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Virtual preloads

  • US 9,513,888 B1
  • Filed: 01/30/2014
  • Issued: 12/06/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of installing a full application on a mobile communication device, comprising:

  • receiving, on a mobile communication device, a selection of a virtually preloaded application having functionality independent of the full application, the virtually preloaded application being one of a plurality of virtually preloaded applications on the mobile communication device, wherein the virtually preloaded application is loaded onto the mobile communication device and comprises an interactive thumbnail image associated with the full application, and wherein the full application is not yet installed on the mobile communication device but is available for installation from a repository;

    in response to the selection of the virtually preloaded application via the interactive thumbnail image;

    identifying, by the mobile communication device, the repository comprising the full application from a plurality of repositories;

    obtaining, by the mobile communication device, the full application from the repository;

    installing, by the mobile communication device, the full application in a non-transitory memory of the mobile communication device;

    identifying a first location of the interactive thumbnail image displayed by the virtually preloaded application on the mobile communication device;

    replacing, on the display at the first location, the interactive thumbnail image displayed by the virtually preloaded application with a full application icon corresponding to the full application; and

    relocating the interactive thumbnail image displayed by the virtually preloaded application from the first location to a second location on the display of the mobile communication device, wherein the full application is displayed at the first location; and

    after a predetermined amount of time without one of the plurality of virtually preloaded applications being selected, prompting, by the one of the plurality of virtually preloaded applications, a user of the mobile communication device to install a corresponding full application associated with the one of the plurality of virtually preloaded applications.

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