Patent ID: 8762467

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile device, the method comprising: providing an application platform operable to interface between at least one application and a peer-to-peer messaging service on the mobile device and to enable the at least one application to exchange data with other mobile devices using the peer-to-peer messaging service using data available to the mobile device via the peer-to-peer messaging service; detecting a first update associated with the application platform; accessing the peer-to-peer messaging service via the application platform; using access to the peer-to-peer messaging service to generate a first peer-to-peer message comprising the first update; using the data available to the mobile device via the peer-to-peer messaging service to determine at least one contact having a corresponding application platform on a corresponding mobile device; addressing the first peer-to-peer message to the at least one contact; and sending the first peer-to-peer message to the corresponding mobile device to enable the corresponding application platform to be updated, the corresponding application platform on the corresponding mobile device also operable to interface with a corresponding peer-to-peer messaging service on the corresponding mobile device.