DISTRIBUTION OF MULTIPLE APPLICATION VERSIONS

• Main Authors: HSIEH, Sheng-chi, LIN, Jasper S, FIRMAN, Ilya, TSANG, Juliana, WOMACK, Mark D, LIN, Yu-Kuan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.05.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Provided herein is a method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, a request to an application marketplace from a first computing device for information about an application, wherein multiple versions of the application have been published on the application marketplace, each of the multiple versions of the application associated with one of a plurality of device types; in response to receiving the request, identifying a device type of the first computing device among the plurality of device types; identifying, by the computer system, a version of the application from the multiple versions of the application, the identifying including analyzing metadata of the multiple versions of the application and identifying a version of the application having metadata that specifies the identified device type; and in response to identifying the version of the application, providing for display the selected version of the application for download by the first computing device. A computer program product and a computing system are also provided.