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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2011
Jason Fosback, Edmonds, WA (US);
Ricardo Cortes, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jason Fosback, Edmonds, WA (US);
Ricardo Cortes, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present technology supports mass ingestion of metadata related to consumables related to online server supported applications. The online server publishes a specification defining metadata fields, allowed format values, and other parameters to facilitate the mass submission of metadata related to consumables. Metadata arranged according to the specification can be fed to the online server via a data stream or through submission of a document including metadata defining a plurality of consumables. The specification has been intelligently designed to account for the many different uses of consumables in applications supported by the server. As will be further described herein, the specification accounts for unique events pertaining to subscription content, in-application purchases, game performance and game award consumables, among others. Every type of consumable being submittable in the same document.