Systems and methods for application installation platforms

• US 10,089,098 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2017
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SweetLabs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: SweetLabs, Inc.
• Inventors: Bourke, Adrian
• Primary Examiner(s): Tecklu, Isaac T
• Application Number:
  US15/426,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20170147318A1
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing an application marketplace configured to install applications outside of an application store provided by the entity providing the operating system of a computing device in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment, a system obtains device data from a computing device, wherein the device data identifies a computing device and includes metadata describes the characteristics of the computing device, generates application marketplace data based on the obtained device data, wherein the application marketplace data includes metadata describing at least one application installer, provides the application marketplace data to the computing device, obtains selected application data from the computing device, generates application installer data based on the device data and the selected application data by signing application data identified by the selected application data using OEM key data, and provides the application installer data to the computing device.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory readable by the processor and storing instructions;

wherein the instructions, when read by the processor, direct the processor to;

obtain device data from a computing device, wherein the device data identifies a computing device and comprises metadata describes the characteristics of the computing device;

calculate fingerprint data based on the obtained device data, where the fingerprint data identifies the computing device;

generate application marketplace data based on the obtained device data and the fingerprint data, wherein the application marketplace data comprises metadata describing at least one application installer;

provide the application marketplace data to the computing device;

obtain selected application data from the computing device;

generate application installer data based on the device data and the selected application data by signing application data identified by the selected application data using OEM key data; and

provide the application installer data to the computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the metadata describing the characteristics of the computing device describes characteristics selected from the group consisting of demographic information related to the user of the computing device, the hardware capabilities of the computing device, operating system software installed on the computing device, and applications installed on the computing device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the application marketplace data is utilized by the computing device to generate at least one touchpoint for browsing the application marketplace data.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein at least one of the at least one generated touchpoints comprises advertising data.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the advertising data is provided by a third-party advertising server system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the device data further comprises a timestamp identifying when the device data was provided; and

the instructions further direct the processor to optimize the application marketplace data based on the timestamp.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further direct the processor to generate analytics data based on the obtained device data, the application marketplace data, the selected application data, and the generated application installer data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the instructions further direct the processor to provide an interface for displaying the generated analytics data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein:

an application platform application are installed on the computing device prior to a first boot of the system; and

the application platform application directs the application install platform to install application data using application install data during the first boot of the system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the application platform application directs the computing device to display the application marketplace data during the first boot of the computing device.

11. A method for installing applications, comprising:

obtaining device data from a computing device using a system, wherein;

the device data identifies a computing device and comprises metadata describes the characteristics of the computing device; and

the system comprises a processor and a memory connected to the processor;

calculating fingerprint data based on the obtained device data using the system, where the fingerprint data identifies the computing device;

generating application marketplace data based on the obtained device data and the fingerprint data using the system, wherein the application marketplace data comprises metadata describing at least one application installer;

providing the application marketplace data to the computing device using the system;

obtaining selected application data from the computing device using the system;

generating application installer data based on the device data and the selected application data by signing application data identified by the selected application data using OEM key data using the system; and

providing the application installer data to the computing device using the system.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the metadata describing the characteristics of the computing device describes characteristics selected from the group consisting of demographic information related to the user of the computing device, the hardware capabilities of the computing device, operating system software installed on the computing device, and applications installed on the computing device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the application marketplace data is utilized by the computing device to generate at least one touchpoint for browsing the application marketplace data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the at least one generated touchpoints comprises advertising data.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the advertising data is provided by a third-party advertising server system.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the device data further comprises a timestamp identifying when the device data was provided; and

the instructions further direct the processor to optimize the application marketplace data based on the timestamp.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the instructions further direct the processor to generate analytics data based on the obtained device data, the application marketplace data, the selected application data, and the generated application installer data.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the instructions further direct the processor to provide an interface for displaying the generated analytics data.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein:

an application platform application are installed on the computing device prior to a first boot of the system; and

the application platform application directs the application install platform to install application data using the application install data during the first boot of the system.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the application platform application directs the computing device to display the application marketplace data during the first boot of the computing device.