Patent ID: 9112845
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of accessing a web application platform from a mobile processing device, the method comprising: installing, on the mobile processing device, a software application configured to access a remote server hosting the web application platform and which does not have hard coded data capabilities; configuring, on the mobile processing device, the software application by generating at least one of a data capture list and a data lookup list available to the software application; receiving user credentials and an internet address for the remote server hosting the web application platform from a user of the mobile processing device during a period of time subsequent to the mobile processing device's sale and distribution, where the user credentials and internet address are provided to facilitate a dynamic configuration or re-configuration of data capabilities of a software application installed on the mobile processing device; transferring authentication information for the software application from the mobile processing device to the remote server; receiving, by the mobile processing device, an indication of which data capabilities configurations were determined to have been set up for the software application based upon the authentication information and the user credentials; dynamically configuring or re-configuring the data capabilities of the software application installed on the mobile processing device in accordance with the data capabilities configurations, where the data capabilities configurations specify at least one icon of a plurality of icons which may be displayed by the software application during a present session; and displaying on a display operably connected to the mobile processing device the icon specified by the data capabilities configurations.