Systems and methods for supporting downloadable applications on a portable client device

This application is related to the following applications: (1) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Systems and Methods For Serving Up Customized Applications From a Download Server”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007; (2) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Methods For Simulating Icon Popout on Memory Constrained Devices”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007; (3) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Methods for Auto-Completing Contact Entry on Mobile Devices”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007; (4) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Methods for Implementing Application-Wide Accelerator Keys for Mobile Devices”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007; (5) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Methods for Transcoding Attachments for Mobile Devices”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007; (6) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/927,590, “Systems and Methods for a Card-Based User Interface For Reading Thread-Based Communications on Mobile Devices”, filed on Oct. 30, 2007; and (7) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Systems and Methods for Prefetching Relevant Information for Responsive Mobile Email Applications”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007; and (8) U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, “Methods for Responding to an Email Message by Call from a Mobile Device”, filed on Nov. 1, 2007 and (9) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/929,961, “Systems and Methods For Transmitting Card-Based Threaded Data To A Mobile Device”, filed on Oct. 29, 2007. Each of these applications is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

The disclosed embodiments generally related to the field of mobile devices, in particular, to allow mobile devices to retrieve information from a server using a client application such as electronic email.

In some embodiments, a server receives a request from a client device to download an application. The server identifies a type of the client device and a user characteristic. In response to the request, the server obtains a customized environment file associated with the user characteristic for the application, where the customized environment file defines an interface appearance of the application. The server sends to the client device, the customized environment file and the application appropriate for the type of the client device, such that the customized environment file gives the application running on the client device an appearance associated with the user characteristics. In other embodiments, the server can also send to the client device an interface file specific to the type of the client device.

In some embodiments, the request received from the client device also includes information about the type of the client device and the user characteristic. In some embodiments, the customized environment file is simultaneous generated with the interface file. Still in other embodiments, the customized environment file and the interface file are combined into one file before sending to the client device.

In some embodiments, an executable file, such as a binary file is sent to the client device from the server, along with a descriptor file that contains information about the type of device and defining characteristics of the customization for the binary file to create the application.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For a better understand of the nature and embodiments of the invention, reference should be made to the Description of Embodiments below, in conjunction with the following drawings in which like reference numbers refer to corresponding parts throughout the figures.

FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a client-server based network system in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a block diagram of an exemplary conversation server in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2B illustrates the content in a device type information module in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an exemplary client device that interacts with a conversation server in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4A is a block diagram of an exemplary server having components for carrying out functions of an environmental customization module in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4B is a block diagram of an exemplary client device with components to carry out functions of an environmental customization module in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4C illustrates an example of a descriptor file in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4D illustrates a brief overview of the information flow between a client device and a server in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention.

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