Patent ID: 8990795
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for updating an application on a mobile device comprising: accessing, at the mobile device, application management information, wherein the application management information identifies a plurality of installed applications on the mobile device and, for each installed application of the plurality of applications, at least one of a connection preference and a size limitation associated with the installed application; sending, from the mobile device to a server, a request for update information regarding each of the plurality of installed applications; receiving, at the mobile device from the server, the update information, wherein the update information identifies an update package for a respective installed application of the plurality of installed applications; and receiving the update package for the respective installed application without user interaction from a user of the mobile device when all of the at least one of a connection preference and a size limitation associated with the respective installed application are satisfied, wherein a size limitation is satisfied when the update package has a size less than the size limitation associated with the respective installed application and the connection preference is satisfied when the mobile device uses a network connection specified by the connection preference associated with the respective installed application.