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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120042308 | METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR INSTALLING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS A method for installing software components includes: a terminal receives a software component package delivered by a Device Management (DM) server directly or a download address of the component package and a command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036507 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS ON A DEVICE The invention provides a system, a method and a computer program product that facilitate access to one or more applications by a computing device. The invention includes determining one or more contexts associated with at least one of the computing device and a user of ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REWARDING APPLICATION INSTALLS In a system and method for monitoring application installations, a reference to download an application is transmitted to a client device. Communication between the client device and an application server providing the application downloadable by the client device is fa... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120011498 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF CONTENT AT THE DEVICE Method, device and computer program product for automatic provisioning of content are provided. The method includes receiving a content to be processed at a device. The method further includes automatically determining, by an application dependency manager, files requir... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110321037 | DATA ONLY SOLUTION PACKAGE Technologies are described herein for deploying a data only solution package separate from custom code. In this way, lifecycles of the data only solution package and the custom code can be separately controlled. In an illustrative implementation, the data only solution ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321038 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING AND DISPLAYING ADS There is disclosed a system and method for downloading and displaying advertisements during software installation on the device. In an embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a selection of one or more software installation options and considering any additional cri... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310257 | DIGITAL CAMERA FOR SHARING DIGITAL IMAGES A digital camera capable of sharing digital images using a plurality of host computers, comprising: memory for storing captured digital images and for storing installation software that can be used to install digital image sharing software on the plurality of host compu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307884 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD An information processing apparatus includes connection means, reception means, and installation means. The connection means automatically connects to a server. The reception means automatically performs processes of receiving one or more programs from the server. The i... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING APPLICATIONS TO MOBILE USERS Various deficiencies in the prior art are addressed by embodiments for recommending applications to users. A method and apparatus are provided for selecting an application to recommend to a user based on user profile information associated with the user and application ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296405 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE An information processing device includes an installation unit which downloads installation data of an application program corresponding to a function from an external device and installs the application program. A license acquisition unit acquires a license file from a... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295997 | PRESENTING CONTENT PACKAGES BASED ON AUDIENCE RETARGETING A present technology intelligently retargets invitational content to a user by maintaining a user profile that includes data descriptive of the user's interaction with invitational content previously presented to the user and making decisions regarding retargeting based... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOST-LEVEL DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT A system for host-level distributed scheduling of a software installation in a distributed computer environment is disclosed. An information handling system includes an out-of-band processor operable to communicatively connect to a second information handling system via... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289491 | Method and Device for Program Installation A method for installing an application program is disclosed. The method includes detecting a system platform, and detecting preprocessing software required by the application program according to the system platform and a compilation script and accordingly generating a ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110283138 | Change Tracking and Management in Distributed Applications A monitoring and management system for distributed and interacting systems stores configuration settings after a successful installation or modification and compares values to the stored configuration settings. When a discrepancy is found, a messaging system may relay t... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283268 | Mechanism for Cross-Building Support Using Dependency Information A mechanism for cross-building support using dependency information is disclosed. A method of the invention includes parsing a source code package received for compilation into a binary source code package for a target machine, the parsing to determine a list of depende... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276961 | Method and Device for Installing Applications on NFC-Enabled Devices The invention relates to a method for installing an application on an NFC-enabled device, such as an NFC-enabled mobile phone. If the NFC-enabled device is unable to identify or find the target application associated with a Target Identifier (Target ID) in a received Ge... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276957 | MOBILE SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE CODE UPDATED A first host (60), computer readable medium and method for providing a specialized software package (24) to a second host (70). The method includes initializing, at the first host (60), an application (90) on the first host (60)... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276960 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, WEB SERVER, INSTALLATION SYSTEM, INSTALLATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a downloading unit configured to download a plurality of software pieces from a distribution server, an installation unit configured to install software for the image processing apparatus that is included in the plurality of downlo... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110258620 | Method and Apparatus for Making a BPM Application Available to Multiple Tenants A computer-implemented method, an apparatus, and an article of manufacture for making a business process management (BPM) application available to multiple tenants in a multi-tenancy software model. The method includes: obtaining a service level agreement (SLA) as requi... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252417 | Method, System, Terminal and Device Management Server for Installing Software Components A method for installing software components includes: a terminal receives a software component package delivered by a Device Management (DM) server directly or a download address of the component package and a command instructing to download delivered by the DM server, ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246983 | Wireless Network Backup Device and Method A system and method is provided for automatically backing up one or more computers to a wireless backup device either across a pre-existing wireless network if one is in use by the one or more computers or across a newly formed wireless network if a pre-existing wireles... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110247013 | Method for Communicating Between Applications on an External Device and Vehicle Systems A is provided method for communicating between software applications on a portable device and a software-controlled vehicle system of a vehicle. The portable device is linked to the software-controlled vehicle system. The portable device includes a host software applica... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110245983 | REMOTELY CONTROLLED FLUID DISPENSER A network of fluid dispensers is disclosed where a Host controller may exchange information with local dispensers, and where local dispensers may exchange information with each other. The information may be dispensing processes, information regarding quality and reliabi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239212 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SOFTWARE INSTALLATION A virtual installation map, and method involving installing a software functionality using the same, the virtual installation map including a first software installation map including a plurality of software elements representative of a related software file, the softwa... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239211 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING FIRMWARE Disclosed are an apparatus for downloading a firmware and an apparatus for installing the firmware. The apparatus for downloading the firmware may download an encrypted firmware in the apparatus for installing the firmware. The apparatus for installing apparatus may rec... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231838 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING SOFTWARE USING A SOFTWARE DEPENDENCY MAP A virtual installation map, and method involving installing a software functionality using the same, the virtual installation map including a first software installation map including a plurality of software elements representative of a related software file, the softwa... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COMPUTER APPLICATION SUPPORT A method and system for providing computer application support. The method comprises determining a set of installed applications on a source computer using a software manager module executing on a computer, generating a set of usage information for the set of installed ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227930 | FARMINIZER SOFTWARE Method for the transfer of project data of a multidimensional animation from a first computer to a second computer which are connected via a network and has at least one rendering device (render farm), the required information of which is determined by a set of digital ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225581 | Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and driver installation method and computer-readable medium thereof Disclosed are a host apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus and a driver installation method and computer-readable medium thereof. A driver installation method of a host apparatus includes accessing a web page provided by the web server and selecting an insta... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225580 | OFFLINE CONFIGURATION AND DOWNLOAD APPROACH A system for creating a station having a configuration and making the station active within a supervisor application without a need of actual site controller hardware. The configuration may be changed. The new station may be downloaded with the changed configuration to ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225587 | DUAL MODE READER WRITER LOCK A method, system, and computer usable program product for a dual mode reader writer lock. A contention condition is determined in using an original lock. The original lock manages read and write access to a resource by several processes executing in the data processing ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225563 | SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING AND SHARING USER DEFINED CONTENTS AND METHOD OF THE SAME A system for accessing and sharing content having a user-defined format is provided. The system for accessing and sharing content having a user-defined format includes: a user-defined content (UDC) developing device providing a UDC usage program and a UDC sharing progra... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225585 | RETOOLING LOCK INTERFACES FOR USING A DUAL MODE READER WRITER LOCK A method, system, and computer usable program product for retooling lock interfaces for using a dual mode reader writer lock. An invocation of a method is received using an interface. The method is configured to operate on a lock associated with a resource in a data pro... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219370 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MANUAL THEREOF An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a reception unit which receives an application and a manual for the application; a storage unit which converts the received manual to a format displayable on the image forming apparatus, and st... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110202688 | MACRO FUNCTION BLOCK FOR ENCAPSULATING DEVICE-LEVEL EMBEDDED LOGIC The present invention provides techniques for encapsulating device-level embedded logic into user-defined instructions using configuration software. More specifically, the disclosed embodiments enable add-on instructions for device configuration embedded logic. Programm... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202914 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSTALLING APPLICATIONS A method for installing an application according to an exemplary embodiment downloads an application purchased by a client and installs the application in a terminal in an asynchronous manner. The method includes transmitting a request to download at least one applicati... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202915 | PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT METHOD, CLIENT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT In a client apparatus, when a request to install a program stored in a server is received, a dependence display creating unit acquires server program information including information indicating the program stored in the server and information indicating the dependence ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202913 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION A software distribution system includes a software distribution server that distributes software; an image processing apparatus; an information processing apparatus; and an activation server that performs license authentication for software installed on the image proces... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191770 | DOWNLOAD PROGRAM, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, DOWNLOAD SYSTEM AND DOWNLOAD METHOD A download program causes a computer to function as: a user identification information section that acquires a user identification (ID) information; a download section that downloads a download file including a compressed target program determined based on the acquired ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191771 | Feature Manager System for Facilitating Communication and Shared Functionality Among Components The feature manager system for facilitating communication and shared functionality among components comprises a network of components, where one component receives or generates a request for a feature, searches its local system for the feature, and if the feature is not... | 08/04/2011 |
