ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,697, issued on May 27, was assigned to Digital Turbine Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Instant installation of apps" was invented by Brandon Brent Ayers (Austin, Texas), Lior Ben Haim (Karkur, Israel) and Jonathan Nogueira (Zachary, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device which runs software applications includes a network interface, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and at least one processor. The device identifies that a link for installation of a new software application is selected by user interaction with a software application that is running on the device. In response to the identification, an installation client is...