Patent ID: 7283811
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for provisioning a user application by a content provider for delivery to a range of limited resource devices through an integrated platform, comprising: creating the user application by the content provider; submitting the user application to the integrated platform by the content provider; examining the user application by the integrated platform to validate the user application against respective predefined requirements of limited resource devices of said range and thereby to determine which of said range of limited resource devices the user application is compatible with; and if the user application is accepted, publishing the user application by the integrated platform, and enabling only those limited-resource devices found to be compatible with the user application, to download the user application; wherein said range is greater than one, and publishing the user application includes adding the user application to a content directory, such that the user application forms a node of said content directory, and said content directory is divided into a plurality of categories, the user application being added to said content directory according to a plurality of said categories; such that the user application is reached through a plurality of paths in said content directory, such that a user browses for the user application through a plurality of paths of said content directory, using one of said categories.