Remote Automated Updates for an Application

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for updating a media program streaming application for a media program streaming service, the instructions, when executed, control a computer device to be configured for:

• downloading the media program streaming application including a bootstrap application through a distribution site, wherein initial installation of the media program streaming application is coordinated through the distribution site to approve the media program streaming application for download;
• upon startup of the media program streaming application, running the bootstrap application to determine if the media program streaming application needs to be updated;
• sending, by the bootstrap application, a request for a manifest to a remote server;
• receiving, by the bootstrap application, the manifest from the remote server, wherein the manifest lists a set of remote core files stored at the remote server;
• reviewing, by the bootstrap application, the manifest to determine if a core memory on the computing device contains a set of updateable core files that correspond to the set of remote core files;
• for each remote core file, performing:
• if an updateable core file is present in the core memory that matches a remote core file, loading the updateable core file from the core memory into an application execution memory;
• and
• if the updateable core file that matches the remote core file is not present in the core memory, requesting the remote core file from the remote server, receiving the remote core file from the remote server, and loading the received remote core file into the application execution memory, the remote core file being received without communicating with the distribution site;
• and
• executing the loaded updateable core files and the received remote core files in the application execution memory without recompilation of the loaded updateable core files or remote core files to provide the streaming media program service.

A system for updating a media program streaming application for a media program streaming service, the system comprising:

• a remote server storing a remote core for the media program streaming application and a manifest listing a set of remote core files for the remote core;
• and
• a client device configured for:
• downloading the media program streaming application including a bootstrap application through a distribution site, wherein initial installation of the media program streaming application is coordinated through the distribution site to approve the media program streaming application for download;
• upon startup of the media program streaming application, running the bootstrap application to determine if the media program streaming application needs to be updated;
• sending, by the bootstrap application, a request for a manifest to the remote server;
• receiving, by the bootstrap application, the manifest from the remote server, wherein the manifest lists a set of remote core files stored at the remote server;
• reviewing, by the bootstrap application, the manifest to determine if a core memory on the computing device contains a set of updateable core files that correspond to the set of remote core files;
• for each remote core file, performing:
• if an updateable core file is present in the core memory that matches a remote core file, loading the updateable core file from the core memory into an application execution memory;
• and
• if the updateable core file that matches the remote core file is not present in the core memory, requesting the remote core file from the remote server, receiving the remote core file from the remote server, and loading the received remote core file into the application execution memory, the remote core file being received without communicating with the distribution site;
• and
• executing the loaded updateable core files and the received remote core files in the application execution memory without recompilation of the loaded updateable core files or remote core files to provide the streaming media program service.