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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian Partridge, Brookline, MA (US);
Harish Dhurvasula, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/541 (2013.01); G06F 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Applications executing in a mobile device utilize a protocol for inter-application communication to overcome restrictions of a sandboxed environment. Applications advertise their exposed capabilities using structured definition files, which are consumed by other applications. Applications can invoke the advertised capabilities by exchanging inter-application communication (IAC) messages in the form of URLs or other platform-specific mechanisms. URL messages are formatted according to parameters and URL schemes specified by the provided definition files.