FACILITATING MOBILE DEVICE AWARENESS OF THE AVAILABILITY OF NEW OR UPDATED SERVER-SIDE APPLICATIONS

摘要

To facilitate wireless communication device awareness of the availability ofnew or updated server-side applications, in response to either of a newapplication being made available at a server or an updated version of anapplication being made available at a server, a message is transmitted over awireless connection to a set of wireless communications devices indicatingthat the new or updated application is available. The notification may bedisplayed on each of the mobile devices in the set. A device user may chooseto register for the new or updated application on the basis of thenotification. Notification may be performed when an application has been addedto a group of applications to which access is provided as a whole.Notification at a particular wireless communications device may be conditionalupon a grant of access by the device to said group of applications.