Facilitating Communication Between Mobile Applications

摘要

Methods and systems for communicating information between mobile applications are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may determine that a plurality of applications are running on the mobile device. The mobile device may determine that each application of the plurality of applications uses a shared passcode to encrypt information about a persistent state. The mobile device may generate a beacon that includes encrypted state information. The mobile device may maintain state information across the plurality of applications beyond the lifetime of any one of the plurality of applications by transmitting the beacon from a first application to a second application before the first application's lifetime is completed.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
identifying, by a processor of a mobile device, a first mobile application that is executing on the mobile device; generating, by the processor, encrypted first state information of the first mobile application for transmission to a shared location to preserve a corresponding first state information of the first mobile application; and transmitting, by the processor and in a moving beacon, the encrypted first state information to the shared location accessible to any mobile application executing on the mobile device, wherein the moving beacon is configured to preserve the first state information of the first mobile application beyond an execution lifetime of the first mobile application to reload a saved state of the first mobile application upon restart of the first mobile application.