Automated application installation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017192764-A1
Application number	US-201514983959-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 30, 2015
Priority date	Dec 30, 2015
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

An example computer implemented method to automatically download and install a second application can include a first application detecting that a condition has occurred. This first application can be preinstalled by the original equipment manufacturer. The first application can then present an interface for signing in to or signing up for a service. The first application can then download and install the second application. This downloading and installation can occur in the background without requiring user interaction. The second application can be a client application for the service and the first application can pass a token with login credentials to the second application. This can allow the second application to be authenticated with the service without requiring a user to reenter the user's credentials.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising: computer executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed by a computer being effective to cause the computer to:
detect, by a first application that comes installed on the computer by an original equipment manufacturer, a condition; present, by the first application, after the condition has been detected, an interface for signing in to or signing up for a service; automatically download and install, by the first application, a second application, the second application being a client application for synchronizing content items with the service; receive sign in credentials in the interface; and pass a token including the received sign in credentials to the second application, the token being effective to automatically sign into the service by the second application.

2 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the second application requires sign in credentials to run.

3 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising after automatically signing into the service by the second application, uninstall, by the second application, the first application.

4 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the condition is a scheduled amount of time since the first application has first launched.

5 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4 wherein the download of the second application initiates in anticipation of the condition being detected.

6 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the condition is detecting an event related to a content item manager.

7 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 6 wherein the download of the second application initiates after the condition has been detected.

8 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the first application has limited functionality that does not include functionality for providing the service on the computing device.

9 . A method comprising:
detecting, by a first application that comes installed on the computer by an original equipment manufacturer, a condition; presenting, by the first application, after the condition has been detected, an interface for signing in to or signing up for a service; and automatically downloading and installing, by the first application, a second application, the second application being a client application for synchronizing content items with the service.

10 . The method of claim 9 comprising:
receiving sign in credentials in the interface; and
passing a token including the received sign in credentials to the second application, the token being effective to automatically sign into the service by the second application.

11 . The method of claim 10 wherein the second application requires sign in credentials to run.

12 . The method of claim 9 wherein the condition is a scheduled amount of time since the first application has first launched.

13 . The method of claim 12 wherein the downloading of the second application initiates in anticipation of the condition being detected.

14 . The method of claim 9 wherein the condition is detecting an event related to a content item manager.

15 . The method of claim 14 wherein the downloading of the second application initiates after the condition has been detected.

16 . The method of claim 9 wherein the first application has limited functionality that does not include functionality for providing the service on the computing device.

17 . A system comprising:
a processor; a computer-readable medium; and non-transitory computer-readable instructions, stored on the computer readable medium, that when executed by the processor, cause a computer to:
detect, by a first application that comes installed on the computer by an original equipment manufacturer, a condition;
present, by the first application, after the condition has been detected, an interface for signing in to or signing up for a service; and
automatically download and install, by the first application, a second application, the second application being a client application for synchronizing content items with the service.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the non-transitory computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the system to:
receive sign in credentials in the interface; and pass a token including the received sign in credentials to the second application, the token being effective to automatically sign into the service by the second application.

19 . The system of claim 17 wherein the condition is detecting an event related to a content item manager.

20 . The system of claim 19 wherein the download of the second application initiates after the condition has been detected.

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Cayre Stefano
• Hurwitz Jacob
• Contractor Darius
• Lu Yuran
• Harvey James
• Sarfani Aadil
• Nguyen Huy
• Embiricos Alexander
• Sheehan Genevieve

Classifications

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• H04L63/0884

  by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity vis-à-vis an authentication entity · CPC title

• G06F8/61 Primary

  Installation · CPC title

• H04L67/125

  involving control of end-device applications over a network · CPC title

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title