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Mobile trigger web workflow

  • US 9,552,598 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2012
  • Issued: 01/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for initiating from a first user device a secondary process on a second user device, comprising:

  • prompting a server for a main process;

    receiving the main process from the server, the main process embedded in a web page;

    running the main process on the first user device by executing the web page in a web browser operating on the first user device, the main process comprising a plurality of steps;

    upon reaching a particular step of the plurality of steps in the main process, issuing a command directly, from the first user device without going through the server, to the second user device requesting that a secondary process be loaded in a stand-alone application on the second user device, the issuing of the command causing launching of the secondary process on the second user device in response to the second user device receiving the command, and passing control to the second user device, the second user device being a mobile device, the secondary process causing the second user device to send output directly to the server, bypassing the first user device and the main process;

    wherein in response to passing the control to the second user device, the main process on the first device is prevented from continuing while the secondary process is in progress;

    receiving control back from the second user device, permitting the main process on the first device to continue;

    completing the main process; and

    sending output of the main process directly to the server.

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