Click and run software purchasing

US7813964B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oracle America, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mark A. Son-Bell · Los Altos, US
• Gregory A. Williams · Grand Rapids, US
• Arieh Markel · Broomfield, US
• Carl F. Meske, Jr. · San Jose, US
• Peter H. Schow · Longmont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 6, 2006
• Grant date: Oct 12, 2010
• Expiry date: Aug 14, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2209/509
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for selling and executing an application using a remote file system for a plurality of clients that includes receiving a purchase request for the application from a client of the plurality of clients, adding an application icon to the remote file system for the client, wherein the application icon allows access to the application and wherein the application icon is added after receiving the purchasing request, receiving an execution request for the application, wherein the execution request is received when the client accesses the application icon, and initiating execution of the application from the remote file system for the client, wherein the application is executed by the client from the remote file system.