Apple Inc.

Nurinder Manj

Parry Panesar

Eswar Priyadarshan

Vijay Sundaram

Christopher L Oklota

Ronald Dennis Lue-Sang

Ronald D Lue-sang

A method for transmitting an application is disclosed. The method includes, for example, receiving, from a client, an input for initiating the application; generating an application bundle associated with the application, the application bundle including an address of a server, the address capable of enabling a program on the client to request, from the server, information needed for running the application; and transmitting the application bundle to the client.

Method and system of running an application

Embedding a reduced-content application bundle (a 'reduced app bundle') such as a video overlay reduced app bundle into a media stream, and launching that reduced app bundle over a network connection without first performing a substantial downloading and installation of the software on the device is disclosed.

Delivery of apps in a media stream

According to some embodiments, an application launcher of a media player device launches an application bundle, the application bundle including a binary code. In response, a first server is accessed based on a universal resource locator (URL) specified by the application bundle to download an executable script. The executable script is parsed to configure a script runtime environment based on a predetermined template associated with the executable script. A first application programming interface (API) and a second API are enabled, where the first API is used to access a predetermined library maintained by the media player device and the second API is used to communicate with the binary code. The executable script is executed within the script runtime environment to render content, including rendering standard content by invoking the predetermined library via the first API and rendering customized content by invoking the binary code via the second API.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Nurinder Manj