Automatic software downloading from a computer network

Details Automatic software downloading from a computer network Automatic software downloading from a computer network

2004-09-20

2009-12-15

Rutten, James (Department: 2192)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software installation

Network

C717S170000, C717S173000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07634772

ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems automatically download computer software components from a computer network like the Internet or an intranet. The methods and systems can be used to provide dynamic or interactive multimedia components in HTML documents with HTML <OBJECT> tags. The HTML <OBJECT> tags can contain parameters including uniform resource locators (URLs) which reference dynamic or interactive multimedia components on remote computers. Network browsers and other applications can obtain computer software components from a computer network like the Internet or an intranet in a uniform, portable, architecture-neutral, robust manner. The computer software components obtained can be used to provide a variety of new multimedia functionality to an application program.

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