Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Junyao Lai

Keyur Rahul Patel

Jiajun Hua

Jose Julian Argil Torres

Matthew Steven Geimer

A method and system for automatically retrieving and integrating one or more supplemental software programs into at least one of an existing software program may include receiving a request to open a document via the existing software program, retrieving a list of supplemental software programs for the document, the list of supplemental software programs including an identification for each of the supplemental software programs and an application source from which the supplemental software programs can be retrieved, embedding the list of supplemental software programs into a data structure for the document, embedding a program for processing the list of supplemental software programs into a data structure for the document, and transmitting the data structure to a component for processing. The program is configured to retrieve the supplemental software programs from the application source and automatically integrate the supplemental software programs into the data structure.

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