Provisioning in communications systems

摘要

Provisioning is described for use in communications systems. The provisioning includes receiving a message at an inbox of a device. The message includes information of an electronic location of a source device from which to download the appropriate application and device and user-specific information used for configuration of the application. An application is automatically transferred to the device in response to selection of the received message by a user of the device. The application is automatically installed on the device. The application is auto-started, at which time it self-configures using the original message.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a message at an inbox of a client device, the message comprising message content data, data corresponding to an identity of a message originator, and data corresponding to a location for obtaining an application and client device specific configuration information for the application; automatically transferring the application from the location specified in the message to the client device in response to selection of the message; automatically launching the application upon receipt at the client device, the launching of the application comprises searching the inbox of the client device for the message, parsing the message to obtain the client device specific configuration information from the message and self-configuring by the application using the client device specific configuration information from the message received at the inbox; and generating an output corresponding to the message content data and the identity of the message originator on the client device in accordance with the launched application.