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Methods for providing an alert or an alarm to a user of a mobile communications device

US11969578B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 16, 2021
Grant dateApr 30, 2024
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Expiry dateJun 8, 2041

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M19/047
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.

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