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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shuborno Biswas, Waterloo, CA;
Siddaraya B. Revashetti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Junmin Qiu, Waterloo, CA;
Chris Roy, Waterloo, CA;
Bhavnesh Sharma, Waterloo, CA;
Li Xiao, Waterloo, CA;
MCAFEE, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
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.