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Managing delivery of code and dependent data using application containers

  • US 10,268,531 B2
  • Filed: 01/13/2017
  • Issued: 04/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a supervisor component executing at a computing device, a request to execute an application;

    determining, by the supervisor component, whether an application container for maintaining installable sub-packages of the application is allocated in memory of the computing device;

    responsive to determining that the application container is allocated in the memory of the computing device, determining, by a container runtime of the application container, one or more dependencies of the application, wherein the one or more dependencies include one or more required dependencies and one or more optional dependencies;

    initiating, by the container runtime, retrieval of the one or more required dependencies;

    initiating, by the container runtime, retrieval of the one or more optional dependencies; and

    responsive to receiving all of the one or more required dependencies and while at least one of optional dependencies has not yet been received by the container runtime, executing, by the computing device, the application.

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