Extensible browser platform for web applications

An enhancement to a web browser offers an extension mechanism for web applications to utilize client-side resources, thereby moving more extensibility and flexibility to the client-side. The web browser may expose some control interfaces to meet various requirements from web applications. Using the...

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Main Authors Lin, Shiding, Zhou, Lidong, Thekkath, Chandramohan A, Malkhi, Dahlia, Zhang, Zheng
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 29.05.2012
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Summary:An enhancement to a web browser offers an extension mechanism for web applications to utilize client-side resources, thereby moving more extensibility and flexibility to the client-side. The web browser may expose some control interfaces to meet various requirements from web applications. Using the extension mechanism, the web applications are able to offload the cloud servers, function when offline, and improve performance. The extension mechanism also provides users with full control to the data passing through their web browsers.