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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Donald Matthew Firlik, Cupertino, CA (US);
Patrick O. Heynen, Redwood City, CA (US);
David Makower, Milpitas, CA (US);
Andrew D. Boyko, Belmont, CA (US);
Anders Bertelrud, Burlingame, CA (US);
Christopher T. Parker, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul William Chinn, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Marini, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Olaf Carlson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.