Patent ID: 8171483

Claim:
A method for associating installation scopes to facilitate updating instances of native resources, the method comprising: executing a first application within a first isolation environment, mounting an image of a second application, executing a third application within a second isolation environment; intercepting a request to retrieve and update a native resource sent by the third application associated with a third installation scope and located within the second isolation environment; failing to locate, within the third installation scope, an instance of a native resource corresponding to the requested native resource; determining that there is an association between the third installation scope and a second installation scope representative of the image of the second application; retrieving an instance of the requested native resource, the instance located within the second installation scope; updating the retrieved instance of the requested native resource and returning the updated native resource to the second installation scope; intercepting a request to retrieve the native resource, the request sent by the first application associated with a first installation scope located within the first isolation environment; failing to locate, within the first installation scope, a native resource corresponding to the requested native resource; determining an association between the first installation scope and the second installation scope; retrieving an instance of the updated native resource located within the second installation scope; and returning the updated native resource to the first application.