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Patent US10198254

Issued 2019-02-05

Surfacing Cross Platform Applications

A utility application store may be configured to present an interface displaying multiple applications that are available from the utility application store. By accessing the interface of the utility application store, a utility supplier may, with a single request, initiate installation or activation of an application on multiple utility meters or other smart sensors in a utility communication network. The utility application store may be configured to provide notification of the availability of applications for utility meters or other smart sensors, consumer computing devices, and/or utility supplier back office computing devices. The utility application store may include one or more distributed applications that include a first portion configured for execution by a utility meter and one or more other portions configured for execution by another computing device (e.g., a personal computer, mobile device, utility supplier back office server, cloud service, or the like).

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1. A method implemented by an application store, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing device of the applications store, a request to install a first application on a utility network computing device; identifying, by the computing device of the application store and in response to receiving the request to install the first application, a second application that is available from the application store and is associated with the first application, the second application configured for execution by a mobile device or personal computer and the identifying being based on metadata associated with the first application or based on an application index accessible by the application store; and sending, by the application store, a notification of availability of the second application to the mobile device or personal computer, the notification comprising an indication that the first application has been installed on the utility network computing device, and that the second application is available for installation on the mobile device or personal computer.
11. A method implemented by an application store, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing device of the application store, a request to install a first application on a utility network computing device; identifying, by the computing device of the application store and in response to receiving the request to install the first application, a second application that is available from the application store and is associated with the first application, the second application configured for execution by a utility supplier computing device; and sending, by the application store, a notification of availability of the second application to the utility supplier computing device, the notification comprising an indication that the first application has been installed on the utility network computing device, and that the second application is available for installation on the utility supplier computing device.
16. A utility supplier computing device comprising: one or more processors; and memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions that are executable to perform operations comprising: receiving, at the utility supplier computing device, a notification of the availability of a first application which is: configured for execution by the utility supplier computing device or another device administered by a same utility supplier as the utility supplier computing device, and associated with a second application which has been installed on one or more utility network computing devices which are associated with one or more customers of the utility supplier; and presenting the notification on a display of the utility supplier computing device, the notification including at least an identifier of the one or more customers that are associated with the one or more utility network computing devices on which the second application has been installed.