ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,830, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"App-independent resource downloads" was invented by Eric S. Brown (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jonathan J. Andrews (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Download of a third-party app includes download, to a local device, an installation package for an application, wherein the installation package comprises a resource request component. In response to installing the application, the resource request component is launched. The resource request component causes the local device to transmit a request to a remote device for additional resources for the app...