Enterprise Branded Mobile Application Framework

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Solution Overview

Problem

Enterprises face challenges in capturing consumer attention and distinguishing their brands in a crowded mobile marketplace, with creating applications for various platforms being expensive and often ineffective.

Innovation Solution

An enterprise-branded mobile application framework that includes a navigation menu for accessing pre-defined categories of branding features, allowing organizations to create engaging and interactive mobile applications that promote their brand across different industry segments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If enterprises create applications on each mobile platform, then brand promotion coverage is improved, but development cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrand promotion coverageVSAvoiddevelopment cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal application framework that enables a single enterprise application to function across multiple mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc.) through a common codebase. The framework provides platform-agnostic architecture with adaptive rendering and resource management, allowing the same application to deploy to different platforms without requiring separate development efforts for each, thus achieving broad brand promotion coverage while controlling development costs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the application development into modular components: a core enterprise application layer, a framework adaptation layer, and platform-specific implementation layers. This segmentation allows the majority of the application logic to be shared across platforms while only requiring minimal platform-specific adaptations, reducing overall development complexity and cost while maintaining broad platform coverage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If enterprises create applications on each mobile platform, then brand visibility is improved, but development time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrand visibilityVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent establishes a pre-configured application framework with platform-agnostic architecture, standardized interface definitions, and pre-built adaptation layers for multiple platforms. By preparing this framework in advance, enterprises can rapidly deploy applications across different platforms without undergoing lengthy separate development cycles for each platform, thus improving brand visibility while minimizing development time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The universal framework enables simultaneous deployment to multiple platforms from a single codebase, allowing enterprises to achieve broad brand visibility across iOS, Android, and other platforms without the time penalty of sequential or parallel development for each platform

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If enterprises use multiple platform options, then consumer reach is improved, but application effectiveness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsumer reachVSAvoidapplication effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements local quality optimization by detecting the user's specific platform environment and dynamically adapting the application's interface, features, and behavior to match platform-specific user expectations and capabilities. This ensures that while the application reaches consumers across multiple platforms, it maintains high effectiveness and user experience quality on each specific platform through localized optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10740799B2Systems and methods for enterprise branded application frameworks for mobile and other environments
Publication Date: 2020.08.11 GOTV NETWORKS LLC
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AI summary

An application framework for mobile devices may provide a variety of application modules directed towards enterprise brand extension. The application modules are organized into five main categories: (1) featured, (2) community, (3) play/engage, (4) media, and (5) shop. The “featured” category may allow enterprises to push specific content onto its consumers. The “community” category may allow enterprises to leverage social networks and consumer communities that build and expand around their brands. The “play/engage” category may allow enterprises to offer compelling value and engaging utility to its customers. The “media” category may allow enterprises to entertain, inform, and educate consumers about brands through media content. The “shop” category may allow enterprises to facilitate electronic commerce with its customers. Further application analytics may be utilized by aggregating affiliate, sales, or usage data, etc. to better drive new revenue streams and optimize the return on investment associated with sales, promotion and advertising efforts.