Patent ID: 9672021
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: storing, at an online system, data including information for identifying associations between one or more applications and one or more third party systems and information for installing the one or more applications; receiving, at the online system, information from a third party system identifying the third party system and including information associated with a user of the online system for accessing the online system; determining, by the online system, whether an application is associated with the third party system based on the stored data if the received information from the third party system associated with the user authorizes the user to access the online system; if it is determined that the application is associated with the third party system, retrieving information from the stored data for installing the application associated with the third party system; and transmitting, by the online system, the information for installing the application associated with the third party system to a client device associated with the user of the online system.