Apple Inc.

Robert M Marini

Dallas Blake De Atley

Thomas P Mensch

David P Remahl

Bailey E Basile

Edward E Thomas

Kelsey J Skillman

Venkat V Memula

Paul William Chinn

Patrick O Heynen

Eric Olaf Carlson

David Makower

Anders Bertelrud

Donald Matthew Firlik

Christopher T Parker

Andrew Dennis Boyko

Embodiments described herein provide a system and method for secure delivery of assets to a trusted device. Multiple levels of verification are implemented to enable components of a software update and asset delivery system to verify other components within the system. Furthermore, updates are provided only to client devices that are authorized to receive such updates. In one embodiment, the specific assets provided to a client device during a software update can be tailored to the client device, such that individual client devices can receive updated versions of software asset at a faster or slower rate than mass market devices. For example, developer or beta tester devices can receive pre-release assets, while enterprise devices can receive updates at a slower rate relative to mass market devices.

Secure delivery of assets to a trusted device

A method and an apparatus for an application thinning mechanism are described. The thinning mechanism can select a subset of components from a universal application to assemble an application variant to be distributed and installed to a specific type of devices. The universal application may include every component, such as asset, resource or executable, built/developed for targeted device attributes to install one common application to multiple devices. For example, the thinning mechanism can use a trait vector associated with a type of devices to iterate through the components and identify assets to be included or packaged into in each target device specific application or application variant.

Capability attributes based application packaging

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Robert M Marini