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the application distribution service further comprises:

logic that obtains a request to register the at least one client with a user account;

logic that generates a device identifier corresponding to the at least one client; and

logic that associates the at least one client with the user account.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the application distribution service further comprises logic that discovers a device characteristic associated with the at least one client.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the logic that discovers the device characteristic further comprises logic that obtains the device characteristic from the application executed by the at least one client.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the application executed by the at least one client is at least one of:

a browser or a client application configured to communicate with a content delivery application.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein the logic that initiates fulfillment further comprises:

logic that identifies a user account associated with the at least one client;

logic that identifies a product identifier corresponding to the binary application; and

logic that associates the user account with the product identifier.

9. The system of claim 3, wherein the logic that initiates fulfillment further comprises:

logic that grants access to the browser accessible version of the application to a user account.

10. The system of claim 3, wherein the logic that initiates fulfillment of the first respective compatible version or the second respective compatible version further comprises logic that transmits the first respective compatible version or the second respective compatible version to the at least one client.

11. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises at least one of a language or a region associated with the at least one client.

12. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises a characteristic associated with a hardware feature of the at least one client.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the hardware feature comprises at least one of:

a camera characteristic, a display resolution, a microphone characteristic, a processor speed, a processor identity, a speaker characteristic, or a presence of a global navigation satellite system chipset.

14. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises at least one of an identity or a version of at least one of an operating system or a browser executed by the at least one client.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the binary application that is executable within the operating system.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving, in at least one computing device, a request to access an application on behalf of a user account;

identifying, in the at least one computing device, a plurality of devices associated with the user account;

identifying, in the at least one computing device, at least one device characteristic corresponding to one of the plurality of devices;

identifying, in the at least one computing device, a first compatible version of the application that corresponds to the one of the plurality of devices, the first compatible version of the application comprising a binary application corresponding to the application;

identifying, in the at least one computing device, a second compatible version of the application that corresponds to the one of the plurality of devices, the second compatible version of the application comprising a browser accessible version of the application, the browser accessible version of the application being selected based at least in part upon the at least one device characteristic; and

initiating, in the at least one computing device, fulfillment of the first compatible version of the application or the second compatible version of the application to the one of the plurality of devices.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein initiating fulfillment to the one of the plurality of devices further comprises transmitting the first compatible version of the application or the second compatible version of the application to a client application executed by the one of the plurality of devices.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein initiating fulfillment to the one of the plurality of devices further comprises entitling the user account to access the browser accessible version of the application.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein identifying the second compatible version of the application is based at least in part upon device compatibility data associated with the application.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the device compatibility data comprises the at least one device characteristic associated with the one of the plurality of devices, the at least one device characteristic comprising a respective operating system executed by the plurality of devices, a camera characteristic, a display resolution, a microphone characteristic, a processor speed, a processor identity, a speaker characteristic, or a presence of a global navigation satellite system chipset.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein identifying the plurality of devices associated with the user account is based at least in part upon a plurality of registered devices associated with the user account, the plurality of registered devices being registered by a respective client application executed in individual ones of the plurality of registered devices.