Patents by Inventor Christopher T. Parker

Christopher T. Parker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Capability attributes based application packaging
    Patent number: 9785424
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for an application thinning mechanism are described. The thinning mechanism can select a subset of components from a universal application to assemble an application variant to be distributed and installed to a specific type of devices. The universal application may include every component, such as asset, resource or executable, built/developed for targeted device attributes to install one common application to multiple devices. For example, the thinning mechanism can use a trait vector associated with a type of devices to iterate through the components and identify assets to be included or packaged into in each target device specific application or application variant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Matthew Firlik, Patrick O. Heynen, David Makower, Andrew D. Boyko, Anders Bertelrud, Christopher T. Parker, Paul William Chinn, Robert Marini, Eric Olaf Carlson
  • CAPABILITY ATTRIBUTES BASED APPLICATION PACKAGING
    Publication number: 20160357536
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for an application thinning mechanism are described. The thinning mechanism can select a subset of components from a universal application to assemble an application variant to be distributed and installed to a specific type of devices. The universal application may include every component, such as asset, resource or executable, built/developed for targeted device attributes to install one common application to multiple devices. For example, the thinning mechanism can use a trait vector associated with a type of devices to iterate through the components and identify assets to be included or packaged into in each target device specific application or application variant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Donald M. Firlik, Patrick O. Heynen, David Makower, Andrew D. Boyko, Anders Bertelrud, Christopher T. Parker, Paul William Chinn, Robert Marini, Eric Olaf Carlson
  • Methods and apparatuses for deferred object customization
    Patent number: 8893084
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to record one or more customization messages in a storage are described. Each customization message may include one or more predicates specifying applicability of the customization message for a plurality of objects. An operation on the objects may be performed to generate a configuration of a device in response to receiving an event. The configuration may include the objects. Each customization message may be selectively applied to the objects in the configuration to customize the configuration. An object may be updated via the customization message if the predicates match the object in the configuration. The device may be configured via the customized configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Parker, Andrew M. Matuschak, Marian E. Goldeen
  • METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DEFERRED OBJECT CUSTOMIZATION
    Publication number: 20130173896
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to record one or more customization messages in a storage are described. Each customization message may include one or more predicates specifying applicability of the customization message for a plurality of objects. An operation on the objects may be performed to generate a configuration of a device in response to receiving an event. The configuration may include the objects. Each customization message may be selectively applied to the objects in the configuration to customize the configuration. An object may be updated via the customization message if the predicates match the object in the configuration. The device may be configured via the customized configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Parker, Andrew M. Matuschak, Marian E. Goldeen