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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsOri Amiga, John Macintyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal. The devices may therefore provide the applications of the computing environment to the user in a consistent manner with reduced manual management among the devices comprising the computing mesh.
A method of managing a deployment of applications in an object hierarchy representing a computing environment upon at least one device, the method comprising:
A system, implemented on a computer having a memory and a processor and having access to an application store, for managing the deployment of at least one application managed by an application store to an object hierarchy representing a computing environment upon at least one device, the system comprising:
A computer-readable memory device storing instructions that, when executed on a processor of a device, deploy applications into an object hierarchy representing a computing environment, by:
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