Application containers with dynamic sub-package loading
US10445083B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 6, 2017 |
| Grant date | Oct 15, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 6, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/44521
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In some examples, a method includes, receiving, by a supervisor component, a request to execute particular functionality of an application; responsive to determining that an application container for maintaining installable sub-packages of the application is not allocated, retrieving an application definition from a first remote computing system; responsive to allocating the application container, initiating, based at least in part on a user-specified identifier of the request, the particular functionality of the application; responsive to determining, by the application container, based at least in part on the application definition and the user-specified identifier, that an installable sub-package for the particular functionality is not stored at the computing device, retrieving, by the application container, the installable sub-package that includes a plurality of executable components; and executing, by the application container and using the plurality of executable components, the particular functionality of the application.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.