Provisioning of player for content

• US 9,344,464 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2012
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Childs, Philip Lee, Vanover, Michael Terrell, Wibran, Goran Hans, Cheston, Richard Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Eskandarnia, Arvin
• Application Number:
  US13/689,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20140156843A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• 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 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

An aspect provides a method, including: responsive to receiving a content request of a user device, determining if the user device has access to one or more applications associated with the content requested; responsive to determining that the user device does not have one or more applications associated with the content requested, determining an associated application; and responsive to determining an associated application, provisioning access to the associated application for the user device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

responsive to receiving a content request of a user device, determining, at a remote device, if the user device has access to one or more applications associated with the content requested;

responsive to determining that the user device does not have one or more applications associated with the content requested, preemptively determining an associated application and provisioning access to the associated application for the user device as a remotely hosted application without further user interaction.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising removing the associated application from the user device after a predetermined time.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the predetermined time is calculated using an instruction included with the associated application.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising providing an instruction to the user device, the instruction comprising an application access removal instruction.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein content request is received at a remote device connected to the user device via a network connection.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the provisioning access includes one or more options comprising:

an application rental option, an application purchase option, and verifying if the user has a subscription service.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising notifying the user of the associated application.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the notifying occurs subsequent to content access.

9. An information handling device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors that stores instructions executable by the one or more processors to;

responsive to receiving a content request of a user device, determining, at a remote device, if the user device has access to one or more applications associated with the content requested;

responsive to determining that the user device does not have one or more applications associated with the content requested, preemptively determining an associated application and provision access to the associated application for the user device as a remotely hosted application.

10. The information handling device of claim 9, wherein the acts further comprise removing the associated application from the user device after a predetermined time.

11. The information handling device of claim 10, wherein the predetermined time is calculated using an instruction included with the associated application.

12. The information handling device of claim 9, wherein content request is received at by the information handling device via a network connection linking the information handling device and the user device.

13. The information handling device of claim 9, wherein to provision access includes one or more options comprising:

an application rental option, an application purchase option, and verifying if the user has a subscription service.

14. The information handling device of claim 9, wherein to notify occurs subsequent to content access.

15. The information handling device of claim 9, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to notify the user of the associated application.

16. A program product, comprising:

a storage medium having computer program code embodied therewith, the computer program code being executable by a processor and comprising;

computer program code that, responsive to receiving a content request of a user device, determines, at a remote device, if the user device has access to one or more applications associated with the content requested;

computer program code that, responsive to determining that the user device does not have one or more applications associated with the content requested, preemptively determines an associated application and provisions access to the associated application for the user device as a remotely hosted application.