Mcafee, Inc.

Chris Roy

Shuborno Biswas

Siddaraya B Revashetti

Junmin Qiu

Li Xiao

Bhavnesh Sharma

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for dynamic extension of restricted software applications after an operating system mode switch. An example non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to detect a switch from a restricted operating system to an unrestricted operating system, and in response to detecting the switch, invoke a dormant executable to install an unrestricted application in the unrestricted operating system.

Dynamic extension of restricted software applications after an operating system mode switch

There is disclosed, in one example, a computing apparatus for providing a portable user interface agnostic to a native host implementation, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a first functional domain including logic to provide the user interface; a second functional domain including logic to provide native functionality; a function storage including logic to assign a unique identifier to a function of the second functional domain; and an application programming interface (API) interpreter to enable the first functional domain to access the function of the second functional domain via the unique identifier for the function.

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Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for dynamic extension of restricted software applications after an operating system mode switch. An example system includes a switch detector to detect a switch of a computing device from a restricted operating system to an unrestricted operating system, and a restricted application upgrader to be invoked when the switch is detected, the restricted application upgrader is to generate a first request to a server to obtain a first executable, the first request including a parameter of a restricted software application of the computing device, execute the first executable to generate a second request to the server to obtain a second executable to install an unrestricted software application associated with the restricted software application, and execute the second executable to install the unrestricted software application.

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Waterloo, Canada

Chris Roy