System and method for delivering application content

• US 9,483,328 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2014
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Twilio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Twilio, Inc.
• Inventors: Malatack, Patrick, To Law, Cheuk, Wilsher, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Abyaneh, Ali
• Application Number:
  US14/336,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20150026477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/121 Restricting unauthorised execution of programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/32 including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity authentication, data integrity or data verification, non-repudiation, key authentication or verification of credentials
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A system and method for messaging application content that includes providing an application content messaging application programming interface (API); receiving a content delivery request from an account, through the application content messaging API; retrieving device information of a destination endpoint specified in the content delivery request; based on the device information, selecting an application content format from a set of formats and obtaining application content in the application content format; and transmitting the application content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

at a multi-tenant communication platform system;

providing a digital pass messaging application programming interface (API) of the platform system;

receiving a digital pass delivery request from a first external system of a first platform account of the platform system, through the digital pass messaging API;

responsive to the digital pass delivery request from the first external system, the platform system retrieving device information of a destination endpoint specified in the digital pass delivery request, the device information indicating that the destination endpoint has a first operating system, wherein the first operating system is different from a second operating system, and wherein the first operating system has a first digital pass format;

based on the device information, selecting the first digital pass format from a set of digital pass formats including at least the first digital pass format and a different second digital pass format, and obtaining a digital pass in the first digital pass format; and

transmitting the digital pass in the first digital pass format from the platform system to a system of the destination endpoint, the system of the destination endpoint being external to the platform system, wherein the digital pass in the first digital pass format is a digital pass for a digital pass application of the system of the destination endpoint.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of digital pass formats includes at least one cryptographically signed digital pass format.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the digital pass is a package that defines a digital pass object.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving a cryptographic token of the first platform account;

and wherein obtaining the digital pass in the first digital pass format when the first digital pass format is a cryptographically signed digital pass format comprises signing the digital pass with the cryptographic token of the first platform account.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving and storing at least one cryptographically signed digital pass object of the first platform account;

and transmitting the stored cryptographically signed digital pass object if the first digital pass format is the cryptographically signed digital pass format.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving a signature callback of the first platform account;

and wherein obtaining the digital pass comprises, when the first digital pass format is a cryptographically signed digital pass format, transmitting a request to the signature callback, the request including an unsigned digital pass, and receiving a cryptographically signed digital pass object in a response.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital pass delivery request specifies digital pass configuration;

and wherein obtaining the digital pass comprises proxying at least a subset of resources specified in the digital pass configuration with platform controlled resources and generating the digital pass as directed in the digital pass configuration with the substitution of the platform controlled resources; and

monitoring access of the platform controlled resources.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising notifying the first platform account during access of the platform controlled resources.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein notifying the first platform account during access of the platform controlled resources comprises transmitting an application layer communication to a callback URI destination of the first platform account.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the set of digital pass formats includes a format of a first application type and at least a second application type.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital pass delivery request includes normalized digital pass parameters;

and wherein obtaining the digital pass comprises translating the normalized digital pass parameters into a digital pass format of the destination endpoint.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the device information indicates the operating system of the destination endpoint, and the format of the first application type is for a first operating system and the format of the second application type is for a second operating system.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the digital pass comprises transmitting the digital pass over a multimedia messaging service (MMS) channel.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the digital pass comprises transmitting the digital pass over an email channel.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a notification request from the first platform account and pushing the notification to the digital pass.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital pass delivery request specifies multiple destination endpoints and wherein retrieving device information of a destination endpoint, selection of the first digital pass format, obtaining the digital pass and transmitting the digital pass is completed for each of the specified destination endpoints.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the platform system transmits the digital pass in the first digital pass format to the system of the destination endpoint via a multimedia messaging service (MMS) channel of the platform system, and wherein the first external system is an application server system.