WIPO PUBLISHES PATENT OF SEVEN NETWORKS FOR "METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE EXTENSIONS TO THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMIZING AND MINIMIZING APPLICATION TRAFFIC" (AMERICAN INVENTOR)

GENEVA, Dec. 29 -- Publication No. WO/2014/204995 was published on Dec. 24.

Title of the invention: "METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE EXTENSIONS TO THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMIZING AND MINIMIZING APPLICATION TRAFFIC."

Applicants: SEVEN NETWORKS INC. (US).

Inventors: Ross Bott (US).

According to the abstract* posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "Methods and systems for providing APIs and API extensions to third party applications for optimizing and minimizing application traffic are provided. According to one aspect, a method for optimizing and minimizing application traffic in a wireless network includes defining an application programming interface (API) for controlling application traffic between an application client residing on a mobile device that operates within a wireless network and an application server not residing on the mobile device and using the API to optimize application traffic in the wireless network."

The patent was filed on June 17 under Application No. PCT/US2014/042791.

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http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2014204995

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