US 11,029,931 B2 · Bundle administration and management

Abstract

Aspects of bundle administration and management are described. The use of bundles, as described herein, may be relied upon to assist users with the installation of applications associated with artifacts. In one embodiment, a bundle includes both a manifest and an artifact. A computing device may open the bundle and parse the manifest to identify an application for the artifact. The computing device may evaluate a status of a qualification to the application and, if the status meets the qualification, then install the application. Thus, with the combination of the manifest and the artifact in the bundle, it is not necessary that a user search for and identify an application associated with the artifact (e.g., a data or content file), because the computing device may reference the manifest to ascertain the application and, based upon one or more qualifications, for example, install the application automatically for the user.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying program code executable in at least one computing device for bundle management, the program code being configured to cause the at least one computing device to at least:

receive a bundle over a computer network, the bundle comprising a content file and a manifest to manage access to the content file, wherein the bundle is associated with an enterprise platform operated by a company or organization;
query a bundle management server for an update to the bundle;
in an instance in which the at least one computing device is evaluated against a qualification defined in the manifest for installation of an application on the at least one computing device, automatically obtain, over the computer network and by reference to a pointer the enterprise platform provides in the manifest that points to a location in an application repository, the application to open the content file;
install the application on the at least one computing device;
and
open the content file on the at least one computing device using the application.

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A method for bundle management, comprising:

receiving a bundle by at least one computing device, the bundle comprising a content file and a manifest to manage access to the content file, wherein the bundle is associated with an enterprise platform operated by a company or organization;
querying, by the at least one computing device, a bundle management server for an update to the bundle;
in an instance in which the at least one computing device is evaluated against a qualification defined in the manifest for installation of an application on the at least one computing device, automatically obtaining, by the at least one computing device over a computer network and by reference to a pointer in the manifest, the application to open the content file;
installing, by the at least one computing device, the application on the at least one computing device;
and
opening, by the at least one computing device, the content file on the at least one computing device using the application.

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A computing device, comprising:

a memory device to store program code for bundle management;
and
at least one processing device directed, through execution of the program code, to at least:
receive a bundle over a computer network, the bundle comprising a content file and a manifest to manage access to the content file, wherein the bundle is associated with an enterprise platform operated by a company or organization;
query a bundle management server for an update to the bundle;
in an instance in which the at least one computing device is evaluated against a qualification defined in the manifest for installation of an application on the at least one computing device, automatically obtain, over the computer network and by reference to a pointer the enterprise platform provides in the manifest that points to a location in an application repository, the application to open the content file;
install the application on the at least one computing device;
and
open the content file on the at least one computing device using the application based on a profile dependency defined in the manifest.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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