Patent ID: 7203940

Claim:
A program embodied in a computer readable medium for automated installation of an application for rendering data, said program comprising: code that detects whether an installation plug-in is installed in a computer system, the installation plug-in being adapted to perform an automated installation of an application in the computer system in which the application is not installed, the application being operative to render data via the computer system; code that downloads a plug-in executor from at least one remote server if the installation plug-in is detected as being installed in the computer system, the plug-in executor automatically executing the installation plug-in already installed in the computer system, the plug-in executor providing an application identifier to the installation plug-in that identifies the application that renders the data; code that downloads a plug-in installer from the at least one remote server if the installation plug-in is not detected as being installed in the computer system, the plug-in installer automatically downloading, installing, and executing the installation plug-in in the computer system, the plug-in installer providing the application identifier to the installation plug-in that identifies the application that renders the data; wherein the installation plug-in employs the application identifier to automatically download the application from the at least one remote server and automatically installs the application in the computer system such that the application is enabled to render data via the computer system.