Upload/download of mobile applications using a MIME repository

• US 9,426,209 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2013
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Marar, Mohan, Jayaraman, Aswin Kumar, B, Naveed Mohammed, Rao M G, Raghavendra
• Primary Examiner(s): Miah, Razu A
• Application Number:
  US13/787,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20140136654A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,266 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A system is configured to maintain a plurality of mobile applications in the computer storage device and to maintain a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) repository in the computer storage device. The system uploads a new mobile application from a user interface to the computer storage device, and stores the new mobile application in to the MIME repository. The system identifies a uniform resource locator for the new mobile application based on a type of operating system on which the mobile application will execute, and retrieves system specific information for the URL from the MIME repository. The system retrieves the new mobile application from the MIME repository by selecting the URL and transferring the new mobile application over-the-air to a user device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a computer processor and a computer storage device operable to;

maintain a plurality of mobile applications in the computer storage device;

maintain a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) repository in the computer storage device;

upload a new mobile application from a user interface to the computer storage device;

store, using an application program interface, the new mobile application in the MIME repository;

identify a uniform resource locator (URL) for the new mobile application based on a type of operating system on which the mobile application will execute;

retrieve system specific information for the URL from the MIME repository; and

retrieve the new mobile application from the MIME repository by selecting the URL and transfer the new mobile application over-the-air to a user device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user device comprises a mobile user device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface from which the new mobile application is uploaded comprises a mobile user interface.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the uploaded new mobile application comprises a ZIP file, the ZIP file comprising a folder having a name of the new mobile application and an installable of the new mobile application.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the upload of the ZIP file comprises a conversion of the new mobile application ZIP file to a binary format and a backend processing of the binary file.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the application program interface comprises a representational state transfer application program interface (REST API).

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the backend processing comprises:

unzipping the ZIP file and storing the unzipped ZIP file in the MIME repository;

storing the URL in an associated business object;

transmitting the URL back to the REST API; and

transmitting the URL from the REST API to the user interface.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer storage device comprises a store of a plurality of mobile applications for licensing or use by one or more individual and corporate users.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the MIME repository comprises a root file comprising a plurality of uploaded mobile application files.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the retrieval of the new mobile application from the MIME repository and transfer of the new mobile application over-the-air to a mobile device are a function of an operating system of the mobile device.

11. A process comprising:

maintaining a plurality of mobile applications in a computer storage device;

maintaining a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) repository in the computer storage device;

uploading a new mobile application from a user interface to the computer storage device;

storing, using an application program interface, the new mobile application in the MIME repository;

identifying a uniform resource locator (URL) for the new mobile application based on a type of operating system on which the mobile application will execute;

retrieving system specific information for the URL from the MIME repository; and

retrieving the new mobile application from the MIME repository by selecting the URL and transferring the new mobile application over-the-air to a user device.

12. The process of claim 11, wherein the uploaded new mobile application comprises a ZIP file, the ZIP file comprising a folder having a name of the new mobile application and an installable of the new mobile application;

and

wherein the uploading of the ZIP file comprises converting the new mobile application ZIP file to a binary format and processing of the binary file in a backend system.

13. The process of claim 12, wherein the processing of the binary file in the backend system comprises:

unzipping the ZIP file and storing the unzipped ZIP file in the MIME repository;

storing the URL in an associated business object;

transmitting the URL back to the representational state transfer application program interface (REST API); and

transmitting the URL from the REST API to the user interface.

14. The process of claim 11, wherein the retrieving of the new mobile application from the MIME repository and the transferring of the new mobile application over-the-air to a mobile device are a function of an operating system of the mobile device.

15. A computer readable storage device comprising instructions that when executed by a processor executes a process comprising:

maintaining a plurality of mobile applications in a computer storage device;

maintaining a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) repository in the computer storage device;

uploading a new mobile application from a user interface to the computer storage device;

storing, using an application program interface, the new mobile application in the MIME repository;

identifying a uniform resource locator (URL) for the new mobile application based on a type of operating system on which the mobile application will execute;

retrieving system specific information for the URL from the MIME repository; and

retrieving the new mobile application from the MIME repository by selecting the URL and transferring the new mobile application over-the-air to a user device.

16. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the uploaded new mobile application comprises a ZIP file, the ZIP file comprising a folder having a name of the new mobile application and an installable of the new mobile application;

and

wherein the uploading of the ZIP file comprises converting the new mobile application ZIP file to a binary format and processing of the binary file in a backend system.

17. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the processing of the binary file in the backend system comprises:

unzipping the ZIP file and storing the unzipped ZIP file in the MIME repository;

storing the URL in an associated business object;

transmitting the URL back to the representational state transfer application program interface (REST API); and

transmitting the URL from the REST API to the user interface.

18. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the retrieving of the new mobile application from the MIME repository and the transferring of the new mobile application over-the-air to a mobile device are a function of an operating system of the mobile device.

19. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the user device comprises a mobile user device.

20. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the user interface from which the new mobile application is uploaded comprises a mobile user interface.