Patent ID: 11886421
Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, at the host organization, a request to install the declared application by a remote computing device executing the executable install package;
wherein the executable install package is void of any application code associated with the declared application and further wherein the executable install package does not specify the declared application to be installed at the remote computing device;
performing a look-up at the host organization responsive to receiving the request to install the declared application to determine which one of a plurality of declared applications available from the host organization is to be installed at the remote computing device via the executable install package, wherein the look-up identifies the declared application to be installed based on an IP address of the remote computing device;
issuing a challenge from the host organization to the remote computing device for a shared public key; and
retrieving the metadata for the declared application determined by the host organization to be installed based responsive to receiving the shared public key responsive to the challenge and transmitting the retrieved metadata to the remote computing device in fulfillment of installing the declared application via the executable install package.