| 摘要 |
Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for delivering an application to a mobile station are shown and described. In some instances, a list of mobiles stations not currently executing a specific application is generated, processed, and used to send a solicitation message to certain mobile station. Various mobile stations receive different versions of the application based on characteristics of the mobile station. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method comprising steps of:
receiving, at a customer care server, a first file containing a mobile station mobile directory number and a mobile station identifier for each respective one of a plurality of mobile stations that are not operating any version of a particular application; prior to communicating the received first file to the device management database, reformatting by a customer care server a portion of the first file to correspond to a format acceptable by the device management database; communicating, by the customer care server, the reformatted first file to a device management database; receiving a second file, by the customer care server from the device management database, the second file comprising the mobile station identifier for each respective one of the mobile stations that are not operating any version of the particular application and a corresponding platform identifier for each respective one of the mobile stations, the platform identifier corresponding to a make and model number of the respective mobile station; mapping a respective item identifier to each platform identifier, each respective item identifier corresponding to a respective version of the particular application; transmitting based on the mobile station mobile directory numbers in the first file a messaging service message through a wireless communications network to each of a plurality of the mobile stations that are not operating any version of the particular application, the message comprising an invitation to download the particular application; processing a response from at least one of the mobile stations requesting the application; transmitting another messaging service message to the at least one mobile station that requested the particular application in its response, the another messaging service message comprising the respective item identifier and an instruction to access an application server to download the particular application corresponding to the respective item identifier; receiving, at a wireless communications network device via the wireless communication network, information generated by the particular application on the at least one mobile station that downloaded the particular application; associating the received information with a subscriber's account; storing the received information in a database associated with the subscriber's account, wherein the stored information is accessible through a data network different than the wireless communications network; and providing access to the stored information associated with the subscriber's account in response to a user request. |
