Patent ID: 8307331

Claim:
A method for enabling creation and management of a platform-independent application whose appearance and functionality is consistently propagated across heterogeneous device types for cross-device interoperability, replicability, and compatibility of applications and data with a consistent user experience, the method comprising: receiving, by a device comprising a processor and a memory element, a platform-independent data superstructure defining the appearance and behavior of an application, the platform-independent data superstructure storing an application state, program code and internal logic of the application; instantiating, by a superstructure-dedicated operating system, the application in the device in accordance with the received platform-independent data superstructure; storing, by the memory element, the instantiated application; receiving, by the platform-independent data superstructure, from a device-native operating system via communication with the superstructure-dedicated operating system, at least one application event generated by an execution of the instantiated application and representative of an update to the application state of the application; updating, by the platform-independent data superstructure, information in a first segment of the platform-independent data superstructure associated with the at least one application event, responsive to receiving the at least one application event and independent of an update to a second segment in the platform-independent data superstructure; and updating, in accordance with the superstructure segment update, the application state in the device.