Patent ID: 8812033

Claim:
A method of recommending and downloading a mobile station application to an end-user of a mobile station, the method comprising steps of: receiving a mobile messaging service message recommending the mobile station application, through a mobile communication network from a recommending mobile station, the received recommending message comprising an application identifier associated with the recommended mobile station application and one or more mobile station identifiers of mobile stations to which to recommend the application; responsive to receiving the mobile messaging service message recommending the mobile station application and for each of the one or more mobile station identifiers received in the mobile messaging service message recommending the mobile station application, determining whether a corresponding mobile station is capable of executing the recommended mobile station application, to identify only those mobile stations capable of executing the recommended mobile station application; storing provisioning information with respect to the recommended mobile station application to prepare the recommended mobile station application for transmission to each of those mobile stations identified as being capable of executing the recommended mobile station application; upon completion of storing the provisioning information, transmitting a mobile messaging service message recommending the mobile station application through the mobile communication network to only those mobile stations identified as being capable of executing the recommended mobile station application; receiving a response to the transmitted message through the mobile communication network from a responding mobile station among those mobile stations identified as being capable of executing the recommended mobile station application; and downloading the recommended mobile station application through the mobile communication network to the responding mobile station.